metroholografix

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by metroholografix 5y ago
I don't like it when folks generalize from a few subjective experiences. Mushrooms and LSD are powerful catalysts and one can never be sure of what one will experience. Even McKenna had a bad trip on psilocybin that nearly broke him: &
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by metroholografix 5y ago
C has gotten a lot better through standardization and tooling, it really is vastly improved compared to the flawed experience that K&R describes. I can't say the same about C++, which feels as if one has to set clear and definite l
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by metroholografix 5y ago
> What's so great about the rich elite living to be 200 years old? Would you like a bunch of people from the 19th century still around, influencing politicians with their money today? You just described "Vampire: The Masquerade
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by metroholografix 5y ago
Emacs "fix": (setq bidi-display-reordering nil) in relevant modes.
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by metroholografix 5y ago
Emacs Lisp is better than fine. You get a powerful Lisp (with a lot of goodies from CL) that is both portable and ultra-stable whilst having a self-contained VM and an enormous library of code available (Emacs) on every system imaginable. H
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by metroholografix 5y ago
The Vampire is a proprietary closed-source FPGA core that has nothing to do with the spirit of the Amiga. Their emulated CPU and chipset has glitches and issues are the order of the day. A miSTer FPGA is a much better option, being complete
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by metroholografix 5y ago
The Amiga was great back in the 80s, so far ahead of anything else. In the early 90s trouble arrived, and starting 1992, it was essentially technically dead since PCs had caught up. The newest AGA chipset on the Amiga 1200 and 4000 was a di
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by metroholografix 5y ago
I control my browser through Emacs, since it's a lot faster/saner especially when I have close to 1000 tabs. https://github.com/atomontage/osa-chrome (macOS, has some extra features) https://github
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by metroholografix 5y ago
Well yeah, if there's no documentation on how to create a backend, the barrier to entry is that much higher. It is great that this is now getting addressed. And none of the old alternative backends, including Beagle, ever worked for me
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by metroholografix 5y ago
X has been the bane of McCLIM for the last 20 years. It limited adoption and delivered horrible first impressions to not-hardened Lisp users / McCLIM developers: Basic-level functionality that's supremely important for a positive
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by metroholografix 5y ago
Something is definitely wrong with your configuration (in a wide sense, not necessarily restricted to just the editor). Emacs is at least an order of magnitude more responsive than IDEA (or any other JetBrains IDE). Start with a stock Emacs
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by metroholografix 5y ago
You're being disingenuous. IRC has been right at the center of the vast majority of non-enterprise technical communities and especially opensource for the last 25 years. Say what you will about culture but this is a fact and I don&#x27
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by metroholografix 5y ago
"Everyone". Obviously not. Having used IRC for 25 years, I'll take excellent SNR over the sort of focus on end user experience you're talking about.
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by metroholografix 5y ago
So let those who need it use existing HTTP <-> IRC gateways or write their own. IRC is flexible enough to accommodate this which is testament to how resilient and extensible the protocol has proven to be over the decades. I see no rea
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by metroholografix 5y ago
Not everything has to run on top of HTTP or use json. IRCv3 gets a lot more right than wrong.
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by metroholografix 5y ago
A lot of people find Matrix completely unpalatable. Why would they support it in this way? IRC works and has worked for decades. Its minimal, text-only, no bs, no distractions nature is its greatest asset. Client support, programmability, a
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by metroholografix 5y ago
I've been using IRC for 25 years and Matrix is close to unusable for me. There is something to be said about the combination of text-only, barrier to entry perfectly calibrated, hostile to mobile devices protocol features that make IRC
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by metroholografix 6y ago
Celia Green [1] has written extensively about the damage that can be done to precocious children by agents of the collective. Her books "Advice to Clever Children" [2] and the philosophical magnum opus, "The Human Evasion&quo
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by metroholografix 6y ago
It's telling that only an outgoing US administration decided to -weakly- sanction Turkey over the Russian missile fiasco. The European Union looks more and more like a banking cartel than a federation of nation states. Germany and Spai
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by metroholografix 6y ago
Below 1700 or so, openings are mostly a waste of time and tactics rule the day. Learning the basic opening principles and two basic opening moves that you keep playing (one for white, one for black) and focusing on tactics [1][2] is in my e
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by metroholografix 6y ago
I've been using Emacs for ~15 years and my configuration is more than 20k lines of code that I've personally written plus comments. Occasionally, I will factor out parts of my config and release them as Emacs Lisp libraries. I w
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by metroholografix 6y ago
How do you save a search in a non-personally identifiable way? Do you have a human verify the data belonging to each and every search ? Not saving IPs and/or browser data doesn't solve the problem since the search terms themselves
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by metroholografix 6y ago
The only solution I see is fully distributed/decentralized search. Run your own crawler or be part of a network that distributes this out to each participating node. Every centralized search engine has immensely hard-to-resist and powe
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by metroholografix 6y ago
DuckDuckGo is a mirage and should not be used by privacy-conscious folks. Take a look at its terms of service, information collected section: "We also save searches, but again, not in a personally identifiable way, as we do not store I
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by metroholografix 6y ago
Background: I've written my own kernel extension that works in similar manner to Little Snitch, but does a lot more, including SSL MITM and on-demand packet capture, that I've been using for more than 10 years now. It's a fac
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by metroholografix 6y ago
The title is misleading since this has nothing to do with Commodore. Assuming it's based on nothing more than a software emulator core (just like their previous C64 project), you're better off getting a MiSTer [1] or just using Wi
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by metroholografix 6y ago
The vampire accelerator is not Amiga. It's a closed -buggy- FPGA reimplementation of something like 68k (nobody outside them knows exactly what, there are rumors it's based on a ColdFire core that was leaked by mistake) with some
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by metroholografix 6y ago
Besides using 6x more memory (close to 500MB for my target game) and taking 3x to load, latency is noticeably worse to the point of it becoming a major annoyance during play. Typing feels sluggish and there's obvious delay after hittin
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by metroholografix 6y ago
Lectrote works on top of Chromium/Electron and thus leaves a lot to be desired. At least for macOS, there's no reason to compromise in this way when there exist interpreters that take full advantage of the system. Spatterlight is
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by metroholografix 6y ago
The author makes a lot of assumptions and oversimplifications whilst falling for the mystique of poker as expressed in popular culture. We've all seen the movies where psychological tells ("deception") end up saving (or ruini

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