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by akagr 6mo ago
That’s certainly up for debate. Thinkpads are some of the most rugged laptops available, and their top models are made from magnesium alloys or carbon fibre. Only their lower end E and L series are ABS builds. In my personal experience, my
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by akagr 6mo ago
Go beyond the specs, though. Which windows laptops have similar combination of all metal build with tight tolerances, a display hinge that doesn’t wobble, a nice keyboard and even close to similar feeling trackpad at this 600 dollar price p
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by akagr 6mo ago
I feel I can given up most packages I use for some hand rolled code (with a significant time investment, that is). There will be tradeoffs. Every thing except magit. I can’t think of a better way to use git, and it’s one of the main reasons
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by akagr 6mo ago
The important part is you don’t have to remember that gobbledygook. I don’t know why author posted that key stroke list as it seems to remove value from this post and make it look harder than it is. Magit surfaces all available commands and
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by akagr 7mo ago
Isn’t e-paper the general category of low power displays? I understand that “e-ink” are a trademarked subset of the broader e-paper category, which also includes memory-in-pixel LCD displays which other watches like Garmin (and probably peb
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by akagr 7mo ago
Pebble was my first smartwatch, all the way back in 2015. It was fun and quirky back when it was first released. Then it stopped production for many years while smartwatch category grew. Now they're coming back with same/similar m
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by akagr 7mo ago
I believe (correct me if I’m wrong), their point is that with time, we’re writing less code ourselves and more through LLMs. This can make people disconnected from the “joy” of using certain programming languages over others. I’ve only used
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by akagr 8mo ago
My Sony TV has android and is fairly responsive. Maybe a second lag, but definitely not 10-20 secs. I do need to give it time to “warm up” when I start it, though. I use it so rarely it’s generally turned off from wall outlet. I still prefe
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by akagr 2y ago
This is a great resource! I’ve used awk for only the most basic field wrangling. This makes me more confident in doing fancier things that I’d otherwise use grep for.
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by akagr 2y ago
I don’t see myself switching from 1password simply because I don’t think Apple passwords autofill will work natively with non-safari browsers or Linux, both of which I also use. Also, I find the handy 1password mini source pretty convenient
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by akagr 3y ago
I live in India. My newspaper costs ₹230 a month. That's ₹2,760 a year and ₹27,600 for a decade (not factoring inflation). At today's conversion rates, that's $333.58 for entire decade. If I pay the remaining amount of $2166.
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by akagr 4y ago
I use modus-vivendi on Emacs. Love the contrast and readability.
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by akagr 4y ago
IMHO there are better fonts for easy legibility. Inter’s uppercase I (eye) looks exactly same as lowercase l (el). Moreover, there’s only a subtle difference in curvature between a zero and English letter O. Ideally every single letter and
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by akagr 5y ago
I don't really dislike any language i've worked with, but I find myself looking forward to writing some Elixir at work and Common lisp in non-work situations. Ruby is pretty great too.
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by akagr 5y ago
I'd recommend a batteries-included Emacs distro like Doom to try out. That way, you don't spend a lot of time customising the editor before getting invested. Vanilla Emacs is plenty fast, but Doom will give you a closer to real wo
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by akagr 5y ago
> elisp is dead I’m not sure it was ever alive to begin with. Not in the classical sense. I mean, I don’t think elisp ever got good (or any) use outside of emacs configuration and extension. There weren’t any popular web frameworks, nume
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by akagr 5y ago
This! It’s generally a good idea to have a lot of smaller “dumb” views that are stateless and depend on their parameters, and a few “intelligent” views that bring the children together and provide state logic. That puts reasonable boundarie
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by akagr 5y ago
Org mode is easy to get started with if you’re an emacs user. I am one. But before I used emacs, there was no org mode in my life. And let’s face it, while emacs and vim allow you to craft your flow, most people are gonna use something like
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by akagr 5y ago
I try to exercise every day. This includes sometimes going to gym, or just visiting a park to play badminton with my wife. I like to read, although that has taken a back seat for some time. Learning a few new technologies on the time I don’
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by akagr 6y ago
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