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by kickaha 3y ago
Yes, and it apparently was removed.
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by kickaha 3y ago
This package looks excellent. It may or may not be suited to a particular author’s workflow (without some customization) but it’s a model of a well designed and well documented Emacs package. Thanks!
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by kickaha 3y ago
Ten years ago you could say to your iPhone, “Hey, Siri. What’s the ratio of the distance to the sun to the distance to the moon?” And it would tell you the answer and give a pop up with the parameters and calculations from Wolfram Alpha. So
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by kickaha 4y ago
In my opinion, as of 2023, the best way to learn emacs the right way is through the textbook 'Mastering Emacs' by Mickey Petersen. Trust me, that book is well worth the price tag. Strongly second this opinion! Mickey Petersen si
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by kickaha 4y ago
If you could see my face you would not read surprise on it.
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by kickaha 4y ago
I’m so old I forget that old memories can be found again with Wikipedia and Google. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_D9060 https://www.commodore-info.com/brochure/item/commodore_d9060
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by kickaha 4y ago
Got a VIC-20 for my 13th birthday in 1983. The local TV shop sold Commodore hardware and hosted a BBS that my little nerd cronies and I connected to at 300 bps. All of us knew the owner who ran the store and mentored us and hired some of us
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by kickaha 4y ago
There are a million things to say here, and many have said them better than I can. But there's an important generational aspect to the discussion. I learned Emacs in 1988 or so. Only a couple years before, I had traded my Commodore 64-
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by kickaha 4y ago
Boy. There’s a lot to say about this story. But the most remarkable thing is the incredibly high quality of the journalism. Unbelievably thorough investigative reporting, outstanding exposition of highly technical items. From a college news
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by kickaha 4y ago
What a pitiable man.
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by kickaha 4y ago
“It’s just stuff.” My first college roommate made this completely off handed comment not too long after we moved in together. We were still strangers. I must have been anxious over some of my dumb crap, god knows what prompted it. But in th
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by kickaha 4y ago
Yeah! I was all Wow! Everything is here! So comprehensive! I’ll use this in class! And then it turns out, at the bottom, to be homeopathy apologia. I hasten to add, in apparent good faith. https://water.lsbu.ac.uk/water&#x2F
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by kickaha 4y ago
Came here to say, “Still Emacs.” Yes, I am an enthusiast (read “ideologue” if you like). But hear me out. I grew up on it in the 80s and 90s—I came to rely on it even before Org came along. I am able to make it do anything I want, to make l
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by kickaha 4y ago
The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking by Burger and Starbird. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691156668/th... Defies categorization, difficult to summarize. A tutorial for effective and fulfi
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by kickaha 4y ago
I understood that reference! EDIT: the reference https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_Go...
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Bring Your Own Password Manager: Portable BitWarden on a Pi Zero(novamostra.com)
154 points by kickaha 4y ago|89 comments
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by kickaha 4y ago
Hugely helpful. Thank you.
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by kickaha 4y ago
Wow, thanks. This is a good and useful perspective. I shall endeavor to make my VPS a source of nutrition rather than a source of affection. :-)
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by kickaha 4y ago
Yes! THANK YOU! I am so grateful for all the replies, but this may ultimately be among the most useful. If I could go back and reframe my question, it would be “Which FM should I R?” :-)
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by kickaha 4y ago
Extremely helpful. Thanks for the tips!
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by kickaha 4y ago
Thank you for compiling this list.
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by kickaha 4y ago
Really good advice. I still have flashes of “Ohhhh righhhhhht it’s a VIRTUAL machine---I can...” make a snapshot, clone it and test new stuff, etc. etc. etc. I’ll be happy when it fully sinks in.
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by kickaha 4y ago
Wow. “The system fundamentally fails us AGAIN RAWR” is a hot take that I almost always go to eagerly, but I am vibing SO HARD on hitting the front page of HN (!!!?) and getting the community help glow, that for the moment I’m gonna let it g
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by kickaha 4y ago
SUPER helpful. Very grateful!
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by kickaha 4y ago
This is definitely a direction I will explore. > in cities and other areas that actually have competitive markets for ISP Ho, ho. Out my window I just LITERALLY saw a bald eagle swoop down on a tumbleweed.
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by kickaha 4y ago
Helpful. Thank you.
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by kickaha 4y ago
Hm. In my experience, the Synology apps (client and server both) are ghastly. And I'm snobby about non-free software. Better not to cut off my nose to spite my face, though, right? I suppose a non-Apple but closed/proprietary solu
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by kickaha 4y ago
That's two votes for that book, so I'll take a look. Thank you!
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by kickaha 4y ago
> That "last mile" of connectivity is fraught with challenges of dealing with your internet provider and all sorts of other things. It can be a headache, and it's very particular to your situation, and your provider. >
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by kickaha 4y ago
Fair enough. But I just want a place to put dotfiles that I can share between machines. If I had more complex needs than that, I would probably not have had to ask this question!

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