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by spauldo 1y ago
My guess? Most green things you see are a darker green. The extremely bright green (lime according to the W3C) is less useful, so they probably chose the color based on what they thought the user would expect. Given that RGB is well-known,
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by spauldo 1y ago
I in no way meant to imply the curb-stompers were in the right, only that building a curb for them when you know very well what it'll be used for makes you culpable as well.
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by spauldo 1y ago
If you build a curb for someone that is well-known for curb stomping people to death and has a bunch of people behind them saying how great curb stomping is, that's on you.
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by spauldo 1y ago
A tire and some gasoline seems to work for the Brits.
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by spauldo 1y ago
Any reason for ARM specifically? There are a lot of microcontrollers out there that fairly simple but without Intel's crustiness. Atmel, for instance. And if you decide to actually try experimenting with them you can get yourself set u
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by spauldo 1y ago
Depends what you're trying to protect yourself from. Reinforced concrete is great if they're just shelling you. Sure, all the outdoor infrastructure will be toast but your reactor probably won't get damaged. It'll take a
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by spauldo 1y ago
The US decision to abandon thorium cycle research wasn't particularly secret. It wasn't some conspiracy, just a policy decision on where to invest DOE money to get the most "bang" for the buck (literally, since plutonium
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by spauldo 1y ago
You probably don't want a vector format for screen recording, unless you have a very strange screen. You want a raster format. And sure, you can convert GIF to MP4, but I would question the workflow of anyone using animated GIFs for sc
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by spauldo 1y ago
I'm pretty sure no one has ever considered GIFs to be high quality. Unless you're a soft-G GIF person describing it to a confused person who thinks you mean the peanut butter :)
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by spauldo 1y ago
That's pretty typical. Every element of an SVG is an object with a bunch of properties that can be manipulated and scripted and whatnot. It's great for a lot of things, but it's a lot more resource intensive than "dump t
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by spauldo 1y ago
I think it's less that Japan is famous for its climate zones and more that it's a safe, comfortable topic of conversation that Japanese people use - the whole "Did you know Japan has four seasons?" question that every fo
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by spauldo 1y ago
That's good news. It was always funny watching people post in the Emacs subreddit from their iPhones, but it did cause a bit of confusion for those too young to know what an eMac was.
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by spauldo 1y ago
Using CR for progress bars and overstrikes is a neat hack, sure. But it's a hack. You're using it for cursor control, and there's a lot more to cursor control than just moving to the left without advancing down. TUIs need a
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by spauldo 1y ago
I gotta side with Thompson on this one. There's no point in a carriage return without a newline. So why have both just because of the 1933 teletype's hardware implementation? It's purely a hardware thing. That's why Mult
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by spauldo 1y ago
That's an old and fairly well-known thing, though. Lisp folks don't see a lot of commercial success stories so we tend to talk about the ones we have. The non-Lispers don't care.
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by spauldo 1y ago
I love seeing posts about Emacs from IOS users - it's always autocorrected to "eMacs."
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by spauldo 1y ago
There's a lot of good text editors out there, though. Vanilla Emacs with some tweaks is decent, sure, but if all you do is use the basic editing commands then you'll probably feel more at home with a different editor. Look at the
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by spauldo 1y ago
Don't say that too loud or the "you should never have to restart Emacs" folks might hear you!
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by spauldo 1y ago
vterm is great - I had it in my config for a while and it's hands down the best way to put a terminal in Emacs. But for me it's the whole "encapsulate a terminal in Emacs" concept that I find unuseful. That's a pers
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by spauldo 1y ago
That's true, although I find that if it's a machine I'm going to be using for a while it's easier to go the WSL route and run Emacs from there.
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by spauldo 1y ago
Emacs is the type of environment you need to immerse yourself in and build an intuition for. There's no shortcut for that. If you can't spend a couple hours a day for a few months using it, you're never going to feel at home
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by spauldo 1y ago
Generally speaking, unless you're doing something weird (typeset IEC ladder!), proprietary (code completion for Aveva Quickscipt!), or right on the cutting edge, someone has figured out a way of doing what you need in Emacs. You just h
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by spauldo 1y ago
I never understood the need to do everything in Emacs either. I love Emacs, and I use it for all kinds of things, but the UNIX ecosystem has great tools too and it seems silly to have to choose one or the other. Calling shell commands from
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by spauldo 1y ago
They don't have to swim that far to get to Cambridge, the only place in the US where they use Smoots.
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by spauldo 1y ago
I thought running through the shower area between the changing room and the pool and trying to avoid the cold water as much as possible was the norm, but maybe it's different in France.
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by spauldo 1y ago
I think you'll find that in the US they've been known to swim about 680 miles inland.
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by spauldo 1y ago
I think that's still the case, even in the latest FORTRAN standard. It's usually considered good practice to turn it off with IMPLICIT NONE.
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by spauldo 1y ago
Probably, but you'd be surprised how little that matters.
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by spauldo 1y ago
It depends on your customer base.The SCADA world is largely local, and believe me they have no trouble selling subscriptions.
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by spauldo 1y ago
It doesn't help that all the SCADA vendors are jumping on the cloud wagon and trying to push us all in that direction. "Run your factory from your smartphone!" Great, now I'm one zero-day away from some script kiddie pla

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