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by drbaba 3y ago
> Why would you continue to subscribe to a bullshit company that does this? They said they subscribed which could mean that they have since unsubscribed. I think they’re texting them because they want them back as a customer - it makes
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by drbaba 3y ago
> Some of the packages are included, all of them have to be turned on and configured I see where you're coming from, but I think this is a bit exaggerated as well. For some concrete examples: - Git: Emacs does have a built-in `vc-mo
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by drbaba 3y ago
> Emacs is now nothing more than a glorified Org editor I must admit that if it wasn’t for Org, I as a long-time Vim user wouldn’t be using Emacs :)
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by drbaba 3y ago
> terminals whose keyboards lacked the keys vim users use to navigate in modal editing, and there's no reason for it anymore. Vim keybindings really are more comfortable if you struggle with RSI. I’ve had such issues despite having
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by drbaba 3y ago
For that example: Any reason the server doesn’t just have an SSH server? Then you can use `git clone` in the “usual way”, using SSH certificate authentication.
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by drbaba 3y ago
> If you are running servers passing passwords as command line arguments in that device, they have all that. I make a point out of never doing that. It’s way too easy to accidentally expose things. For instance, doing a live demo with an
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by drbaba 3y ago
I don’t know Pyjion, but I have used Numba for real work. It’s a great package and can lead to massive speed-ups. However, last time I used it, it (1) didn’t work with many third-party libraries (e.g. SciPy was important for me), and (2) di
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by drbaba 3y ago
> You'd really have to be a complete data engineering newbie to not understand it I think? I do occasionally use Pandas in my day job, but I honestly think very few programmers that could have use for a data frame library would desc
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by drbaba 3y ago
Congratulations on a major release! Genuine question: Would you recommend learning Tcl/Tk from scratch in 2024, and in that case for what use cases?
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by drbaba 3y ago
Yeah, I believe Pandas was inspired by similar functionality in R.
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by drbaba 3y ago
Above that it says “DataFrames for a new era” hidden in their graphics. I believe it’s a competitor to the Python library “Pandas”, which makes it easy to do complex transformations on tabular data in Python.
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by drbaba 3y ago
Based on e.g. [this classic]( https://youtu.be/a9xAKttWgP4?si=oMQQVbIziq60Cd1F ), it seems people are fluent and productive in APL in a way I doubt anyone can become in Brainfuck. But I would also like to know from APL aficio
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by drbaba 3y ago
> Debian's … installer … seems quite apt I see what you did there
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by drbaba 3y ago
I switched to Ubuntu back in 2008, and have used it on and off since then. When it first arrived, it was IMO significantly better than Debian for end users: Debian was notoriously out of date. Debian Stable mostly contained packages that we
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by drbaba 3y ago
I actually like the concept of foot pedals or thumb cluster keyboards, which sound like two of the most ergonomic ways to use modifier keys. The main issue is that due to my work I have to regularly work on a laptop, and anything that devia
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by drbaba 3y ago
I used to do exactly the same. But then I developed RSI in my left forearm, which I blame on overusing it for all modifier keys (including CapsLock as my only Ctrl and only using left shift). Afterwards, I used a Karabiner Elements script t
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by drbaba 3y ago
If I have a typo, I typically Ctrl-W to delete and retype the last word.
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by drbaba 3y ago
Yes. You can think of it as: If you’re surrounded by an equal amount of mass in every direction (because you’re at the center of a set of spherical mass shells), then the gravitational force in every direction will cancel out.
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by drbaba 3y ago
This is a valid point. I’m a big fan of Python the language myself, but packaging and distribution is quite the mess. I honestly wish we at least got first-class support for adding say “import numpy-1.31” to the code, such that you could sa
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by drbaba 3y ago
I used to take some notes on paper (if it needed math and diagrams, or for meetings that require eye contact), and some notes on a computer (programming or pure text). My iPad replaced the paper but not the computer.
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by drbaba 3y ago
Why?
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by drbaba 3y ago
1Password (password manager), iCloud+ (cloud storage), Arq (backup software), BackBlaze B2 (backup hosting), various streaming services (switching from month to month). I have also paid for e.g. Sublime Text 4, not sure if that counts as a
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by drbaba 3y ago
In general, Vim on an iPhone (via iSH, a-Shell, or iVim) works surprisingly well. I thought the idea was ridiculous until I gave it a proper try (even though I was already a Vim user on “real” computers), since it doesn’t really leverage th
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by drbaba 3y ago
Unpopular opinion: Your problem isn’t Vim, it’s the NeoVim ecosystem. I know because I’ve had the same time sink problem after the Lua ecosystem took off, and have been much happier after I switched to Vim 9 and went back to my good old Vi
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by drbaba 3y ago
> The eMacs ones are a bit more common in more applications I think it depends on your platform? On macOS, nearly all apps support a (very small) subset of Emacs keybindings. On all platforms, Readline and friends default to Emacs keybin
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by drbaba 3y ago
Keep in mind that there is a subtle difference between Ctrl-C and Ctrl-[. The latter is equivalent to Esc, but I think the former will for example prevent abbreviation expansion and block some plugins, which can lead to weird bugs if you’ve
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by drbaba 3y ago
Personally, I prefer caps lock for ctrl. I don’t really mind reaching for esc to switch modes (maybe I just got used to it?), but things like Ctrl-D, Ctrl-], and Ctrl-O in normal mode are quite unergonomic with the default position of Ctrl.
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by drbaba 3y ago
There is also the J language [1], which I understand to be a GPL reimplementation of APL. Since they went with pure ASCII, you presumably have to hold down modifier keys less. I never used either language, so can’t comment on how useful th
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by drbaba 3y ago
Thanks for getting back to me with some detailed examples! This looks quite neat :)
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by drbaba 3y ago
Not anymore. Since IPython v5 (5+ years ago?), readline was replaced with prompt_toolkit. EDIT: Here’s an official source: https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/whatsnew/version5.h...

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