cmgxyz

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by cmgxyz 2y ago
I’ll bite. Who are we talking about here?
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by cmgxyz 2y ago
As somebody potentially in the market for an EV, I can say that for me, Musk is most definitely a factor. Not the only factor, to be sure, but the off-putting icing on an otherwise average cake. If Tesla were the only decent EV in town, I
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by cmgxyz 4y ago
Nothing, but that doesn't mean they deserve extinction. It'll be a poorer Earth if it's all housecats and no tigers. What makes us more special than other animals? Also nothing, in my view.
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by cmgxyz 4y ago
Love taskwarrior. As someone with ADHD/executive function issues, who struggles to prioritise, I find the "urgency" calculation invaluable. Even when it doesn't quite match reality, it's handy to have a starting poi
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by cmgxyz 4y ago
You aren't wrong. That said: - The terminal UI is pretty usable. More so with the aid of a few custom shell aliases/functions to speed things eg. `wt` for `task add +work $argv` to make it faster to add work tasks. - It's so
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by cmgxyz 5y ago
Because: Climate. Change. Is. A. Thing. In a world where we are (or should be) in a desperate race to decarbonise the essential industries that make 1st world standards of living possible (steel, concrete, travel, electricity), you're
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by cmgxyz 5y ago
> This number is very difficult to estimate, but seems to be on the order of 10kwh, or as much as driving your tesla ~30 miles, or running your dishwasher 5 times, or running your air conditioner for 5 hours, or doing any of a number of
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by cmgxyz 5y ago
Yeah. This is a cool factoid, but for this kind of thing I usually just hop over to whatever browser tab is open and hit F12. If it really needs to be in the terminal, I'd reach for Node, or Deno, or JQ if it's anything to do wit
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by cmgxyz 6y ago
When I went back to school to get my CS degree, I developed a pretty strict habit of only taking my lecture notes by hand, usually by printing out the lecture slides in advance and then annotating them with a bright turquoise fountain pen
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by cmgxyz 6y ago
The short answer: very extensive systems of phonetic shorthand, a special keyboard with very few keys designed for chorded input (multiple keys pressed simultaneously), and specialised software dictionaries to translate the shorthand back i
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by cmgxyz 6y ago
> TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE This has always stuck with me. I’m not well enough read to know if he borrowed it from somewhere, but I’m not sure Terry Pratchett ever wrote finer words than those. Beautifu
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by cmgxyz 7y ago
I use mine more now that it's right under my fingers via a layer switch ;) I use a Keyboardio Model01 split ergonomic keyboard at work.
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by cmgxyz 7y ago
I think a certain amount of it is just a fascination with minimalism for the sake of it and clever firmware tricks, but one argument for it is ergonomics. Simply: fewer keys means less travel for your wrists and fingers, albeit (as someone