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by subsection1h 2y ago
I saw your comment and was interested in understanding why someone would want to create a Twitter/X account nowadays. Thanks for helping me understand. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=woke+author:jokethrowaway&type...
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> But I love the Internet, I've been here since the very beginning. You've been using the Internet since the 1970s?
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> I just don’t know that a place like HN could keep its standards without a place like Reddit Yeah. A year or two after the first version of Ubuntu was released, someone on a Debian mailing list complained that Ubuntu didn't deser
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by subsection1h 2y ago
> Back then the expectation was that online you were anonymous [...] Back then the internet was mostly weird people, so most posts including the popular ones were weird. What years are you referring to when you say "back then&quot
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> Call it X. Everyone knows what you mean When I see "X", I think X Window System. I saw your comment and thought, "I bet this guy is a Windows user." I was right! LOL. https://hn.algolia.com/?type=c
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by subsection1h 2y ago
> You learn more from 10 mins of JRE FYI, here are some better sources of information about public policy issues: https://www.aeaweb.org/journals https://www.ashecon.org/american-journal-of-health-econo
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by subsection1h 2y ago
> republicans have their own problems too by fanatic religious [...] but it by no means is representative of the average conservative. 65% of the Republicans who participated in a survey by the Pew Research Center said that laws should
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by subsection1h 2y ago
> Abortion is not a religious issue, it is an ethical issue. Every person I have interacted with in nearly half a century who has expressed support for the criminalization of all or most abortions believes in the existence of souls and
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by subsection1h 2y ago
> America has rejected your ideology, your violence LOL. Red states have the highest firearm death rates: https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/firearms-death-rat...
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> No CSS required to make the horizontal bar disappear It's literally one line in userChrome.css: #TabsToolbar { display: none } Is one line in userChrome.css worse than one line in user.js (where other Firefox customizatio
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by subsection1h 2y ago
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. deepmacro, before you created Tenno, did you try Org? It supports plain text spreadsheets[1] in Org documents whose content is marked up using Org syntax[2], which is a lightweight markup language like
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> Astroturfing is going strong in here. You made the above statement in response to one user, and then a different user replied who has a 9-month-old account and 1/3 of his comments include "Tesla": https://hn
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> cobbling together a poor man's DE using half-baked amateur-ish GTK apps Do you think that GNOME's web browser (Epiphany?) and KDE's web browser (Konqueror?) are better than Firefox and Chromium? Do you think that GNOME
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by subsection1h 2y ago
> 3. Terminals Since you use Emacs, why not use Eat or vterm? https://codeberg.org/akib/emacs-eat https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm > 4. File Manager (gui) Why not use Dired? (Mor
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by subsection1h 2y ago
thomassmith65 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thomassmith65 ) wrote: > Of course he is complicit. I imagine most people in tech would argue the good outweighs the bad, but to provide E2EE without any backdoor is to
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by subsection1h 2y ago
> despite the romantization, i somehow doubt that Usenet was all roses before the "Eternal September" Usenet was the best discussion platform I've ever used. People who posted questions to comp.lang.c without first readi
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by subsection1h 2y ago
Emacs is archaic and dying. Use JEdit instead. JEdit is the new Emacs. JEdit is already better than Emacs because it's being written using an excellent new language named Java.
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> I run a SaaS which, increasingly, seems to resonate with a conservative parents A service that blocks "pro-lgbt groups" and "pro-atheist content"[1] but doesn't block anti-LGBTQ groups, racist groups, anti-sc
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by subsection1h 2y ago
1. Chrome/Chromium's performance only recently became acceptable in 2022 when the Chromium team finally added support for tab discarding, many years after Firefox first had this feature. Tab discarding is essential for users who r
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by subsection1h 2y ago
> people don't want to work with people who focus on the negative This is true. And yet, those who focus on the negative are the ones who are responsible for the most significant improvements because of their lack of complacency.
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by subsection1h 2y ago
Google Groups shows that comp.lang.c is still used. (Note: the latest messages were posted in February because that's when Google Groups stopped supporting Usenet.) https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c
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by subsection1h 2y ago
LOL. I use Emacs for note-taking, spreadsheets, calculations, to-do lists, calendaring, email, static site generation and more. Please show me VS Code extensions that have feature sets comparable to those of Emacs packages like Org, mu4e, c
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> C# and .NET developers are a largely "silent majority" who may not be getting posted on or talking as much on places like HN compared to developers of alternative options, but this is mostly because they're just getting
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by subsection1h 3y ago
Emacs is a platform for text-based software. I use Emacs for task management, calendaring, email and all of my writing. There are five Emacs-based mail clients that I know of . I just searched for VS Code-based mail clients and all I found
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by subsection1h 3y ago
Is the MacBook Pro intended primarily for "lightweight office use"?
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by subsection1h 3y ago
If you're open to board games, not just video games, here is a list of cooperative board games listed at BoardGameGeek that are categorized as children's games and are sorted by popularity: https://boardgamegeek.com&#x2
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by subsection1h 3y ago
Wow, no one has mentioned Org mode ( https://orgmode.org ). I started using Emacs nearly 20 years ago specifically because of Org. I use Org for all my static sites, note taking, to-do lists and calendar. Org has a lightweight mar
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by subsection1h 3y ago
If you actually have more information, especially empirical evidence supporting your assertions, please post it. Your assertion -- that "the Marion County paper blatantly omits and twists facts and has shut down several businesses in M
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by subsection1h 3y ago
> Firefox also has vertical tabs via Sidebery and TreeStyleTab [...] but the look and feel honestly sucks I wrote a custom stylesheet for Tree Style Tab years ago. Did you do this, and if so, what did you find lacking afterwards?
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by subsection1h 3y ago
FYI, Privacy Guides is a shitshow. It was formerly privacytools.io[1], and in 2019, the creator[2] of privacytools.io stopped contributing[3] and a new contributor[4] immediately focused on donations[5], became the admin[6] and took contro

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