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by b3n 2mo ago
Hi dakra! > is there something Ghostel is missing eshell allows me to manipulate text as I would in any other Emacs buffer. If I have a function which wraps a word in quotes, and bind it to a key, I can be confident it will work in eshel
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by b3n 5mo ago
Go is a turn based game without this feature (or bug?) because you aren't forced to move, you can instead pass. Both players passing in a row implies neither player thinks they can improve their position and the game ends.
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by b3n 6mo ago
This was already done, see: Grokipedia.
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by b3n 6mo ago
I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned Eshell has a module built in for exactly what you want, you just need to `(push 'eshell-rebind eshell-modules-list)`. Now C-p, C-r, etc. work as you are used to.
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Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search(blog.kagi.com)
939 points by b3n 2y ago|341 comments
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by b3n 2y ago
Nice! I made WikTok[1] in the past, but your version looks much better. :-) [1] https://wiktok.org/
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by b3n 3y ago
Guix even comes with a Nix service[0] which is easy to enable if you would like to also use Nix packages. [0] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Miscellaneous-Servi...
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NoML Proposal for Fair Use of Content in AI and Search(blog.mojeek.com)
3 points by b3n 3y ago|0 comments
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Google Calendar Is Down(google.com)
17 points by b3n 3y ago|2 comments
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by b3n 3y ago
This is a Google company, it has nothing to do with Musk.
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by b3n 3y ago
But there's plenty of transpilers: ClojureScript, Nim, etc.
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by b3n 3y ago
Guix comes with a service for using Nix packages[1], if that's what you want. It's very simple to setup, and would allow you to use Nix's Firefox package without any issue. [1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual&#x2F
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Tell HN: Pushes to GitHub PRs are not working(githubstatus.com)
9 points by b3n 3y ago|1 comments
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by b3n 3y ago
Thank you for taking the time to share all this great feedback! Appreciate it :) I agree with all your points. I will only comment on a few, but will go through each of them and fix what I can. > I assumed it didn't matter but turn
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Show HN: WikTok – A Recommendation UI for Wikipedia(wiktok.org)
73 points by b3n 3y ago|11 comments
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Emacs for Android(git.savannah.gnu.org)
4 points by b3n 3y ago|3 comments
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by b3n 3y ago
Availabe on F-Droid at https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.gnu.emacs/
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by b3n 3y ago
> I feel ashamed to live on this side of the Atlantic, sometimes. Let's not forget that DeepMind is of EU origin, and they were one of the forces that kick started this whole AI renaissance.
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by b3n 4y ago
But at that point you may as well use TRAMP[1] and let Emacs do the multiplexing for you. Yes, (e)shell works over TRAMP too. ;) [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/
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by b3n 4y ago
What is "blatant"? I don't think sister sites[1] are frowned upon. The code is released under a permissive license, after all. [1] https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/wiki#sister-sites
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by b3n 4y ago
These runs (also known as "handroll combos") are one thing that the Colemak layout optimizes for. See: https://colemak.com/Hand_alternation
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by b3n 4y ago
You can also use the built in rgrep functionality with ripgrep, just do something like (grep-apply-setting 'grep-find-command "rg --no-heading ")
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by b3n 4y ago
> not usable at work for me (lack of MacOS support - just 4 of my eng org's ~25 folks use Linux) In case you're not aware, you can easily create a Guix pack[1] in the Docker image format that can be run on MacOS. [1] https:&#x
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by b3n 4y ago
No, the GNU AGPL does not force that. Maybe you are thinking of MongoDB's SSPL[0]? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Public_License
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by b3n 4y ago
From your link: > Web mining is infeasible due to the large memory requirement and the lack of directed rounding support for floating point operations in both Javascript and WebAssembly.
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by b3n 4y ago
> While I understand and agree with most of the GNU mantra of free software, it was simply difficult and unwieldy to use my laptop since it required non-free software One easy solution is to use Guix's Nix service[1], which lets you
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by b3n 4y ago
> If anyone knows a quick fix, please let me know! I don't use `use-package` (or `flycheck`, what advantage does it have over the built in `flymake`?), but I suspect adding `(require 'use-package)` after `(straight-use-package
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by b3n 4y ago
Another approach to the problem would be to install Emacs packages with GNU Guix[1]. [1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Application-Setup.h...
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by b3n 4y ago
> The function will generally only work on a subset of types for given variable. This is true for many functions defined in statically typed languages too. Just because your function says it works with an integer, doesn't mean it&#x
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by b3n 4y ago
Note that these files are not statically generated; they are translation files, generated by translators.

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