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by boogies 6y ago
Or more Ubuntu-like, Debian (in fact IIUC they just recently added support for ppc64, as it’s only in unstable while ppc64el is in stable).
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by boogies 6y ago
There was an interesting thread about e-sports in the Olympics eight months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23726597 IMO Olympic sports should have rules that everyone is allowed to use, study, modify, and share v
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by boogies 6y ago
> Maybe add 1 more frame for the Windows compositor. Months ago I noticed picom causing issues with keynav I was too lazy to find a (proper, pretty-window-shadow retaining) fix for, so I just killed it and — while I can’t confidently say
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by boogies 6y ago
Like https://repo.or.cz/vis-quickfix.git ? (More plugins: https://github.com/martanne/vis/wiki/Plugins )
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by boogies 6y ago
> ~40% support to ~99.9% support № of countries ≠ № of people though. ⅘ of the 5 most populous countries¹ use decimal points, and together they alone² have ~42½% of the world’s people. Do all decimal point countries together have ≤50%? (
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by boogies 6y ago
This looks nice, I personally would likely switch to it from HedgeDoc if TinyMCE really was “customizable and flexible” enough to have a vi-mode (it looks like it is flexible enough to add one with a browser plugin like wasavi, but I only u
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by boogies 6y ago
I think some of these things can be fixed in Abiword and other apps with GTK configuration. Eg.: > The menubar does not provide keyboard accelerators until after I press the Alt key -- too late in terms of discoverability. I think this i
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by boogies 6y ago
Could you cite that? Why would they need to infect flash drives all around the world if they had a mole directly inside the facility? Edit: grepping Wikipedia for “mole” it does appear that there was an Iranian one working with the Dutch go
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by boogies 6y ago
(offtopic) > Ethiopia has a border on Google Maps IIUC Google Maps has more than version of some contested borders, displaying one or the other depending on where you view it from (eg. India or China). I’m curious how OSM handles this.
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by boogies 6y ago
Yeah, not everyone is the same, but there are definitely people interested in multi-cursor modal editors, enough to build their own, eg. vis⁰ — a light, fast, and simple text editor with a pretty standard vim normal mode but sam’s structura
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by boogies 6y ago
https://github.com/pentadactyl/pentadactyl The development¹ has been continued by the community after Firefox removed support for XUL extensions. ¹Well, tbh basic maintenance is a more accurate term — the updates have
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by boogies 6y ago
My implication was that the fact that many people use trackpads doesn’t somehow prove that trackpads are a good tool (as reaperducer seemed to imply) (despite the fact that people can’t easily get laptops without them) any more than the fac
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by boogies 6y ago
I believe every single statement in your comment is factually false. The only one I don’t feel objectively certain of is this: > Just curious. But I sincerely doubt it’s true based on the tone of your comment. I’m willing to walk through
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by boogies 6y ago
> the debate was "keyboard vs touchpad". I didn’t mean for it to be that exclusively. I tried to say that keyboards are the best text input device, but gaming mice and controllers are the best gaming input device, graphics tabl
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by boogies 6y ago
f20 selects this discussion (the 20th link), but I used f4<Enter> to select threads (the 4th link); j,D, and <Space> scroll down by a line, half-screen/page and full-screen/page respectively; fr4 selects the correct re
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by boogies 6y ago
{} are approximately as far but they’re in the same direction that your fingers naturally point. () are farther but as words in the languages of vi and vim they're a powerful operator that have no mouse equivalent (unlike w[ords] and {
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by boogies 6y ago
The comment I was replying to was ~⅔ quasi argumentum ad populum . So I replied to their quasi argumentum ad populum with examples of it applied to the broader context of the thread, including the comment I originally replied to, and rep
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by boogies 6y ago
> uhh...tab tab tab tab tab Please take a minute to type the name of any of the browsers I named into your favourite search engine or package manager and return when you know what we’re talking about. (This comment was made via Pentadact
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by boogies 6y ago
> a little bit of joy is a good description of what I feel reading PDFs efficiently, near effortlessly (which to me is near the same thing), and comfortably (also similar in that it involves minimal reaching, but also includes automatic
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by boogies 6y ago
> You... you do realize that you can’t order a PC laptop with a Mac trackpad, right? You can as long as you can order x86 Macs with Bootcamp. > No one is like, “I could have the Mac trackpad for the same cost, but I prefer the stutter
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by boogies 6y ago
> easily controllable, different speeds This is why I like having not just ^f/b full page, {}() paragraph and sentence, and of course j/k line scrolling but also ^u/d half-page scrolling so much that I mapped them it U and
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by boogies 6y ago
> If you've used a Magic Mouse, then you've used a mouse with a trackpad on its back. Glad you liked it! My mistake. I used a standard Apple mouse ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Mighty_Mouse ). I used
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by boogies 6y ago
>Your point is only correct if you replace the word "most" with "my." The fact that trackpads are hugely popular indicates that your needs are not typical, and you should not impose your choices upon others with diffe
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by boogies 6y ago
I’ve never understood why people⁰ care so much about trackpads. For working with text (including code) keyboards are better, and for gaming mice are better. Where I'm less sure is graphics and video, but it seems to me like specialized
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by boogies 6y ago
It's probably not the only removable part, the icon can be 414 bytes: https://github.com/edent/SuperTinyIcons#how-small
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by boogies 6y ago
~0.00001‰
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by boogies 6y ago
> The specific quote exists as part of a broader context in this thread in which the accessibility of any proposed alternative to excel is relevant. Right, which is why I tried to address the next claim: > while emacs might be a valid
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by boogies 6y ago
That seems pretty irrelevant to the specific quote I was addressing, but in general it’s unfortunate there’s no tech-illiterate focused distro AFAIK, because it seems like CUA-mode would get you far enough to appeal to a lot of pretty mild
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by boogies 6y ago
> if I could only use 1 piece of software forever, it’s probably Excel “And thus we see that people with prolonged exposure to nonfree software need special help.” * Commits sin against the Church of Emacs with proprietary DuckDuckGo Jav
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by boogies 6y ago
I think it intentionally doesn’t have a complete/done “main game”, minetest_game is just a base for mods — including complete games (like mineclone) — to be built on.

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