BeetleB

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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> I didn't want this to be a long post, and I think I've succeeded. Classic Steve Yegge!
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Yeah - I totally would not support that!
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> Also, I don’t see any use in saying someone shouldn’t be angry or anxious in a particular situation. If you make a statement like that, I will have to ask you to reread the article. He's clear in saying: 1. Anger and anxiety shoul
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> I was taught that anger isn't an emotion. Yes, this is a school of thought I've seen in a few communication circles. It's not entirely accurate, but it's a useful exercise. They teach that anger is really a derived
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
OK, but given that GIMP is a general purpose tool, what use is the signature if all of them verify it, when I can drastically change the image to whatever I want it to be?
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Kobo Plus: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/plus The reason I don't subscribe is it takes me a lot longer to finish a book/audiobook than a movie. I just get them from the library/Libby - even if it'
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
How exactly would this work? People take RAW photos. Load it up in a RAW editing tool. Manipulate it. Then load it in Gimp. Manipulate some more. Will the final result have the signature? And if it does, what use would it be?
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> Now I'm curious, do people actually tried to hack vacuum tubes or other big servers that's barely 1MB RAM? "Barely?" It's insane to lump vacuum tubes together with servers with 1 MB RAM. My first PC, which I us
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
A lot of engineering companies have Linux accounts you log in to. The employees' laptops are Windows but a good amount of engineering work is in Linux. Hence they SSH in and do their work. These accounts are managed by IT. They pre ins
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Emacs is just there in their environment. They didn't set anything up. > Even discovering tramp is not trivial or automatic and for working on a remote machine, isn't Vim much more common? Full confession: I, as a power Emacs u
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Yes, but there's a significant asymmetry with the advice usually given. I hear "Read a lot" about 10x more than "Write a lot". I've been reading a lot for decades. I'm a crappy writer. There is a saturatio
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
I've helped such people with their configs. They just know it as "commands" they put in the init file - they don't think of it as a programming language. It's rare for simple init.el files to have things like functi
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
I don't know how old you are, but the MAGA movement is an offshoot of the Tea Party movement which, although begun under Bush, became massively popular under Obama. Sure, lots of people were not happy with Bush dragging the country i
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> Who are you comparing us to? I imagine Europe and Australia. "We're not as bad as <random Asian/African country>" is not something to boast about.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Most Emacs users I personally know simply treat it as an editor. They're not really aware how it works under the hood.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
When I read titles like these, I expect a relatively low value article. This has probably been the highest value such article I've read in years. You've phrased item 3 better than I have been trying to for years after my own journ
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
It's the reality. If you're old enough to remember when people subscribed to magazines ... how often did you throw out a magazine? How often have you thrown out manuals for products you don't use any more?
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
I guess I could. I recall I was getting used Nooks as cheap as Kobos. Not sure about Boox. (I'm talking $15 or less).
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Even if you want it for just books, there are benefits to installing things like KOReader (way better ebook reader than the default). This allows you to sync with Calibre, etc. Years ago, it was practically a hobby of mine to go to my local
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Not for me - both at work and home. I need to be logged in.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
No. Almost none of the books you donate to the library get to the shelves. If they can sell it, they will. Otherwise they are thrown away. I even read on a web site of a librarian that their library had stopped accepting donations because &
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
I think he just felt the students wouldn't be able to handle the linear algebra aspects of QM. Strange notion, given that all the students were seniors, and had all taken a linear algebra course from the math department. Probably wante
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> Why aren't smart people happier? I think any discussion on this topic should begin with answering "Why would one expect smart people to be happier?"
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Does it not work on Wayland? I can't imagine life without AwesomeWM.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
XFree86 died a long time ago. X.org is its replacement. There was a bunch of infighting as well as a dispute over license changes. People just abandoned it.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
I use the Gentoo docs as my guide for this - both have first class support and they don't nudge you in either direction. Out of curiosity: Is there any app that works on Wayland but not on X?
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Compared to some other books on the same topic, A Brief History of Time is a poor book. It just happened to be the first popular book on the topic. Fully agree with labs (not just science but engineering as well). 2 years into my grad pro
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Education serves two purposes: Understanding and developing skills for employment. Unfortunately, there usually isn't enough time to teach both for all subjects. The latter usually takes priority. I saw this happen twice in my universi
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
If it has to be information stored in depth, then sure a KB/wiki is better. IME, the majority of long emails should not be persisted in such places, because they contain a fair amount of errors. One could say that any long email thre
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
So far, searching email has been more effective than searching anything else (Wiki, Slack, etc).

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