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by xte 8y ago
Thanks, Well... IMO Being interdependent is not much a wrong thing until such interdependency became too unbalanced between too many that depend on a subject and to few subjects but to evolve we need few things: diversity is one of them, wi
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by xte 8y ago
Many people have done it wrong, few start to acknowledge this these days. For instance many compute how much fuel consume a bus to transport maximum load of people vs that number of people in individual cars. They do, of course, a right com
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by xte 8y ago
Mh, for me just because life is too short I never really learned spreadsheet software (and I have seen many disaster made thanks to them, including important institutional and scientific ones) and I'm happy without them... Try to look
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by xte 8y ago
Well. Basically if I have to write a letter I: - hit a single key on my keyboard (pause to be precise) - hit 'l' followed by few arrow down to choose between italian, french, swedish or english letter template than enter - start t
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by xte 8y ago
> This is called hipocrisy. IMO it's simply a way to lock users in, like Cisco, like Oracle, like OpenBravo, like any other vendor try to do. Emacs simply was born many years ago, and kept going since that, why change terminology ju
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by xte 8y ago
I have experienced far in the past a similar situation, I've tried both Emacs and XEmacs at that time and give up sticking to vim. After, time ago pushed by curiosity and few demos I casually see I tried Emacs again but with a far slow
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by xte 8y ago
That's why I use org-mode for my config so I can set :tangle no anytime, with {use,req}-pacakge I can handle the complexity without feeling it. Actually I live (in IT terms) in Emacs, from the WM (EXWM(-x)) to MUA (notmuch-emacs) to
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by xte 8y ago
Hem... We are people, so we are sometimes lovers, sometimes cookers, sometimes fighters, businessman, ... but we are still the very same body. So why our tools need to be divided and confined to a purpose if we are able to craft a single ef
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by xte 8y ago
Try to compute how much energy you need to build and maintain a dense city than a sprawling suburb. Try to compute evolution possibilities of a dense area than a sparse one. Try to compute the magnitude of any disaster from natural phenomen
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by xte 8y ago
Well... Because is a complex, utter, inflexible software. For instance: I need to write a letter, on my desktop I start skeletor (Emacs built-in template solution) with a single keypress, choose the wright template, start writing in pure te
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by xte 8y ago
Why the hell a spreadsheet? Why not use any scripting language you want with org-table/org-babel or with some ORM/driver to access datas?
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by xte 8y ago
Mh, I have sometimes to work with "tabular datas" that seems to fit well with spreadsheets... Before I discover org-mode and Emacs I normally use *sv sources/exports and CLI tools simply because I never being able to be produ
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by xte 8y ago
Well... Few time ago I discover my "definitive" productivity app: Emacs. In few months it became the center of my IT life. And I still have to see ANY more effective, simple, flexible, pleasure to use modern application that can o
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by xte 8y ago
Any rapid growing/evolving country is a crazy and super-dangerous/disastrous evolution. You can't evolve fast and well, you can't avoid mistake when changes happen and the more concentrated changes the more mistake you&#
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by xte 8y ago
I've lived for most of my life in a big northern Italian city, I ever have had a car. Of course I tend to use public transportation for moving around the center but I still need a car to buy food, to go outside the city etc. I know ver
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by xte 8y ago
Underground parking may pose many problems for instance if you are in a flood-frequent area, if the ground is not so easy to modify etc. Sometimes maybe an option but not always.
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by xte 8y ago
I do not know how parking/constructions are ruled in the USA however here (France) and in my origin country (Italy) it was common to have minimum park space for any new building in cities simply because we are out of parking space, goi
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by xte 8y ago
Mh, personally I see far more fantasy production, distopic future fictions than science fictions ones... And I agree that they represent actual society trends since artist in general foresee the future far more than any other... And if we d
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by xte 8y ago
Nice post, I would like to ad a super-category/type: companies of various kind that think to be independent companies in a "free market" while are only slave that works for few bigger one. To explain this mega-pattern I start
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by xte 8y ago
I do never used Tumblr but AFAICT porn is the most common contents, so i bet the major source of revenue... BTW the neovittorian movement against sex in general (disguised in many form to health things, anti-pornography for pedagogic things
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by xte 8y ago
Accidentally all software you cite are born as commercial product: LibreOffice's origins are StartOffice, originally developed by StarWriter and after acquired by SUN; it became a FOSS project when SUN understand it can't profit a
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by xte 8y ago
May I ask how a drone can locate your apartment? Because I can easily imaging to give coordinates of a garden with a precision suitable for a delivery but I can't imaging something that can really work in apartments... Perhaps penthous
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by xte 8y ago
? A newsgroups live on many different news servers, hosted by many different subjects, potentially including it's members newsserver. People who host server can choose what groups to serve and with what privilege (read only, max x post
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by xte 8y ago
On software compatibility unfortunately the actual state (nearly anyone only on GNU/Linux) lead to forget that other OSes exists and many non-POSIX/non-portable features are more and more used anywhere... That's not an IllumO
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by xte 8y ago
While I was using OpenSolaris (and Solaris before, till 9 6/06) as a personal desktop from SXDE->SXCE->OpenIndiana, I have tried many fork (Belenix, Damm small solaris, Nexenta, OI) I have to say that IllumOS is essentially dead
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by xte 8y ago
Modern GUIs have no extensibility, they are designed from the widget library to the entire software as commercial product, FOSS included because the idea of "modern" GUIs is commercial at design stage. Emacs, like LispM, Xerox anc
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by xte 8y ago
Yes, but not websites.
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by xte 8y ago
Only a small note: we have had a free, functional, decentralized social network in the past, even supported by thing like Microsoft Outlook. It's still there, despite semi-abandoned state, today. It have a name, of course: nntp news. A
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by xte 8y ago
At nazi times in Germany if you have joined nazi's party earlier and you participate in many nazi's related activities you'll get rewarded far more than "traditional citizen", perhaps with a humanistic degree... In
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by xte 8y ago
That's not a real problem, if you call it "advanced statusbar" instead if minibuffer, split instead of windows, contents instead of buffer it's only a matter of name. And most of them are pretty intuitive. Consider a thi

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