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by krylon 5y ago
I have not played with VS Code a lot, but I get the impression that, yes, they aim for something similar. I'm not qualified to judge, though, how successful they are so far. FWIW, when I hear people talk about VS Code, they appear to l
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by krylon 5y ago
This is something I wish someone had told me 20 years ago when I first started using emacs. The whole "it's a text editor, but also it's not really a text editor"-thing was very confusing initially. ... Although, now tha
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by krylon 5y ago
He has a unique style for sure that quite mesmerizing. He does, however, cram a lot of information and thoughts into his work, and it takes quite a bit of time and effort to unravel and make sense of it. (Which isn't a bad thing at all
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by krylon 5y ago
Not necessarily. AFAIK, moving through water at moderate speed is quite efficient if you have smooth skin, a streamlined body and a huge fluke. And once you built a thick layer of blubber, staying warm is not that big a problem. Whales st
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by krylon 5y ago
The sad thing about this is that there are perfectly valid reasons for Wacom to want certain information, like what hardware do their customers connect the drawing tablets to, what operating systems and applications do they use. This is use
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by krylon 5y ago
I used to own an ancient Sun SparcStation with a Barracuda 10k RPM disk, and the noise it made was just ... too much. It sounded like a combination of a fighter jet taking off and a dentist drilling into my skull. Fortunately, that machine
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by krylon 5y ago
Oh, indeed. I had the pleasure of installing MS DOS 6.22 on two machines a couple of years ago. Booting, after the BIOS had done its thing, was nearly instantaneous. The installation procedure itself was also very fast (no surprise there),
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by krylon 5y ago
I have never touched a hidpi display, but using multiple monitors has worked quite well for me, both on desktop machines and laptops. Including attaching a display on a running desktop session.
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by krylon 5y ago
Hehe, as a former Windows admin, I came to hate printers passionately. My experience with printers on Linux and macOS was a lot better. However, I do not do much printing in my personal life, so that does not necessarily say a lot.
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by krylon 5y ago
Heraclitus, mumbling into his beard: "Told you so!" SCNR
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by krylon 5y ago
Well, writing a kernel from scratch that supports as many CPU architectures and devices as Linux would take about as long, assuming one could attract a critical mass of developers. Using an incremental approach at least gives us some bene
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by krylon 5y ago
This may be a naive question, but I cannot help but wonder: As C and Rust aim to be link-compatible, wouldn't it be easier to gradually replace parts of the Linux kernel with Rust code? The only technical problem I can think of is that
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by krylon 5y ago
It looked kind of promising for a while. With the pivot to cloud services, there was reason to hope they just would not care any more about pulling that kind of move for desktop Windows. I guess after a decade of watching Apple and Google g
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by krylon 5y ago
This makes sense. I have not bought a CD in well over a decade, because high bitrate MP3 or FLAC are so much more convenient. I doubt a lot of people buy CDs because they like CDs. Vinyl is something else, though, especially if you consider
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by krylon 5y ago
I agree with you 100% on the malware part. If Linux got a share of, say, 30% on the desktop, things would start looking quite different, I am sure. Updates... well, there's updates and there's upgrades. On Debian and CentOS, I hav
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by krylon 5y ago
Hehe, the update thing bit me badly more than once. Coming from a Debian background, I just approved any and all incoming updates in WSUS when I started working as a Windows admin. Oh, the stories I could tell... ;-) Siemens SIMATIC, specif
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by krylon 5y ago
I mostly agree. Except that on my personal machines, I will run Linux or a BSD variant 99% of the time. ;-) At work, I never had much of choice, it was Windows all the way. I know it sucks if the OS does not support your hardware well. And
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by krylon 5y ago
A lot of people apparently run into hardware support issues with Linux. Personally, I have not had any issues in about fifteen years, but I cannot blame people for expecting their hardware to Just Work (tm). Back in the day, I enjoyed spend
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by krylon 5y ago
Emacs comes with extensive documentation. "C-h t" opens an interactive tutorial that teaches the basics, "C-h r" opens the manual. "C-h i" opens the Texinfo browser that gives you access to even more documentat
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by krylon 5y ago
Initially, I switched from fossil to git because I had to use it at work. After finding out about magit, I have never looked back. For me, magit made git not just painless but actually fun to use.
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by krylon 5y ago
I've been a Firefox user since the days when it was still called Firebird. So far, none of the changes Mozilla made to Firefox has annoyed me enough to look for alternatives. This time might be different, though.
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by krylon 5y ago
You are correct. Silly me! Thanks for pointing that out!
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by krylon 5y ago
The title is somewhat misleading, I think. Nevertheless, this sounds like very interesting research. It is astonishing how much we have learned about the brain and how it works, but there so much to learn I doubt we will ever run out of que
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by krylon 5y ago
> "I want to learn AWK to learn AWK." Well, that's what I meant by "pure curiosity". ;-) Which is a perfectly valid reason to learn a language, of course, possibly the best reason one can have. But I guess when I
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by krylon 5y ago
Honest question: Is Awk worth learning to someone who already knows Perl? Every time I read about Awk, I feel very intrigued, but AFAIK, everything Awk can do, Perl can just as well. Is there a compelling reason to learn Awk if you know Per
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by krylon 5y ago
Back when I started using Linux, I had an ISDN card, getting that to work was an adventure back then, except on SuSE which provided a GUI for that. Fun times... ;-)
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by krylon 5y ago
Ah, that brings back memories. Compiling your own kernel was kind of a rite of passage back in the day. Now I cannot remember when I last did that. Must have been 14 years or so, when I was still using Gentoo.
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by krylon 5y ago
That's the one!
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by krylon 5y ago
I remember a couple of years ago someone created an MVC web framework for COBOL, but I don't think it was intended for serious use. More like the web framework equivalent of esoteric programming languages. This looks, let's say, l
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by krylon 5y ago
Well, Fortran was intended for use in scientific computation. In the 1950s and 1960s, the percentage of computing time spent on scientific computation was much larger than it is today. So, naturally, Fortran had a much more prominent positi

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