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by rgoulter 2y ago
> I wonder though if it's enticing enough to leave Emacs' versatile configurability and introspection abilities behind. I guess there are different hats emacs users wear, or things that are in Emacs' favour. e.g. in terms
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by rgoulter 2y ago
Typically with split keyboards like this, you'd put the arrow keys on home row (or ijkl or esdf etc.), and access the arrow keys by holding a Fn key. On a traditional keyboard, you can't access the arrow keys with your hands reste
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by rgoulter 2y ago
For pointing devices.. I've really loved using a trackball. I got an Elecom Huge.
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by rgoulter 2y ago
Congrats on the progress! > It's also a myth, perpetuated by highly trained athletes that you cannot gain muscle and do cardio, or that you cannot do these things while in a caloric deficit. I think it's more accurate to descri
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by rgoulter 2y ago
> As an engineer don't get any of this drama. Since the rise of social media at least a decade ago, tech has seen all kinds of "dramas". > Can someone summarize what this is all about? From what I had the patience to re
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by rgoulter 2y ago
It doesn't come across that Jon's comments are "intended to erode the goodwill of the [people] to whom [he is] replying". -- The initial post does come across as raising a genuine concern. (Though I think often the main
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by rgoulter 2y ago
> concern trolling or sealioning, of if those are just woke concepts to be disregarded in its entirety. Using terms like "concern trolling" or "sealioning" definitely marks cultural identity. Considering the term &quo
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by rgoulter 2y ago
> The sponsorship was eventually pulled, because the on-site video team for the conference ( https://c3voc.de/ ) threatened to pull out on their own over this sponsorship. This isn't accurate. Per a summary at the tim
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by rgoulter 3y ago
> is there some way to specify dependencies in C? Like requirements.txt in Python, where you put libraries names and versions and the user has to run a single command to install them (and without requiring root privileges)? I'd desc
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by rgoulter 3y ago
> That being said, most people copy and run bash script straight off the internet, so clearly not worried about copying stuff they haven't read! The most common complaint about "pipe to bash" I've seen is the possibil
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by rgoulter 3y ago
> This is a problem with alternative layouts - you have to relearn or remap all the shortcuts for different apps as well as learn the new alphabet locations. Any alternative is going to have benefits and costs. With learning alternative
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by rgoulter 3y ago
In dvorak, 'hjkl' are still fairly convenient. 'jk' are adjacent. 'h' is to the left of 'l'.
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by rgoulter 3y ago
I'd say "feels like programming" applies to even a vanilla playstyle. Broadly, the game is about building up systems. Even in a disorganised first playthrough, you'll naturally find 'systems' for solving things
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by rgoulter 3y ago
I like how someone described it: - I feel the same engagement as programming, but I don't have to be reliable or be told what to do: amazing. - I feel the same engagement as programming, but I don't get anything out of doing it: t
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by rgoulter 3y ago
If it's a machine that you're going to be working on a lot, you might as well have good tools installed. (And if it's a machine where stuff like starship would be bloat, then it's probably not something people should be
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by rgoulter 3y ago
Starship's an excellent prompt replacement. I think it goes well with the fish shell: it's much nicer than the default, without requiring customisation.
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by rgoulter 3y ago
Many command line programs keep their configurations somewhere under $HOME. These are often called "dotfiles". If you ever use more than one machine, likely you'll want the same configuration available on all those machines..
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by rgoulter 3y ago
> I did have to google how to quit easy vim. For those who know how to quit vim, but want to experience "how do I quit" again, try running `:term`.
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by rgoulter 3y ago
I frequently see comments saying things along the lines of "I'm a programmer, and so my keyboard needs the Function keys", "why do these keyboards not have F1-F12 keys", etc. That seems to have the "laptop-styl
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by rgoulter 3y ago
The most common misconception I see about QMK keyboards (especially keyboards which stray far from the traditional form, like in OP's) is about small keyboards. The most common kind of small keyboards are just like laptop keyboards, an
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by rgoulter 3y ago
I've seen this 433% keyboard (450 keys). https://www.hackster.io/news/someone-made-a-massive-mechanic... I think it's quite DIY, though.
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by rgoulter 3y ago
Yeah. For an individual.. if you're happy to install `just` in any place you're going to maintain the project, that seems better. For helping others use the project, providing a bash script which has all the just UX would at least
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by rgoulter 3y ago
I reckon just is 'low-medium benefit for low effort'. There's some nice UX to it, but I think a substantial benefit to it is having one place where you organise "these are the tasks that get run". In response to &qu
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by rgoulter 3y ago
https://idlewords.com/talks/what_happens_next_will_amaze_you... Broadcast static-media advertisements generally aren't engaged in a cat-and-mouse game where they increase surveillance to combat fraud.
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by rgoulter 3y ago
For just wanting to boot into a live iso.. with Ventoy, the setup is "grab a spare thumbdrive, and install ventoy to that", and adding more live ISOs is just copy pasting to USB mass storage. Compared to that, I think formatting a
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by rgoulter 3y ago
Tannen's "You Just Don't Understand". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Just_Don%27t_Understand Key idea in the book is that a lot of argument and disagreement arises from mismatched social attitude
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by rgoulter 3y ago
In Emacs specifically.. A large part of the emphasis of "keep your hands on the keyboard" is aimed at beginners. Well, at least in the case of Vim bindings. Learning such keybindings has a steep cost; while learning them, it'
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by rgoulter 3y ago
You can distinguish a trackpad from a mouse, in that stuff like "multi-finger gestures" or "pinch in/out" makes sense on a trackpad but not a mouse. Whereas, a trackball is roughly the same as a mouse. (Albeit, muc
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by rgoulter 3y ago
Wondering if Hikaru is using an engine is a bit like wondering if John Carmack gets his insights from ChatGPT.
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by rgoulter 3y ago
Coming from Nix (guix's more popular, but less freedom-focused cousin).. I think part of what makes Nix "next generation" is that its functionality allows for more powerful use than "install/upgrade/uninstall p

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