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NoThisIsMe··on Hypertext Emacs: You may not need org-mode
We do this in evil-mode too except it's bound to `g F`
NoThisIsMe··on Ask HN: Why is on-device search terrible?
It's pretty great on GNOME tbh. It worked well on Windows 7 too.
NoThisIsMe··on Can the double-slit experiment distinguish between quantum interpretations?
The local part is important. We haven't ruled out hidden variables. Bell himself preferred hidden variable interpretations.
NoThisIsMe··on Why Google and Apple work to snuff out the mobile web
GitLab
NoThisIsMe··on The quest for a family-friendly password manager
> There is also a command-line interface, weighting 80MB, also in TypeScript, also in Electron. Amazing.

Can anyone verify the CLI depends on Electron? I took a quick look at the source and from what I can tell it does *not*, but I've never worked with Electron so I don't really know what to look for.

NoThisIsMe··on Ask HN: LastPass Alternatives
> 1Password: my favorite of the bunch so far, great UI and UX

Weird, I can't stand the 1Password UI/UX. I've used it at work for two years now, so I can get around ok at this point, but for a long time I struggled to find even basic functionality. Also the keyboard navigability is garbage.

> BitWarden: played around with this for a while, but didn't switch from 1Pass mostly because I am not willing to host something like this myself and it costs the same as 1Pass with less features and polish.

The SaaS Bitwarden offering is less expensive than 1Password at all tiers, plus there's a (functional) free tier.

I will say, 1Password does seem to be the most secure of the SaaS options. But this is just my vague impression -- I haven't looked into it closely, nor am I qualified to.

NoThisIsMe··on Interpreting a Sierpinski Triangle Fractal as musical notes sounds good
> identifying integer powers of 2

Doesn't this just get you the octaves, which are by no means unique to the 12-tone scale?

> group properties of C12

Can you expand on this? "Group" in what sense? C12?

I'm genuinely intrigued!

In any case, I don't think I disagree per se. But from what I can tell, the 12 tone scale only "falls out" if we apply two constraints: (1) roughly 10 tones in an octave, (2) steps are roughly equidistant (I'm _not_ alluding to equal temperament tuning here). Besides those constraints, why does, say, 16:15 get a tone (m2) but not 7:6?

So the question becomes: are those constraints justified?

EDIT: Partially answered my own question by consulting this diagram [1]: 16:15 has a lower "prime limit" than 7:6.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Equal_Temper_w_limits.s...

NoThisIsMe··on Tridactyl: A Vim-like interface for Firefox
Worth noting glacambre (the Firenvim creator) is one of the primary Tridactyl contributors. And the two integrate too, IIRC.
NoThisIsMe··on RISC-V Pushes into the Mainstream
Isn't ARM a RISC? So no, far from dead, RISC is already hugely successful.
NoThisIsMe··on The Right to Be Lazy (1883)
> Your scheme of society (government) deciding everyone's wages.

I'm not (necessarily) suggesting that the government decide everyone's wages. Leaving it to the market is just another way for society to determine wages.

> you appear to subscribe to the Labor Theory of Value, where someone's effort and time determine their wage

That's not what the LToV says. To start, a wage is a price, and Marxists draw a distinction between price and value.

But that's also not even the point I was trying to make. My point was: "one keeps what they earn" is a truism under any system, if "what they earn" is taken to mean "what they're paid". If, instead, "what they earn" is taken to mean "the price of what they produce", then that's obviously false under capitalism wherein companies make profits, so I assume that was not your intended meaning.

NoThisIsMe··on The Right to Be Lazy (1883)
"What they earn" only has meaning with respect to some wage; if one works a job at some wage then what they earn is just a matter of arithmetic, no matter if that wage is set by a government, a monopolistic employer, "the free market", or something else.

A more interesting question is: how should we as a society set wages to best benefit society? Your answer, I gather, is to leave it to the market. I'm not sure what my answer is, but I do believe the current state of affairs ain't it. For one, I believe the guys that pick up the garbage (an essential and incredibly unpleasant, dangerous, and physically demanding job) should make at least as much as a software developer. If the market disagrees, then that's a small hint that maybe markets aren't the end-all-be-all of economic organization.

Try to transcend for five seconds the decades of propaganda you've sustained -- capitalism is not a law of nature hits bong.

NoThisIsMe··on Tor Browser 12.0
I don't know if this is true, but I've read that if you plug in the tracking number for a package at USPS.com through Tor, the package will be flagged for inspection.
NoThisIsMe··on Scientists thought carbon emissions had peaked. They’ve never been higher
It was preventable without nuclear too, so I don't see why it would have made a difference.
NoThisIsMe··on GIMP Turns 27
They've been working on this for like a decade, in a sense. They're rewriting the core as a library, GEGL, which supports non-destructive editing as well as other long-requested features. My impression is GEGL is largely done; the remaining work is to port GIMP to it. Realizing these gains for non-destructive editing is planned for v3.2, which is probably years away still. The other major initiative since forever has been porting to GTK 3.
NoThisIsMe··on Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text
There's also verb [1], which extends Org mode.

[1] https://github.com/federicotdn/verb

NoThisIsMe··on Jqjq: Jq Implementation of Jq
Sure, you can implement the primitives by just passing through to the host runtime if you want, but you still have to parse the source and walk the AST first.
NoThisIsMe··on Markdown, Asciidoc, or reStructuredText – a tale of docs-as-code
What is "regular markup"?
NoThisIsMe··on Lula defeats Bolsonaro to again become Brazil’s president
> It's because the new brand far-right politicians that have shown up, and are popular, are nothing but empty populists.

That's half of it, yeah. The other half is the centrist technocratic hegemony exploiting the situation to malign the working-class-power left in the same stroke.

NoThisIsMe··on Lula defeats Bolsonaro to again become Brazil’s president
Sounds like the word you're looking for is "authoritarian". All fascists are authoritarians, but not all authoritarians are fascist.

A few more key characteristics of fascism: nationalism, overt anti-egalitarianism, militarism.

Bolsonero is the fascist here. Lula is not.

NoThisIsMe··on Lula defeats Bolsonaro to again become Brazil’s president
I mean every NYT and washpo piece I've read about this election has at the very least touched on, often dwelled on, the Lula is a crook bit. What they rarely mention is the judge was buddy buddy with Bolsonero and collaborated with the prosecution behind the scenes.
NoThisIsMe··on Lula defeats Bolsonaro to again become Brazil’s president
Even if all that is true (I have my doubts) that wouldn't make Lula a fascist.
NoThisIsMe··on Lula defeats Bolsonaro to again become Brazil’s president
Can we stop equating populism with fascism? Populism can be good, actually. Lula is arguably a populist.
NoThisIsMe··on Silicon Valley slips back to Bro culture
> Has anyone considered the fact that there are far fewer powerful women because women aren’t generally interested in working 80 hours a week?

Wtf is this

NoThisIsMe··on Whole Foods CEO says 'socialists are taking over' in the US
>They're taking over everything. It looks like they've taken over a lot of the corporations. It looks like they've taken over the military. And it's just continuing

Lmao. If only.

NoThisIsMe··on Vala Programming Language
Wisp, possibly
NoThisIsMe··on How to build a chess engine
I see what you're getting at but for whatever reason "chess engine" in fact usually refers to what you're calling the AI player -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_engine
NoThisIsMe··on Ask HN: Is there a TV on the market without “Smart TV” features?
Just got one of these on Craigslist for $100. No complaints!
NoThisIsMe··on Ask HN: What does a developer need to know to build their own Lisp from scratch?
GP calls it a tokenizer (aka lexer) so presumably it doesn't match parens, it just returns a flat array of tokens.
NoThisIsMe··on GNU Guix System
Could you elaborate please?
NoThisIsMe··on Ask HN: What software/program annoys you?
1Password's UI, particularly its terribly keyboard navigability.
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