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by ylee 4y ago
27 years on VM here (currently 8.2.0b), using fetchmail to download mail locally. I tried Gnus a couple of times for Usenet but never stuck with it because of Emacs's lack of multithreading. I've never tried Gnus for email because
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by ylee 4y ago
By the 1980s the requirements had changed to no longer include punch cards and such, presumably at the same time as when the badge itself changed from the "punch card and mainframe tape" design to a generic microcomputer.
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by ylee 5y ago
My first year at Columbia, the university set up a single computer lab in the engineering building (< https://cuit.columbia.edu/computer-lab-technologies/location... >) with HP 9000 workstations. Although they boot
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by ylee 5y ago
>Before Uber, cabs (in SF) refused to take credit cards, regularly didn’t show up when pre booked In September 2005 I spent 20 minutes on a Sunday afternoon trying to get a cab at 19th and Judah before giving up and taking a Muni. (For t
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by ylee 5y ago
>It may not get me a fancy computer job, but I think I am happier on the whole anyway, giving myself to lisp. I am the same way. I have been using Emacs since 1995, but have never had a full-time programming/IT job (although my tech
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by ylee 5y ago
My Facebook account was shut down without explanation in 2019. Despite its age (15 years) I barely used it, let alone for anything "controversial", but did regularly log into it. I repeatedly tried to verify my identity by submitt
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by ylee 5y ago
>There was interest, or it was simple enough to allow open source implementation to flourish. I used Applix Word to produce my résumé in PDF format when applying to jobs during senior year of college, 1998-1999. I don't remember if
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by ylee 5y ago
I don't have an Oculus Quest 2 but have heard good things about it. But I can't get one because my Facebook account was shut down without explanation in 2019. Despite its age (15 years) I barely used it, let alone for anything &qu
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by ylee 5y ago
>it sucks that it takes things being publicly blown up for Google/Youtube to do anything about their users/customers problems. Facebook, too. I don't have an Oculus Quest 2 but have heard good things about it. But I can&#x
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by ylee 5y ago
>If it didn’t require facebook to run I’d absolutely buy one I don't have an Oculus Quest 2 but have heard good things about it. But I can't get one because my Facebook account was shut down without explanation in 2019. Despite
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by ylee 5y ago
Can someone convert diegoperini's regex into a form compatible with Emacs Lisp? I freely admit to this being beyond my brainpower.
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by ylee 5y ago
Learning Logo in elementary school is how I was introduced to the concept of recursion. I have a vivid memory of the moment I made the breakthrough in understanding in my head. 40 years later, I still want to giggle like a child when I find
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by ylee 5y ago
My first year at Columbia in 1994, the university set up a single computer lab in the engineering building (< https://cuit.columbia.edu/computer-lab-technologies/location... >) with them. Although they booted into
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by ylee 5y ago
>It's not hard to imagine that the companion app, which is the only way to use the device, requires Facebook login and then you just end up with a few hundred dollars worth of regular old glasses. That's me. I don't have a
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by ylee 5y ago
>Friction piles are quite normal too. I've lived in buildings in SoMa that used friction piles and none of them were tilting as much as this building. A selling point for my old condo building in SoMa is that it's one of the fe
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by ylee 5y ago
>He claims “30 years IT experience” I've written here before about what killed Usenet (< https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27636397 >). Quoting myself: >That said, there are server- and client-side anti-sp
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by ylee 5y ago
>The number of taxis was such that in a busy central business district you had a pretty good chance of catching one (presuming you didn't look too 'scary') but pretty much anywhere else you would never see one. I well reme
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by ylee 5y ago
>Facebook employees will ignore your calls for help, and there is no proper way to contact them regarding a disappeared account. That's me. I don't have an Oculus but have heard good things about it. But I can't get one be
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by ylee 5y ago
I've been using Emacs for more than a quarter century, 99.9999% of the time text-only (whether Linux console, X terminal console, xterm, or SSH client) on a remote server. My email client is VM, written in Emacs Lisp. I've used it
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by ylee 5y ago
>Nah. If you've actually have used the (non-binary) Usenet, you have certainly come across plonks [1] and killfiles. As I said in my initial comment, I am well aware of killfiling (And why are you distinguishing between "plonks
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by ylee 5y ago
>This could be done by sending special "cancel" messages; it was then up to individual Usenet servers to figure out whether to honor these cancel requests, through unspecified criteria. The feature was somewhat hidden away in s
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by ylee 5y ago
Nothing has changed since Jerry Pournelle wrote 35 years ago when discussing online forums: >I noticed something: most of the irritation came from a handful of people, sometimes only one or two. If I could only ignore them, the computer
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by ylee 5y ago
Most people who use a separate Emacs-based email client seem to use mu4e, Wanderlust, notmuch, or even gnus. It's entirely possible any or all are superior to VM; I use the latter because I'm comfortable with it and it does everyt
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by ylee 5y ago
>What packages do you use for email? As I said, VM (< https://www.nongnu.org/viewmail/ >); 8.2.0b is recommended. Personality Crisis comes with it. Mairix (< https://github.com/vandry/mair
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by ylee 5y ago
I've been using Emacs for more than a quarter century. My email client is VM, written in Emacs Lisp. I've used it to read mail for almost as long as I've used Emacs. Although I run Emacs in text-only mode, VM (and ancillary t
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by ylee 5y ago
I run my computing environment on a remote box, to which I `mosh` to and run `tmux` on from a local MacOS box. Anything commandline (including Emacs) runs remotely, and anything graphical (including web browser) runs locally. Sometimes I ne
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by ylee 5y ago
I've seen blog posts, news articles, forum comments, and YouTube videos based on my Wikipedia edits. Always gratifying to know that my work is being read.
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by ylee 6y ago
I have used VM in Emacs to read my email for more than a quarter century. I run the Emacs session remotely, and open inline URLs locally on the Macbook I `mosh` out of. The remote machine connects to the local one and passes on the URL with
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by ylee 6y ago
>The fact that I see stories like this happen about once every month or so makes me incredibly uneasy about Google in general. Not just Google! I don't have an Oculus but have heard good things about it. But I can't get one bec
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by ylee 6y ago
I don't have an Oculus but have heard good things about it. But I can't get one because my Facebook account was similarly shut down without explanation in 2019. Despite its age (15 years) I barely used it, let alone for anything &

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