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by b3n 4y ago
> Imagine I have never used Emacs before. > However I have been using vi exclusively for 15 years. I have a passing familiarity with Emacs bindings from working shells, but they are an exercise in misery. > >
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by b3n 4y ago
> I wouldn't call it a real alternative, specially without minibuffers plug-ins like ivy and co. Why is that? Emacs comes built in with modes like `fido-vertical-mode`, which are arguably more powerful and modern than `company-mode`
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by b3n 5y ago
What do you mean by "failed"? It is an active project: usable and still in development.
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by b3n 5y ago
> Each ENS domain name is an NFT. Wasn't Namecoin solving the same problem years before Ethereum existed? What makes ENS/NFTs novel?
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by b3n 5y ago
They don't, OP was simply proud of typing "n → ∞".
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by b3n 5y ago
Likely referring to the compose[1] key in X11. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/XCompose
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by b3n 5y ago
I am not sure what you mean by "never mentions their existence", they are very clearly mentioned near the top of the git man page: DESCRIPTION Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an
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by b3n 5y ago
I recently made the switch to Guix, which is a distro heavily inspired by NixOS. It even has a Nix service[1] which is easily enabled to get the best of both worlds. Highly recommended! [1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/e
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by b3n 5y ago
Unfortunately Fossil uses a fast SHA hash for the password hashes of user accounts in the database, rather than a key derivation function, which is disappointing.
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by b3n 5y ago
This is explicitly not a chorded keyboard.
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by b3n 5y ago
> None of this would have been possible using a clojure-style let. Why? Clojure already supports pattern matching in its `let`, e.g. (let [[head & tail] (produces-a-list)] ...)
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by b3n 5y ago
> and get a QR code scanned at every shop, every restaurant How does this work for those who don't own a smartphone?
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by b3n 5y ago
To be fair, git has no concept of pull requests, this is entirely a feature of some hosting platforms which this article makes no mention of.
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by b3n 5y ago
Apple has a vastly bigger market cap than $1t.
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by b3n 5y ago
Have you tried vanilla Emacs without any plugins (aka `emacs -Q`)? It's blazingly fast for me.
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by b3n 5y ago
Why is that what really matters? Having fewer children makes a big difference which is invisible by this metric. What really matters is the negative impact on the environment. If we half emissions per capita but 10x the population size mo
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by b3n 5y ago
It seems like this study has two groups of 400, so 800 people total, 1% of which had the South African variant, so 8 people. How can we draw any conclusions from this?
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by b3n 6y ago
Why would X11 on a phone mean Linux? X works on many operating systems, it was never designed specifically for Linux.
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by b3n 6y ago
> It also improves on vi's commands syntax I've never used Kakoune, but reading about it I'm not sure it's an improvement. One powerful vi feature is the dot command, and having verbs act on selections doesn't a
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by b3n 6y ago
> doing a lot of undos and redos makes the history quickly unwieldy to navigate Are you aware of the `undo-only` (and `undo-redo`) functions? They make it a breeze to navigate even the most complex undo history.
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by b3n 6y ago
What is bad about it? It always goes back to the previous state, and if you want to skip previous undo states (so you don't undo an undo) you can use `M-x undo-only`.
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by b3n 6y ago
The tree structure is inherently flawed for storing undos when using features like undoing within a specific region, because the new state doesn't map to any previous node on the tree. By default, Emacs has a linear undo structure, whi
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by b3n 6y ago
And to get something closer to OP there is always undo-propose.el[1]. [1] https://github.com/jackkamm/undo-propose-el#screenshot
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by b3n 6y ago
Can't quantum computers theoretically break elliptic curve cryptography? I suspect we'll get there a bit before the heat death of the universe.
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by b3n 6y ago
How can I control the Nyxt browser with the file system?
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by b3n 6y ago
To be fair, they are named SLIME and CIDER, not "slime" and "cider", as they are both acronyms.
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by b3n 6y ago
Out of curiosity, why do you use a monospaced font for non-code?
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by b3n 6y ago
Any reason you don't use calc-mode to insert mathematical results into your Org buffer? Calc-mode is extremely powerful.
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by b3n 6y ago
The title seems a little disingenuous, as Canva does not have ads or require signup.
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by b3n 6y ago
Vim is Charityware, see `:help iccf`.

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