random_cynic

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by random_cynic 5y ago
> loads instantaneously I've never encountered a case where VLC did not load "instantaneously". Unless you're using a baked potato this should always be the case. If you have proper benchmarks for different video file
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by random_cynic 5y ago
You completely missed the point about man pages. It doesn't matter what the man page was written in, it's still a man page, optimized for viewing in text terminal. It makes no sense to use this format for web browser. Vlc also had
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by random_cynic 5y ago
> https://mpv.io/manual/ Linked from straight from the mpv homepage That's just the manpage in html format, are you kidding? We're not in the era of text terminals, there are so many tools for writing good
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by random_cynic 5y ago
Like how? What can it do that vlc can't?
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by random_cynic 6y ago
Completely agree. There hasn't been any innovation from Emacs since the 90s. Instead more and more effort has gone into adding useless capabilities into emacs such as mail/news readers, organization systems and even window manager
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by random_cynic 6y ago
> You can work when you know enough do common textual operations to add remove and modify text, search through existing text, jump around to different files in the project, and run whatever constitutes a build. It is one thing to know
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by random_cynic 6y ago
> Does it need to be popular or need more users to become maintainers? Yes. > I use emacs because I can't imagine using anything else that has half the features and is harder to extend. Maybe imagine harder or (just an idea) stop
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by random_cynic 6y ago
Everywhere in this thread I see vague and generic statements like this. Do you have concrete examples of specific things in your 10 year old Emacs configuration you "labored over" that can do something VSCode (and its extensions)
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by random_cynic 6y ago
>This view is obviously biased against Emacs,.. Yeah, no bias in your comment. This is the kind of gatekeeping that is keeping Emacs from being popular. All of what you said works great in a "blog" and social media to get upvot
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by random_cynic 6y ago
>In Emacs, I read my mail, I organise my agenda, I write technical reports, blog posts, I wrote my entire thesis in org-mode. I collect research notes in Emacs, and a journal. I do my bookkeeping and accounting in Emacs. No one cares (ot
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by random_cynic 6y ago
New employees 4 and 5 are completely fictitious and only exist in your imagination/reality bubble. In the real world no mortal has ever learned how to use Emacs in 2 hours to be able to work effectively. And like the OC said the docume
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by random_cynic 6y ago
Except that the latter results in far less number of clicks and shares on social media. That's really the primary goal of most news outlets rather than an objective reporting of the story.
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by random_cynic 7y ago
> you're literally agreeing that the current way scoring works is bad for finding up-to-date answers No you're "literally" misinterpreting what I said. I said there should not be any scoring system at all and people s
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by random_cynic 7y ago
No, that was perfectly clear. That's why I said people should not use reputation or upvotes to judge anything in the first place including how good an answer is. They should read all the answers (including the more recent ones) and if
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by random_cynic 7y ago
The first one is not really a dumb question. They may have setup their .ssh/config so that the user is automatically taken from that file and password being rejected may simply be due to some other reasons (such as disabling password b
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by random_cynic 7y ago
Yeah, I actually find the sister sites more helpful. The main problem is that there are far too many people on that site with their own opinions about how things should be done. There's less traffic on the sister sites like unix and li