Use the :drop command instead of :edit in Vim. It will reuse an existing window instead of creating a new one.

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Hank Green's Crash Course YouTube channel has an excellent series about navigating digital information. It's an excellent guide to how internet users could intelligently consume information they see on the internet. These are my (incomplete) notes from the series.

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Encode the host and group names into the name of a wrapper script for quick ad-hoc invocation of Ansible tasks and playbooks.

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An Identity Domain is a scope within which we assume that the user's identity can roam freely.

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Any ephemeral low-entropy web observable property whose changes are concurrently observable by multiple sites can lead to cross site identity joining.

This method of identity joining does not require coordination between multiple first parties. A single third party embedded within multiple first parties can also use this method.

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