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count-fold-lines: Emacs hack to fold duplicate lines and count them.

January 19, 2023

I just wrote a thing in Emacs that others might find useful: Although the code’s documentation gives a short example,

November 21, 2022

The number twelve is a lie; I just wanted to hook you. More than a year ago, my friend Jim

April 8, 2021

There’s a petition circulating that is essentially a public indictment of Richard Stallman. More than half of the initial signers

February 5, 2021

% So, why are we not using \appdxsection here? % % Sit down, my child, and you shall hear a

June 24, 2020

I decided to try out this lossless text-compression demonstration site by Fabrice Bellard. It uses GPT-2 natural language generation and

May 8, 2020

Have you noticed how Trump consistently says that “we can’t let the cure be worse than the problem“? (emphasis mine)

May 3, 2020

I wrote a semi-personal post over at QuestionCopyright.org on why the National Emergency Library is a good thing. (Instead of

September 26, 2019

Update (2019-11-25): Audrey Eschright has made a link roundup of “pieces I’ve been reading on the topic of modern free

July 11, 2019

Thanks to user lamayonnaise in this Reddit, I was able to solve the problem described below, which I encountered when

Danny Colligan says:

July 29, 2012 at 10:58 pm

Uh, that’s a hoax

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/29/the_curative_powers_of_the_internet/
Karl Fogel says:

July 30, 2012 at 1:05 am

Thanks, Danny. It was forwarded to me by a friend, who it turns out knew it was a hoax (and thanks for warning me, Jeff — I’ll get you back, oh yes).

Note to self: look carefully at URLs, always.