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Just got a new Mac computer with Catalina pre-installed, and was surprised to see

zsh: command not found: emacs

Of course, I can (and did) install it myself, but it used to be included by default.
Unironically WhatsApp it has its own end to end encryption
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One way it's not a win is because all things Google involve them collecting the data in a way that can be monetized. That collection is generally problematic to a lot of people.
Do we need this many? No. We don't need any. There are many reasons new languages get created, but very rarely does an old language ever die. Erlang was created out of a need for reliable, scalable, multi-threaded programs that could withstand failure. D (and arguably Rust to an extent) was created due to perceived failures in C++. Scripting languages weren't even practical for real programs for decades, so of course people created less verbose languages when they got the hardware.

In addition, new languages are being created for research (ML, LISP 1.0, Racket) and for fun. Not many of either of those categories catch on, but there's enough volume of them that they still proliferate.
I recently had gmail putting my outgoing email in my own spam folder rather than sent items. When I've checked I've found that the recipient has received it but it's really odd behaviour.
Well you gotta shuffle those GBs.
You can achieve good isolation with a combination of RBAC, network policies, OPA rules and runtimes like gvisor. We also monitor suspicious activity with Falco.
For deeper security, we offer Okteto Teams, which runs on a dedicated cluster, and Okteto Enterprise, which runs on your own cluster.
Every shopping mall, even ones in the middle of nowhere in Bumfucktown has a Macy's and a Victoria's secret. None of those two companies look like they are on a sustainable trajectory.
Setting aside fairness, how would the government work out whether I am gone or not? Lots of people go away for several months. Policing the system becomes impossible, which is why I described vancouver's system as voluntary.
I started using the term deniers because all of them are studiously ignoring something that doesn't pencil out. It doesn't matter if they are loony deniers, sciency deniers, I have a big brain tech bro deniers. The result is all the same. Garbage.

Dangerous garbage.
It is if you know that result is valid, for example if you have validated it some other way and this is a regression test, or you calculated it by hand.
Your suggestion sounds a little bit like Emacs' god-mode:

https://github.com/emacsorphanage/god-mode
No it isn't. Many people become debtors because they have no choice.

If the choice is between clocking up an insane credit card bill at astronomical rates or not having your family thrown out onto the street for another month or two because maybe your job search will finally pay off, what would most people pick?

Some people get into debt because they can't manage money. A lot of people get into debt either because they're not paid enough, or they're not paid regularly enough. or the economy fell apart around them for reasons that are nothing to do with them.

And anyone who freelances will tell you stories of clients who refuse to pay for 3-6-9-12 months past due. (Yes, you can always find better clients - if you have enough of a lead time.)

Debtors are debtors because they're at the bottom of the power pile. Many aren't "guilty" of anything except getting screwed over by a business culture which is driven entirely by inhumane feral greed.
The Maplin explanation: http://www.coppolacomment.com/2018/03/the-sad-story-of-mapli...

> Further down the corporate structure, Maplin Electronics Group (Holdings) Ltd. mainly seems to exist to drain Maplin Electronics Ltd. of profits. On the books of Maplin Electronics Group (Holdings) Ltd. is an intercompany loan to Maplin Electronics Ltd. at an interest rate of 10%. The interest charge on this loan was sufficient to ensure that Maplin Electronics Ltd. made a statutory loss in both 2016 and 2017. Meanwhile, the direct owner of Maplin Electronics Ltd, Maplin Electronics (Holdings) Ltd., appears to exist only as a vehicle to hold a £31m revolving credit facility from Lloyds Bank. All of these intermediate companies are effectively guaranteed by MEL TopCo. All of them are now therefore insolvent.

> ... When Rutland Partners acquired Maplin in 2014 it funded the purchase with debt. That debt was loaded in its entirety on to the books of MEL Topco, in the form of £15m of bank loans at Libor + 7.5% and £72m of shareholders' loan notes at 15%.
How they made scalable webrtc end-to-end encrypted? I guess it is not scalable (~5 members max).
While that's true for Windows (and I remember the reports so not arguing the point); it simply _CAN'T_ be true for every OS.

Consider using OpenBSD instead. The barrier to entry is higher, but worth it. Hell I'd be surprised if they could get that to run on linux without exploiting a 0day. Windows tries to be too helpful, and that's where the problems arises.

Your point is valid though; why trust them? If you follow that train of thought all the way down you'll be forced to live naked on a deserted island.
Developer experience is more than just technical too. I know some package authors (and myself personally) find themselves very disillusioned with the GNU approach to contribution, especially regarding licensing and copyright assignment.
Do you acetylsalicylic acid or a specific manufacturer's product?

Regardless, a lot of people would say no to either, acetomenephen and ibuprofen have largely replaced Asprin for most uses.
See my other comment below for Maplin explanation. It does appear that Lloyds bank lost money there.
They're not a good investment due to high cost of the panels compared to the price of electricity. Which to be fair is heavily subsided be the state. I'm looking forward to install ones myself, but I'm in the 90th percentile of people in my country that can afford to write big check upfront for power for home usage. Again most of the usage now is limited to agriculture since it makes sense there financially.

By large I mean around 2m² each. Not sure the best size to capture the most out of the sun. But we're at the edge of the Sahara desert, so the climate is a little bit helping there.
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How it compares with go, node and java?
Why not Scalextrics on a real life size scale?
> They figured out how much the average guest paid for drinks

It sounds like the margin was part of the ticket price increase. So it was a success in that more people came to the park because they thought they were getting a better deal and were happier about it because "free drinks".
Promising product but I will not use it anymore
Would something like Okteto Enterprise fit your needs?
https://okteto.com/docs/enterprise
So it’s based on Ubuntu 19.1.

Mmmmmm.
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> I might be wrong, but I believe that the reason that parent commenter said that "C is not Ctrl" is due to the fact that you can map these keys to any where you want. Most emacs and lispers prefer to have C key bound to caps lock.

Yeah, but it's still a control key. I mean, xev literally registers "Control_L" when I press the key that is physically labeled "Caps Lock".
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The lead bondholder is Marble Ridge Capital - a fund that specializes in distressed asset investing.
This is really cool! I’ll definitely take a look at this and maybe fork it when we get onto looking at native apps.

We have built a web app (https://stacker.app) for people who want to use an Airtable backend.
Yeah for me the hangout with the pizza and beer is the real reward!
Ha did you have the Ford Explorer?
Or would it be a 25% error, i think it would make most sense to calculate the error-difference in relation to the actual value instead of in relation to the erroneous value.
Some users will rebind it, I don't think we can say "most" unless we have some data to support that.
I see everyone getting excited about single-payer but it addresses the core issue of access via pricing as a mere sideffect that a single-payer happens to have serious leverage over pricing being, well, single-payer.

The core issue though is price of medical services.

When an ER visit to sew together 5 inches of a cut skin at 10AM can generate a claim for $40000, something is really broken.

The single-payer can outright refuse to pay $40000 for such a thing while you and I would have that debt hound us for the rest of our lives.

One solution that addresses the root issue is to clamp down on what is reasonable to charge to sew together 5 inches of a cut skin at 10AM.

That is called an all-payer rate set system.

It does not matter who pays - what matters is what price something is available at.

Doctor's regular, scheduled visit? $150.

You pay in cash? ? $150.

You pay in chickens with white feathers ? $150.

Your employer provides you with coverage and they cover the first $500 worth of expenses? $150.

Your'e an uber driver and that doctor would appreciate a ride back and forth for the next month? $150.

When the same doctor's visit can range in price from $10 - $1000 depending on what crap your employer signed you up for, we have a terrible access issue.

The U.S. has one of the best health care in the world, but also one of the higest financial distress including outright bankruptcy for medical bills.

Something's going to give soon as the system starts to come under strain due to SARS-COV2 and it's not likely to be pretty.
It's not perfect but I'm willing to accept all its shortcomings because of everything I get in return.

Sometimes I hit a little bump on the road which would be faster/easier to solve in React/Vue/etc but even including those slowdowns I save so much net dev time it's crazy.
"There's an issue of probabilities" undersells it. Lifetime average ROI on a college degree over the population has historically outperformed those entering the workforce - either employed or as an entrepreneur - over the past 50 years. And while the ROI difference has shrunk (mostly due to exorbitant tuition increases), it is still more profitable over a person's lifetime - on average - to go to college instead of starting a business.

Georgetown actually did a fantastic site that shows ROI for a variety of institutions:

https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/collegeroi/
This is self-promotion. He urges readers to "Learn by watching YouTube tutorials and taking online courses" instead of going to college and talks about his YouTube videos and then links to his online courses.
> You launch the tutorial/tour/whatever it's called and immediately it yells at you to use C-v to jump to the next page. And then M-v to go backwards! If you're a normal user, your response is probably something along the lines of, "Like, why?"

The hardcore emacs users think these keys are better. And don't want to change them, because then they had to rewrite the whole manual which uses these keys.

The user don't have to use these keys, though, so there is no point in the tutorial starting with them.
At work, I moved from Emacs to VS Code about a year ago. I’d used Emacs for years but I was spending a large amount of time fixing package upgrade problems. I guess I’d got into some kind of dependency hell. Maybe I wasn’t experienced enough with Emacs to use it professionally. But that’s the kicker, I haven’t had that problem switching to VS Code.

Having all of Elisp and all of Emacs available, including packages, is powerful. But it comes with a complexity cost if your config/dependency graph grows to large. Like any in-house software project really - of which a small business cannot afford to invest in.

There is one area, though, I’d use it again for: Lisp. Clojure with CIDER, CL with SLIME. As far as IDEs go, the level of language support for Lisp is phenomenal and without equal (but not surprising given Elisp).
And are wealthier than all other large developed nations too
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I imagine that Apple is trying to remove GPL-licensed software from macOS. Similar to the replacement of Bash (GPL) in favour of Zsh (MIT).
Perfect timing:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23102430
Congratulations!
To an extent, yes, but I would say that the Vim philosophy involves utilizing external tools much more than in Emacs. Vim packages like the one for Go (https://github.com/fatih/vim-go) feel better-integrated into Vim than the equivalents do into Emacs. This is mostly subjective, so I can see where you're coming from.
Honestly the hardest part about emacs for me has always been documentation. Like how do I build a plugin. What function do I call to set a custom key binding? This stuff has always been so hard to find despite it being so important to the underlying experience. Now that I've used it for a while I know these things, but they didn't come easily.
It's certainly possible - but the wording in article is exactly the same as Perfume or Clothes designers say about celebrity branded products: Oh, Jennifer [Aniston|Lopez|Garner] had HUGE impact and was VERY clear on her vision from day one. She's been very specific and hands-on to ensure that we bring fresh new scents & ideas never seen before, and really push the boundaries of what the market has experienced. etc etc etc.

It's part & parcel - in order for your name/brand to have any value to the manufacturer/producer, it has to at least appear, plausibly, that you actively contributed. Some celebrities buy into their own spiel too... (and some, to be fair, actually find they have talent and/or invest actual effort into it, that may not even have to be secretly undone by the actual experts :P )
The income tax just barely services the national debt, IIRC. None of it goes to pay for any services. The whole thing is very ugly. There's a great infograph "Death and Taxes" that shows where the budget goes (not what pays for it, or anything about black budgets), good start. The whole "my taxes pay for" meme is just off. Your taxes just service some numbered debt. It's depressing to think about.
Wow, fascinating. You're being screwed by your service providers. Great job tracking that down.
How on earth was RMS unfamiliar with the existence of Org Mode, and how on earth was RMS unfamiliar with the concept of outliners, and why on earth, when he finally figured out what Org Mode did, was his immediate response to be super dismissive because it wasn't something that he's interested in using personally?

He sounds like some random person spewing random subjective opinions about things, rather than the original author of GNU Emacs making an honest effort to provide leadership and guidance that means something (anything) to anyone other than himself. He sounds helpless and oblivious to everything and everyone except his own personal proclivities, which is the opposite of leadership and the opposite of an experienced person providing valuable guidance to the community. Like he's not even making a token effort to do those things, and to say he's metaphorically lifting a finger here to provide leadership and guidance would be very generous.

This is akin to Linus rejecting a driver because he doesn't own the hardware, or because he doesn't like the colors of logo of the company that makes it. It really doesn't get more incurious and intellectually/emotionally immature than that.

This is in 2020, after a couple decades of Emacs being one of the only actual software projects he involves himself in anymore. To be clear, I've had a really low opinion of RMS for going on 20 years now (after a few years in college where I thought he was cool because I didn't know any better and people seemed to revere him because they thought everyone else revered him). But reading these mailing list exchanges are still kind of shocking to me. It's really hard to believe that anyone on the GNU mailing lists pay any attention to him at all, or values his opinion on anything. For those that do, surely that's nothing more than a cult of personality, it just seems as plain as day to me. This is exactly the sort of thing that drives people away from GNU and the FSF, and it sucks because they could be so much more impactful and meaningful and helpful and positive and constructive otherwise.

Sometimes I think if more people had simply stopped making excuses for RMS like 20 years ago, we might currently be living in some sort of GNU utopia dreamworld where everyone everywhere uses Emacs for everything, and GCC is the preeminent compiler suite, etc. etc. etc. It's quite a high cost for people to pay, when the only thing they get in return for keeping this guy around is helping a damaged narcissist continue to feel good about himself and continue alienating everyone else, just like he's been doing for decades. He absolutely got GNU and the FSF off the ground and helped create a large community that has produced tons of great software, but in the past 25 years it seems like all of his efforts have been counterproductive to his own goals.
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IIRC the breakthrough starshot project is proposing accelerating a small probe (cubesat sized) to relativistic speed in a very short timespan.
But also have interesting factors of health concerns (more likely to need nursing care, or need a home without stairs) and on the other side, many are more likely to have large savings. There are other factors like some wanting to live near children/grandchildren who are more likely to live in a high-cost area due to jobs. I'm not sure if all the balances out, but those on social security have plenty of different concerns than working-age folks.
> I’d like to be able to put things like raspberry pi weather sensors, etc outside of the range of WiFi.

Weather sensors and such are pretty low-bandwidth. Why not just get a 3G/4G hat and a SIM with <1GB monthly bandwidth?
Most of Toronto's rental stock is privately owned condos, rented out. There is next to no Condo Corporations in Ontario that aren't senior specific that ban renting the unit to long term tenants (many ban short term AirBnb in their bylaws).
>Why can't we just greatly improve the signal strength at source by an order of magnitude? Like I know the new satellites can use beam forming to increase power for some large area for military use but it looks like even so total power is about ~500W right now. What's stopping us from deploying 10KW sats?

Even assuming that the very smart and capable people who developed GPS haven't thought about that already, there is zero-point-zero percent chance that the government will (or should) turn 24 satellites that cost 500 million dollars each into very expensive flying paperweights, for the benefit of some tiny 5G startup.
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Org mode is really good for note taking, so emacs has uses even if one does not use it for programming.
> easily find someone’s personal site(s) or profiles on other platforms with cryptographic certainty

I always thought it was meant the other way around: if you know someone from HN, you just have to look them up on Keybase and you can talk to them.
I think you've badly missed the point.

If you take issue with an analogy, try one that fits your experiences better.

You offer to help, and then your friend says: "awesome, afterwards I'll buy you pizza and beer" vs "awesome, afterwards I'll pay you $21.58".

The order of offering vs asking for help wasn't at issue in the analogy.
> Buying them supper after would be a given, no bribe required.

I think this is actually kind of the point. By offering to provide pizza, you're casually confirming that you're still operating in the paradigm where friends help each other out without looking too closely at the balance sheet, as opposed to offering nothing (awkward) or paying them (turning it into a transaction).
Nice! I'll check Stacker out!
I live and am from Denmark, and I can tell you that at least here, people are indeed taught and forced to do all those things. It's just hidden away behind all the nice stuff. A big part of it is social pressure, from the state, from social groups, and even from yourself, having been taught that one looks down on people not working as a wageslave for this many hours a month, and so on.

Obviously, we have it better here than many other places, but this is something that is going on everywhere that capitalism is, because it's a core part of capitalism.
The P series is such a workhorse. If I had purchasing power over my hardware at work, I'd crank one of those up and replace my workstation+laptop with it.
>The implication is that we should use conventions (including potentially whole words) that are familiar to the English-literate world and not Greek glyphs.

The "english-literate" world (emphasis on literate) is, or historically has been, very familiar with Greek glyphs.

And that's just for humanities.

The mathematic and physics -literate world, doubly so. Everybody uses pi, theta, sigma (e.g. the summation formula) etc symbols...
Please never get rid of this

As a user of these key binding in both Emacs and macOS, it’d be worse than cutting off an arm if this went away
> Relativistic gravity is an incredibly difficult and complex concept to understand

You're right, but the underlying rules are simple.

> leading to empty buildings, while prices still rise

That's still supply & demand. In this case, it is likely that the demand is rising fast enough that delaying renting the building will result in higher rents in the future for that building.

It's a chaotic system, and I mean that in the mathematical sense, where simple rules lead to complex (and counter-intuitive) behaviors.
I recently migrated away from Hugo to Gatsby because I wanted more control over the Markdown content I write. I had technical debt piling up [1] from the hacks I had in Hugo to get writing completed and wanted minimal vendor lock-in.

My approach was to start from bare-bones Gatsby and make incremental additions. Key pieces that help me have virtually limitless control:

- React: I subscribe to the philosophy of component-based systems.

- Remark: Plugin-based approach to extending Markdown capabilities.

- MDX: bring component-based systems to Markdown. opens up virtually anything possible in React to be possible in Markdown.

- Gatsby: Builds on top of React and a plugin-based system for extensions.

- Netlify: Super easy deploys.

Key highlight: I needed BibTeX citations in Markdown. I implemented a plugin from scratch myself (effectively amounts to manipulating the Abstract Syntax Tree given by MDX) which was fairly straightforward (https://github.com/activatedgeek/website/blob/master/src/plu...).

Website: https://www.sanyamkapoor.com
Source: https://github.com/activatedgeek/website

[1]: I had a non-elegant hack to use Distill as my theme in Hugo https://github.com/activatedgeek/distillpub and had to go through some hoops to get everything coherently working (but brittle).
Yes, I do get all that, and that it is meant to be in jest and actually making fun of Fawlty. I also can't fully appreciate the context... for instance in the UK I've heard it was common in the 50s and 60s for the N word and it's variants to be used but weren't meant to be derogatory (still having a hard time with that one).

However, in Fawlty Towers there was a lot of use of several racial epithets, and Miguel's character seemed overtly racist in portraying a clumsy/clueless Hispanic much in the same way as Blacks being portrayed as overly cheerful willing servants in other shows from the past.
The problem is that they have killed or mismanaged (Talk/Hangouts/Duo/Allo/Meet, Nest) enough products without any executive suffering consequences that it’s not unreasonable to ask how committed they are to anything which doesn’t sell ads. It’d be different if there was new management but absent a correction the same pattern seems likely to repeat for anything which isn’t a cure product.

For anything involving infrastructure, you need a much longer attention span than has been on display.