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by setopt 2y ago
> macos leans so heavily on readline input The ubiquity of readline is a bit of a myth. What happened was that Bash (thus Readline) and NeXT (thus MacOS) independently copied Emacs keybindings, where Emacs predates both. But the Mac GUI
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by setopt 2y ago
I’m one of those “I use Emacs but only because of org-mode” people. I’m an associate professor, so I write a lot: research notes, lecture notes, course exercises, academic papers, task management, etc. Org lets me handle all that in an intu
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by setopt 2y ago
I consider it not an abuse of notation but a helpful notation. It insinuates correctly >90% of calculus rules, which tend to be hard to remember otherwise.
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by setopt 2y ago
I’m using GhostText/AtomicChrome to edit any browser test field using a real editor (in my case Emacs). I recommend trying it if you have this challenge.
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by setopt 2y ago
I think your last paragraph contradicts your first one: Most likely, they would not have gone extinct anyway, since similar megafauna in Africa that co-evolved with humans (like elephants) didn’t go extinct despite the climate change.
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by setopt 2y ago
It makes sense though if their ancestors drove edible species to extinction on arrival, starved for generations while trying to adapt to what they have done, and then ended up with a more sustainable culture afterwards as a reaction. Not un
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by setopt 2y ago
> my foray into superconducting circuit design Curious, what do you work on? (I also research superconductivity.)
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by setopt 2y ago
Exactly. The whole point of a democracy, IMO, is to streamline non-violent revolutions to avoid bloodshed when things get bad.
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EmacsConf2024 Talks(emacsconf.org)
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by setopt 2y ago
EmacsConf2024 was last weekend, and they have uploaded the talks online.
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by setopt 2y ago
It seems there are some reported attacks, but for some reason it’s quite rare (and in many cases we probably deserved it). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca_attacks
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by setopt 2y ago
Source and examples? Note the focus on "independently" invented, and that I said "inspired or derived from nearby systems". There are many examples of writing systems that were made "from scratch" but only afte
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by setopt 2y ago
If you by “cross platform” also want iPhone support, 1Password is pretty great.
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by setopt 2y ago
Unfortunately, I don’t recall exactly which sources I read on this, it was many years ago. I just recall that it started as one of those “wild link chases” on Wikipedia and ended up deep in some downloaded textbook PDFs :) But I do recall e
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by setopt 2y ago
Sounds like they count from approximately the origin of the first “alphabet” (including vowels), while writing itself is much much older. Btw, I recommend anyone who hasn’t looked at it before to read up a bit on the history of writing. It
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by setopt 2y ago
Same here. In the same way as if I were to physically cut text from a piece of paper using scissors, I’d expect a visually contiguous region to be selected for copy/cut/paste (both when using mouse and keyboard). Even though that
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by setopt 2y ago
Technically correct :p But I’d be pretty scared to go and change the contents of .git by hand ;)
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by setopt 2y ago
They might have meant writing :-) instead of :), while I think you’re talking about
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by setopt 2y ago
Is there a GitFS exposing Git commit history as a FUSE file system?
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by setopt 2y ago
> How does one rule out the relevance of those "unforeseen effects" when claiming to compare typing in general vs handwriting in general? Exactly… Most people can after training type much faster than they can write with a pen,
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by setopt 2y ago
If you don’t look at either the screen or keyboard, how do you adjust for variations between keyboards? I regularly switch between a laptop keyboard, standard external keyboard, and ergonomic (curved/split) external keyboard, including
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by setopt 2y ago
For a book, it can take minutes. For a short document, seconds. Texpresso looks promising though, but I haven’t tried it yet.
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by setopt 2y ago
MLModern looks much better. I wish they would replace CModern with this as the default font. Does it include ports of the AMS packages with extra symbols?
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by setopt 2y ago
Which is unfortunate, since the students using a different TeX font often know more about TeX.
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by setopt 2y ago
I tried that, but it broke all navigation links (including to the actual exercises).
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by setopt 2y ago
The tiny thin gray font on black background is impossible to read on a mobile device :(
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by setopt 2y ago
Speaking as one of the mostly satisfied Overleaf users: I mainly use its Git sync feature and edit locally in Emacs. But many collaborators were not using version control in the first place, which meant that Overleaf was a huge step up from
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by setopt 2y ago
Typst is 2-3 orders of magnitude faster than latex, which for book-sized projects can be the difference between a minute and sub-second compilation time.
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by setopt 2y ago
Treemacs is not TreeSitter-related, it’s just a file tree plug-in.
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by setopt 2y ago
A lot of this should be made into Emacs default settings. (Like the others, I’m happy to see posts by Prot as usual.)

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