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> Exactly what I mean. It is insane. I can't get it straight. I really tried years ago. But it is plain and simple stupid.

No, you're just being ignorant, and not reading when people try to answer your questions.

> Abbreviation is only useful when writing for speed. When writing for reading, don't use them.

It's not an abbreviation, it's a different symbol. C is not Ctrl.

The software has some “baggage”, being the heir to a 40+ year legacy, but the problems you're ragging on are so shallow that it just tells me you never tried. Why would anyone want to continue holding the hand of somebody who isn't even trying?

Emacs is full of excellent documentation, the first thing it tells you when you open it is how to find the documentation, and if you have a mouse you can just click it; if you opened it and decided not to read the intro, but somehow a lot of other people are using it productively, maybe the main problem lies with you.

If you're looking for a piece of software that'll give you some sort of religious aesthetic orgasm just looking at it; sure, you'll be let down. If you were trying to get something done and approaching it honestly, these would not be your complaints about Emacs; trust me that there's a lot wrong with it. Having its own slightly different keybinding notation is like... number five thousand on the long list of actual issues with any honest attempt to be productive with Emacs.
Have to agree on the Wire clients being sluggish. I’ve seen this on all platforms I use (even on mobile). Otherwise it’s so nice to have something that doesn’t require a phone number and allows up to three accounts to be setup in a client for free users.
Thanks for clarifying -- I've edited my comment to make that more clear. And thanks for your work on Zulip!
And would have a bigger impact on global warming than improving EV distances.
I agree! You know what takes it to the next level? Sticky keys!

Accessibility feature in macos where modal / control keys will "stick" for the next keypress (non-modal / control) and then release.

Double tap will stick it for the duration until the next tap on the same key.

Essentialy, double tap control key and move around with n and p keys, kill with k, move more, yank somewhere else with y. All without touching control! But there's more, you can save the buffer with x followed by s press. It takes a while to get used to but saves you awkward wrist moves. I guess it's closer to modal editing in vi, just not as advanced.
Inverse pass the parcel: Those who pass it on get the prize, the child that ends up holding it looses... everything
It's the notation for the shortcut Ctrl+c, which would be used in windows to copy and Ctrl+v for paste.

It's written in most emacs documentation as C-c for brevity.
How to Spot and Avoid Covid-19 Scams – PCMag
Hard Authoritarianism: Do what I say or else I send armed thugs to enforce it.

Soft Authoritarianism: Do what I say or else I convince everyone else you should be treaded like a pariah. See exile, excommunication, cancel culture.

Liberalism: This is the right thing to do, I pray you join me in doing it.
Americans Work More Than Ever, and More Than Anyone Else
Why would mattermost solve that?
The other option is not running Windows, the only OS which is vulnerable to this UEFI malware injection.

And then you just don’t care about stuff like that, because it honestly doesn’t affect you the slightest.
> I think you will make Emacs appealing to users when you start asserting it is appealing to users

I've worked with a lot of Emacs fans but everyone describes it as having a hefty learning curve. If you tell people it's appealing and the first experience is unpleasant, all you're going to do is convince them that you aren't a reliable source of advice. I think it would be much better to focus on easing that initial stage and explaining it a powerful tool which requires some up-front investment.
I have doubts about this. Maybe they did some simple variable settings, but I doubt they wrote proper lisp programs.
Even by the standards of terminal-based applications, Emacs is far from intuitive or attractive - the text-based IDE's from Microsoft ("Quick" series) and Borland ("Turbo" series) were significantly easier to use.

(As another example where *nix systems could improve a lot, the Midnight Commander tty app is great, but still not quite as intuitive as the old 'DOS Shell'. Weirdly enough, I find that other TUI apps, such as dselect and aptitude, are quite outstanding but you do need to be on a Debian-based system - they aren't a thing on Fedora or CentOS.)
Popularity is more of a marketing problem than an editor problem.

At the same time, if we compare emacs to vscode, vscode simply requires less configuration to get going. Given how much tooling exists in the javascript ecosystem, I think having a few plugins "just work" goes a long way.

Asking users to configure emacs from scratch to have a reasonable editing experience in their programming language of their choice is a lot. I think configurations like doom or spacemacs do a lot for this problem, but it really comes down to marketing.
So will we bail out the banks and their shareholders this time?
> In a short amount of time, VSCode and it’s ecosystem has almost equally matched what Emacs and its ecosystem took 30+ years to create.

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> literally any good or activity is just money

In the grand context of life, no (despite the vast majority of large scale events that we learn about in history being usually a result of conflict over money/power) , but in the context of business, as this thread is, yes in a for-profit business literally every good and activity is about money.

Some businesses may choose to sacrifice money for things like employee well-being or community contribution, but that's a choice they make, or more likely are forced to make.
Above the Line, Below the Line: Resilience of Internet-Facing Systems
It looks like the output is a statistic. I.e. a trend line with error bars based on fitting prior historical data.

Additionally, the processing of said historical data also seems to be statistical in nature, since there is a lot of missing data once we go past a few decades, data is from a disparate variety of sources, most are proxies for temperature and CO2, etc.

So, it isn't obvious to me they are 'purely physical' as in there is some kind of direct reading off of physical facts. Instead, it appears most are a lot of inferences derived by fitting models to bodies of data, which entails a certain amount of uncertainty and a statistical nature.
> Ive been saying for years that airlines should do this

Alcoholic drinks are free on every one of the ~100 long-haul international flights I've ever taken, even in cattle class.
Do you own your house? Depending on what you think you need verses what you want. If you are willing to live in a country where the typical standard of living is lower than what you are use to. You will probably not speak the language.

Are you willing to live in a mobile home? If you are flexible and self reliant then definitely yes. If you need luxury, meals delivered, swimming pool, etc then probably not, well not in 10 to 15 years, maybe 25 to 30. But it depends how much you make.
The problem with safe is the problem with every other "agile" methodology wrt the article - too many people expect a commitment to all items in the 8-12 week plan, so quality starts to get sacrificed somewhere around the 7-8 or earlier of the 12 week plan.
The most embarrassing pump-and-dump in recent memory.
Sounds particularly relevant given the recent Wink pivot that's being called 'ransomware'.
This is something I have thought a whole lot about. I blog and I want that information freely available, but I also need an income. I don't have a problem with the fact that people on HN actively find ways around paywalls which I think people on HN tend to find surprising because I spend so much time criticizing the idea that "You people want good writing and you want it all for free, so you basically expect writers to be slave labor for you."

What I'm saying is that this is not an easy problem to solve because in any business, some of the things you provide will be provided for free. For example, businesses that serve food have bathrooms available for free.

In busy downtown areas or areas with a lot of homelessness, you will see local establishments with signs saying the bathroom is for customers only and some even have security codes so you can't just walk in off the street and head to the bathroom. But they don't charge for use of the bathroom.

If you are a small shop, figuring out what to do for free and what to do for pay is a thorny issue because time is money and it's easy to end up in a situation where you are de facto slave labor.

For some businesses on the internet, your members who are there because it is free can be part of the value you are bringing to the table and if you try to charge and you drive those people away, you may kill the business because now your paying customers have no reason to pay you. The membership base was part of your value position and you've just thrown the baby out with the bath water.

So before you go acting like businesses who give stuff away for free are somehow nefarious actors, stop and realize that successful businesses have to pursue models that are viable and those models have real world factors. This is not just something decision makers at companies can arbitrarily decide willy nilly. You need to be taking the landscape of your marketplace into account when trying to figure out what piece of your product is the piece you charge for or monetize and what piece is something you give away for free.

Historically, TV was free to viewers. You just needed to own a TV, but subscription channels came later. It got monetized with advertising and having a large audience helped you monetize it. That large audience was valuable to your advertisers, so giving it away for free to viewers was part of how you made your money.

So this model wasn't born with the internet. It existed before the internet. And there are valid arguments to be made concerning things like "If you aren't paying for it, you are the product, not the customer" and lots of different angles to look at such questions.

But at the end of the day, there is no free lunch. You somehow need to pay the bills. And sometimes the method that actually works effectively isn't as straight forward as "Well, just charge people for using the darn thing." Sometimes that doesn't work at all and in other cases it may work, but will limit your growth. Sometimes giving part of it away for free is how you grow to the point of being able to make serious money.
It's usually the Ctrl key, but most emacs users would rebind that. So it's not the Ctrl key.
Connect: Behind the Front-End Experience
> if we compare emacs to vscode, vscode simply requires less configuration to get going

True, but then why do more people uses Vim than Emacs? Is it becase it's installed on servers and stuff?

I wonder what percent of desktop programmers use vim or emacs who don't need to do devops.
Scientists were close to a coronavirus vaccine years ago.Then the money dried up
This has been possible for almost 20 years if you're talking data rates for things like weather sensors. GPRS radios first hit the market in 2003. Many networks are turning off their older GPRS networks leaving 3G as the baseline but buying 3G modems to hook to a Pi or Arduino can be had for pretty cheap. I'm no 5G hater, but why is 5G required for weather sensors?

Also, if you're interested in deploying longer-range wireless around a large property for things like weather sensors and other smaller data rate devices, cut out the cell network and go with LoRa. You'll get a few km of range for a tiny amount of power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa
That's fair. We'll see how well they execute their vision.

However, after playing with it, checking out their board of directors, and deconstructing their app design, their vision is not really "cloud storage", at least, not the way we typically think of it.

Their long-term mission is preserving a digital legacy, oriented around relationships, families, and organizations. You don't use permanent.org to store things in the cloud that people normally think as "cloud storage", not for the day-to-day stuff. The kind of things you want to store in there are the things you want the world and your descendents to have access to after you die. They won't have to (directly) pay upkeep to keep that legacy preserved. I think that is convincing enough for me to see it as a critical piece of free and open web, even if this doesn't seem obviously connected to the idea of preserving a legacy.

For example, an indie musician wouldn't have to rely on SoundCloud to keep their recorded music around. SoundCloud is not in the business of preserving the creative work; they are in the business of aggregating users and they use user content to do it. Placing those music files in permanent.org has a much better shot of preserving that creative legacy for future generations than leaving it on SoundCloud.
Does it need to be popular or need more users to become maintainers?

I use emacs because I can't imagine using anything else that has half the features and is harder to extend. I can't imagine why it needs to be popular. It's a programming environment that happens to have a text editor built in. That appeals to some folks but I can't imagine why someone interested in writing for publication would choose it over Scrivener or a word processor and why it's desirable to attract such users.

If I had a horse in the race I'd focus on the developer experience. Make it easier to extend, make the runtime faster (the native compilation stuff is super cool), better unicode support, alternate input methods, etc. If people want to use it for publishing it should be easy to write a package to cater to those users.

For me, a long time emacs user, I think the biggest concern I have is ensuring that the project is sustained by new developers.
I have a T480s with a 14" FHD (1920x1080) screen and the experience isn't good either. Wayland apps work with fractional 1.25X scaling but are laggy and have odd graphical glitches. XWayland apps are just blurry.
That's very different than the Enron-esque transaction described above. You are describing two separate companies. They're saying that some "shell company" takes a loss while the parent company makes all the profit.
What’s Intel SGX Good For?
But only if you use Windows.

The person you replied to also suggested running Linux instead, in which case you are not affected.
Sometimes it makes to have a super complicated pricing algorithm so (usually very technical) users can tweak exactly what they do and don't want. Remember the early Heroku pricing page?

99% of the time if your pricing page doesn't have a list of prices along the top, that will be a nonstarter for a non-technical business oriented person.
The number for gold leaf cannot be right. The unit cell spacing for gold is around 0.4 nm.

At 0.1nm you will have monolayer gold. By the way, the first monolayer metals were synthesized just last year, and published this March in Nature Materials.
The impression Microsoft gives to me is that ReFS is meaningfully only beneficial over NTFS in RAID configurations with multiple physical drives (otherwise NTFS and ReFS have very similar semantics on a single physical drive), so pushing it any further than "Windows Storage Spaces" sounds unlikely, and few consumer machines have more than one physical drive in any configuration much less a software RAID configuration.

In relation to the above conversation about WSL1 performance characteristics, my impression is that ReFS would be equal or worse to NTFS for what Linux/POSIX file operations expect. (ReFS is still very much on the "SQL Database" side of the analogy, like NTFS as it was of course designed to support much the same transactional semantics, and some additional ones as well at the "virtual storage space" level above the physical pool of drives.)

In danger of getting further aside into tangential spaces, Ubuntu's current experimentation with ZFS by default is probably one to watch to see if the user experience of complicated multi-physical disk file systems like ReFS can be made to fit and is useful to a broader user base than just power users. (Though arguably compared to the broader spectrum of casual Windows users, even some of the more casual Ubuntu users might be considered power users in comparison.)
I wanted to double check as this seemed potentially affected by industry and other sources of CO2 emission, but as you implied, the CO2 emissions are actually much higher per unit of energy produced than in France. That's rather incredible to me.

https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/overview-...
Well...at least they’re open sourcing this which is better than letting some company develop the app entirely and keep the code under lock and key.
Businesses are very financially rewarding to those who "complete" them, much more so than degrees can be. Your upside for completing a 4-year bachelors degree is maybe $150k/year, best case, if you study CS from an Ivy League and end up at a FAANG. Your upside for building a successful business can potentially reach hundreds of billions of dollars.

There's an issue of probabilities: you're probably a lot likely to complete a 4-year degree than found a billion-dollar company. But that's a risk/reward tradeoff, and it's worth remembering that there are a number of "off ramps" from the startup path that may not be billion-dollars but still lead to a job just as good as a college grad would get. Being able to run a profitable, self-sustaining business is viewed very highly by many employers.
> ...when you receive a casual encrypted mail and you're not able to read it (my private keys are air-gapped...

Could you elaborate on why you put your public key in well-known and also how (and for what purposes) you use your air-gapped private key? As an average user, I’ve always been worried about private keys being stolen or lost.
Cognitive Architecture
I think the biggest flaw in brutalism is that it does not suffer hacks well. Badly done, it looks and performs worse than just about any other style of architecture. You get hideous boxes with conduit everywhere.

None of the brutalist buildings I've actually been in suffered from confusing floorplans or lack of storage. The tendency is more for big, striking open spaces and wide walkways.

In the Pacific Northwest there's a recent trend to build a lot of ugly boxy townhomes and small apartment buildings in a neo-brutalist style. One notable features of these buildings is big, smooth rectangular panels in their outer cladding. They often look like the builder just got a bunch of OSB sheets, painted them dark brown and tacked them up as siding. Add thoughtless placement of conduit and vents and the interaction between window locations and the lazy siding, and you have a sloppy mess of unintentional asymmetry and unevenness.

If you are going to have your conduit hanging out as an architectural feature, you have to treat it like an architectural feature and think about how its placement and routing impacts visual balance and rhythm as well as the functional issues of delivering power, water, and ventilation. It's not just a license to nail something up and omit the trim.
Everyone talks about the "Amazon effect" but the changing distribution of income is also worth considering:

"Retail is suffering because the middle classes have lost $1,355 trillion in income since 1970"

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/retail-is-suffering-bec...
There are more kinds of delegated power, though.
I’m sorry, what?

Which modern editor has tools like SLIME or CIDER?
Consider the possibility that bad protocols which invite abuse are the reason they succeeded versus ‘better’ protocols.
Oh, if Emacs ever implement that visual layer, I don't think it’s unrealistic to expect it to looks like Photoshop _and_ Word at the same time.

Emacs already have a concept of frame, and you can already configure each frame independently (e.g. for term and X), all connecting to a single Emacs process, and can share buffers/yank ring/etc. across multiple frames.
Have you looked at what 7zip is doing? That should be a similar type of code and it runs very well on Zen2.
Filecoin Launches Filecoin Discover: Home to Humanity’s Most Important Datasets
As I mentioned I have been to court for a debt collection.

Before you go to court the debt collector has to send you proof they served you papers for your debt. They have to send you proof of the chain of debt from the original creditor on down. For a $3,000 debt I was sent a packet of at least 80 pages with tabbed chapters and detailed photos confirming service before I had to go to court. I did not request this information, they were required by law to send it to me.

These are not optional. These records are necessary to get a judgement.

Debtors ARE at a disadvantage in the courts if they do not have the money for a lawyer to fight or they don't have the time to show up on their own. This is an injustice. But saying that debt collection is being illegally enforced in the courts I believe is just untrue. If you do not owe a debt and contest it in court you prevail. But if you do owe a debt and through neglect or ignorance you end up with a default judgment or negative consequences that is on you.
I have an X1 Carbon 7th gen with a 4k screen (3840x2160). I run it at 2x scaling on Wayland (sway) and I haven't had any issues with native Wayland apps. X apps are rendered at 1x and upscaled, making them blocky or blurry. Apparently there are some apps like Spotify that ignore scaling settings and always render at 1x, but I haven't run into them.

There is a fix in progress for XWayland scaling: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/pull/2064
> Explaining this to a manager who's never even read even one of his copies of The Mythical Man-Month can be tough.

Perhaps he should read both simultaneously and finish in half the time...
React one-way data flow explained in two sketches
>So far, I haven't seen the explosion in creativity, entrepreneurship, volunteering etc that's usually promised.

That's because most people don't have the ambition and discipline of Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos and if given the chance would rather bum around their whole life instead of work.

I see the same thing in Austria and so do my friends living in other wealthy European countries with strong social nets.

Most people, if given easy access to welfare, would rather lower their standard of living to fit in that small sum of money and not do anything all day rather than use their free time to hustle, learn a new skill or build a business that will permit them a higher standard of living later on.