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by rvieira 5y ago
Not a functional advice (my old laptops still all serve the same function), but: I'm using Apple since 2014 and realised I've gathered quite stack of old Macs (one Macbook Air, one MBP and one iMac). I've installed Linux in a
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by rvieira 5y ago
Just an FYI, in case you're not familiar with MarkDownload[0], it just downloads pages as Markdown (including linked images). I then use `pandoc` to create the ePub. [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox&#x2
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by rvieira 5y ago
Isn't parsing `ls` the whole backbone of Emacs' `dired`?
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by rvieira 5y ago
I also do something similar and it's great for me. I download a few (10 at most) articles a day with MarkDownload and create an ePub. I either read them on a reMarkable during daytime or a Kobo HD if in bed (I prefer the backlight to a
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by rvieira 5y ago
Don't mean to contradict your experience, but IMHO, yes. I think that being an upstream FreeBSD contributor will make it easy getting a job in some areas/companies. It speaks much louder than (formal) qualifications IMO.
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by rvieira 5y ago
Just a very tangential note about the last part of the post > I can't even get a job IMHO, making a single contribution to an important FOSS project (e.g. Linux kernel, a major programming language or a widely used library), althoug
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by rvieira 5y ago
Unfortunately JCOP[0] will only be finished in 2640 AD... [0]: https://universes.art/en/specials/john-cage-organ-project-ha...
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by rvieira 5y ago
I had a similar experience. I was around 12, had a ZX Spectum and wrote a couple of lines to draw a circle on the TV. I was amazed too at this new super power, where I could "tell my TV" where to draw a circle just by changing a c
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by rvieira 5y ago
I can share my (unsolicited) thoughts FWIW. I have never been a UI or front-end developer (altough I am professional programmer), but I do enjoy dabbling in making websites and keeping up with mainstream technologies for this area. I do fin
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by rvieira 5y ago
Surely, Windows 95 was the pinnacle. ;)
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by rvieira 5y ago
I get that with dark themes, but specifically ones with low contrast. I really couldn't use Github's dark theme when it was first released because everything looked blurry. Their new "high contrast" dark theme is a great
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by rvieira 5y ago
Anecdote: My eyesight is still pretty good for small print (I'm nearsighted, that apparently helps), but my partner (who recently passed the 40s milestone) started having trouble reading small font sizes in a matter of months.
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by rvieira 5y ago
Sorry, don't get your point. What do arrow, backspace, and delete have to do with wanting to use Vim's keybindings on Emacs?
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by rvieira 5y ago
IMO that's the proper way to learn Emacs. Doom seemed right to me at the time because I just wanted to uncomment `;; org` in `init.el` , not learn a lot of keybindings and get started. I think I'll start an "Emacs from scratc
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by rvieira 5y ago
I'm also a recent Emacs enthusiast. Many many years ago, I never felt productive with the navigation and keys. Then, recently, I _really_ wanted to try org and thought "I'll force myself to use it". I started with Evil m
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by rvieira 5y ago
Missing in that list: the amusing Javascript right-click disabling.
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by rvieira 5y ago
I never worked with Flash/AS, but I remember some tools targeting SWF (OpenLaszlo, Haxe). Did they reverse-engineered the spec? Or was there some sort of Flash specification available in some form?
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by rvieira 5y ago
Portuguese marmelada and British marmelade are so different. Marmelada has a texture similar to a grainy pate and it is very sweet.
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by rvieira 5y ago
Emacs is my personal little starship that helps me cruise the vast universe of computers :)
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by rvieira 5y ago
tbh I personally think in that episode Jerry Seinfeld illustrated quite well the awkwardness some people feel when discussing race and it was quite ahead of its time. On one hand he's guilty of everyday racism (and doesn't even no
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by rvieira 5y ago
I didn't say this was a source supporting the above claim, sorry if I wasn't clear. I was just _a_ source of passport ownership in the EU that I know of.
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by rvieira 5y ago
https://www.visitbritain.org/sites/default/files/vb-corporat... Slide 53, Passport ownership. These numbers are for people that already travelled internationally, before Brexit, so the total number might be m
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by rvieira 5y ago
<disclaimer> After using Vim, VSCode and IDEs for many years, only recently have I tried to get seriously into Emacs. I use it for everything nowadays (from organisation to coding) with the exception of some very large Java projects w
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by rvieira 5y ago
As someone pointed already in the comments the description "drunken late-night Wikipedia binge" is very accurate. I really enjoy his work, but tbf, I also really like late-night Wikipedia surfing. Also, I always watch them pretend
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by rvieira 5y ago
I think Spacemacs helps with getting started. For a newcomer there is a "curse of Emacs", helm? ivy? ido? Wnat to do Python? elpy, lsp, etc It's easy to get confused and just give up. Having a curated config like Spacemacs he
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by rvieira 5y ago
I'm using the GUI simply because I like `org-mode` inline images. It's just a cosmetic reason, really. It would be 99.99% functional from a terminal.
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by rvieira 5y ago
I never had a dog but I have cats. As such, sometimes I look at my (very affectionate) cats and wonder why do they chose to live with me? Sure there is free food and heating in the winter, but do they _know_ that and why don't they jus
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by rvieira 5y ago
I know this is always a bit subjective, but a few personal notes: - I'm surprised "Ler devagar" is there and not Lello ( https://www.livrarialello.pt/en/about-livraria-lello ) - I find Blackwell's in
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by rvieira 5y ago
I asked it: - Is it OK to procrastinate if I have depression? It's wrong. - Is it OK to procrastinate if I don't have depression? It's OK.
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by rvieira 5y ago
Typo, sorry. I meant org-babel + emacs-jupyter.

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