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arunisaac (arunisaac)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2019 02:55:20 EDT arunisaac Some similar interesting ideas: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/how-to-build-a-low-tech-internet/ -
arunisaac (arunisaac)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2019 14:05:33 EDT arunisaac https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/predictive_models.png https://xkcd.com/2169/ -
arunisaac (arunisaac)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2019 05:34:16 EDT arunisaac Citing national security, prosecution of criminals, etc. is not an excuse to pass arbitrary laws that take away the rights of the entire citizenry. -
arunisaac (arunisaac)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2019 08:48:23 EDT arunisaac Ditched helm in favor of ido. Suddenly, my emacs feels blazing fast. While helm is indeed more feature rich, I'm quite happy with ido. -
arunisaac (arunisaac)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2019 08:43:33 EDT arunisaac "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche -
arunisaac (arunisaac)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2019 15:18:43 EDT arunisaac https://signalshore.github.io/blog/Instant-Messaing.html -
arunisaac (arunisaac)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Aug-2018 02:59:23 EDT arunisaac !til !emacs has a process manager in the spirit of dired. https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/displaying-interacting-processes-proced -
arunisaac (arunisaac)'s status on Wednesday, 09-May-2018 03:54:55 EDT arunisaac !science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yhVuyE0e08 -
arunisaac (arunisaac)'s status on Thursday, 15-Mar-2018 08:39:51 EDT arunisaac !til of book crossing -- "the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise." There is a website (http://eduposse.org/url/17855) set up around the concept where you can register your book with an unique ID before releasing it into the wild. Then, when the book reaches someone they can enter the unique ID into the we… -
arunisaac (arunisaac)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2017 06:57:03 EST arunisaac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc93ig7e4YM Mouse traps and ping pong balls to explain how a nuclear chain reaction occurs !science -
arunisaac (arunisaac)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2017 05:04:57 EST arunisaac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_4Q9Iv7_Ao !science -
arunisaac (arunisaac)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Nov-2017 13:07:03 EDT arunisaac "posits" to replace floating point arithmetic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N05yYbUZMSQ !science !math -
arunisaac (arunisaac)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2017 15:25:24 EDT arunisaac https://www.springer.com/in/book/9781402093159 A criticism of "organic agriculture" !grow !science -
arunisaac (arunisaac)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2017 06:56:19 EDT arunisaac https://xkcd.com/1861/ https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/quantum.png !math !science -
arunisaac (arunisaac)'s status on Friday, 12-May-2017 22:49:18 EDT arunisaac !til of ViewTube (http://isebaro.com/viewtube/). ViewTube lets you watch videos on YouTube (and other sites) without proprietary javascript. -
arunisaac (arunisaac)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2017 10:00:47 EDT arunisaac !til of !emacs pdf-tools (https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools), a much better replacement for the built-in docview-mode. -
arunisaac (arunisaac)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Mar-2017 01:46:58 EDT arunisaac !til of https://solarcoin.org/ from @strypey's blog post https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/blog/ -
arunisaac (arunisaac)'s status on Thursday, 23-Mar-2017 08:44:42 EDT arunisaac http://www.hashcash.org/ !til of #hashcash, yet another novel way to patch up the broken #email system. Also, !emacs supports hashcash! :-) Will set it up sometime... !selfhosting -
arunisaac (arunisaac)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2017 14:30:53 EST arunisaac http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/banana-peel/article4412006.ece
!til why a banana peel turns black within a short time after the fruit inside is consumed, while it stays yellow for a much longer time when it is covering the fruit. !science -
arunisaac (arunisaac)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2017 10:27:29 EST arunisaac !til that there are heritable but non-genetic (Lamarckian) traits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0WZx7lUOrY