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by c256 9y ago
> Tangent: eye color is very strongly influenced by natural selection... Maybe, but then what’s your explanation for the prevalence of brown eyes due to natural selection?
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by c256 9y ago
The only gaming laptops I’ve seen that weren’t vastly inferior to both every Mac currently sold and also the EliteBook line from the OP in terms of battery life and portability costs between 3.5-5 times what you said you paid. Mind sharin
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by c256 9y ago
Hi! Where did you find a good 3-button mouse these days? Are you still living off a hoard collected from back when?
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by c256 9y ago
The standard text boxes on macOS don’t use readline, they use NSText*, which happens to implement similar things to the defaults for readline (because they were created by people who used Emacs a lot, and readline defaults to Emacs style).
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by c256 9y ago
There’s a lot of research in this area. One of the most consistent results of this research is “people don’t feel like moving their hands (off the home row, over to the arrow keys, over to the editing keys, etc) is slower, even though it is
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by c256 9y ago
In addition to the control- versions, there are meta- and control+alt- versions that work the same way in greater logical units. For example, moving forward by 1 character/word/sentence-or-expression uses different modifiers for t
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by c256 9y ago
A few years ago, I was thinking about switching to an Android phone, to try out android app development. I changed my mind when I read a serious article titles something like “which anti-virus software packages should you run on your androi
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by c256 9y ago
I’m interested in moving back to Linux as my main platform, so I’m curious: have they fixed the battery life problem on the usable, portable laptops? Last I looked, this was vastly better on macOS, so I stayed (although I am enjoying my Chr
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by c256 9y ago
Honestly? Because Perl 5 was ‘good enough’ and widely installed, and then critical mass moved on to python and JavaScript (which both then developed their own version skew issues).
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by c256 9y ago
I’m curious why you think this. When last I looked, a very large percentage of medical care was urgent care; in several demographics, it was a large majority. There are a variety of ways of measuring ‘how much’ medical care is given, which
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by c256 9y ago
This isn’t really relevant to Atom, but... Emacs is working on this, on several fronts. In many ways, this isn’t (yet) an improvement, because what we have now are a bunch of partial implementations that mostly get different parts ‘right’.
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by c256 9y ago
Also, it’s a portability PITA, and it can be a serious impediment to bringing new developers on-board. Emacs is looking (in the long-term, serious project sense) to replace or remove dumping and unexec if it can.
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by c256 9y ago
This story suggests (to me) that number is high, rapidly decreasing, and somewhat misleading, since it includes people with any level of 401k/similar. What’s your source? http://www.businessinsider.com/why-so-few-millen
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by c256 9y ago
They’re really not at all painful on an iPad with a keyboard. I’m going to guess that your experience is based on a much older version of iOS, but it’s been quite nice for the past few years (and it’s evolving still). Another option: perha
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by c256 9y ago
I think (speculation based on some light reading) the WA indoor/outdoor split is based on requiring a very high level of oversight and control on the growing operation — from what I understand, WA processes have per- plant requirement
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by c256 9y ago
I suspect that you haven’t tried very hard to get by on macos using primarily the keyboard. It used to be troublesome, but I’ve been doing it for years with very few issues. Of course, if you have an OS that works for you, keep using it, by
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by c256 9y ago
This is true, but the parent specified the retina MBP, and that does make a difference (in my experience, and others I know who’ve tried). Retina displays will spoil you quickly. I live with HD/HD-ish laptops for battery longevity, bu
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by c256 9y ago
Given that the context means that there’s always a shell available, presumably ‘with kill -QUIT’. I got into this habit myself many years ago, when varied access methods made it uncomfortable to rely on having a full range of key-bindings.
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by c256 9y ago
It o Loveyou do they already have a near-monopoly on the vast majority of costumer-dense territory, they’ve also been very successful at pushing through laws that outlaw competition at the municipal and county level. In other words, if yo
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by c256 9y ago
I don’t disagree on principle, but a highly-configured Emacs can easily reach levels of integration that I think is worthy of the “Integrated Development Environment” label. For vim, I suspect it’s more like “as close to IDE level as a dedi
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by c256 9y ago
Followed the link on a mobile device; saw a blinking bar but no way to use the site.
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by c256 9y ago
I'm not talking about the tone, but since the FCC demands and gets detailed technical specs of all cellphones sold in the U.S., it's hard to believe that the information "the thing that the head of the FCC has been asking abo
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by c256 9y ago
Every game mist do this, of course. Hitboxes are not (and can't be, and shouldn't be) perfectly accurate reflections of the target. Firing arcs are compressed down to the resolution of the game. Random chances aren't really
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by c256 9y ago
Football already is a sport watched by (and commercially payed for by) the middle class that's largely played by the poor, since at least the mid-90's, and probably the 80's as well. Take a look at who plays competitive NCAA
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by c256 9y ago
In college, I once spent a month using ed exclusively, to force myself to really learn to use it. I wouldn't really want to go back (except for the perverse challenge), but it did make me really appreciate the power of ed/sed&#x2F
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by c256 9y ago
In my experience, this is one of the areas where iOS has a real advantage over Android -- the iOS games are frequently better polished and put together. (That's been true every time I've looked -- which I've done multiple tim
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by c256 9y ago
Oklahoma schools have been laying off teachers and increasing class sizes for many, many years. Typical class sizes there now are already 30-40% larger than the legal (state law, which has itself been adjusted upwards several times) limit.