cup-of-tea

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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
That's not a trivial feature that "every other editor" can do, though. > I'm sure there are plenty of others. Emacs, for one.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Can you prove that? I don't believe it. Are there any theories supporting the end of all life on Earth?
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
This is surely the case. Nobody really thinks humans have the ability to wipe out all life on Earth do they? We might be able to destroy ourselves, but life will probably continue at least until the Sun turns into a red giant. Life on Earth
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
It's quite difficult even for trained programmers to make their pipelines reproducibile. Just look at how much effort goes into build pipelines and the like. There isn't any good tooling for doing it so people build their own syst
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
The irony is that the journalist is implicitly saying that pushing a pram is a "woman thing" which is sexist.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Not a problem. I can't remember that ever happening, but if it did I would just close the tab. Pi-hole works as intended.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
> You need to learn to open a file, edit it, move around and exit and the edit/view mode. Everybody learns how to do it. At first it sucks but you can learn this in 5 min. > Nothing too hard, and yes, do use the direction keys, i
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
> One of the reasons is that almost every other editor has the ability to use vim commands. Really? It would have to be a modal editor to use vim commands. Emacs commands, on the other hand, could work with the vast majority of editors o
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
I meant to say vim is the "hip" thing, as in, it's in fashion with a certain type of programmer for some reason. Fashion definitely exists in our world, even though it's hard to admit. In my (purely anecdotal) experience
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Describing Emacs using English is necessarily an understatement. It can only be properly described using Lisp.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
I don't really know when the editor wars took place or when (or if) they finished, but I started to look for a serious text editor around ten years ago. Before that I was using different "IDEs" for every programming language
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
No. We're talking about highly specialised tools for professional engineers, not some dumb electronics made for children and old people. You're using the tool wrong. Emacs is not vi.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Or maybe vim is massively over represented in those other polls. Lots of people claim to use it. Few customise and really live with it and thus are not likely to subscribe to a subreddit about it. I know "vim users" that actually
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Very difficult to do with free software and completely irrelevant really. At some point in your life it's OK to accept that you're the weird one. We're the weird ones. Donald Knuth, Richard Stallman, Guido van Rossum, Rich Hi
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Stupid poll. Due to the limited options, people who use neither editor seriously have voted vim simply because they know about it. Also it can't be denied that vim is the hipster editor, used by the same kind of people that use reddit.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
You use it wrong. You're supposed to keep your local emacs running and use tramp to login to the remote server. That way you still have your emacs config with you and don't have to load it again. What vim users don't seem to
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Money is power. Money is quite literally the ability to make other people work for the things you want.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Decentralisation is hard because people crave power. As long as people crave power, people will build centralised systems of control.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
> But people only want to use centralized services. That's not true. "People" don't care whether the service is centralised or decentralised. They just want the practical benefits of something that looks like a cent
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
I used Windows full time until ten years ago. Like many it was my first introduction to computers. I switched to Linux and never looked back even once. I've had to use Windows at work for the last 9 months and it's been an awful e
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Is this a culture clash? In my part of the world my post would have been considered perfectly acceptable and civil. Have you ever watched a British debate? We don't all pretend to like each other and put on a false overly agreeable fac
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Sorry, what? What are we supposed to do here? Use euphemisms like "big", or maybe technical terms like "overweight" or "obese"? Do we deny that fat people have a different experience to regular people? Do we de
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
OK, it seems I misunderstood because I don't know much about grass. It seems there was some grass there a long time ago, but there is also a lot of "alien grass" that was introduced to the Cape region by humans. The alien gra
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
There wasn't even grass in South Africa until humans brought it there. Surprised me too.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
> a single application that has had 35 years to get its shit together simply won't work well? It's because the people that like emacs don't like Windows. You would see why if you would try something else. If you want emacs
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Gatekeep? What's that supposed to mean? What am I gatekeeping?
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
> ordinance survey > ordinary survey Ordnance Survey. Interesting couple of auto-complete errors.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
While a motorway is a special designation of road in the UK, in practice roads like the A303 are motorways, as in roads consisting of constant, heavy motorised traffic.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
I really think the reason why might be the same as why I've spent ten hours reorganising my emacs configuration this weekend. Why not? What really makes me wonder is how much of the output of people like us will be recognised in the fa
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
You do understand that people 5000 years ago didn't have cars, right? I suggest going for a long walk some time. It gives you a proper understanding of geography.

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