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by nanna 4y ago
Is it just me or is Mickey Petersen on some crazy roll right now? It seems like every other day he's posting another blindingly clear and useful write up of some nook and cranny of Emacs that you'd either never considered the poss
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by nanna 4y ago
Am I the only one who struggles to take the name 'Meta' seriously, and still calls Zuckerberg's empire Facebook? Its a name that straddles pretentiousness and inanity ('That is sooo meta.') too acutely, and I resent
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by nanna 4y ago
One thing made by Prot that has made a big difference to me is his high-contrast light theme Modus Operandi, which has made working on my laptop on Emacs outside in bright sunlight a cinch. It's comprehensive in terms of the modes it s
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Denote – Simple Emacs Zettelkasten (by Prot)(protesilaos.com)
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by nanna 4y ago
David S. Touretzky, Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation. It's the most beginner-friendly Common Lisp textbook but it might be worth it even for a seasoned programmer of other languages just for how nicely it expl
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by nanna 4y ago
Seconded! Thank you Mickey. Your posts consistently expand my Emacs capabilities, and appreciation of Emacs too :)
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by nanna 4y ago
Me too! I've always been baffled by the hate. If you come from vim, just use evil, install Doom Emacs or whatever. End of the day it's all just arbitrary muscle memory so once you get used to it all other keybindings (bar perhap
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by nanna 4y ago
Curses to whoever made html emails a thing. What really is the matter with plain text?
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by nanna 4y ago
It comes with exports to MS Access and CSV, if they could be used as part of a pipeline?
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GNU recutils – human readable, plain text databases(gnu.org)
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by nanna 4y ago
Not at all seeing how this implies widespread voter fraud? It seems highly localised and particular.
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by nanna 4y ago
I've tried a few different books, including Land of Lisp, PCL, SICP, Chassel's Introduction to Emacs Lisp, but what I'd recommend head over shoulders above them all is buying a copy of Touretzky's Common Lisp: A Gentle
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by nanna 4y ago
Come on Sega, release a new console. Come on. Get back into the game...
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by nanna 4y ago
> They will just move on to countries with less regulation This knee-jerk application of libertarian ideology makes even less sense in this situation than usual. The gaming industry is dependent on improving computer hardware hardware, i
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by nanna 4y ago
Wouldn't this be a good time to adopt guix (or nix) for a next generation upgrade on Docker?
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Xapian Users(xapian.org)
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by nanna 4y ago
So far this is no more than a vague unsubstantiated insinuation. This is HN - could you give us something to work with?
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Ask HN: Is there any reason to learn GOFAI?
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by nanna 4y ago
Typesetting seems fine to me? What's the issue? Wouldn't mind the lines being shorter but it's to be expected from a textbook.
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by nanna 4y ago
Leslie Lamport built Knuth's TeX into the user-friendly version to which he appended the first two letters of his surname: LaTeX. He wrote an excellent, highly accessible guide, LaTeX: A Document Preparation System, which I wish I rea
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Sx.el – Stack Exchange for Emacs(github.com)
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Dismantling the apparatus of domination? Left critiques of AI(radicalphilosophy.com)
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Design Patterns in Dynamic Programming (1996) [pdf](norvig.com)
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by nanna 4y ago
What a lovely recommendation. Thank you!
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by nanna 5y ago
SIPRI's top ten military spenders 2021, with help from Wikipedia [0] 1. USA: $801 billion 2. China: $293 billion 3. India: $76.6 billion 4. UK: $68.4 billion 5. Russia: $65.9 billion 6. France: $56.6 billion 7. Germany
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by nanna 5y ago
Anyone have tips on learning to use a side rule?
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by nanna 5y ago
Note the demon of the Maxwell demon was actually William Thompson's (Lord Kelvin) term. Maxwell himself used valve and doorkeeper.
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Volapük(en.wikipedia.org)
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by nanna 5y ago
Out of curiosity has anyone tried using Fennel in LuaLaTeX?
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The Internet Express (best experienced with adblocker disabled)(theinternet.express)
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