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by omaranto 6y ago
> You will waste a LOT of time getting it set up and fiddling with it. I'm always a bit surprised by people claiming Gnus is hard to configure. When I decided to try Gnus, I opened the manual and it says which variables to set:
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by omaranto 6y ago
> Also, seems the JVM is slowly improving in startup time department. It's not the JVM that makes Clojure JVM slow to start up, try comparing hello world in Java vs hello world in Clojure.
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by omaranto 6y ago
So don't go into debt to go to university then. I think that's pretty easy if you avoid the US for your undergraduate degree, and it's probably also possible in the US with some planning and careful university choosing. And
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by omaranto 6y ago
> Write your own text editor. This is what a lot of us Emacs users do, with the advantage that we have a huge base to start from.
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by omaranto 6y ago
It takes the name of a state in the United States and returns its two letter abbreviation. EDIT: I swear I didn't look at the CodeGolf link. :(
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by omaranto 6y ago
My impression from what I've read about VS Code is that it has lots great lightweight IDE functionality (stuff that depends on parsing code), but it doesn't seem to actually have a lot of text editing functionality like Vim or Ema
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by omaranto 7y ago
A good editor can handle them without any trouble. I just downloaded Moby Dick from Project Gutenberg and opened it in Emacs. It opened instantly, I could immediately go the end (line 22333), scroll around, count the words (there are around
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by omaranto 7y ago
Why is it extremely hard to work with the whole novel in a single file? Because most software for writing prose is not up to the task?
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by omaranto 7y ago
I think Emacs has been shielding me from dotfiles. I usually start a shell in the directory of the file I'm looking at. I hardly ever see $HOME. I also have dired (Emacs' built-in file explorer) show me hidden files by default, bu
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by omaranto 7y ago
Yes, sorry I got it backwards. I don't look at my HOME directory often, I usually start from a subdirectory of HOME that has what I'm looking for. Is that why people prefer XDG_CONFIG_HOME, because they look at HOME a lot? I guess
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by omaranto 7y ago
Not convinced your code is more stable than POSIX tools. :) Maybe more uniform.
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by omaranto 7y ago
To me filling HOME with dotfiles doesn't feel much tidier than filling XDG_CONFIG_HOME with stuff, but I'll take everyone's word for it (even though most people can't seem to explain why they prefer it, can you?).
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by omaranto 7y ago
That probably just means he or she thinks Org Mode looks ugly. People are shallow and way too into looks. At least that's what I tell myself when I fail to get people interested in Org mode. :)
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by omaranto 7y ago
Did you look at the documentation? The matrices implemented have their elements in arbitrary commutative rings (well, not arbitrary, somebody has to implement them in Julia, of course, but they have a bunch). I think its fair to call that a
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by omaranto 7y ago
Well, you're right, it's not so vanilla anymore. :) But that has accumulated over the course of about 10 years, so its really not a lot. And the possibility of having everything just the way I like is what drew me to Emacs in the
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by omaranto 7y ago
Scrolling sounds like a terrible way to get around a file. I'd much rather be presented with a prompt to go to a named "section" with completion (an actual section in a prose document, or a function definition in a program),
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by omaranto 7y ago
What HNer henry_flower neglected to state explicitly in his helpful comment is that it is false that pressing C-s to go to the next result is hardcoded in some Emacs Lisp function. I just wanted to say that in case non-Emacsers don&#x27
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by omaranto 7y ago
"Emacs OOTB sucks" People say that, and those people are entitled to their opinion. (A word of warning: I think many people who say that are not actual Emacs users.) I'll keep happily using vanilla Emacs while people complain
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by omaranto 7y ago
Clunky? Yes (adorably so for us Emacs lovers, but I understand this can be problematic for new users). But slow? That doesn't sound like Emacs, it's probably some misbehaving third party package included in Spacemacs that made it
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by omaranto 7y ago
There are some people who refuse to use applications implemented with Electron.
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by omaranto 7y ago
It's true that are many more for Python than for Common Lisp. Do you have some examples of libraries you are missing in Common Lisp?
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by omaranto 7y ago
No math, sadly.
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by omaranto 7y ago
You might like the history tree in next browser: https://next.atlas.engineer/
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by omaranto 7y ago
English is a dash-using language, not an underscore_using one. Maybe that's why many of us prefer dashes to underscores?
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by omaranto 7y ago
I think you accidentally replied to the wrong comment.
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by omaranto 7y ago
There is no reason for not using more compelling examples.
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by omaranto 7y ago
Not noticing differences in readability between light mode and dark mode is consistent with the studies! "Interestingly, even though their performance was better in the light mode, participants in the study did not report any differenc
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by omaranto 7y ago
In case you don't understand the downvotes: previously on Hacker News , people (including, but not at all limited to, Ginger Bill and Andrew Kelley) got upset with V's creator for writing a lot of pro-V propaganda in advance of r
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by omaranto 7y ago
Am I understanding correctly that in Odin feature could even be provided by a third party library implementing such a custom collector? If so, that's seriously cool.
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by omaranto 7y ago
You're right that the space of rotations is 3-dimensional. When I said 4, I meant without restricting to the unit hypersphere. This causes no problem for rotations because replacing q by a multiple tq leaves the formula x --> qxq^(-

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