seewhat's comments

I’ve occasionally found myself wanting a comments filter with an account-creation date cutoff.

A -3dB cutoff might be >= 01/01/2020, to pick a round figure.

Yet I never browse https://news.ycombinator.com/classic

Perhaps a classic comment filter might work…

> “The hypothesis is that estrogen can be protective, so that women may develop risk for heart disease later, by about 10 years, but then after menopause, it catches up,” Khan said. “After menopause, and particularly during that perimenopause period for women, that risk can accelerate.”

> By contrast, the researchers found no meaningful sex difference in stroke risk; men and women reached similar stroke incidence at nearly the same ages. Heart failure also showed little difference early on, but men had a slightly higher incidence rate by age 65.

The tarsier appears on the cover of some versions of a DJ Shadow album…

https://www.discogs.com/release/324160-DJ-Shadow-The-Private...

Similar-length hiking options exist in the EU, like Via Alpina. Adjacent suggestions for long-distance and/or solo tourism are worth considering.

With the luxury of time, investing in oneself can be done in novel ways, e.g. flying or ocean sailing, triathlon, surfing, craftsmanship, golf.

I have occasionally dipped into this book for instruction and consider it a freely accessible reference:

Unix Text Processing, Dougherty and O'Reilly, 1987 https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/

Cherry pick chapters like those on the Shell and AWK, and avoid those on troff, macros etc unless specifically interested.

On pg 38: Field Gate Programmable Array (FPGA)

Surely: Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) ?

I have seen the term "tenderpreneur" applied to those who become enriched through favourable access to government contracts, as in...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenderpreneur

  ... a tenderpreneur is a person in government who abuses their
  political power and influence to secure government tenders and
  contracts. The word tenderpreneur is a portmanteau of "tendering"
  and "entrepreneur".

Could the meaning be applied here too?

10 KV? I think it's max about 400 V, depending on region.

Another suggestion, if you haven't ruled it out.

I enjoy using console vimdiff in PuTTY, because my configuration allows quick navigation without too much thought.

The accumulated time for starting vim can become annoying when iterating over many files. (I could investigate loading diff pairs into tabs if I was sufficiently bothered.)

Helpful .vimrc settings:-

Firstly, map some keys to navigate to preceding/successive differences...

  " Next/ previous diff (analogous to j/k, use the same fingers)
  nmap <F6> ]czt
  nmap <F7> [czt

And some helper keys...

  " Diff update, i.e. repaint the screen when needed
  nmap <F5> :diffupdate<CR>
  
  " Get from Buffer 1/ 2/ 3/ 4
  nmap <F1> :diffget 1<CR>
  nmap <F2> :diffget 2<CR>
  nmap <F3> :diffget 3<CR>
  nmap <F4> :diffget 4<CR>

Configure all visible windows when starting via vimdiff or diffthis. I prefer no folding (for added context) and then to navigate with the above keys.

  " Apply window-local settings to all diff windows
  au! FilterWritePost * if &diff | set wrap | set foldcolumn=0 | set nofoldenable | endif

Finally, set some colors...

  " Override the diff colours
  highlight DiffAdd term=reverse cterm=NONE ctermbg=darkblue ctermfg=white
  highlight DiffDelete term=reverse cterm=NONE ctermbg=black ctermfg=blue
  highlight DiffChange term=reverse cterm=NONE ctermbg=darkgray ctermfg=white
  highlight DiffText term=reverse cterm=bold ctermbg=brown ctermfg=white

Not implemented here is a toggle to ignore whitespace changes (perhaps mapped to <F8>).

For the curious: When the HN-posting bookmarklet limited the length of the article title, I lifted the title of the BBC News story.

I noticed that UTILITY.txt and QUICK.txt in v20source refer to an FGREP command which is missing. Perhaps it exists as the familiar FIND command (FIND.ASM and FIND.EXE).

An economic angle, summarised in: Lowenberg, Anton D. "Why South Africa’s Apartheid Economy Failed", 1997

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/article/Contemporary-Econom...

TLDR:-

1. Decades of intensifying international isolation over RSA's political climate.

2. RSA's growing reliance on international short-term loans in 1980s, leading to balance of payments crisis.

3. Threat and introduction of economic sanctions by international community.

4. ... Leading to increasing economic costs to industry and individuals, which reduced internal support for Apartheid amongst South Africa's elite.

5. Coincidental fall of the Soviet Union, leading to the West's reduced support of RSA against revolutionary front-line states.

(Not to discount the struggle for equality amongst non-white South Africans, embodied by Mandela and others.)

EDIT: Clarity

Another song for Mandela, though released in 1989 as a B-side single: Simple Minds - Mandela Day...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandela_Day_(song)

Did your father experience a cross-over period of using OpenOffice (rather than MS Office) on Windows?

I've recently installed RCS on a Windows host for versioning my .emacs file, and I rely on Emacs VC to drive the tool.

On Solaris hosts, including locked-down "production", I use SCCS to version my dot-files because it's available by default. For development I use SVN (old too by today's standards).

I don't advocate using these old tools over modern alternatives; however I find their simplicity in the above cases to be beneficial.

A piece of trivia: "Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities" is listed as a well-known example of a sell-side dealer (the publishing date is 2002). Understandably, some other firms no longer operate under their listed names.

I encounter vi on a production Solaris 10 box at my current consulting gig.

I can access the box from other hosts with tramp. I believe that firewall rules will be changed to restrict many production SSH connections to be outbound, which might signal the end of that use case(?)

Other editors found on the production box: ed, xedit (X Consortium).

I believe Canonical sent warning emails to ubuntuforums.org account addresses.

Hi, thanks for the info. The initial difference is that I cannot use the installer due to Windows group policies associated with my account (the PC is not mine to administer). So I've downloaded and extracted the v0.3 zip archive.

I manually start clink by running "install_dir\clink inject" in a cmd session and this procedure works correctly. Problems arise when running the same command in a cmd session in Console2. The Console2 process disappears (crashes?) after approx 1 sec, then 10s later the clink executable disappears. Strange behaviour and I may simply drop this and perhaps try again in future once the tool(s) have matured.

I hadn't used either Console2 or clink before now; I can get by without them as I'm not a rabid user of the Windows command line. I'll likely casually experiment with them separately.

Any advice on how to make these 3 tools work together? I scanned the web and experimented today for approx 1 hour but didn't succeed. My general efforts were: (i) injecting clink into the Console2 process (ii) hosting the injected cmd process in Console2.