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by akho 6y ago
DRM-using publishers tend to pay authors less than non-DRM ones do, and certainly less than you can donate to them (I assume the full price of the book). So if your intention is to support authors, pirating and finding a way to pay the auth
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by akho 6y ago
I did not find the book they wanted on libgen. Libgen is not perfect.
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by akho 6y ago
Usability is only objective if you use the word in a dictionary sense: "it is possible to use this editor". It is very much subjective in its usual use: how easily it can be used by a certain user to do certain things. Say, to me
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by akho 6y ago
Quadrants with the same stuff are easy to do in Windows (with Win+arrows). The tricky part is in various autolayouts &c. But that is also where usefulness diminishes for non-terminal stuff. GUI apps usually expect stacking.
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by akho 6y ago
I think this is the relevant bug: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/2395 WSL2 has been great so far (I’ve been using it for a few months now with no serious issues).
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by akho 6y ago
WSL1 managed to corrupt SQLite dbs. Which is really annoying, and does not happen with WSL2. My (casual, not work) use relies heavily on Nix, which is built around a centralized SQLite file. I did not enjoy that experience.
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by akho 7y ago
Diplomatic staff is very limited in number (because they have immunity, so the host country does not want it inflated too much). These kinds of jobs do not require immunity and can be done by non-diplomats.
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by akho 7y ago
That figure seems a bit low. So you have 535 members of Congress. Other govt officials (State, trade and aid agencies, ...) foreign powers have a legitimate interest in meeting probably brings that figure to a 1000. Congresspeople have aide
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by akho 7y ago
If Microsoft wanted to take their toys and leave the browser market, they would have done just that — perhaps bundling Firefox (to stab at Google) for a fraction of the cost of continued Edge development. Trident was not much of a contender
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by akho 7y ago
If you are prepared to be sued.
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by akho 7y ago
I’m mostly fine using native GUI apps. Not like I use much except a browser, messengers, and Office. VcXsrv was largely painless, as far as I remember.
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by akho 7y ago
WSL 2 is better in very critical ways. WSL 1 occasionally corrupts SQLite databases. It’s a problem for anyone, but especially if you use Nix, where an SQLite db is a single point of failure. I had it happen to me. On the other hand, WSL 1’
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by akho 7y ago
I suggest you pay those people with your money, instead of everyone’s privacy.
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by akho 7y ago
This is strangely framed. The choice is, at the very least, between a job, games, and a library. And a trillion other things. Long walks. Gardening. I’m not sure where the games narrative comes from. From the image on top of the article?
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by akho 7y ago
I use vim, enjoy it, and get invited to parties.
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by akho 7y ago
https://www.han.de/~werner/ytree.html I don’t know if it’s faithful enough for you
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by akho 7y ago
Vim interface is copied too often for you to call it bad. It’s obviously well-loved.
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by akho 7y ago
That’s why the poster above suggested doing it from the line above. kddp still saves you from the burden of pressing the shift key. (Works if register contents after the operation do not matter to you; I don’t think the OP knows or cares wh
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by akho 7y ago
I don't see how. Do you remember office menus and toolbars? They were insane. I remember the 'collapsed' menus in 2003 as a low point in UI design. (Shift+F1 opens the 'reveal formatting' pane. I think it's tuc
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by akho 7y ago
This is an insight you gain very early in your R experience. It breaks down rather quickly. Not that it is not true — there are just too many details around the core concept.
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by akho 7y ago
Toolbars were not keyboard accessible, and usually unlabeled. The ribbon is a huge improvement.
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by akho 7y ago
The ribbon has Alt shortcuts with clear hints. It’s an all-around improvement on menus. Not on the Mac though. But Macs also don’t have alt shortcuts in menus.
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by akho 7y ago
For archiving web pages? ArchiveBox is ok.
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by akho 7y ago
I do not see how using a web thing is a solution to web things going away.
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by akho 7y ago
Last 10 years saw the introduction and great progress in PowerQuery and PowerPivot. Those two make Excel a very different, more versatile, tool. I’m not sure what “basic tech” is, or which UI changes you refer to (I think it’s pretty much u
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by akho 7y ago
That is an argument for static sites — which I fully agree with. I do not understand this particular pre-packaged approach. These things are trivial to build in a site-specific way, and you do not need to sacrifice quite as much flexibility
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by akho 7y ago
MovableType, from what I remember, defaults to generating static pages. It’s proprietary these days, though. wget -r on a wordpress site probably takes a bit too long? I don’t know. Anyway, the task solved by static generators is trivial, s
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by akho 7y ago
Excel has been the same for which ten years?
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by akho 7y ago
I do not understand the point in these static site generators. To me, the attractiveness of having a static website is that you get to choose the presentation appropriate to the particular content of each page. You can also automate some of
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by akho 7y ago
I have the old free g suite. You mention keyboard shortcuts. That’s trivial to replicate with Firefox’ MAC with any web interface. Web clients are not important.

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