plaguehammer

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by plaguehammer 2y ago
That’s a reductionist view. Have you read “Made to Break” by Giles Slade? A great book on this subject. Make no mistake, there’s a lot of deliberate planning and effort that goes into designing things to break after a point in time, for not
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by plaguehammer 3y ago
Out of curiosity, what kinds of niche needs might those be?
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by plaguehammer 3y ago
“Curry” isn’t a British generalization. “tarkari” literally means a cooked vegetable dish in several north and eastern Indian languages.
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by plaguehammer 3y ago
Also, in several north Indian languages “tarkari” refers to a vegetable curry. https://www.google.com/search?q=tarkari Rash Behari Bose was Bengali, and the Bengali word for curry is “tarkari”. The “kari” is originally a Dr
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by plaguehammer 4y ago
I write lots of small shell scripts and aliases (using bash. I have only one script in zsh that does some globbing that zsh is better at out of the box) to do various things, like managing my music collection (on top of what git-annex does)
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by plaguehammer 4y ago
> It’s clear to me that there’s something magical in it, but I can’t seem to tap that magic for myself. I love Emacs for some of its really nice features that I just cannot find anywhere else (and no Elisp knowledge is required). I'
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by plaguehammer 5y ago
Most of them I believe should allow you to get HiDPI (aka Retina) displays. I've been looking at replacing my now 9y-old Macbook Pro (primarily running Manjaro Gnome as my daily driver) with a dedicated Linux laptop, and I've narr