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by c256 7y ago
Yes, they can. The most pernicious version literally sends compressed screenshots to their data-harvesting services. Compression can be pretty aggressive, since they only really want to figure out what you’re watching, and they have a full
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by c256 7y ago
From what I can tell, they’re a fine alternative to the current MacBook or MacBook Air, but they fail the ‘pro’ criteria just like the last few years of mbp, including small memory, glued/soldered/unserviceable parts, and an over-
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by c256 7y ago
Modern GUI emacs has basically all of the features that the OP’s rant mentions (You can even run WebKit inside of emacs, if you want), but they have to be configured. It seems likely that they haven’t tried emacs in a while, because the ran
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by c256 7y ago
When I’m trying to understand code, my hands are absolutely on the keyboard. This is very common and quite efficient once you learn how to navigate using a code editor. This is similar to the way a mathematician will often ‘read’ math with
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by c256 7y ago
There have been numerous studies on this, and the results are basically always: people don’t think that it’s faster to stick with the keyboard, but it is. Yes, even for people who are very familiar with the task, the keyboards, and the mice
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by c256 7y ago
Do you have any reason to believe that RMS hadn’t been the subject of several co platings, over several years, including several warning/remedial/probationary periods wherein people were working with him to try and improve the beh
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by c256 7y ago
“Use a real VPN” is actually pretty hard for a random user: there are constant ads for VON services that turn out to not protect their users’ traffic, and/or harvest and sell their users traffic, and yet are harder to use and more expe
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by c256 7y ago
I had to dig in also. It’s a tool that will change your shell prompt (bash, fish, or zsh) to include information about your environment and project details (Stuff like repo status, dev environment setup, unusual user, etc). Back in the day,
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by c256 7y ago
The article gives a couple possible “firsts” for escape rooms, on of which is specifically described as an attempt to bring _Crimson Room_ into real space. Maybe you were just looking for a reference to _Saw_?
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by c256 7y ago
The future of Pro machines is largely about VMs. Heck, the recent past of Pro machines is largely about VMs — that’s the reason I so often hear people complain about 16GB ram limits, for example. In that world, I wouldn’t be surprised to se
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by c256 7y ago
His premise is that social media companies either grow or they die, and Fb is running out of growth. The follow-on to the premise is that the delay between growth falling and revenue falling can mask the signs of impending doom, at least in
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by c256 7y ago
Do you feel like advertisers know that now? I feel like I hear about clickspam/ad fraud operations getting closed down (and nigh-instantly popping up elsewhere) on a constant basis. Is this like intrusive DRM in PC games, where all the
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by c256 7y ago
Since it seems like we’re already near tongue-in-cheek but still functional: it doesn’t need to; there’s a perfectly good oversized one sitting at the left end of the home row. If you’d like, you can even make it both Escape (by itself) and
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by c256 7y ago
Chromebooks usually have 4GB of memory, and many have less. For me, at least, it was a bit of sticker shock, but it’s been fine in practice. It’s true that you won’t want to spin up full VMs, but this is a dual-Core ARM anyway. For comparis
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by c256 7y ago
Almost as crazy as naming the third generation of their gaming console “One”?
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by c256 7y ago
I think you’re on to something, but maybe missing a historical detail: Lisp had a killer app: AI. Unfortunately, the massive investment of time, money, attention, etc that went into Lisp and AI came too early, faltered, and left both high a
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by c256 7y ago
Go was designed by strong programmers as a “good enough” language aimed at the combination of two goals: 1.) Letting good programmers get things done without feeling too many constraints, and without hating the output of #2. 2.) Enabling de
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by c256 7y ago
As someone who hasn’t cared especially much about any *BSD since moving on from NetBSD, I can’t help but notice that a) your bio here calls out FreeBSD, and b) your posts here seem way more rant-like than anything in the post or the comment
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by c256 7y ago
The piece suggests that the (relative to taxes) small fees they charge make up a very large part of the government’s income.
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by c256 7y ago
You might be interested in a similar project from a (quite) long time ago: Not A Window Manager http://web.mit.edu/nawm/www/
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by c256 7y ago
It was called XServe. It died due to a bunch of reasons, mostly (I believe) having to do with price/power/performance of Intel chips. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve
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by c256 7y ago
I think I understand what you’re trying to say, it the UNIX/New Jersey approach came much later than the MIT/ITS approach. The conversation happened (if I recall correctly) because the ITS approach required more architecture-spec
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by c256 7y ago
That’s very nit-y. I’ve used several different emacs-like editors, including Hemlock, Edwin, Alpha, and Epsilon, and while I’m happy that they exist, the current state of the world is pretty much divided between GNU Emacs plus close variant
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by c256 7y ago
DropBox is the Electron client of file sharing. They could make native apps that use native apis and get vastly better performance in time, power, cpu, and probably memory — but then they’d have to create and maintain a bunch of native apps
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by c256 7y ago
Your analogy is off, because (for example) the OP specifically said that they didn’t want the money to be spent on other things Mozilla does even if those things generate more money for Firefox in the end. That’s the analogy for spending th
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by c256 7y ago
How to quit vanilla emacs: select “Quit” under the File menu. If you’re using macOS, you can also select “Quit Emacs” under the application “Emacs” menu, like every other macOS app. If that wasn’t an option for you, very likely you’re not i
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by c256 7y ago
> WeChat, which has no equivalent in the West Facebook has been very transparent recently about their intent to ‘fix’ this.
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by c256 7y ago
The argument, as I understand it, is this: US national security interests are seriously harmed if the US steel industry is severely hampered. Note that I’m not attempting to assert a truth, moral, or effectiveness value for this argument.
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by c256 7y ago
Apple could solve this problems by including homebrew with macOS...
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by c256 7y ago
> I never understood why it was impossible to have any kind of multithreading in emacs. There are various ways to do multithreading in emacs now, but the answer to your question is usually “there’s a lot of existing elisp that isn’t th

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