kickaha

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   by kickaha 7mo ago

   I have been waiting forty years to learn how to do this.
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   by kickaha 2y ago

   Holy GOD all these years of wasting time on HN have finally paid off! THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS
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   by kickaha 2y ago

   Often it pays simply to remember what a rigidly ideological culture we inhabit. Imagine it's 1986 and this story comes from SoViEt RuSsIa. Derek Lowe (who I hold to be adjacent to a National Treasure) would not be obliged to speculate
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   by kickaha 2y ago

   Incremental gains. Get the basics, then follow your nose to the features you want to try. Before you know it you'll be writing your own stuff and sharing it. The community is the best around.
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   by kickaha 3y ago

   We are! ?
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   by kickaha 3y ago

   tl;dr Big marginal gains for small marginal effort likely make it worthwhile. The payoff can be enormous. The investment can be illegible on the front end—it depends on the skills and concepts you already have. Open an Emacs buffer, switch
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   Authoring and presenting university courses with Emacs and a full libre stack(emacsconf.org)

   5 points by kickaha 3y ago|0 comments
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   by kickaha 3y ago

   If you've lived through even a tiny earthquake it's much like if you've experienced a solar eclipse: even when short and mild, they elicit an otherworldly body-terror. The people living on that peninsula right now are stresse
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   by kickaha 3y ago

   I made an Emacs mode that provides this functionality, only to find that someone else had done it better: https://github.com/emacsmirror/draft-mode (It was still worth it: huge fun and I learned a ton.)
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    by kickaha 3y ago

    Also check out our clever lean development model NBD
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    by kickaha 3y ago

    Am I just hopelessly old fashioned? Or is this not most of the justification for bachelors degrees?
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    by kickaha 3y ago

    I’m old and we were poor: my family got our first microwave oven about the same time as I started to learn calculus in 12th grade. Both changed everything in an epistemologically qualitative manner. Life before calculus/microwave, and
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    by kickaha 3y ago

    [2008 me] fell in love with the "it just works" and "an actually usable GUI plus Unix under the hood" and "they actually sweat the small stuff" [...] [By 2018, say] The user-annoyance-factor difference between
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    by kickaha 3y ago

    Oh. The atomic nucleus. [shrugs in cell biologist]
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    by kickaha 3y ago

    Or...? I got a better idea! How about if you go to hell?
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    by kickaha 3y ago

    >> “Move fast and break things” is a monument to an aberrant culture of arrogance and dismissive impatience. > Education is begging to be disrupted. I rest my case. Substantively, believe me , I agree with you. Culturally, thoug
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    by kickaha 3y ago

    I teach university biochemistry. After eight or ten years, I began to feel that I was no longer a novice. “Move fast and break things” is a monument to an aberrant culture of arrogance and dismissive impatience. Based on hypercompetitive
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    by kickaha 3y ago

    I highly recommend everything by Karen Armstrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Armstrong She has published all kinds of different work: comprehensive surveys, biographies of key figures, memoir, the works. She’s
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    by kickaha 3y ago

    80085
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    by kickaha 3y ago

    Yes, sir. But there’s a kernel of an interesting idea in there. Imagine a world where all apps used by everyone were as user oriented as Emacs. Impossible, fantasy, utopian, never, and I agree. But a way to contextualize how much we’ve give
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    by kickaha 3y ago

    > Many people can contribute to the development of the system, for the most part without interfering with each other. This has led the EMACS system to become more powerful than any previous editor. > User customization helps in anothe
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    by kickaha 3y ago

    I’m starting to think that what’s keeping me off the cover of Forbes is my weak-ass sociopathy and my tiny tiny crumbs of competence.
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    by kickaha 3y ago

    Same here! I will definitely check it out.
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    by kickaha 3y ago

    How does this have no replies? So effing cool. When your kids get tired of it, can I buy it?
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    by kickaha 3y ago

    Calibre user. I was like, that’s weird. There’s another Kovid Goyal?
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    by kickaha 3y ago

    Very couth. Opened the comments only to see referrals to minimal alternatives. Everything what my ADD brain needs. Nothing my ADD brain doesn’t need. And perfect alignment with libre ideals! May I suggest that you make a tiny update, just s
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    by kickaha 3y ago

    Yep. The abstract for the conference talk is coy: https://meetings.ams.org/math/spring2023se/meetingapp.cgi/Pa... In the 2000 years since trigonometry was discovered it's always been assumed that any al
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    US teens say they have new proof for Pythagorean theorem(theguardian.com)

    3 points by kickaha 3y ago|5 comments
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    by kickaha 3y ago

    What made it so much fun was that I could do it while driving the car. Or that the kids could do it before they could type, or even read.
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    by kickaha 3y ago

    Thanks for sharing the package with the community!