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by pxc 2y ago
27% code acceptance, and generated documents that are 70% accurate, are 'good' outcomes in the following sense: > Work at large companies has a tendency to blow up, run far behind schedule, then ultimately limp past the finish
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by pxc 2y ago
It would be nice if Python could actually support this. But 'venv detection' is conventionally (everywhere) done by a stupid, never-designed involving inspecting argv0. At the same time, most Python packaging tools make various as
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by pxc 2y ago
Recent-ishly on HN: https://yosefk.com/blog/advantages-of-incompetent-management...
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by pxc 2y ago
Seconding this recommendation! I've never been a super advanced vim user, but Evil is the best and most complete vim emulator I've ever used, and I try them on every editor or IDE I ever run.
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by pxc 2y ago
C-a, C-e, and some other Emacs basics shared by readline are universal defaults on, for instance, macOS. They don't get in anyone's way there.
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by pxc 2y ago
In just one day?? Geez. Wikipedia in my language. Music and movies that are important to me that I only access via streaming. Maybe a few TV shows in SD. A giant bundle of ebooks is I can find one (e.g., in a public torrent). Open-source ec
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by pxc 2y ago
This blog post rescheduled all my appointments, tucked me in, sang me a lullaby, then woke me up with coffee and breakfast late the next morning. I am healed. For real, a fun and refreshing read (if also a little haunting).
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by pxc 2y ago
> Oh but emacs keybinds are conflicting with what I've configured for zellij, Don't do that. ;) Emacs is a graphical application! Don't use it in the terminal unless you really have to (i.e., you're using it on a rem
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by pxc 2y ago
I suppose. But as a software developer I've never created an Excel spreadsheet that wasn't first a CSV. I do most of my own work with local data files in jq for JSON or q for CSV, then go from a CSV to an Excel spreadsheet only wh
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by pxc 2y ago
When you've slowly built up a UI for your own purposes— whether the accretions are font faces or keybindings or context menu items— definitely! Picture a spreadsheet/convention that has evolved over the course of 6 years, seeing c
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by pxc 2y ago
An acquaintance I used to live near has a custom pool in her yard that she designed and specified via Excel! She's a programmer, so she could have used a wide range of tools but Excel was what she reached for and it evidently did the t
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by pxc 2y ago
I don't know how to convey that the thing linked is a book, or that it concerns programming in general with Emacs Lisp as the language, or that it is aimed at non-programmers, without changing the title. I wasn't really worried ab
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by pxc 2y ago
It's not just a manual! It's a whole book for learning to program for the first time . And it's been around for more than 30 years, continuously updated. Is that not wild as hell? Does any other text editor in the world have
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by pxc 2y ago
When I stumbled upon this, I was blown away: there is a full-fledged book , currently an appropriate 287 pages, available in print with an ISBN number and everything, aimed at introducing non-programmers to computer programming with Emacs
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GNU Emacs comes with a book-length introduction to computer programming(gnu.org)
9 points by pxc 2y ago|6 comments
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by pxc 2y ago
> it is a very desired feature people are upgrading video cards to get working on games they play. Ray tracing is also extremely heavily marketed, and at a time when GPU upgrades have become infrequent for most people due to extremely hi
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by pxc 2y ago
Yep. Before my mom got a correct diagnosis via genetic testing, she was told it was a form of macular degeneration, in part on the basis of those features.
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by pxc 2y ago
I think my extraversion is probably a factor. Personality differences almost certainly mean that different environments will better suit different people! Fwiw, I went to a state school as well (in the US). But by the time I was at the univ
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by pxc 2y ago
Humans are incredibly adaptable beings, and she proved it. :) She'd been through a hell of a lot in her life, but it was always important to her to be pleasant company to the people around her, even in tough times. She was always jokin
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by pxc 2y ago
> except with very large font size and up close Yeah, it's hard to say what the determinative factors were because her general visual acuity was so low that she generally needed very large fonts very up close anyway. My mom and my s
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by pxc 2y ago
> we can’t read out of the corner of our eyes, no matter how hard we try This is not quite true. Reading via peripheral vision is a skill, but most people never have the right kind of motivation (and perhaps not the right kind of visual
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by pxc 2y ago
> It's so much more fun to learn by oneself Maybe if you're stuck in a classroom with unmotivated people, or your classmates are much slower than you, or the class is huge and your teacher doesn't give a shit about teachin
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by pxc 2y ago
> In any case I believe the FSF is going to continue to campaign for the ethical freedom of these new classes of software, even if it requires new insight into what it means for them to be free, as they have done before. And going the qu
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by pxc 2y ago
It is sad that this definition will represent the first practical split between these two movements in terms of their terminology, if it goes through. The difference between open-source and free software will go from a difference of emphasi
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by pxc 2y ago
So something crummy but usable-enough for experts (SELinux?) worse-is-better'd its way onto the Linux scene, and now it has matured enough that on the one hand it can't be displaced but on the other its model is ossified and can&#
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by pxc 2y ago
Why are capabilities restrictions not the norm when the concept is so old and seemingly so sound?
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by pxc 2y ago
I think of it as a form of politeness, basically. It's only a security feature in the sense that it's a tool you can use to make good logging hygiene a little easier for your CI system, not in the sense of helping form any kind of
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by pxc 2y ago
It's not just you, and it's especially painful on Windows, where working with lots of small files is already painfully slow under the best circumstances.
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by pxc 2y ago
They also feel extremely different to the touch. Capybaras have really rough coats! They're not soft at all. You could tell a guinea-pig-sized capybara apart from a guinea pig, or a capybara-sized guinea pig apart from a capybara, bl
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by pxc 2y ago
> when I'm alone there's no sources of motivation. I've found this to be most true for myself when I'm pouring a lot into work and don't have much time to recover. I've started reading a lot of books for ple

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