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by eadmund 1y ago
I believe with direnv or a similar tool (e.g. Emacs’s directory-local feature) one can append $REPO/.config to XDG_CONFIG_HOME, $REPO/.local/bin to PATH and so on so that when in the context of a particular directory everythi
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by eadmund 1y ago
Anything with a capital letter requires hitting two keys: Shift and then the desired letter. Thus /Programs requires 10 keystrokes rather than 9. Even worse, since the capital letter is at the beginning of the directory name, I have
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Yet, other than the Netbooks glory days, I am yet to buy a Laptop, even from Linux shops, where everything is 100% supported, or eventually doesn't get broken in some kernel update. Purism’s laptops appear to be well-supported and
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Because instead of trying to improve GNU/Linux to be a solid alternative to Apple, Google and Microsoft offerings, we have politics with everyone doing their own little village. The politics are required by the fact that we don’t
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A ton of AI images [he's] made that [he's] liked(andymasley.substack.com)
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I’m more worried about drivers , who drive more closely to helmeted cyclists. But even for cyclists, are they as likely to ride at all if they only ride helmeted? Do you treat cycling as a form of transportation, or as exercise? My belief
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Helmets increase survivability and decrease the degree of injuries in every respect. Of course a helmet increases survivability of a head injury in a crash, that’s indisputable. But of course there is a window: some crashes are so mi
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Offline folders > This is like rsync for your phone. In fact I would not be surprised if this is implemented using rsync. Once you configure an offline folder, it will two-way sync that folder while you use the app. The kicker is: o
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Why does every employee in the US need to pay an accountant to file their corporate payroll taxes, when the corporation knows how much they paid and can just use THEIR accountant to report this same information? How would my employer k
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by eadmund 1y ago
Who’s forcing? I’m recommending .
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> I'd assume that a modern CPU would do the same amount of work with a fraction of energy so that it does not even make economical sense to run such outdated hardware. There are 8,760 hours in a non-leap year. Electricity in the U.
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by eadmund 1y ago
> I played with RedoxOS a bit in a virtual machine a few years ago, and it seemed cool, so maybe that can be the logical successor to something like Hurd. A problem with RedoxOS is that it is not GPLed: contributors have no assurance tha
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by eadmund 1y ago
No-one who has ever had a hangover is unaware that alcohol is a poison. But it can also be an amazing social lubricant, it pairs so well with food and it can make a night sparkle. There’s a reason that mankind’s history is deeply entwined
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by eadmund 1y ago
I still believe that bicycle helmets are a net negative for cycling safety, due to a combination of them not improving crash survivability as much as folks believe while at the same time increasing the number of crashes due to rider and dri
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by eadmund 1y ago
> 99.9% of applications I interact with are just a series of simple CRUD operations. The vast majority of web apps out there could be implemented as REST systems (in the real, Fielding, HATEOAS sense, not the JSON-over-HTTP sense). The
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by eadmund 1y ago
The Wayland framing at the end strikes me as misleading. This gets it exactly right: > Or maybe StarDict would have started asking for special permissions to let it work on Wayland, and users would have accepted those defaults the same
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by eadmund 1y ago
> If I switched to Emacs locally, I'd still have to maintain a working knowledge of vi and context switch when in a remote shell. Even ignoring the possibility of installing Emacs on remote systems, there are still alternatives: 1.
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by eadmund 1y ago
> I am now in search of a simple way to sync notes between my phone and computer (without using Big Tech solutions). Syncthing?
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by eadmund 1y ago
man 5 user-dirs.dirs I hate the default directory names, and like you I hate the capitalisation — fortunately they can be overridden.
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by eadmund 1y ago
> I am not going to completely change my editor and rebuild two decades of optimization just to use two Emacs tools. Change your editor and rebuild two decades of optimisation in order to use Emacs, two Emacs tools, and also every other
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by eadmund 1y ago
You forgot things like shipping decades-old free software with their OS because Apple are so implacably opposed to their users having freedom to use, examine, modify and share that software.
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by eadmund 1y ago
Hey, if I don’t name this class AbstractBeanFactoryVisitorCommandPatternImplementorFactoryFactoryFactorySlapObserver how would you know what it does?
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by eadmund 1y ago
Don’t put in place systems which encourage lock-in, even at the B2B level.
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Passkeys is the way to go. No, please, not as long as attestation is in the spec. I firmly believe that passkeys are intended to facilitate vendor lock-in and reduce the autonomy of end users. Frankly, I do not trust any passkey imp
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by eadmund 1y ago
> a server I used Macs from the 1980s up to 2000 or so, and I was very familiar with that icon of a hand with a tray and some files, but it wasn’t until today that I realised that it was a pun on ‘server’ used to mean what my dialect of
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by eadmund 1y ago
> The only way to escape wage slavery without being born wealthy is to be a business owner and have that business scale. ‘Business owner’ in the sense of owning stock, sure. Save 10–20% of your income. Invest it in index funds (we can a
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by eadmund 1y ago
It looks pretty neat. I like that it has a textual representation!
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> Why use a new format instead of SVG or JS+canvas? Because those are both hellaciously complex, and implementing a usable fraction of the functionality of either is not a job for a single hobbyist programmer. At least, I don’t think the
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by eadmund 1y ago
> {"p2":{"x":141,"y":85},"mode":"line","p1":{"x":34,"y":44}} Embracing ordered rather than named parameters can make this so much cleaner (that’s why most fo
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by eadmund 1y ago
> it fundamentally allows capitalism to decide which cultural norm is socially valid That’s like complaining that the 100 yard dash decides whether more or less speed is good. ‘Capitalism’ (really, the free market) is just a voting and

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