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by rwl 23d ago
You don't have to just "stare" at the source; you can interact with it! Emacs is incredibly well documented and you can learn a ton with just C-h f (i.e. M-x describe-function) and C-h v (i.e. M-x describe-variable). In an E
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by rwl 29d ago
Ah yes, I guess you‘re right, that‘s why all the serious developers continue to use CVS.
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by rwl 1mo ago
Yep, it’s not for everyone, and their docs are pretty clear about that. OTOH those same docs contain a variety of arguments that git isn’t really designed for everyone either and that fossil might be a better fit for projects that have ju
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by rwl 1mo ago
I started using fossil recently and have been quite pleased with this aspect of it. I miss a few things from the git world (mostly magit and its magical ability to stage individual hunks of a diff) and there are a few rough edges, but I tot
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by rwl 3mo ago
Yes, I'm aware. The problem with anchors is that the author has to take care to make them both unique and human-readable across the whole document. The problem with URL text fragments is that they generally become too long to be a ci
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by rwl 3mo ago
Citations. Until we can cite specific passages in HTML as quickly, easily and readably as we can cite pages in paged media, HTML will remain a second class citizen for serious scholarship.
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How to Build a Phyle(lasindias.net)
3 points by rwl 3mo ago|0 comments
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by rwl 3mo ago
I don’t need it with me all the time; I‘d prefer to just log in to a website on a real computer! But you can’t do this in the EU in practice without a banking app on a phone, or some other piece of hardware that you have to pay extra for an
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by rwl 4mo ago
Right, I suppose this is theoretically possible here too (I'm in Austria), though I haven't looked into it that carefully, because all the options here seem to cost more than my current bank account and as far as I can tell still
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by rwl 4mo ago
Sure, the world is a better place with fewer serfs in it, but what exactly is of "higher value" than being a research mathematician? It's already a profession that consists essentially of exercising our highest and most dist
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by rwl 4mo ago
I love the idea and wish I could get something like this in Europe. The main reason I "need" a smartphone over here is that EU banking regulations make it nearly impossible to do online banking without one. Anyone know of simila
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The Issues with Issue Trackers(bzg.fr)
2 points by rwl 5mo ago|0 comments
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by rwl 8mo ago
Presumably the 40mb of data is not from Wikipedia, but the Javascript tracking code bundle needed to turn it into a doomscrollable social media feed. ;) By those standards, I think it’s pretty lightweight! For comparison, the Instagram iOS
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by rwl 10mo ago
I have been working on implementing iCalendar/RFC5545 in Emacs Lisp. I recently submitted a large patch and hope it will be merged in the next couple of months: https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs&
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Improving Emacs' iCalendar Support(recursewithless.net)
29 points by rwl 11mo ago|0 comments
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AI and the Golem(going-medieval.com)
3 points by rwl 11mo ago|0 comments
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by rwl 1y ago
Indeed! A once per day human-curated news aggregation feed used to be called a "newspaper". You can still get them in some places, I believe.
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by rwl 1y ago
Yes, that's what's going on: job titles are typically gendered in German, which leads to job ads being written in an awkward way to express gender neutrality. For example, "engineer" has both a masculine form "Ingen
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by rwl 2y ago
The distinction between "first order" and "second order" is in the first instance a distinction at the level of formal languages . A second order language has more complicated syntax and semantics: it allows variables i
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by rwl 3y ago
> Usability issues of dispersed content include:... > Increased cognitive load > Difficulty building a conceptual model for the page This completely agrees with my own experience. But if these things are true when viewing a &qu
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Symbolics(ifis.uni-luebeck.de)
2 points by rwl 3y ago|0 comments
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by rwl 4y ago
I've had tinnitus for about two years. Like you, I just kind of noticed it upon waking up one day. I don't know what caused it but it seems to be related to stress, posture, and sleep position. I'm still figuring it out, but
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by rwl 4y ago
I also read the Dawn of Everything and wanted to recommend it here. The first chapter drew me in immediately: reading the native American critiques of the culture of European settlers was eye-opening. By the end of the book I felt they had
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by rwl 4y ago
There was also a cost in human life. I saw a photo exhibition [1] about the construction of the Bay Bridge once, containing many beautiful shots from the point of view of the workers. The photos were taken by Peter Stackpole, a 20 year old
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by rwl 4y ago
But my whole point was that they wouldn't be hosting content. The users would be hosting it themselves, on their local computers, serving it via their browser. Mozilla would just have to provide a way to give users a stable base URL
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by rwl 4y ago
Totally! Unfortunately, last I heard, Beaker was dead: https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/discussions/1944 https://atek.cloud/blog/hello-world This is a great idea, but the big prob
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by rwl 4y ago
I agree with most of this vision, think these values are important, and would love to see Mozilla realize them. Given the values outlined here, I was sad to see that Mozilla doesn't seem to be looking much beyond the centralized platfo
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by rwl 5y ago
Public transportation does enable drinking. That is one reason why young people move to, and like to live in, cities with public transportation. But there are still huge, important differences between public transport and "ride shari
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GNU 8sync(gnu.org)
12 points by rwl 5y ago|0 comments
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by rwl 5y ago
Emacs' follow-mode does what you're looking for, I think: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fo...

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