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541.
by akho 6y ago
Unfortunately, you really can’t tell in advance what fields you need. All these precious specialized tools are frustrating. Plain (-ish) text is flexible and searchable.
542.
by akho 6y ago
RHEL 8 is on Wayland by default. If you complain about any issues whatsoever, the personal support tells you to use X.Org.
543.
by akho 6y ago
They are (predominantly) not doing this for free. They are employed by RedHat.
544.
by akho 6y ago
The ‘projects’ section on the website has 3 projects. I wonder how widely the author uses this stack. ‘Personal SaaS’ is a weird category.
545.
by akho 6y ago
I don't want to spend $15. Does it just tell you to run vimtutor? It should just tell you to run vimtutor.
546.
by akho 6y ago
Try Magit. You’ll know whether it works for you. It clearly does for many people. Or fugitive in Vim. The difference is like that between using Ed and Vi. Seeing things as you do them is valuable.
547.
by akho 6y ago
“Critics mass” of whom? VS Code is very disappointing, given the hype. Can you give an example of something in the VS Code ecosystem that can impress an Emacs user enough to switch, beyond chrome? Chrome will always attract crowds, of cours
548.
by akho 6y ago
Mining and transporting coal is not free, and more expensive per MWh than nuclear fuel. Simply because of the volumes involved. How much will it cost to re-capture an contain the CO2 generated by coal and gas?
549.
by akho 6y ago
The 'timing' section is disappointing. All very clean though.
550.
by akho 6y ago
Why use five i3 windows, if you can use five Vim windows? That would make moving things around a lot easier.
551.
by akho 6y ago
Come work at a bank. Any bank.
552.
by akho 6y ago
Network transparency has grown a lot more important for me over the last few years. It’s not really network transparency, though, it’s more vm/container transparency: if your dev environment is in a vm, and includes anything graphical,
553.
by akho 6y ago
The point of PowerPoint in corporate environments is that you can embed Excel worksheets.
554.
by akho 6y ago
In Excel, intra-row and previous row are better handled by DAX (PowerPivot), than the grid as such. This is, of course, unique to desktop Excel. If you are at the point where you are building your own engine for that sort of thing, and have
555.
by akho 6y ago
You are talking about Word, not the entirety of Office. Excel does not have similar alternatives.
556.
by akho 6y ago
Print-style control is not done in Word, it's done in Publisher. In typical office use, you'd want to enforce a firm-wide stylesheet, but Word makes that difficult by leaving too much control too easy to access: people continue to
557.
by akho 6y ago
No. There are no network effects here. Any company in the financial sector would switch to an excel alternative with a tangible edge over Excel in a heartbeat. LO Calc is Excel 2003, but uglier and with more bugs. That is not a viable comme
558.
by akho 6y ago
It does indeed have a high monetary impact. Just look at Microsoft. I use PowerPivot and PowerQuery a lot. A job does not have to be particularly interesting for you to derive value from those two, practically any Excel-using job will do. E
559.
by akho 6y ago
You can make it a default. It's under 'Advanced' in options. Also, when you paste, Word shows a small button labeled 'Ctrl' — you can click it or press Ctrl, and adjust your paste.
560.
by akho 6y ago
Why would you switch to the terminal to use grep from Vim? :grep works perfectly well, and is more convenient than search in a flat file (better context for matches, quickfix list instead of n/N nonsense).
561.
by akho 6y ago
You mean PowerPC. Motorola->Power switch is mid-1990s.
562.
by akho 6y ago
Ctrl-arrows is not the same thing as vim’s wordwise movement. If you need to go 5 words forward, it’s 5w ; if you want to capitalize the next 3 words, gU3w ; the point is composability, not a single operation. Same goes for f.
563.
by akho 6y ago
It’s easy to do. You should get at least some more handy friends — or become one yourself: it will broaden your understanding of your environment, most things are very easy to fix and change.
564.
by akho 6y ago
For most other languages the package ecosystem is a competitive advantage; Perl had CPAN; Python famously comes with batteries included, but is used where its batteries don’t matter (numpy and friends, django); rubyists will go on about the
565.
by akho 6y ago
What sort of hidden knowledge do you see in the flushing mechanism? It’s pretty straightforward. (If you don’t want to go into how plastics are made, &c — but that stretches the metaphor way too far)
566.
by akho 6y ago
On the one hand, I can understand them not wanting to be a platform for content they do not like (find offensive, believe legally dangerous, &c). On the other hand, presence of porn and nazis is an indicator of a healthy community — ban
567.
by akho 6y ago
Flatpak mixes together application packaging, sandboxing, desktop integration, and an update mechanism. I do not understand the need to have all four in the same tool. I even think it limits the usefulness of each component. Would a combina
568.
by akho 6y ago
65 databases unified globally, for HSBC’s global presence, is ~2 databases per country. This is, probably, a minor trial effort for one of their services, not the core system (which is un-unifiable due to banking privacy laws in place) or a
569.
by akho 6y ago
Can you describe what you think vimwiki adds over a bunch of markdown files and `gf` for links?
570.
by akho 6y ago
Weirdly written article, readS like an SCP.

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