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by akkartik 1y ago
I think 3D is a fine idea! Definitely worth trying in general. In the context of this thread my mind was mostly on what it takes to make some arbitrary power UI "not dreadful", i.e. easy to understand for newcomers. Since it'
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by akkartik 1y ago
> Vim's hjkl make sense as you start using the tool. tmux's Ctrl-B for a prefix doesn't make sense, so that leads to remapping. Hmm, I'm still confused: * How do Vim's hjkl start to make sense? They've alway
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by akkartik 1y ago
Whoa!
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by akkartik 1y ago
Ohh, I see. It wasn't just a static menu bar at the bottom, but some hotkeys were modes and the menu bar would update when you pressed them. Pico/Pine still has something like that where ^o used to stand for "other commands&q
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by akkartik 1y ago
That's awesome. I never used Lotus, but it sounds like it might have had the same idea before Wordstar which influenced me.
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by akkartik 1y ago
Thanks! I'm glad I asked, because there does seem something here I can learn from. I care very much about what makes a power tool with a high ceiling gatekeepy. What were the "lot of elements" in the screenshot? Ignoring shel
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by akkartik 1y ago
"When I first started using tmux, I felt overwhelmed by the very poor default UI that it offers and the amount of options and shortcuts that I needed to know to operate it well and be productive. It took me several tries before I star
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How to cut a rectangle into 3 without a ruler(blog.jpalardy.com)
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by akkartik 1y ago
Meta phone screens currently involve 2 medium/hard leetcode problems AND 20 minutes of behavioral questions. The inmates (i.e. we programmers) are running the asylum.
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by akkartik 1y ago
Good to know. I can't edit anymore. Not sure if I could edit when I first responded. It was 4 hours later.
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Moral Deskilling(crookedtimber.org)
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by akkartik 1y ago
That was what I submitted. I don't know why it got edited.
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The Preserving Machine by Philip K. Dick (1953)(archive.org)
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The value of chess pieces according to Stockfish(lichess.org)
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Triple Scripts(triplescripts.org)
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by akkartik 1y ago
Oh nice, a gateway in the opposite direction!
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How the Cold War Culture of Anti-Communism Shaped Protest in the Sixties(jofreeman.com)
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The Sacrifices We Choose to Make(michaelnotebook.com)
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Will my tech enshittify? How to tell(optoutproject.net)
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The 1999 and 2003 interstellar messages explained (2005) [pdf](plover.com)
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Design Considerations for an Anthropophilic Computer (1979)(web.stanford.edu)
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by akkartik 1y ago
The 'but why?' link is fascinating: https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/not-fade-away-preventive-...
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by akkartik 1y ago
I wish I could paste my profile into a new device without needing to sit through the quiz again.
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by akkartik 1y ago
I've been making little things for them with LÖVE. If I show them a Paint program and they say, "I wish I could draw circles," then I nod non-committally and then the next day it does circles. In this way I hope they will gro
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Beltabol: An eager functional esolang based on the Expanse(github.com)
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Tell HN: (dictionary|thesaurus).reference.com is now a spam site
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by akkartik 1y ago
Hmm, I'm not familiar with web-ext. I'm not sure it existed 10 years ago, back when Firefox went through their Quantum transition. Looks like web-ext came out in 2016: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2016&#x2F
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by akkartik 1y ago
"Everything is open source" does not contradict "hermetically sealed product". I built myself an extension. Just for myself, nobody else. It worked great, then in one of these "policy changes" I couldn't u
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by akkartik 1y ago
Oh I use a Firefox fork. I just don't develop extensions for it anymore. Firefox could have been the chosen one, the hackable browser. But it's just another hermetically sealed product.
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by akkartik 1y ago
10 years too late. I'm never going back. These days I try to use my browser as vanilla as possible so I don't get my heart broken.

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