@fn I only did a little bit of XPath, but from what I remember, it's a tree-walking language - not a graph-working one.

Does it have an uniform way of traversing both the document overt structure and indirect links?

Say, I have a blob of XML like:

<foo>
<bar>
<hello />
</bar>
<baz ref="#munroe" />
</foo>
<xkcd id="munroe">
<hello />
</xkcd>

And wanted to ask for "path from 'foo' to 'hello'", is there a way for a single query to naturally give me both foo->bar->hello and foo->baz->xkcd->hello?

@rysiek @zudlig Or maybe just 20 years behind RMS.

How to do #orgmode capture templates in #Orgzly.

1. Install #Tasker and #AutoShare (a Tasker extension by the same author).

2. Make a Tasker Task that will do the capture.

3. In it, define your template as an AutoShare action:
- Subject: headline title you want
- Text: headline text you want
- MimeType: text/*, or text/plain

4. Put a Tasker widget on your home screen, bind it to task from step 2, add appropriate icon.

When you press your button, you'll land in "New note" Orgzly UI with text prefilled.

@publicvoit Yes, but my point is that it's backwards for typical workflow. "Save as ..." asks you to provide a new name for the document you'll continue to edit. But usually, the old name is fine for that - what you want is to provide a name for the copy that you *won't* be editing.

E.g. I'm writing a proposal (proposal.docx), I send the current version to customer and continue working on it - I want to "Save current as copy" to 2022-03-23-proposal-sent-to-ACME.docx and continue editing proposal.docx.

@publicvoit yeah, OSes badly need a per-file version control as a base platform API.

Also, I just realized another problem with the modern "no files, no save" paradigm - while continuous auto-saving may be fine in principle, you lose the opportunity to tag versions at specific point in time. E.g. "this, right here, is 'we sent this to customer X'".

(Not that file-based UX makes that easy.)

We need a single-click/press feature that's equivalent of Save + Copy w/ rename + mark the copy as read-only.

@meena @rysiek @feonixrift Wait, how come that, between EXIF tags and other types of metadata in image files, it's not the norm that authoring tools maintain a copy of all text (preserved across layer operations, & possibly culled to visible at export) and store it as metadata on export?

It would solve a *lot* of problems with images authored by non-tech-savvy people (or uncaring, or in a hurry) - not just accessibility, but also e.g. recovering text from a highly compressed JPEG that should've been a PNG.

@akiva First time around, I misread it as "Do you want to write fast software, or use a slow computer?". I guess it's the same sentiment, but from a different timescale perspective.

@ashfurrow Oh, so slip joints are favored by the plumbers?

Also, "sink trap", thanks for the term.

Holy hell, this is what I was complaining about here the other day, but for the opposite reason: why on Earth do they do it like this? See attached image, now that I know the term.

In my case, I have something like this, and it's really hard to fit it so it doesn't fall out. And the whole thing runs close to an electrical outlet. I always thought using friction fitting here was dumb.

@dredmorbius Had to take a drastic measure, because anything I control doesn't work. Like e.g.:

http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2020-05-25-blocking-distractions-with-mikrotik-router.html

This worked for a week, then I suddenly realized Mikrotik UI isn't *that* inconvenient after all...

Anyway, 'dang didn't ban me, but per his suggestion, I set my noprocrast cooldown to most-positive-fixnum, meaning my account is blocked until year 3921, if my math is right, or until I ask him to reset the counter :).

Anyway, the results of this experiment are mixed.

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@dredmorbius Commenting on HN is my habituated procrastination/stress relief mechanism, which tends to lock me in stupid procrastination/anxiety loops from time to time.

This was one of such times - deadline pressure at work + having a second kid born = not much time for anything, and the little I had I burned off on HN. So I thought I'd try and cut this off.

Since I can't do this voluntarily (tried many times in the past), I asked 'dang late 2021 to ban me until end-of-year.

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@dredmorbius On the one hand, I spend much less time on HN than before. But not zero - I eventually started visiting while logged out and scrolling through threads.

Overall, time savings are minimal - I ended up being active on Mastodon and couple subreddits instead.

I had one important realization though: it dawned on me that my use of HN (and now Mastodon) is in big part a coping mechanism for loneliness - lack of contact with like-minded individuals in meatspace.

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That thing won me a 2-day TDD training back in the day.

On a Java conference, speaker asked a trivial question and told that the first one to text them the correct answer would win a company-sponsored training. I managed to switch to the PC Suite, type the text and send it in time it took everyone else to pull their phones out of their pockets. 5 seconds tops, that's how fast it was.

Oh, and importantly, the old PC Suite didn't try to advertise to me, or spy on my data.

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I'm having trouble finding screenshots of pre-smartphone-era "Sony Ericsson PC Suite", but imagine your typical no-bullshit Windows Standard UI circa XP/2000 era.

The thing was snappy, despite running on a mid-range PC and later laptop. It was easier to use my PC for texting than my phone. Bluetooth rarely caused issues. File transfer went with speeds allowed by the protocol. Overall, it was reliable. Oh, and no "companion app" needed on the phone.

(No Wi-Fi on the phone though.)

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On the topic of "modern #software is mostly doing the same stuff software did 15 years ago, only worse, slower, and with much greater resource consumption". #bloat

Using your phone through the computer.

Some ~15 years ago, my Sony Ericsson K800i had a software suite for Windows that allowed me to operate the phone remotely (via Bluetooth), manage its files, etc.

Today, I can manage my flagship Android through things like AirDroid or Microsoft Your Phone. The experience is incomparably worse.

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For my semi-regular rants on things that are fundamentally graph-like (very often directed-graph-like), but are commonly modeled/handled with unsuitable representation (usually trees), I'm going to introduce some hashtags: #ItsAGraph, #NotATree.

@theruran But why crypto? How is this insanity spreading so fast through seemingly reputable organizations?

What's next? Wikipedia selling NFTs for article edits so the buyers can prove they contributed?

Why not embrace MLMs while they're at it? Same kind of ethics is involved, but at least the branching factor on wastefulness/climate impact is much lower.

@vortex_egg @pixouls