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by nocman 4y ago
Not sure how I missed seeing this before today, but thank you very much for bringing it up. That is a particularly good article. It has a lot of food for thought.
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by nocman 4y ago
> the anti-Wayland crowd needs to just shut up I think telling people to shut up is a fast way to shut down valuable discussion. We can have good discussions about the value of particular technologies without being uncivil. Having stro
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by nocman 4y ago
While I see where you are coming from, that's your definition of "burnt out", but it is not the only valid one, and many obviously don't require the condition to be as extreme as you do for the term to be valid. I don&#x
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by nocman 4y ago
"But that has an established meaning, namely 1900-1909" Not to anyone I have ever known. I have never before this post today heard anyone say that "the nineteen hundreds" means 1900-1909. It always refers to 1900-199
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by nocman 4y ago
It occurs to me that the root of the problem is that we have competing motivations. On the one side you have the desire to have well documented code, maximizing the benefit to those reading/studying it. On the other side you have the
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by nocman 4y ago
Probably just because of the title of the post, this made me think of Terse (terse.com). Wow, I wonder if Jim Neil really is still selling it (it looks like he is). I wonder if it still comes on an 1.44MB diskette ( http://terse.
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by nocman 4y ago
Cool project, but I gotta have more cowbell! (seriously, thx for posting this - interesting stuff).
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by nocman 4y ago
So you are saying Imagemagick is the wrong tool for any job then? (I ask this because the OP didn't reference any particular task). I would disagree with that. Like many media-related command line tools, it does a lot and therefor
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by nocman 4y ago
A regex can be difficult to parse, especially if it is very involved, but in Perl at least, there are ways to make it much easier ( using the /x modifier, for example : https://perldoc.perl.org/perlre#%2Fx-and-%2Fxx ).
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by nocman 4y ago
I was joking in that response.
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by nocman 4y ago
"it doesn't trigger people's alarms." I skipped past the first part of the sentence, because I saw there was a "but" near the end, and supposedly that means the first part of the sentence doesn't count, bu
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by nocman 4y ago
URL shorteners have been around longer than Twitter. For example, tinyurl.com launched in 2002 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TinyURL ). Twitter wasn't until 2006 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by nocman 4y ago
> However, a lot of times the "want to do it forever" part could be a sign that the candidates doesn't want to learn anything new, which is indeed a very bad sign. While that is true for a lot of jobs, there are also a fai
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by nocman 4y ago
> I think it was a chance to throw shade at Peterson, which is understandable. I disagree, it was not understandable, it was just a plainly false statement. According to Jordan's own statements, he went on those medications due to a
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by nocman 4y ago
And a single setting for someone to change now if they want cua-mode. My point was that making the default cua-mode won't lead to a significant number of new long-term users, so it isn't worth the hassle it would create for people
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by nocman 4y ago
> I suppose some people manage their apartments with org-mode I thought I heard someone say "that sounds like a challenge!", but that was probably just my imagination.
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by nocman 4y ago
Nor should it be, in my opinion. Emacs has a loyal user base, and changing to having cua-mode as the default would likely anger most, if not all of them. I highly doubt that the number of long-term users gained by the change would be even
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by nocman 4y ago
I suspect go_prodev is referring to the DDG app ( https://duckduckgo.com/app ) and not just the search engine. I only recently became aware that the app existed, so I don't know how/if it deals with all things AMP
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by nocman 4y ago
Yeah, I don't like that this is the default, but "Firefox literally sends your keystrokes to Google" could easily be interpreted by many people to mean all of your keystrokes (not just the ones typed in the URL bar). It wou
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by nocman 5y ago
> It's like complaining that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was funded from profits from Microsoft, and therefore Windows should be FOSS software. Except that no one confuses Microsoft with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundati
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by nocman 5y ago
Did you reply to the wrong parent? How is this even remotely related to how to transfer files from your phone to another device?
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by nocman 5y ago
You mean "The artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince"? :-D
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by nocman 5y ago
Interesting, I did not remember that it was once called Gaim.
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by nocman 5y ago
Future Farmers of America: https://www.ffa.org/about/
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by nocman 5y ago
That is your interpretation of the original comment, not even close to a direct quote (and I'm sure many would take it as a gross distortion of what was actually said). Obviously you and I interpreted the original comment very differ
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by nocman 5y ago
Maybe it is due to the way people interpret things differently, but none the assessments you are making in your two posts about the original comment are things that I would have said or thought about that comment.
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by nocman 5y ago
"all the way back" This is part of the problem with the world of computing today. When a software released not quite 2 years and 4 months ago is referred to with the phrase "all the way back". Don't get me wrong,
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by nocman 5y ago
You just need to "explore the space". I have to admit, I probably can't hear that song now and not notice the beat of the cowbell in the background.
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by nocman 5y ago
> Don't you feel that a default anything should be easy to use and intuitive? No, I don't. (only slightly sarcastic) More accurately, I don't think "ease of use" and being intuitive to a newcomer are the only po
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by nocman 5y ago
probably the exact same response you would have had if one of them was in control and symlinked emacs to vim.

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