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by tom_ 11mo ago
"trollied"... perhaps the clue is in the name?
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by tom_ 11mo ago
It's not obviously the project's choice itself. See thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45857774
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by tom_ 11mo ago
One tip I read somewhere (possibly from Steve Yegge?) was that it's a good idea to disable the Emacs menu bar - and I agree. The Emacs menu bar is this kind of weird uncanny valley thing. It looks like a normal menu bar, but any time y
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by tom_ 11mo ago
In general, no... but also maybe yes. It's usually fine, but you may get extra unlucky in specific situations with specific major modes. I've always found line length the biggest problem. Emacs has never done a fantastic job of ha
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by tom_ 11mo ago
"In mice", I thought to myself. But then I read the article - and how wrong I was!
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by tom_ 1y ago
I did indeed have exactly these sorts of things in mind - but I should have spent more time iterating on my comment, the end result possibly being not to post any comment at all, because it didn't end up coming out as intended. I'
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by tom_ 1y ago
Thank you for this good response to my shit comment. It was intended to make some point along these lines, but, reading it again, it completely didn't.
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by tom_ 1y ago
If you live in Singapore: don't ask us! If you disagree, vote against the government, and/or get out on the streets and protest! If you don't live in Singapore: it's not your problem.
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by tom_ 1y ago
Cloning a github repo to ~/.emacs.d is how you can cart around your Emacs config. I've been doing this for years, and it works nicely. For things configured by files that live in the home folder directly (e.g., shell - and looks l
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by tom_ 1y ago
You can unbind the Ctrl+V keymapping if you want, and it behaves as expected in emacs -nw at least. (There's a Ctrl+Shift+V binding set up by default, same as many Unix terminal emulators, so you won't miss out.)
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by tom_ 1y ago
Possibly related(ish): video about co-dfns, prompted by a previous HN thread (links in video summary), not written in C but put together in a similarly dense style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcUWTa16Jc0
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by tom_ 1y ago
Interesting comment. I always saw the formatting aspect as the sort of drudgery the computer could do for me. (As a bonus, it will always do it completely consistently.)
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by tom_ 1y ago
Well some people do, I'm sure, but most people just pay ordinary levels of attention to him. And they do that because he's made interesting contributions to multiple products that people like using - which is enough, surely? (Rega
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by tom_ 1y ago
You're absolutely right. Where should we go to get a Panther Lake laptop?
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by tom_ 1y ago
Yep, me. I noticed that you sometimes use ssh:// URLs for GitHub, but I figured it was for authentication purposes only, and that once that step was over, some other thing came into play.
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by tom_ 1y ago
Regarding other ports, I've also been pretty happy with https://github.com/nodeca/argparse , which works nicely from Typescript. Looks like it hasn't been updated for a while, but it's not like there&#x27
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by tom_ 1y ago
The question as I recall was what Perforce does that Git LFS doesn't, so I'm sorry to disappoint but my hands were tied. Anyway, I dunno, man. If you want binary files to work, some form of per-file mutex is indeed a requirement.
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by tom_ 1y ago
If you write these sorts of things in Python, argparse is worth investigating: https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html - it's pretty easy to use, makes it easy to separate the command line handling fr
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by tom_ 1y ago
1. Perforce checkout requests always do the round trip to the server. 2. Artists can actually understand Perforce.
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by tom_ 1y ago
My thoughts too. I've never had any real problems running it on Windows myself, but it doesn't feel like Mac users are any worse off. I've been using Mac Emacs since about 2010, so perhaps I dodged some of the worst stuff, an
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by tom_ 1y ago
Now you mention it, come to think of it, I'm actually unemployed at the moment. We can't both be wrong!
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by tom_ 1y ago
Maybe it's misdetecting something? I used to use Remote Desktop for game development sometimes, as weather could make the journey to the office impossible, and the performance was always pretty ok, even with UE5 stuff making heavy use
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by tom_ 1y ago
U+1FAE1 SALUTING FACE
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by tom_ 1y ago
You're doing nothing wrong other than using async. You'll only become an async fan once you write a program that does no interesting CPU work, just a lot of I/O - because async is great for the case where the computer spends
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by tom_ 1y ago
On the iPhone 13 Mini
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by tom_ 1y ago
If you think it would reflect on you better, think of it as indicating regular POSIX shell use?! (I'm 99% sure it's intended to be reminiscent of that sort of syntax. Example use: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by tom_ 1y ago
There are two examples on the landing page, and they both look quite different. Surely if the API is the same for both, there'd be just one example that covers both cases, or two examples would be deliberately made as identical as poss
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by tom_ 1y ago
How the other half live! They were always uncommon up North. (Maybe they're a bit easier to get hold of now, especially with recent inflation? But I don't use cash as much as I did when I was younger.)
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by tom_ 1y ago
If you want the reader to do something, it's polite to say please.
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by tom_ 1y ago
But if those passes (or indeed any other step of the process) are inefficiently implemented, they could be improved. The compiler output would be the same, but now it would be produced more quickly, and the iteration time would be shorter.

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