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by kickingvegas 4y ago
For such folks, telling them that invoking the full path of the executable will bypass the alias, e.g. “/bin/rm -f” will do the right thing. Discoverable? Nah. But we are talking about shell command behavior which is pretty arcane
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by kickingvegas 4y ago
While this is good guidance for Emacs users, another, more shell-based tactic is to use the "-i" option for "rm" which requests a confirmation before deleting the file. Aliasing "rm" to "rm -i" in eit
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by kickingvegas 4y ago
Side observation; I’ve found Emacs org-mode to give me a lot of the functionality I wanted from combined word processor/spreadsheet/database apps.
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by kickingvegas 4y ago
I used to work in EDA/Semi-IP as well. In addition to the common argument that tool changes are avoided to mitigate risk because of expensive iteration costs, another rationale is that the design and manufacturing costs of making a chi
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by kickingvegas 4y ago
On the topic of bike racks, if you live in San Francisco you can request SFMTA to install one. https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/bike/bike-parking#Reque...
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by kickingvegas 4y ago
With this thread, wondering what specs/guidelines (if any) are there for common option behavior? For example, -v, —-version -o <file>, —-output=<file> if <file> is - then use stdout -i <file>, —-input=<file
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by kickingvegas 5y ago
Related: "Unix™ NROFF/TROFF A User's Guide" by Kevin P. Roddy got me through all my troff-related work back in the day.
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by kickingvegas 6y ago
Related HN threads on a post I made in 2012. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15639616 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4236429 "All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.&q
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by kickingvegas 6y ago
Casually observing that all the things listed above could be done from Emacs.
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Bike Shortages Will Likely Last Until Next Year, and Possibly into 2022(bicycling.com)
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by kickingvegas 6y ago
SF native here. Those neighborhoods are highly transient. As others have mentioned in this thread, the people who moved out are largely migrants here for work. Now that the work has dried up, why stay?
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by kickingvegas 6y ago
Okay, here's a typical day with org-mode for me. Start out the day entering a daily journal, listing out all the TODO items and scheduling them so I can see them in org-agenda. A subset of those TODOs are meetings, of which I'll u
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by kickingvegas 6y ago
Would not frame it as “destiny” or “dark”, but using org-mode has been spectacularly transforming and guiding for how I plan/design software today. Definitely worth trying out https://orgmode.org/features.html
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by kickingvegas 6y ago
FWIW, I used but never liked LaTeX and only because I needed a good way to deal with expressing mathematics. However, using org-mode and exporting to LaTeX is a winning combo for me. With org-mode, I can focus on writing and not typesettin
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by kickingvegas 6y ago
I too thought the key travel was fine with my AlphaSmart 3000, but found them too loud when typing in a conference room. That 500 (no typo) hour battery life with 3 AA batteries though. Brilliant device.
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by kickingvegas 6y ago
I'll always remember a backhanded remark Mary Shaw ( https://www.isri.cmu.edu/people/core-faculty/shaw-mary.html ) made about AT&T Bell Labs at a talk she gave about Computer Architecture as the "New J
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by kickingvegas 6y ago
I learned the other day that estimates/story points entered into subtasks do not rollup to parents unless specifically configured. Seems like initial thinking from Atlassian was that subtasks don’t affect scope. https://comm
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by kickingvegas 6y ago
Oh wow, I guess I’ll add to this thread which is so tied to the fact that we don’t have resolution independent graphics. I wrote an essay about resolution independent graphics back in 2012 here https://github.com/kickingvega
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by kickingvegas 6y ago
FWIW, native emacs keybindings are there on iPadOS and with the ability to swap caps and control in 13.4, life is sweet.
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by kickingvegas 7y ago
I wouldn’t bother. I’ve always found it easier and better (for reinforcement) to transcribe my notes/drawings into org-mode.
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by kickingvegas 7y ago
org-mode for notetaking/journaling/organizing and writing documentation with org-babel for interactive (literate) programming and making diagrams (gnuplot, matplotlib, graphviz, mscgen, plantuml). Can’t say this for many tools but
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by kickingvegas 7y ago
Despite this being an obvious honeypot to out the old people on HN, I'll bite. There's not much to miss about development practices of yore, except for the way better emphasis on documentation. I find most software developers toda
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by kickingvegas 7y ago
Nope. MacPorts not dead. Use it everyday.
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by kickingvegas 7y ago
Having seen “General Magic”, I’d say calibrate your sentiments when you see it.
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by kickingvegas 7y ago
X11 is never going to die.
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by kickingvegas 8y ago
make is for better or worse, forever.
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by kickingvegas 8y ago
Very slick. Wonder if you considered using Tektronix graphics to get higher resolution images. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektronix_4010
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by kickingvegas 8y ago
Mary Shaw ( http://spoke.compose.cs.cmu.edu/shaweb/ ) had a backhanded reference to Unix/AT&T Bell Labs as the "New Jersey School of Computing." The misery of it is that it was good enough to get to wh
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by kickingvegas 8y ago
Possible workaround: create a new Blink shell and paste clipboard via cat > file. Then scp file to the remote host and import into emacs, if scp works. Another approach is to use iCloud sync to move the file over if the remote has it. N
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by kickingvegas 8y ago
Blink.sh has support for swapping caps and control, which goes a long way for the chords I use in emacs. Not all the meta keys are supported if you’re looking for that, but esc is handled fine.

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