syene

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by syene 6mo ago
Young people.
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by syene 7mo ago
Keyboards of early MIT systems[1] and Lisp Machines[2] had brackets (parentheses) and square brackets on the same key where square brackets and curly brackets are on modern keyboards. 1: http://xahlee.info/kbd/sail_keyb
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by syene 7mo ago
I don’t think EWW has ever made my Emacs crash. I wanna say I’ve been using it regularly since Emacs 27.
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by syene 7mo ago
It must have sent it differently if the browser reports it can’t do JavaScript.
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by syene 7mo ago
It rendered perfectly, without JavaScript, in Emacs EWW.
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by syene 8mo ago
The two previous comments in this thread are referencing Emacs Org mode's markup syntax.
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by syene 1y ago
It would be simpler to switch to GUI Emacs, where EWW can natively show pictures.
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by syene 1y ago
> the shell is easier to script than writing Lisp My points were, first, Dired is easier than the shell for 99% of file management, as it’s a graphical file manager with many advanced functions. It’s literally a graphical ‘ls -l’ that th
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by syene 1y ago
If you prefer the command-line and Unix shell, that’s one thing, but it’s no more “flexible or scriptable” than Emacs and Lisp. Dired can filter files with regexp; you can even fall back on GNU ‘find’ (‘find-dired’). And you can execute she
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by syene 2y ago
It’s unnatural to put the flags after the command. But sometimes I remember I’ve to use a flag after I’ve entered the input; other times, I notice a flag’s omission after executing it, and Control + P puts my cursor at the end, after the in
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by syene 2y ago
Aren’t Hangul consonants joined with vowels to create syllabic blocks? Is that still an alphabet? It seems different to the distinct characters for letters and vowels that the Latin alphabet, for example, has.
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by syene 2y ago
United States dollars are the de facto global currency. I can see a British person converting pounds to US dollars writing for a global audience.
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by syene 2y ago
I don’t get it, they named every major smartphone maker (“Samsung, Xiaomi, Motorola, Vivo, Lenovo and Realme”) excluding Apple—if everyone gets to do exclusive launches, isn’t that the opposite of anti-trust?
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by syene 2y ago
You’re old
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by syene 2y ago
> … getting users hooked on to the extra features and switching to some propreitary backend … If they do, they’ll have to bridge it to Matrix. The entire point of a Matrix messenger is being able to message Matrix; no matter how slick th
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by syene 2y ago
The problem with bootloaders is they really can’t spare a lot of storage. Storing different QR codes for all the common errors might be asking too much.
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by syene 2y ago
If they only have dozens of people after centuries of non-Western culture, that to me sounds like tradition hasn’t been going well for them anyway /s
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by syene 2y ago
Good thing nearly none of us here have signed that NDA.
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by syene 2y ago
I just liked the definition of DWIM in that article. I don’t think DWIM operates in Emacs Lisp the way it did in Interlisp, and zygospore’s not exactly a good example, but I’ve come across ‘-dwim’ versions of commands that combine the fun
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by syene 2y ago
> … c-u c-x 1 would be consistent. It seems like a Vim or a Kakoune thing to get stuck up attaching strict logic to the “command language”. Lisps have a concept of do-what-I-mean (DWIM)—the computer anticipates what the user intends to
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by syene 2y ago
That’s good enough for me, I’ll check Mirrorshades out, thanks so much!
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by syene 2y ago
Thanks! I’ll check it out along with what the original commenter guessed the book was. At worst, Little Brother will have similar themes.
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by syene 2y ago
Do you remember the name of that story?
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by syene 2y ago
Formally, that should be “St John St.”
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by syene 2y ago
So is Aboriginal: https://github.com/landley/aboriginal/commit/cfb7977cc32a80b...
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by syene 2y ago
iPhone and iPads are marketed as general computing devices and are used by people as general computing devices. Being able to run whatever software you want is a cornerstone of computers that some computer companies have tried to prohibit f
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by syene 2y ago
Go was born to replace C/POSIX → by ignoring everything that happened in the computer science community since [its] heyday
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by syene 2y ago
I think that expression was that poster’s way of asking what are Acme’s unique but _useful_ features.
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by syene 3y ago
It seems to me that they’re criticising the AI-generated covers on the principle that all AI-art is terrible for human artists and human-art; and it shouldn’t have a place in the world. A simple aesthetic dislike wouldn’t warrant an article
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Technologies for Non-Programmers (2019)(web.archive.org)
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