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by nextos 2y ago
It has outstanding offline maps and navigation. One of its strongest points. Messaging support depends on the protocol. Very good for Telegram, good for Matrix and Signal. Lots of people use e.g. WhatsApp through the Android emulation layer
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by nextos 2y ago
IMHO it's good enough for daily usage if your needs are not very sophisticated and you are willing to deal with some rough edges. It has some fantastic native & open indie applications, see https://openrepos.net . If it
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by nextos 2y ago
The right way is to compose the base Python package with the libraries you want. For example, this gives you an ephemeral environment with the latest python3 plus NumPy: nix-shell -p 'python3.withPackages(ps: [ ps.numpy ])'
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by nextos 2y ago
Any CUPS daemon will raise the following warning on startup. I just copied this from my Systemd log: cupsd[873]: Printer drivers are deprecated and will stop working in a future version of CUPS. See https://github.com/Ope
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by nextos 2y ago
Usually, drivers for similar printers might work. There are also generic driver sets like Gutenprint. Nonetheless, note that CUPS now discourages the use of any drivers, and support will be removed in the future. They claim that modern prin
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by nextos 2y ago
Jolla's Sailfish OS is used as a daily driver by a small niche in EU, probably tens of thousands of users taking into consideration download and update traffic. It's definitely usable as a daily driver. There are some rough edges
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by nextos 2y ago
Jolla's Sailfish is another alternative. Linux, quite a few native apps and an Android emulation layer that makes it easy to use most F-Droid and Play Store applications.
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by nextos 2y ago
Common Lisp is one of the few truly multi-paradigm languages. It's annoying the standard has not evolved a bit to bring some ideas you see in Clojure, or some computation models featured in CTM & Mozart/Oz that have made it to
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by nextos 2y ago
> That seems to be a lost art, these days. [...] I watched them dilute that brand, and make lots of money, but really get clobbered. Maybe this is the normal lifecycle of a successful organization, unless one decides to grow more slowly?
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by nextos 2y ago
I've only found the poor man's option to be satisfactory, i.e. text-mode via ssh. Some options can work quite well this way. For example, many Emacs modes can run stuff remotely. VSCode, which I don't like due to its semi-clo
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Sequoia PGP(sequoia-pgp.org)
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by nextos 2y ago
With no Scheme or programming background, I'd study HtDP ( https://htdp.org ) as an interlude, after The Little Schemer. Pace is gentle, and explanations about program design are long and very lucid. After those two, I'd
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by nextos 2y ago
I second the Pages recommendation. Keynote is fantastic and Pages has much better typographic functionality than Word. I can immediately tell whether a document was produced using Word, or LibreOffice, because of poor ligatures and spacing.
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by nextos 2y ago
I don't think there's a centralized community for the Little Series. I think this is unfortunate. With a community, some great titles like The Little MLer (typed FP) and A Little Java, a Few Patterns (OOP) would be much better kno
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by nextos 2y ago
Guile is great, but I think outside Guix it's pretty niche. Racket is probably the most frequent choice. But I really like some aspects of Chicken, Gambit and Bigloo. Even Clojure or CL could also be used, with a bit of friction of cou
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by nextos 2y ago
> Public schools ranked 5-15 are best for students without significant, significant social savvy and other forms of protection Do you think these are also the best for incoming faculty?
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by nextos 2y ago
Nah, I think the article has good intentions. And rampant fraud is important to address. But as others said, addressing smaller shenanigans is also crucial to steer things in the right direction.
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by nextos 2y ago
Lots of people doing research find this depressing to the point of quitting. Many of my peers left research as they couldn't stomach all this nonsense. In experimental fields, the current academic system rewards dishonesty so much that
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by nextos 2y ago
Org has the reputation of being complex. It has tons of features, but the basics are quite easy to master. It's an outliner, i.e. text that can be organized using nested headlines and subheadlines. Text markup has all the usual feature
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by nextos 2y ago
Org mode. Excellent to manage my personal knowledge, finances, tasks and appointments. All in plain text, with the advantages that this brings to the table.
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by nextos 2y ago
Electron feels odd compared to native applications, and resource usage is pretty insane. A single Electron app takes more memory than everything running in my machine, including an X server, PipeWire, plus an Emacs and an XTerm instance. We
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by nextos 2y ago
Transmit by Panic was one of the applications that were always featured back in the golden days of Tiger and Leopard. I find it a bit sad that the boutique and indie apps market on Macs seems to be languishing. There are still some great th
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by nextos 2y ago
Thank you so much!
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by nextos 2y ago
Slightly offtopic, but any chance you could update or re-upload code for your https://github.com/harvardnlp/DeepLatentNLP tutorial? I found the NLP latent variable models discussed there really interesting, and noteboo
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by nextos 2y ago
What would you recommend instead of Basecamp?
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by nextos 2y ago
> It's a decade later and this is still a fringe activity? Manufacturers don't have much incentives for convergence. They sell less devices and less applications. It encourages local-first, instead of cloud-first. It requires m
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by nextos 2y ago
GNOME could be great for this usecase. I've never liked GNOME too much since version 2. But the latest iteration, after so many years of churn, looks fantastic both on desktop and mobile. Small Linux tablets, such as Surface Go or Star
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Emacs Has No Learning Curve [pdf](pj.freefaculty.org)
5 points by nextos 2y ago|1 comments
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I agree, it hasn't failed yet, but it has signs of possibly going to fail quickly, like Nokia. In 5 years, Nokia went from 50% smartphone marketshare to < 5%. Markets seem to think VW has serious issues, as shares have lost more tha
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by nextos 2y ago
I agree, having a subset of Emacs/Readline keybindings available everywhere on macOS is really convenient and made Emacs quite natural to use for me. GNOME used to have an Emacs GTK key theme, but it is no longer available as of GTK 4.

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