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Org Mode is amazing! As an attorney I spend a lot of my time taking notes, tracking moving parts, and working with voluminous PDFs. I've tried a lot of different tools over the years (OneNote, etc.) for this purpose, but they all have serious shortcomings. I used to use Emacs in my previous life as a programmer, but had never used Org Mode before. I've got the following workflow:

- Org Mode (with org-superstar) for taking notes. Everything gets saved into a Microsoft OneDrive for sync between my laptop and desktop machine.

- Org tasks and org-agenda for project planning. Far less disruptive to your train of thought than busting out Microsoft Planner to remind yourself to follow-up on some line of research or whatever.

- pdf-tools for viewing PDFs. It's a bit kludgy (it renders PDF pages to PNGs on the fly because that's what Emacs can display), but it's somehow still less CPU-intensive than Acrobat DC or anything based on PDF.js. PDF-tools has fast incremental search, and a fast occurs mode for finding and highlighting all hits in the file.

- pdfgrep and pdfgrep-mode for searching across PDFs. Hits show up in a grep-mode buffer and you can click to jump to the exact hit. (It uses libpoppler under the hood to confine the search to the PDF text layer and show hits in logical page order rather than PDF file order, which can be arbitrary.)

- org-pdftools for creating links to specific pages of specific PDFs in Org Notes (e.g. noting that the testimony for a particular witness starts on page 758 of some 2,000-page trial transcript).

- Built-in Emacs features (windows, frames, buffers) make it easy to juggle between documents and compare them side-by-side. Emacs Bookmarks make it easy to save your place and jump back to where you left off. It's shocking how many notes tools get this wrong and only let you see one document or attachment at a time.

I'm kicking myself for not having discovered this earlier!
I agree that it's unnecessary and annoying, but it's not always useless. Some maintainers sometimes work on issues for months on end without posting any updates because they'd rather focus on the work itself, and "any updates?" comments may prompt them to talk about the progress so far.

Ideally contributors would be able to opt into automatically blocking some kinds of comments, but of course that would require a perfect "spam filter" system or manual moderation by other volunteers so that the contributor wouldn't be distracted.
Unless, it seems, you call them "Tether". Which is one of the reasons why I remain unconvinced that Blockchain _actually_ enables a financial system requiring less trust than the current mainstream financial system.
What use is mental math in 2022?
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We've all raised our concerns about the opinions of Germans before on these threads. A brilliant scientific nation that seems to have become recently confused. Sort of like the British.

Green Gas? Nuclear is bad because it produces waste despite that waste often being the size of a can of coke after a year of service? Buying Russian gas is actually making Russia more democratic and drawing it in to the West?

The past week will have a lot of Germans revising many silly opinions they were originally able to afford but not anymore -- so I'm going to wait for that tide of opinion change rather than try to persuade anymore. Being naive sometimes is a luxury some can simply afford while others can't afford it. Climate change is happening and it's not going to wait for Germany, Russia has always been like Russia -- corrupt and unreliable. Amazing that Germany have considered the US a poor partner under Trump but a reliable one with Russia/Putin. France seems have better answers on how to solve energy problems than Germany.
In England and Wales the median house price was 3.5 times median pre-tax earnings in 1997

By 2007 this had increased to 7.1, then the crash happened. It had bounced back to 7.7 by 2020 and it's well over 8, maybe 8.5 today.

A US house is of course far larger. An average European house is about 1000 square foot. An average American bathroom is about that size*

* slight hyperbole
I live in Europe.
Of course it looks silly in this context, since the Ukraine invasion is going on. However, in general, don't forget that in some cases there are maintainers who forget, or don't have time, or fix the issue BUT forgot to post an update. These things really do happen. I don't think it's inherently malicious to ask.
What do you mean by test of time?

Is this applicable to Minecraft if there is Michelangelos David, or Beethovens 5th Symphony?

Or some random tech stuff like Git if all the math is run on the shoulders of the likes of Euklid?

But to add something technical:

Nicolas Appert the guy who did canning before Pasteur could explain how it worked.
Attrocities of Soviet Union ended in 1991. I saw them with my own eyes.
Russia took over right away when it fought 2 wars against Chechnya and engineered separatist movements is former Soviet Union republics. Russia attacked Sakartvelo in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014.
Russia committed war crimes in Syria and is committing them in Ukraine right now.

If you feel responsible for war crimes of USA, you should feel personal responsibility for war crimes of Russia too, because you are supporting them.
My government hasn't committed any war crimes.
The UN Security Council veto it is a reflection a real world power. These are countries that can already use their military and soft power to negate any resolutions passed by the UN.

Removing them from the formal UN process would decouple the UN from reality and defeat its already limited usefulness.
You shouldn't read your employer's actions as uncaring. Ultimately it depends on where they are getting their money from. If that dries up, then there is no team anyway.

I completely see your point, but I also see the difficulty your employer has. They can't just wait for the war to finish before getting their business going again.
Bingo. The US is not the world.
Most studies compare grids from right now, or the recent past. EVs win in all cases, and rapidly get even better as the grid advances.
I feel like this is the time for NATO to move, at least into Belarus, and not after they have nukes.

Seems like Russia feels it can get away with anything by threatening thermonuclear war. At some point, a line should be drawn.
> say supposedly because ...

... because they did not write the compiler for their game.
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Find somewhere public to work. Its a lot harder to sit unproductively doomscrolling while sitting in a café with other people around. Its not as productive as a regular day at home but its better than nothing. At least for me anyways.
We use it for HEATING. It cannot be replaced without "Sektorenkopplung" / switching to heatpumps first.
You're not alone, and there's nothing wrong with that kind of response, so don't give yourself a hard time for it. These are shocking events with global ramifications as well as obviously the awful localised impact within Ukraine.
I'm saying that nobody really gives a fuck about sovereignty, least of all when there's a military threat on their doorstep. Not the US. Not NATO. Not Russia.
I don't have a specific study but regenerative breaking as used in commercial EVs would mean less particulate from breakpads etc. not more.
In a completely hypothetical, imaginary, (not our) world,

Anynomous was just a bunch of wanna be hackers who could only use scripts and such. They had some talent that could write scripts but mostly for denial of service etc.

As luck would have it, some highly skilled band of people decided to use the Anonymous philosophical movement to push their own agenda forward. Thus lulzsec [0] was born and from within the anonymous ranks performed a series of hacks that got anonymous more attention then it knew what to do with.

Lulzsec were also claiming[1] to be forwarding the philosophy of anti-sec[3]. But in this hypothetical world, anti-sec was anti attention. They believed getting media attention, white hat hacking, publishing etc all lead to reduced exploits for them to use and more unwanted attention they wanted to avoid. This might have gotten them more attention than from just law enforcement. Rumor had is that it was Teamp0isoN [3] that leaked some information about lulzsec to law enforcement. At least some supposed members of that group were claiming such (on random irc) before the bust of lulzsec was announced.

But in honestly, there were dozens of different irc servers at some point that all claimed to be Anonymous. Because it was supposed to be some type of hivemind, there wasn't any one place that could claim authority. Before their lulzsec stuff, the appear in zines for various groups like h0n0, zfo, el8 where they get mentioned as `scriptkiddies` and exploits of their servers getting owned is presented as entertainment for anyone reading it [4].

Hopefully this is at least entertaining if completely fictional. Some things are very hard to know/verify as an outsider looking in.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LulzSec

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_AntiSec

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisec_Movement

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeaMp0isoN

[4] https://bgr.com/general/lulzsec-hacked-exposed-by-rival-hack...
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Ah yes, the country that closed nuclear plants to buy natural gas from Russia is now giving our fancy headlines again.
On what basis are you listing the Salvation Army as "dubious"?
I didn't even know emoji reactions were live counts prior to this.
It applies to everything you mentioned. I didn't ask anyone to compare the relative greatness of the creations.
These reactors that recycle waste are not a thing right now in Germany.

These are pretty old reactors from the 80s or earlier.

Calling it propaganda tells me just one thing: its a waste of time discussing this more.
I disagree.

A direct comment is a lot more useful - both because I know it's not a bot, but also because it gives me a touch point for another interested party, who might be able/interested in helping.

ex: "Any update on this" can easily be followed with "Not at the moment, we have a work in progress [here], but could use additional hands" or "We're still trying to understand all the use-cases for this, what are you trying to accomplish" or any number of other relevant and useful things.

Personally - I enjoy having some human interaction as motivation every now and then, and it's easy enough to just ignore if the answer is "I'm busy".
I’d add to that Lawyers, Engineers, Financial Advisors, and many other roles that are licensed by territory. Regardless of what the GDPR says.
I had some issues with a sort of generalized need to frequently check updates like this in the past. Maybe a noteworthy world event, maybe just national signing day for some NCAA sport or a pro draft, an argument on some phpBB forum. Breaking it was largely a matter of not having access. I was in the Army a while and often not engaged in work where you can shift attention all that easily or safely. Then when I got out, I was doing mostly classified work from a SCIF where I had no Internet access at my primary workstation. Just having that sort of small effort barrier was enough. I lived without a constant info dump update feed scrawling through my eyeballs for many years and realized it made no difference and I did not need that. It's not that I now watch or read no news ever, but infrequently, mostly on weekends. I still kind of care about sports but not nearly as much. Hacker News is the only site I still visit where I can comment and receive feedback, but I make no effort whatsoever to see if anyone has replied to try and reply back.

If you find you can't do it through sheer willpower alone, there are plenty of ways to more or less simulate an airgap. Various browser extensions can block sites during work hours. If you find yourself turning it off all the time, you can make it harder on yourself by keeping a set of firewall rules at your router or DNS rules at a filtering provider that takes more than a click or two to turn off. If you're using company issued workstations from an office and they don't block the sites you find yourself wasting time on and don't allow you to install extensions or configure your own DNS, those won't work. A less drastic possibility is listening to news via radio as a constant background noise type of thing, or possibly even a television feed. At least that way you can still work while receiving updates. It should be less addictive since it's non-interactive and the feed is not algorithmically curated to be maximally addictive to you personally.
Set a reminder to order it retail next year, looks like a neat thing to have.

I wonder if they'll sell a similar keyboard with it.
Maybe it's reasonable that people who write high-quality articles should get paid for their work, and that not everything should, or can, be free.
Just an anecdote...Last week I was on a run and not really thinking about a software problem at all. And then the solution just appeared in my head. Like it got beamed there. Got home and made up for two weeks of procrastination in a weekend.
They really need to invest more into nuclear energy IMHO.
Is there a single solution? If so, it would help to know I am on track by colour coding.

Otherwise it is discouraging to have no sense of progress, not knowing if you are going down a dead end. Wordle provides that feedback, and it is important (to me).
I absolutely agree with this, I'm utterly astounded that it's been 14 years since Project Chanology and people are still baited by the whole "Anonymous" imagery.
The result of this argument is that every company can easily make themselves immune to all laws and regulation by setting up shells across borders.
Update: battery life was not great :’) I might stick with my MacBook Pro for a while longer.
I don't understand why that matters at all.
Ah, I think I see what's going on. It's trivial to precompile .NET code with ReadyToRun today, but the Thundra post was written before that was possible. And it looks like the post above forgot to enable ReadyToRun (see the comments - not sure why it wouldn't be on by default).

That said, in everyday console apps on modern hardware the JIT is super quick at startup. I guess Lambdas are running in more constrained environments...
I've heard of the term but never read up its definition, thank you, that's it:

"Doomscrolling, the compulsion to engross oneself in negative news, may be the result of an evolutionary mechanism where humans are “wired to screen for and anticipate danger”.

The anticipation bit made it clear. So now is the question: how to over come it? Looks like I need a full blown news detox.
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Submitted before but with little interest.
I'm curious of the odds of danger while being in a very tall building on a day to day basis. Additionally, I'm wondering what sort of news alert you're looking for that would be actionable. Do you really expect a news flash that will give you adequate time to take actions.

Balance all this against the time you spend looking at news daily.
A destabilized situation is precisely what leads to Putin being overthrown. That's kind of the point.
Seriously, I will forget to do certain tasks or provide updates on my progress if no one follows up asking for updates. I think it's fair for someone to ask to hear if something is still in progress if it's been a while.
There are certainly takes mixed with facts and the takes don't always agree with my observations, but I think on the whole the pictures painted are the correct shape.
Those lazy developers will make up any silly excuse to avoid meeting deadlines.

/s
> My boss is asking for progress updates and I'm just responding "Nothing. The guys are focussing on staying safe, warm, and well stocked right now." (with a small side of incredulity.)

Incredible. I know several managers with employees in Ukraine and their companies are all being very thoughtful about handling the situation.

When I hire remotely (including Ukraine, where we even had a remote office at one point) it wasn’t uncommon to discover entire teams of people being mistreated as remote employees of some clueless foreign company. It was so easy to hire away the entire team and so satisfying to just see them enjoy working for a company and managers who actually cared. This might be a signal for where to go with your career at a later date after the current events are behind us (hoping sooner rather than later)
No kidding. And it tasted terrible too, I hated cleaning it.
Not sure I count as a fan of the FDP either, but they are very close to the industry. If they are pushing for renewables, that means a core influence group has committed to that and together with the greens, they can push for the necessary changes.
It’s not my fault that you are not capable of critical thinking.

I guess Guccifer 2.0 was also a Romanian cab driver and not Russian intelligence services?

Western intelligence services defacing Russian websites have nothing to do with the majority of content associated with “Anonymous”, they’re deliberately throwing it in to muddy attribution and you’re eating it right up.

> But they're still doing what they can to assist.

“They” don’t exist. “They” cannot possibly be doing anything to assist.

Russian foreign intelligence services are a part of this helpful “group” too https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news/fancy-bear...
Signed is the wrong thing here, so u16 or u32 maybe, however I expect you'd blow something up long before because this won't be architected as a simple counter.
I'm reading a lot about the 37' Spanish war atm, and there is some common points between the reactions of NATO and the then Alliance. Hopefully we won't have a Stalin in our rank betraying everybody.
BMW is hardly the example I would use to defend your stance, BMW are also widely known for their expensive maintenance costs as they age, that is the reason why they are soo poorly valued.

That is the trend Tesla is going towards, and it is not a trend to defend your position that Battery cars can / should replace ICE

The market can not bear every car having a resell value like BMW's
It will be a slow grind to electrify everything. The technology exists but virtually no one is going to rip out their perfectly functioning gas heating for a heat pump or electric water heater. Trade-in their working combustion engine car for a new electric one. The move to electric-only versions of these things will take decades, so maybe Germany can ban the sale of all consumer gas-burning equipment by 2035 but there is no way energy use will be 100% renewable by then.
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> the free market considers nuclear power plants too risky

the free market is made up of people who primarily watch sensational evening news and follow clickbait social media. the actual statistics are still well on the side of nuclear in terms of safety and externalities (as far as i understand)
I just haven't been trying too hard on the work side. It's not that important. I knowingly allow my focus to regularly break, I don't care about that. I have friends in Ukraine and I'm glued to the news. I check it constantly.
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>certificates from authorities with a slightly dubious track record

CAs can sign certs for any website, that absolutely makes the web less secure.
> Because where I live less than 40% of our electricity is from renewables (even those aren't completely 0 carbon impact, as they have to produce panels/wind mills/etc...).

You sure there is no burning of biomass?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/30/wood-pel...

The largest source of "renewables" ( ~40% )in the US and I'm betting it's higher in europe is biomass.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/renewable-sources/
I remember many years ago, being 16 or so, playing WoW. My guild was having a raid, and suddenly one person writes "g2g, riots".

It was a weird feeling, suddenly something that was so long away on the news suddenly felt much closer. At least for me, the internet and the connections it has given me, have made me much more empathetic to other's struggles around the world.
My company is in a similar situation - have large teams in several eastern European cities (primarily Minsk), and a few long-term remote teammates in Ukraine. A couple have fled (from Kyiv) with children, others are worried about being conscripted. It makes me want to vomit just thinking about it. I'm amazed many of them are still on Slack and making PRs.

We're fortunate some of our leadership has quite close ties to the area, so our company's response so far has been extremely understanding.
What books of his would you recommend?
> If you find yourself turning it off all the time, you can make it harder on yourself by keeping a set of firewall rules at your router or DNS rules at a filtering provider that takes more than a click or two to turn off.

I tried that wiht my hosts file (/etc/hosts) and failed since it's a password and a comment character to enable the site back on. I do not control the firewall on the WiFi where I have my work setup.
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Any public expenditure could be weighed against "helping the homeless" or "feeding the hungry" I don't know why space is about the only thing that falls victim of it.

You could literally throw anything against it i.e., why build an airport/road/hydropower dam/new city hall/park bench/etc when there's homeless here?

It's frustrating. But I think it gives you a good insight on if someone is a long term or short term thinker.
> People like their stores and skins

Two types of people here, too.

Those who bought "Horse Armor" and those who thought it was the most ridiculous thing they had ever heard of.

Personally I dislike the move towards every game being a live service to justify the presence of a store with skins and emotes and such.

I'm getting sick of always online, seasonal event driven live service games where the game balance constantly changes and new stuff is funnelled into it constantly. It is such a relief to me when a game just is released in a mostly final shape, with maybe some QoL patches and an expansion dlc or two.

Destiny 2 ruined this for me in a big way with how they are not just introducing new content but also removing old content, content I paid for and now can never access again.

It has set a terrible precedent and I'm just not going to use my money on games like that anymore.
Citizens deserve version control over their governments.
Just because the spice must flow doesnt mean uncaring. Its an unrelated sentiment. Thats the corporation for you. Maybe take some mental health days.
You stop exposing yourself to news which most likely won’t affect you in any way, and you remember that if everyone stopped doing what they do and just sat there scared of Putin, it’d be his victory anyway.
It seems like BPs PR is at it here in this thread. Why does HN care so much about BPs image that they must clear it of any potential bribery claims?
You scored some internet points.. But posting this before the company could react, smells of bad taste, and won't score you much respect.
There are plenty of people willing to exchange crypto for fiat currency...makes it harder to get your money, but it's still way better than if the government just freezes your bank accounts.