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I think being able to touch type for the sake of typing efficiently is only the beginning.

In a sense, it's a mark of a heightened brain-computer interface. It's a freeing feeling when you don't have to use your sight for direct motor control error correction.

This is why I'm such a fan of programs with extensively configurable hotkeys/macros, tiling window managers, and (when constrained to Windows) Autohotkey.

Much more than typing wpm improves if you're familiar with your keyboard. It gives you a much tighter loop between your executing your intentions and affecting the computer.

This can be used for seamlessly executing macros or hotkeys in programs, switching window focus with barely a thought in a tiling window manager. Force multipliers.

> “Though the technology works most of the time in terms of correctly identifying instances of our clients’ content on-platform, it still generates a not-insignificant amount of mismatches that require human review to differentiate,” Hammons says. “The chances of conflicts with this amount of content are considerable. For these reasons there is always a volume of potentially erroneous auto-generated claims that unless contested, I may never be made explicitly aware.”

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This is exactly the problem. It's obvious that there is a "not-insignificant" amount of cases where the there isn't extremely high confidence in the automated model.

Instead of these cases defaulting to claims, it should default to human review.

Repl.it recently announced a Deno REPL https://repl.it/languages/deno

I also used to use Oh Life and loved it. When it shut down I started using DailyDiary [0] which launched an Oh Life importer on Oct 8th, 2014. That's _before_ Oh Life even shut down on Oct 15th, 2014.

I've been continuing to use DailyDiary since.

I have an apps script that automatically adds a draft response to these prompts, which still starts with an "Oh Life, ...." salutation. The script also adds the day's weather report to the bottom of the draft. My todo list has an item to add top and random tracks from my scrobbled music listening for the day.

In the evening I fill in the body of the response with reflections from the day and off it goes.

[0] https://www.dailydiary.com/

A simple but nice (no company branding) jacket I continue to use years later.

Just before I hit 5 years my company decided that granring a 3rd week of vacation to 5 year employees was too much. They didn't reverse the decision until I almost hit my 6th.

I was just flying today and noticed times printed on the safety card. I recall it had getting your own mask secured in 5-7 seconds and getting to assisting children by 10 seconds.

It's the first time I recall seeing times printed and it really illustrates how quickly it'll hit the fan. 10 seconds isn't alot of time but the order is still critical.

I wonder if that clarity on timing would frame it better for other people instead of an open ended 'me before them' blanket rule.

You may find this a funny video covering the complex border situation, and the 2015 change. Especially the sadness over loosing such a fantastic map.

India/Bangladesh - The world's worst border by Jay Foreman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-aIzkvPwFo

Auto purging my downloads folder with a scheduled task.

I received a new laptop for work this spring and was determined to make my downloads folder strictly temp storage, but loathed putting any sort of manual work into it periodically.

I have a small powershell script which moves all files in downloads older than X days into a 'dumpster' folder (not straight to recycle bin), and then all dumpster files older than Y days, into the recycle bin.

Scheduled in the task manager to run daily. And for the first time, I have a tame downloads folder.

I recently came across your repository and have been recently on a kick to start organizing my knowledge in a more structured way.

I've been using workflowy a bit for random notes, but I don't have much of a process or structure for my notes there so far. It's nice that it's available online. If I get more seriously into using it, i'd have to upgrade to pro to get the dropbox back-up option so i'm at less risk of the service spontaneously disappearing someday.

If workflowy doesn't workout, the next approach is text files in a git repo.

Dear Hank and John - a comedy podcast about death, and all the news from AFC Wimbledon and Mars! https://www.patreon.com/dearhankandjohn Recently became a part of the WNYC network

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Indie Hackers Podcast

How I Built This

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All Points North - English podcast about Finland

Don't lose the sense of wonder too quickly. It can be easy to get buried in work and then things go from "new" to routine too quickly. Be a local tourist and go see things before you start thinking "that's what tourists do".

Good read.

I'd also like to point out the Long Reads section of the Hacker News Letter. Otherwise, I wouldn't have noticed this.

I'm surprised there wasn't a global lock-down on new package registrations (or at least with the known names of lost packages) while they were working to restore them.

Yep. I "hear" it generally with repetitive gifs, and muted auto play videos on facebook.

https://www.reddit.com/r/noisygifs/ Gifs that go "bump" in the dark.

Huh, looks like it is time to install NoCoin.

http://www.dev-books.com/

Includes a coin-hive mining script.

I remember emailing Dang about it two years ago. At the time it was barely showing a page worth of stories. They got it to improve a bit, but since then I don't think it's ever paged on and on like top does.

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Ah yes, Red Power. The developer, Eloraam has been working on making a standalone game based on it.

https://twitter.com/TheRealEloraam/status/767550784464625664

Also, if you like TIS-100 and Minecraft, check out the TIS-3D mod! It's basically TIS-100 in Minecraft. Build your own modular computers.

https://mods.curse.com/mc-mods/minecraft/238603-tis-3d

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfJs2Xk8SdM

I agree that list management has been an afterthought for Twitter for quite some time.

Have you attempted contacting @bbstripes, the maintainer of twitlistmanager? This seems like two great additions to an existing tool you already use and the developer even accepts paypal for donations to the tool.

- Pin table header to top of viewport when scrolling - Use display names instead of username or make optional.

Default functionality?

"Ok Google, will it rain today?" - This I use pretty regularly while I'm getting ready in the morning.

Personally hacked together functionality!

"Ok Google, turn the bedroom light on."

"Ok Google, turn all lights off."

"Ok Google, turn (?:the )?(?<loc>.+) lights? (?<state>.+)" Tasker-flavored regular expression.

Controls the relevant Hue lights in my apartment using Tasker + AutoVoice + Hue Pro Tasker.

I occasionally tinker and extend my hacked together Tasker functionality during my morning commute.

I never use the "Ok Google" functionality in public, only in the privacy of my own home.

Will vouch for this. Sure, you can make your way in tech based on your skills without a degree but there will be limits you face if you really want to be adventurous.

I'm currently enjoying an opportunity that involved foreign relocation which was really only possible because of the degree. Literally, I had to fly the original diploma certificate out here with me and present it to immigration officials.

I felt my degree was worth it when it enabled me to get this job about 7 years ago. I feel it's worth has only increased since taking this particular position last spring.

Persistence.

In the spring of 2009, as a senior at university, I was one of the first few people involved in the movement that became Twin Cities Maker, now a hacker/makerspace in Minneapolis, MN.

Movements start small. The very first meeting was just three of us meeting in a coffee shop after one guy started by boldly registering the web domain and looking for interest.

This eventually grew to a consistent weekly social meeting in the back room of a coffee shop. Over time informality gave way to an official club with officers. We started collecting dues to save money for a lease while still keeping the energy by meeting every week at the coffee shop.

I moved away for work soon after graduating in the summer but initially kept in pretty close contact with the group. By January 2010, with the help of a group-merger, Hack Factory of MN dba Twin Cities Maker officially held a lease to a space in town. Since then they've expanded to lease more of the building. At the Hack Factory you can tinker with electronics, 3d printing, CNC routing, milling, welding, woodworking, textiles,....

Even after acquiring the shop, the weekly coffee shop meet turned into a weekly open house on Wednesday evenings that still runs today.

Credit for this success goes to the individuals who stepped up to volunteer running this crazy enterprise. I have crazy amounts of respect for everyone who's served as an officer or otherwise helped organize things.

After returning to town in 2011 I officially rejoined as a member, although I happened to loose much of my enthusiasm for social tinkering. I was interested, but not committed, so i'd sit in on board meetings but not actually run for office. Eventually, I spent less and less time at the shop.

Since then I've always felt odd talking about my involvement in TC Maker, because other than being one of the first few people in the door, I never personally took much of a real lead role in the organization. By 2013- I was considering myself to just be the longest dues-paying member who actually participated the least.

I'm on another "hiatus" now as I moved to Helsinki, Finland last spring. I'm still on the mailing list, and I still admire the group for doing their own thing and making it work. If I'm ever back in MN and it's still around I'll undoubtedly be involved again at some level.

http://www.tcmaker.org/blog/

The current front runner in this niche is Sponge.

"Sponge is a combination of a new API (based off of Spout/Flow’s APIs) implemented on top of Forge, with assistance from other parts of Minecraft’s modding community (Glowstone, Cauldron, Spout, etc.).

It will be both a server and client API, and its target user base is pretty much anyone that wants to mod their game, including server owners. However, we may focus on the server-side portion first.

We invite any developer to help out."

https://www.spongepowered.org/

Development seems quite active on Github.

Hacker News Enhancement Suite for Chrome

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...

I've been there myself, but it's really mentally freeing to just let go of the tabs.

If you have something open because you need to finish a task... Put the task explicitly on your todo list, set a reminder, and close the tab.

If you have something open that you are need to finish reading reading but don't immediately have the time? Add it to your Pocket or alternative, and close the tab. If you feel you might forget it, set a calendar reminder to follow-up.

If you have something open that you think might just be nice to reference for that project you're kinda tinkering on... Summarize your finding in a way that would be meaningful to a future-you searching for that reference. You can do this in whatever method you prefer (bookmark, txt file, journal, pocket, etc.) And finally, close the tab!

In my personal experience having tabs open for weeks, to years on end did nothing more than exacerbate my anxiety over the fear of somehow missing out or loosing that information.

Give your working brain a rest and externalize this effort onto something that you aren't constantly being reminded of every second you're using the browser.

If you're worried about not finishing something, give yourself deadlines and set reminders.

If you're worried about not finding something, make it easier for a future-you to find it.

Totally different situations. All of these removed rail spurs are from when these neighborhoods would have been industrial/shipping and not residential/light commerce.

They wouldn't have very much use in a commuter transit scenario.

That's extremely disappointing. I just started trying it out sync'd with my Google calendar.

I worked one summer for my uncle helping to construct new farrowing barns for pigs. One of the clearest lessons I got was to never, EVER, get down near the manure pits of the barns in use and that if anyone did have problems, to not go in after them.

After that, was lessons about watching for risks of fire and knowing where to GTFO.

I don't remember any at-the-time recent issues with asphyxiation and there were well known cases of barn fires every 5-8 years (we were replacing one that burnt down the year before). Still, the bigger warning I remember was about safety near manure.

Here's some of my 'must listen' list.

Daily Tech News Show with Tom Merritt; I'm a Co Executive Producer (Patreon) Security Now with Steve Gibson Freakonomics Radio

The benefit of competition. I hope Gitlab, Github and others keep pushing each other forward. It's better for everyone.