trey-jones

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by trey-jones 1y ago
The classic comeback - every time I mention simplicity to a particular team member of mine, this is what he says. Complexity is unavoidable. Yes. But if you don't fight it tooth and nail, spend more time than you want trying to si
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by trey-jones 1y ago
This may be a bit pedantic, but Emacs-as-a-hammer metaphor might work better than you intended, since a hammer is definitely useful for more than just hitting nails. This seems pretty neat to me.
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by trey-jones 1y ago
Calling one of the most mature software projects on the planet a buggy mess is something, but yes, I would opt for TODO.org instead of .txt
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by trey-jones 1y ago
Serious question - what does AD do that OpenLDAP (or similar) doesn't?
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by trey-jones 1y ago
I'm on record saying it's "like the smartest coworker I've ever had" (no offense).
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by trey-jones 1y ago
Doing my own post-mortem of a recent project (the first that I've leaned on "AI" tools to any extent), my feeling was the following: 1. It did not make me faster. I don't know that I expected it to. 2. It's very
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by trey-jones 1y ago
It's funny, I would not put this or the Martian into made-to-be-movie category, mainly featuring a single protagonist alone with his thoughts of how best to effect survival. I haven't (and probably won't) see the movies. I
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by trey-jones 1y ago
Worse, I've been told that attempting to dry indoors would result in rot (given not enough air flow, which might not be the case in all indoor environments), and consequently have never tried it. I've exclusively air dried pine,
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by trey-jones 1y ago
I think it's pretty easy to learn to just M-x dired compared to however you switch to terminal in these cases and probably would be worth it. I guess we're using this "file management" term to mean delete or move - it&#
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by trey-jones 1y ago
dired-mode is fairly necessary in emacs to preserve the continuity of what you are editing. For example, if I'm editing a file called originalfilename.txt, and I decide it should be called newfilename.txt, I can mv originalfilename.txt
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by trey-jones 1y ago
As someone who occasionally does use WSL, I definitely think it's not better no. But I'm still biased, because I know a lot more about using linux than I do about using windows, and WSL is still windows.
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by trey-jones 1y ago
Well, I'd still rather just use linux, but I take your meaning.
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by trey-jones 1y ago
It's a silly idea for a hack. If I can do it for 20 minutes, I can (and will, if necessary) do it for 8 hours; it's getting started with that first 20 minutes that holds me up.
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by trey-jones 2y ago
Marie Antoinette was "just disconnected" and look what happened to her.
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by trey-jones 2y ago
Wow, did you travel here from 2002? Edit: In case it's not clear from my initial, gut-driven snark: I definitely think if you use a reasonably popular distro (commercially backed or not) in 2025, you should never have any trouble conn
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by trey-jones 2y ago
Many people here are commenting that brew is a good way to get modern tools. I must say, I prefer Docker by several country miles.
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by trey-jones 2y ago
I think this can be mitigated by proofreading and changing up a few things.
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by trey-jones 2y ago
Two uses for me (as a native English speaker who writes pretty well on my own): 1. Reformatting notes or bits of information into something more formal (something I consider actually counterproductive in a way, since formal is often more ve
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by trey-jones 2y ago
It's not even spiritual, it's just care. If you care about something you build, and you are able to put in the required time and effort, there is a great possibility your output will be high-quality. Unfortunately, high-quality i
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by trey-jones 2y ago
Safer for buyers and users I guess. Based on being able to smell marijuana coming from so many car windows just walking around town, I'm not sure it would be safer for the public. I'm not anti-legalization by the way - I think i
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by trey-jones 2y ago
I proclaimed nearly this exact opinion in the jury box after being summoned between 15 and 20 years ago. They didn't pick me for trial, which was the intended effect. I really did believe it at the time. Nowadays, I just think it&
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by trey-jones 2y ago
Using web technology to build "native" mobile apps has been around almost as long as mobile apps themselves. I used Appcelerator Titanium and Phonegap to do this beginning in 2012 (maybe even 2011) before eventually trying Native
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by trey-jones 2y ago
Well it's definitely possible to have different takeaways from the same book. I can't remember what I took away as a high school student, but when I read it again in my late 30s (I think) it blew my mind a little bit because I ha
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by trey-jones 2y ago
To pile on the battery issue, we had some very severe storms in my area that took down power for days and internet for weeks. Credit card processing was not possible for gas stations during that time period, but the pumps worked when the p
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by trey-jones 2y ago
Well, about 25 years ago the EU issued 1 and 2 Euro coins (no bills for those denominations) and as far as I know still do. So it's working for them. When I lived over there (2005ish) I didn't care much for carrying a coin purse
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by trey-jones 2y ago
It's tricky, because an insurer of your body (for medical care) has a vested interest in you taking good care of it (health care). By offering to pay for these services, they can potentially realize savings by not paying for the surge
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by trey-jones 2y ago
Apparently poor time management throughout the match, though I didn't see every game. It sounds like he was lucky to survive 6-6.
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by trey-jones 2y ago
Spoiler alert! I was planning to watch the recap without knowing the outcome, but I'm not that invested. Congratulations to the new champion.
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by trey-jones 2y ago
No worries, I think maybe I replied to the wrong comment - I would have expected to reply to someone who can't see how an Emacs (or vi) user could be as productive as an IDE user.
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by trey-jones 2y ago
The weird thing about comments like these is that of course you can do all of this stuff with Emacs, you just have to figure out how.

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