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by npsimons 6y ago
Yeah, that's a windmill I've given up tilting at. And it has gotten better, but mostly through painful learning experiences like this one. But some days I wonder if I'd just be better off moving to OpenBSD or heck Plan 9 or
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by npsimons 6y ago
Oof. I'd forgotten about that one. Tend to make things better, tend to. Just points out when you're doing systems level software development, how careful you must be. Also, don't just blindly "fix things" becaus
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by npsimons 6y ago
In my over twenty years of using Linux, this is the first I had heard of "accounts-daemon", and I'm the kind of nerd who browses repositories for fun, looking for new and interesting packages. So I googled "accounts-daem
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by npsimons 6y ago
> Does Debian actually change upstream significantly? I thought they kept things fairly vanilla. IME, they do keep things fairly vanilla, and I speak as someone who has run Debian since . . . I wanna say 2002? Plus I've done kernel
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by npsimons 6y ago
Yeah, IME, Debian is about the least invasive distro. Their patches tend to be a) minimal and b) only make things better.
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by npsimons 6y ago
You sound like one of those people poo-pooing chronic depression. Classic /r/ThanksImCured material, right here.
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by npsimons 6y ago
> I don't get this. That is normal in any modern editor. What is so special about this? So other editors have finally caught up with emacs? Nice to know. Last time I tried opening different languages in "advanced" IDEs, it
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by npsimons 6y ago
> Or another, I found that syntax highlighting is neat but what is really helpful instead is to give any identifiers in functions different colors, which makes the data flow in the function much more salient and quicker to understand - i
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by npsimons 6y ago
Python's getting there! I recently went on a tear of going through "elpa-*" packages in Debian and setting them up, and one was elpy, which now gets closer to SLIME's C-x C-e.
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by npsimons 6y ago
This is what I'm talking about. It's that comments are one color, function/method/class/struct definitions are another, keywords are another. And it's the same, no matter what language I'm programming in.
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by npsimons 6y ago
> whenever people describe their reasons for using them in lists like this, I see nothing that I would consider an advantage over my current setup, and then just forget about the whole thing. TBF, you've just described exactly how
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by npsimons 6y ago
> When you use Emacs or Vim and live on the command line every project has the same workflow. You don't need to install 10 different IDEs and learn 10 different workflows for 10 different projects. When I was demonstrating emacs to
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by npsimons 6y ago
For me, I've been using Emacs for 20 years. It comes down to two things: 1. I never have to move my hands from home row. Pretty much anything I need to do, I can do in Emacs (including file browsing, PDF viewing, web browsing, musi
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by npsimons 6y ago
> electricity consumption is not the right metric: the devices' time of life is. I would even go beyond this: person time is the right metric. Code will be read many more times than it is written. Even if code is functionally equiva
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by npsimons 6y ago
Agreed. And competence includes not writing dirty code, but for reasons other than saving the environment. But this doesn't change the fact that for a vast majority of programmers, the work is nothing more than a means to a paycheck, t
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by npsimons 6y ago
I agree that developer time is the crux, but I take away a different conclusion. Say you have to maintain this code (so, a given). Two weeks later of not having touched it, and if it's bad enough, you'll end up re-writing it from
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by npsimons 6y ago
Seconded.
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by npsimons 6y ago
> If you're competent and you actually know what you're doing and how computers work There's your mistake - you assume that a) people care, and b) they are competent. Usually at least one is false.
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by npsimons 6y ago
It also neatly ignores that code will be ready many more times than it will be written. How about all that time wasted trying to pick apart someone else's shitty code? When do I get the years of my life back because someone couldn&#x27
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by npsimons 6y ago
> I use it for emacs, mostly org mode on my phone. I'm not the only weirdo who does this! Although I manage to get by with Hacker's Keyboard.
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by npsimons 6y ago
Stallman was right.
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by npsimons 6y ago
> Android security clampdowns mean termux can't see the SD card. Not sure that's what's causing it; I can definitely scp files from my Android phone's SDCard to my servers. But I've not tried initiating the scp f
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by npsimons 6y ago
> what do people use this for? Emacs, org-mode, git and ssh. That's pretty much it, but allows me to have access to my org-mode files anywhere, just like on desktop. But I'm also one of those weirdos who runs his own email serv
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by npsimons 6y ago
> You'll pay more than the price difference for someone to implement all of that from scratch. I also think the "pay someone to set this up" factor is underestimated. Person time cost eclipsed computer time cost a long t
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by npsimons 6y ago
I'll throw in BigBlueButton[0]; it's been working nicely for me and my hobby groups to hold meetings on a VPS at DigitalOcean. [0] https://bigbluebutton.org/
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by npsimons 6y ago
> So many people don't take the 10 minutes to configure DMARC, DKIM and SPF. Having just done this recently, it's more than 10 minutes, especially if it's your first time. But yes, everyone should be doing it, as well as d
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by npsimons 6y ago
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/05/origins-anti-li...
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by npsimons 6y ago
> I cannot imagine wanting to write a book if I didn't have some recourse against people distributing my book freely. Your lack of imagination is disappointing, and also hints at a failure of empathy.
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by npsimons 6y ago
> I think it is quite likely that we as a society would be better off without any kind of copyright or IP. This is pretty much the FSF's argument in a nutshell. It's pretty obvious what the end game for "intellectual prope
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by npsimons 6y ago
> Beginning work on solving the metadata problem in classical music. OMG, yes! While I know this is one of the classical (ha!) bikeshedding problems, and you'll never make everyone happy (and piss off a whole lot of them), I can onl

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