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by submeta 3y ago
I love the indents now with modern editors being able to deal with them ;) Zen mode. Super clean. No end delimiters.
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by submeta 3y ago
What I like in Ruby: Every expression returns a value. In Python my_list.sort() will return `none`. So if I do `sorted_list = my_list.sort()`, my `sorted_list` will be `none`. And I have been shooting a lot in my foot in the beginning. - I
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by submeta 3y ago
This is interesting. Just yesterday I asked myself how I can embed links to info nodes in a markdown file. I realized it's easiest to just put the expression in my file like so: (info "(elisp) Hash Tables") (info &q
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by submeta 3y ago
I use (basic) Emacs shortcuts everywhere via Karabiner Elements. Caps is control. And Enter is control when pressed with another key.
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by submeta 3y ago
I abandoned Emacs for a year or so and used BBEdit for regex-replace and VS Code for dev tasks. Also gave up on org-mode and org-roam because I could not find a mobile companion. Adopted Obsidian for all my note taking use-cases and journal
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by submeta 3y ago
Show me where. On the other hand: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40025973
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So that no one explains why Iran retaliates for the Israeli attack on the consulate in Syria, where a dozen Iranians were killed.
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by submeta 3y ago
> In particular, it seems much more prone to “lazy coding” than the existing GPT-4 Turbo “preview” models. The previous model (without vision) was already „lazy“. It will omit large portions of code and wants you to merge your changes in
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by submeta 3y ago
There are two dimensions of horror here: One is that we as a tech community are building systems that are able to automatically kill human beings. It’s not only this system. I‘ve seen images of drones with sniper guns shooting everyone movi
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by submeta 3y ago
Very happy with Time Machine and Carbon Copy Cloner on my Mac. I have a dozen hard drives and SSDs that I rotate and a NAS, but I don’t use that for backup. Never lost a file. But a reminder to myself: I need off site backups.
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by submeta 3y ago
There are things that I have solved with this in a fraction of time that I otherwise wouldn’t have persued. Side projects I had in my mind. Or migration projects (old data) with lots of edge cases where I‘d have spent weeks to finish, I did
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by submeta 3y ago
I use both the API and the web interface as that’s more convenient. I hardly use Google anymore these days. These tools are well worth every penny for me. They save me endless hours of research/ parsing the results and bringing it in a
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by submeta 3y ago
I use ChatGPT4 ever since it was released and it changed my computing life. - I started using Claude 3 when it was released. I realized that it’s answers were slightly different, sometimes better. Especially when I feed it long text. At som
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by submeta 3y ago
Same here with Emacs. Tinkering-vs-doing. Opportunity costs too high.
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by submeta 3y ago
Ask Claude or ChatGPT if Palestinians have a right to exist. It‘ll answer very fairly. Then ask Google‘s Gemini. It‘ll straight refuse to answer and points you to web search.
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by submeta 3y ago
It seems to write pretty decent Elisp code as well :) For those liking Emacs but never made the effort to learn Elisp, this might be a good tutor.
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by submeta 3y ago
Snowden revelations were years ago. And what we saw back then was unbelievable. I can’t even imqgine what the agencies are using these days. So what’s Pegasus anyway compared to what the agencies might have and use.
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by submeta 3y ago
I have word documents from 1997-1999 that are useless. The recent Word version does not open them. I open the documents in Nisus Writer on my Mac, but the formatting is basically useless. I‘ll give it a try in LibreOffice.
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by submeta 3y ago
Pascal (Turbo Pascal on a PC) was my second programming language after Assembler and some C (had a copy of Aztec-C compiler) on an Amiga when I was 17ish. Pascal taught me modular programming, breaking down largensystems. I‘d written my own
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by submeta 3y ago
Well, do you compare the whole leadership of a western nation to a terror group? Shouldn’t a civilised country avoid calling for genocide? Or held accountable if they did?
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by submeta 3y ago
It means uprising. Not killing jews. - On the other hand Israel‘s cabinet (Netanyahu, Gallant, Herzog, Ben Gvir, Smotrich) actively call for genocide: Netanyahu by comparing Palestinians to Amalek, of whom the Old Testament says „kill them
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by submeta 3y ago
Why is this flagged now?
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by submeta 3y ago
This! It was all about her testimony. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38848351
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by submeta 3y ago
The question is: Why was she under fire? See my answer below.
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She came under fire for their dry responses to a line of questioning from Republican representative Stefanik, who asked whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” would violate the college’s code of conduct. But the premise of the question
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by submeta 3y ago
Fear of losing control (and the thought of everything blowing up) => Perfectionism => „Let me be 1000% prepared before I start doing it“ => Prepares endlessly => external pressure rises above threshold => fear of consequences
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by submeta 3y ago
Would like to mention Dang here, he is doing an extraordinary job in keeping this place sane and civilised. I really am wondering how he can read and react to so many comments quickly. Dang, care to elaborate? Do you see a flat list of new
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by submeta 3y ago
There are trucks full of food, on the Egyptian side, but Israel won’t let the trucks into Gaza. Either by bombing the route or by plainly not letting them in. Google and you’ll find plenty evidence. Israel is outright starving the populatio
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by submeta 3y ago
Was that a twitter source? You are truly a prototype of a hasbara troll.
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by submeta 3y ago
Then Google it and you’ll find a dozen other sources. Here is one fo you: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna130132 You are pathetic.

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