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ravoori··on Using an old Android phone as a music player
I have an old LG V-60 lying around which with its quad DAC is the perfect phone for this
ravoori··on Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce
Approval still rides at 37%, which is pretty decent given the amount of turmoil that has been unleashed
ravoori··on CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT
He's a naturalized US citizen
ravoori··on Remarkable Convergence of Yields in Markets
The article left me wanting more. Such as, what is actually implied by this convergence of yields and what are the implications
ravoori··on Safe Place for Science: French University Ready to Welcome American Scientists
> I can't imagine Trump is going to be cutting engineering research

Singular lack of imagination on display considering recent events

ravoori··on Tmux – The Essentials (2019)
You must mean changing Ctrl-B to Ctrl-A
ravoori··on JPMorgan employee questioned Dimon's RTO mandate, fired, then told he could stay
There is no official senior VP title at JP Morgan. The next rung on the ladder after VP is Executive Director
ravoori··on The Vibes Are Off: Did Elon Musk Push Academics Off Twitter?
What tweet?
ravoori··on Californians Are Dreaming of Lower Taxes: High Earners Leaving State
Texas is damn hot in the summers and is only going to get hotter
ravoori··on Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb?
Still on RHEL 7? We upgraded to RHEL 7 from RHEL 6x three months ago :-)
ravoori··on Show HN: Interactive exercises for Linux CLI text processing commands
Excellent way to brush up Linux CLI skills and pick up a new trick or two along the way!
ravoori··on Smartphones wiped out 97% of the compact camera market
Indeed. And one of the reasons I'm clinging on to the venerable LG V35
ravoori··on Ask HN: What do you use for a personal database?
Libreoffice Base
ravoori··on Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian hierarchy
Mleccha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mleccha
ravoori··on Ask HN: Re-learn home row/proper/more ergonomic typing fundamentals?
I found klavaro to be useful for purposes of learning touch typing. Never got past 60wpm, but this is good enough in my job
ravoori··on Vim Vixen
How does this compare with Tridactyl?
ravoori··on Ask HN: Which book would you pick to re-read for the rest of your life?
Neal Stephenson's Anathem
ravoori··on Superb Linux Documentation
Very nice! Nitpick, s/intimdating/intimidating/ on the landing page
ravoori··on Grep flags – the good stuff
with awk: <hello awk '/foo/ && /bar/ && /baz/'
ravoori··on The Essence of Mathematics Through Elementary Problems
Which one was the best you read?
ravoori··on Awk is the coolest tool you don't know
Which flavor of awk supports perl regex? Gawk certainly doesn't
ravoori··on GitHub, fuck your name change
They already got to it https://www.tmz.com/2020/06/26/master-bedroom-canceled-houst...
ravoori··on A Vim Guide for Advanced Users
Vim's sort is handy on Windows where the option to shell out usually doesn't exist. Additionally you have the full power of Vim regex to sort on subsets of lines.
ravoori··on A Vim Guide for Advanced Users
As far as I am concerned, this constitutes a good read for the VIM pro. It's a shame that critical comments tend to bubble up to the top on HN
ravoori··on My Journey to Finally Ditching Windows for Good
What Linux distribution do you use on HP Stream? I used Ubuntu on mine and for some reason Firefox is intolerably slow. That really does sour things for me
ravoori··on Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large carnivores
Apparently putting on a mask at the back of the head stopped working after a while https://books.google.com/books?id=zU7PmIjthpoC&pg=PA38#v=one...
ravoori··on Some SQL Tricks of an Application DBA
Not really - this fine SO answer has many examples of CROSS/OUTER APPLY elegantly solving problems that would otherwise have been inconvenient to deal with - https://stackoverflow.com/a/9275865/753731
ravoori··on Soul Meets Body: An initial examination of the Samkhya school
Indeed. Many Upanishads are, in spirit, opposed to the old Vedas, and some are outright critical of the ritualism that forms the core of the Vedas.
ravoori··on Boeing quietly pulls plug on the 747, closing era of jumbo jets
Ingenious on the part of freight company, but roses being transported halfway around the world is an indicator of what's wrong with modern commerce
ravoori··on Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer?
Shell - for bash, I'd recommend the Bash Guide from Greg's Wiki (https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide) For awk 1. Chapters 1 and 2 from the Awk Programming Language(https://ia802309.us.archive.org/25/items/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoI...) 2. Awk one-liners (https://www.pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt) 3. Explanations for one-liners (https://catonmat.net/awk-one-liners-explained-part-one)
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