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It has taken much more than 30+ years to create, mostly by people on their free time. Isn't it amazing? I think it says a lot about perseverance and good engineering. How many editors have you already seen to rise and fall?

Emacs tries very hard to be helpful. It's software by the people, for the people. It's the very core ideal of free software. But yes, it doesn't resonate with most people because it takes time to learn.
There are workarounds to get git to search harder or to commit things in a way that's helpful for large-scale file-shuffles, but to be honest I've rarely found this to be enough of a reason to not move things around. The end result is a much more productive and purposeful place for code to live and grow. This said, moving files and moving code within those files at the same time is a recipe for confusing yourself and git. Move files first, then content.
If it was a tool to be mastered, there should be a way to learn it. Unfortunately, due to the many, many ways to customize it, I struggle to see a clear path to emacs mastery.
I think you would have more than one charging strip. I mean charging your batteries to full in four feet at highway speeds would be cool, but just supplying four feet worth of energy every four feet would be fine.
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In effect, gritted my teeth and got used to it. I mean, the basic movement commands still work (or you can configure it so) so that helps.

But the benefits out weigh the sluggishness I feel at the keyboard. It was easier to get the rest of the team on VS Code and then I could start looking at extensions that bring things as close to what’s in Emacs as possible. That’s improved team productivity as whole (and my own when they do the same).

But there are somethings I long for. Magit was hands down the best thing for projects versioned in Git. I’ve not seen anything like it in VS Code. The other thing is macros and Elisp but as above that’s a double edged sword. I’ve actually thought about bringing some of those ideas over to VS Code at least for my own team.
did i miss something? how do you know its top-dollar? no dollar amount was disclosed.
And when I was TA grading exams, the professor would buy us all pizza as well. It was technically unnecessary as grading was part of why were being paid as TAs, but it was a nice touch and put us all in a better mood and with a favorable view of the professor.
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I think a better way to put this is - don't worry about things you can't change. It's my prime directive in life.

A big one thing you can't change is "the past". People fret about what could have been different or opportunities they missed, or their childhood being different. But you can't do anything about it. You can learn from it and use that going forward, but you can't wish it was different.
Based on personal experience from using both Thinkpad T series and MS Surface Book, keyboard on Surface Book feels even better than the one on Thinkpad.
Yep, that's a good description. I have a P51 and T480, and the P51 is basically the same laptop, just supersized.
Sorry, can't use that - it uses Node v10.
For those not in all the details - the spectrum was for earth to space communication.

They bought it and said they would use it to do earth based broadcast.

First - if this spectrum was usable for earth broadcast LOTS more people would have bid on it and used it.

Second - almost all their proposals were totally and obviously disastrous for other existing users of the spectrum.

With enough venture funding and sticking around for 10 years until you find a compliant FCC you can be rewarded for your bad behavior (and yes, they did finally change some of their proposals - but why this company gets to repurpose sat freqs at no extra cost for terrestrial use is ridiculous). .
- Linode
- Ghost CMS
- Cloudflare
I always find it interesting that the thing people really want from vim is the keybindings. Almost no one uses vim for the software.

Also, The vim emulation has gotten much better due to evil-collection[1]. You might want to give Spacemacs or doom-emacs[2] another try.

[1]https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil-collection
[2]https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs
Having perused their Github, I noted the database for x-rays and scans.

<TinFoilHat>This is being run in 'partnership' with a relative non-entity, who in turn have links to a private American medical company.

Not sure I'm happy with private NHS medical records being slurped up in this way - unless consent is expressly given - which, based on their website that 'anonymizes' uploaded imagery, I guess we'll never know for sure.</TinFoilHat>

Good to see the code for both the iOS and Android clients being posted, as this should prove if these clients can ultimately be trusted.
Per https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-exactly-how-much-i..., retirees have a lifestyle of roughly $60k or so per year. At a more modest $50k, and assuming a portfolio of working assets from which to draw this $50k, that would be something like a portfolio of about $830k at 6%. Assuming a 6% yearly net gain on investments, then if you can somehow sock away about $33k per year, you might achieve FIRE status in 15 years.

So there you have it: The event horizon is based on how realistically you can soldier on and invest 66% of your target retirement income each year for 15 years. Not sure how realistic that is for most people, let alone this hypothetical 40-something in the doldrums.

I'm using 6% for sake of argument for no good reason, but it's the usual rate used in converting a pension into a lump-sum. It is possible to do much better - stock market has been about 8% to 11% on average. So maybe 6% works as a fudge-factor in this sort of planning versus life's many ups and downs.

Anyway, if one had 30 years towards this "$50k FIRE", then the yearly "at 6%" investing is $10k; at 20 years, $21k; 10 years, $56k.
Dream on.

"This is the age of rentier capitalism; rich countries are becoming rentier economies. A rising share of global income is going to rent, rather than to wages or profits from productive activities. This perpetuates inequalities: It disproportionately favors the wealthy, and accentuates inequality over generations.

Through the spread of trademarks, trade secrets, copyright and, above all, patents, intellectual property has become a key source of rental income. The number of patents registered annually has exploded. Patents are supposed to enable inventors to obtain a return on risky investment, but what qualifies as an invention has been diluted to the point that trivial tweaks designed to block competition can be patented."

[1] http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/9/the-age-of-rent...
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Are there any particularly good times to potentially catch a sale or do they come up at random?
I'm switching back to a macbook now, but I used to run a T480s with the WQHD screen and it worked really well. Good battery life, nice HIDPI screen, super durable. I brought it with me when I traveled and everything, never had any issues besides scratching the outside surface.
Likewise (scaling factor 1.4 here). I find that quite usable.
Can you provide a source? I could find any references looking at the source. Also, that's not an Ubuntu version
It is supply—restrictions on development, investors and AirBNB snapping up units, which increase vacancy rates.

Yes, low interest rates are also a big factor. Not sure if they have a mortgage tax deduction over there.

More folks want to live in the city these days as well, suburbs have lost some of their appeal. All these factors => very expensive housing.
Startup performance problems can be sidestepped with emacs daemon mode, at least in some cases.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Em...

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsAsDaemon
> What makes you say that? I don't think this is true. Not among the package maintainers anyways

I was talking about the "core developers" who work on the emacs core, not packages. AFAIK most of them has a long history with emacs, using it for decades, so they can't be that young.

But of course I know mostly about the maintaners and stuff. It's possible there are lots of younger contributors.
Right? And yet I just typed 'emacs tutorial' into DDG, and the first three results all hit you right away with descriptions of keys that don't physically exist on a modern keyboard.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/

http://www.jesshamrick.com/2012/09/10/absolute-beginners-gui...

https://www2.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/tcl-course/emacs-tutoria...

I've never tried emacs in large part because I've been convinced over the years that the various combinations of keys I would need to memorize are too complicated. I just did that search thinking that maybe I'd been mis-remembering, but no, that's still the impression that I have.
Have you tried the Remote Development VS Code extensions from Microsoft? I find them quite neat.
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Love seeing when science fiction starts to turn into reality!
upspin? https://upspin.io/
How much can Emacs change while still being Emacs? Is it worthwhile to start building a new editor on the core Emacs "idea"? Because I think minor changes will not move the needle. Someone compared it with the birth of Firefox, scrapping Netscape Mozilla Communicator or whatever it was called. I think that is what it would take but even that would be uncertain.
it is by design. Imgur was mobile friendly before.
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I'm curious, as you seem to be well read on this topic, what the effect of desert winds/sand are on panel longevitity and efficiency are?
> The key, of course, is going back and categorizing those things later once you do have an idea of where they should go.

Yes, but in my experience this is rarely done. It's put off until it gets so convoluted that it introduces bugs. The same is true even if you do avoid dumping-grounds: you need to examine the project's state somewhat regularly to ensure it still makes sense. Where code lives can be as important as the code itself and thus deserves at least occasional review and change.
Do you recommend any resources that I can read regarding the defanging of unions?
And it looks like compilation times are just abysmal: https://twitter.com/alexyanov/status/1258474918607544322?s=2...
That's not what they're saying at all. Covid-19 turns everyone into a grizzly bear or raptor, one person could kill dozens. We can't exterminate the entire population though. Catch, tag, and release.
First step was making sure you can actually get quoted a price for that service. I might choose to go across town if it saved me $40K.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/06/24/7354323...
I'm libertarian. The way I see it, the shutdown orders are in the same camp as helmet laws for motorcycles - they shouldn't be necessary, because everybody should be choosing to act sensibly out of their own self interest. Alas people make rash decisions, especially when egged on by a treasonous leader who seems hell bent on causing as much destruction as possible.

Also from a libertarian perspective, the shutdown orders have actually increased freedom in a sense. You can't claim to care about liberty while ignoring the debt treadmill forcing the majority to continuously work rather than being able to ever gain economic bargaining power. Liberty only produces prosperity when everybody is allowed to build wealth - freedom to choose within an extractionary economic system just makes for a race to the bottom.
TBH, I still probably naturally gravitate towards polos or button-downs, khakis, boating shoes, etc. It's really only been in the past few years (when I still traveled, sigh) that I began deliberately dressing down a bit at certain types of events, at least some of the time, because I wasn't dressed "right" for the event.
For a while, Porter Airlines (Canada) would offer free coffee + free cookies out of their terminal in Toronto. They would also offer you a free beer (a full 500ml, not the 341ml one) on the flight if this was an afternoon/evening flight. I feel that a lot of their expansion was just the word of mouth "OH AND THEY GIVE YOU FREE COOKIES". Their flight might have been a bit more expensive, but the amount of good will they got from those free items was huge and for a while Porter was really what people preferred.

Then they sold their terminal and started leasing it, and now suddenly, no more free coffee and free cookies. I don't know if the free beer is still around but for a while we had everyone complain on how "they no longer have free cookies". And then we just stopped hearing about it because people just didn't care about Porter anymore, you would just get the cheapest flight and that would typically not be them and it's not like they were offering something special anymore.

It looks to me that this was probably not a super huge expense that was probably giving them a much higher ROI than the pure $ value of what it cost them.
Also this is the kind of thing that won't be tested for health impact for the necessary 20 years before being released. And once the investment is high enough, if we ever discover that being a in wireless charging electric car is in fact, not very healty if you do it for a decade, the steaks will be so great that it will take half a century before society balance things out.
The web of incentives behind LBOs is very complex. They happen because in reality a lot of the time many of the people involved make money. This is availability bias. You only hear about the explosions. You don't hear about the thousands of LBOs that happen which never blow up.
> And I don't understand why GTK doesn't have the same issues. It's not a GNU project AFAIK.

Iirc GTK was born out Gnome, and Gnome was born as a FSF-project.
I pointed out that these would see a great deal of uproar were they to be changed; I'm aware.
In order to have a default judgment against a person they must be served (aware of the situation). If you're being told "show up to court or face a negative outcome" and you do nothing then whose fault is that?

You took on the debt. You decided not to show up in court. Are debtors just never accountable for their actions?

Also to quote a comment by a lawyer in this thread

>I am licensed in California and Texas, and in both states one must "prove-up" a default before judgment is entered by presenting a "prima facie" case. In other words, you must prove your case before a judgment is entered, even if the defendant does not show up.

So in some circumstances even if you don't show up the debt collector must fight to get a judgment as if you were there. I really suggest you look into the resources available to low income debtors in most states. In my state there are entire systems set up to support people who feel beset by debt collections.
How much power do the VCs typically have?

Don't founders often have the ability to overrule and make their own decisions?

Chris is already financially independent from the OKCupid sale, he could have open sourced the server code and/or reduced the overall burn to pivot to paid accounts.

Though the weird Stellar wallet addition implied some vision/product issues anyway.

Of course it's easy and probably unfair for me to say these things as an outsider with limited information and no real stake, it's definitely possible I'm wrong about important details that would change my mind. It'd be interesting to hear from Chris, but the sale probably restricts public communication?

This reminds me a little about the OKC sale actually, they had a blog post about why charging for dating sites made them worse that they took down after selling to match (they used to do cool analysis and publish them as blog posts, most of the details ended up in the book a different cofounder published called Dataclysm). That's more understandable to me though since I think it was their first exit.

Reading about Zulip - didn't you get bought by Dropbox before being open source? Is your current situation a lucky outcome - or was it a condition of the sale?

[Edit] - To clarify since there are downvotes, my questions aren’t rhetorical - they’re genuinely asking.
I was under the impression that a well-plead complaint was sufficient if the defendant doesn't show up. What rule says you have to actually put on a case to get a default judgment?
I suggest giving up on computers and "solve" everything with emotions, narratives, and dynamic morality. Who is with me?
emacs -Q opens instantaneously
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Yup, and to Steve's point "The sodas were just the wake-up call.", it was more than a wake up call. As the paper explained, to stop sharing food with someone forces them to re-evaluate their relationship to you. They can't help it, it's thousands of years of behavioral training that kicks in and says, "This person no longer likes/trusts me, what should I do now?"
vi is less unintuitive, as I noted above. There's also much less, which is really helpful.
> "Remote job boards" are a dime a dozen on the web, but first of its kind in a mobile app.

LinkedIn has a mobile app. Several in fact.
The Hypixel servers are at maximum capacity during the peak 4+ hours every day, meaning additional players cannot join. This is an obvious issue for other applications.
Geoff here. See https://twitter.com/GeoffreyHuntley/status/12581744339796254... for more information. We are putting together our findings for the Australian senate as a group.

See https://covidsafe.watch/

We need webdevs to send PRs and help out. Jump in discord. ️
> However budgeting in just about any organization I've been involved in doesn't work like that. You ask for $10,000 and there's no budget for it. Even if there is, there's no guarantee that next year you're not going to have to "tighten belts" and "sharpen pencils".

So.. a bigger question. Why doesn't budgeting work like this?
Nuclear waste is a trivial problem. The amount of waste is incredibly miniscule. The entirety of the US waste generated from nuclear power generation fits into a volume the footprint of a football field and 10 yards high.
That's true, and it's really wonderful that you have that option, but it doesn't help if you prefer the software experience of macOS and/or need software that doesn't run on Linux.
So if the healthcare and insurance markets are screwed up because of government, the solution then is more government? I always find this logic lacking. Maybe I could get an eli5 from someone ?
Range anxiety is not an irrational fear. Even after 2 years of owning an EV (w/ 200+ range), range anxiety is present. Actually it's more like charge while not at home anxiety, as charging is still a crapshoot.

- L1 charging is 3-4 miles / hour.
- Charging infrastructure is horrendously unreliable. (non-Tesla). I don't do much outside charging, but in 40% of my experiences, chargers are often out of service, throw errors, or not maintained well. (I was at an popular Electrify america spot and 3 of 6 chargers were out of commission, 2 of them were like that for weeks)).
- Charging is expensive. More expensive than gas, sometimes ripping you off. Session fees of $3 just for plugging in, plus 4x residential kwh rates.
I've seen some examples of GNOME keyring being required because it implements the freedesktop secrets standard (which I admit to knowing nothing of) where other secret managers do not. Presumably meaning there us no common interface, so we just pick the one that implements the spec. One example:

https://github.com/pithos/pithos/issues/559
You might wanna consider FaunaDB if you want to make the backend a bit more database-like but still serverless.

Their GraphQL API is neat.
I don't know about 100% buy-in. Maybe it is just lacking nuance but being ok with going forward in a direction you don't agree with is important in a team. Disagreement is good, it gets you better results in a healthy environment, and it doesn't have to end to make a decision.

The signs of a good compromise is everybody leaves unhappy about something. Not that products should be built entirely on compromise... that also leads to garbage.

It is difficult to pick the pieces apart, but frequent strong-armed conflict resolution is definitely a sign of a bad environment.
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It will fail securely, which is what you want. The alternative is to have it fail insecurely and bypass validation for everything.

In the latest versions the framework sets the SameSite header properly, so you don't need the CSRF middleware at all (you can just remove it).
Many debt collection cases will disappear if the alleged debtor files an answer (in court) to a debt collection complaint.

Filing answers is relatively simple and doesn't cost anything.

Depending on the jurisdiction, filing an answer basically puts the brakes on the case because it is not worth it for the debt collector to pursue it any further. Their business model is based on default judgments.

Eventually, after a year or so, if no action has been taken, the court is likely to dismiss the case (or you can ask them to).

Also, debt collection law has a lot of federal consumer protections and often more protections at the state level. Thus, it is not uncommon to run into debt collectors that are violating fed or state laws. Raising such issues also makes the case go away.

Of course, your mileage may vary depending on local laws and the nature of the debt or contract breach. But when I practiced little people law (before I sold out and went into IP law) I did this a few times and it worked without issue.

Thinking about it now, I guess a debtor-side lawyer should be involved, but defending such cases require hardly any effort on the part of the lawyer, so again I wonder why there are not debt relief orgs doing this. I believe fighting back just a little would significantly reduce the predatory practices of the volume debt collectors.

I imagine debt relief agencies don't fight because I think many are funded by the credit industry. So they direct debtors into payment plans rather than trying to shut down the predators.
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Startup time can actually be really good if you configure it right. Stock Emacs is about 150ms for me. There is also a portable dumper that will save your Emacs boot Image to memory for faster loading. Also check this out.

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/f3ed3r/how_is_doom_e...
If you use the Emacs server/client, then it is very fast to open a file from the command line. But I prefer to just open files from within Emacs. With ido-find-file, I get fuzzy path matching, which makes it fast to find whatever.

Rather than worrying about startup times, I'd have them work on including a lean set of quality of life extensions by default, like ido.
> a discipline where testing is usually done in a much different way

This reminds me of the horror mainstream code monkeys express when they see the source code for automotive firmware. Thing is automotive people functional test the shit out of everything. And they don't let jr developers refactor proven good code because they don't like the way it looks.
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The Keybase client is open source. How hard would it be to build an open source server or federated servers to work with the client? Genuine question.
Isn't the US actually at least as bad if not worse? Thanks to Edward Snowden we know without speculation that the US "is hostile and leverages their power to censor/collect communication information from companies and their people without checks on this power" (ok, supposedly there is secret judges that secretly check on this power, but that doesn't really do any good does it?). The USA also "pressure companies to hand over PII on people they find to be political threats without due process" (so called "National Security Letters").