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chr··on Emacs appearances in pop culture
If so, balance good and evil by including marca of A16Z, once an Epoch maintainer.
chr··on What's up with all those equals signs anyway?
Yeah, that dude oughta read books and learn about computers, too.
chr··on DOGE Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week
Tell me you have a background in IT without telling me you have a background in IT.
chr··on Apple's Quiet Pivot to India
http://archive.today/2025.02.18-090006/https://www.ft.com/co...
chr··on Two Grand Canyon-size valleys on far side of the moon formed within 10 minutes

   Then, the ejected debris that created the canyons likely soared over the lunar surface and then collided with it at speeds of about 2,237 miles per hour (3,600 kilometers per hour).
Oddly adding a veil of precision to an estimate of a kilometre per second.
chr··on Ask HN: How do I work on regaining ability to think?
Climbing may require concentration, try indoor autobelaying. It requires effort to think about anything but the next move. Perhaps that will start you on growing back the ability to focus.
chr··on Neal Stephenson was prescient about our AI age
@mauvehaus, with your idiosyncratic spelling of emacs as "eMacs", you put Stephenson in a bad light. He knows how to spell. And edit.
chr··on The ThinkPad TrackPoint tried to build a better mouse (2020)
You may well be aware that there is an external keyboard from Lenovo that mimics the Thinkpad keyboard: "ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II"

Then there are mechanic keyboards with trackpoints from Tex in Taiwan: https://tex.com.tw/collections/all

chr··on Ask HN: What tools are you a 10/10 on?
From http://www.paulgraham.com/pfaq.html

  What editor do you use?

  vi.
At least his x- and y-yearold may rebel by using emacs.
chr··on Using Asahi Linux as a developer workstation
Debian install worked fine for me, even if it was my first linux install on hardware in many years.

There are notes on Fedora install at https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Fedora

chr··on Stack Exchange Q&A access will not be restricted in Russia
Sorry about that. Thanks, @nosoonhui.
chr··on How do people learn how to do anything related to coding on their own
Bad in what way, @newbamboo? I meant to list stuff that's nice to learn and spend time with.
chr··on How do people learn how to do anything related to coding on their own
Turn into a snob? When a tutorial from a certain domain disappoints you, stop following links into that domain. Seek operating systems with smarter people, and fewer errors. Look for languages with high quality in implementation, documentation and ecosystem.

See you in a few years, when you you'll ask for advise as there aren't jobs for people whose stack is arm, *bsd, sqlite/postgres/redis, cl/elixir/go.

chr··on Android in Docker without QEMU/emulator
For tips on how to control the Android Emulator from the outside with adb, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7789826/adb-shell-input-...
chr··on Closing 45% of the open Emacs bugs
Netfonds offered online stock trading in Norway. Now sold to their competitor Nordnet.
chr··on Space junk removal is not going smoothly
Netflix has the South Korean SF flick "Space Sweeper". Do read the serious article first. The film is for entertainment. Crossing Belter and cyberpunk aesthetics, mixing up human languages as you'd expect from the future, it's fun.

Warning, link autoplays with sound: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi1534902553?playlistId=tt1283876...

chr··on How to Build a Web App with and Without Rails Libraries
Ditto for HTTPS:

    % openssl s_client -quiet -connect  google.com:443
    depth=2 OU = GlobalSign Root CA - R2, O = GlobalSign, CN = GlobalSign
    verify return:1
    depth=1 C = US, O = Google Trust Services, CN = GTS CA  1O1
    verify return:1
    depth=0 C = US, ST = California, L = Mountain View, O = Google LLC, CN = *.google.com
    verify return:1
    GET / HTTP/1.1
    Connection: close
    
    
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
chr··on Compiling a Lisp to x86_64 (2020)
For playing with a Common Lisp desktop, try Mezzanine on x86 hardware or a suitable VirtualBox.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8943709

chr··on Intel NUC as a back end for development
Wasn't Thunderbolt networking an option?
chr··on I Love Coding on Linux
Ah. I just left the physical control key alone, and thus have no caps lock key at all. Seems some applications grab the keypresses at a lower level than where PowerToys changes it, so sometimes caps lock is activated when my intention is to hold control.

Was screensharing with a react native hotshot yesterday, and felt my perceived age doubled to 102 as I suddenly was yelling in all caps, with no quick exit.

chr··on I Love Coding on Linux
Swapping left control and caps lock disturbs AltGr, which appears to be a synthesis of left control and right alt.
chr··on I Love Coding on Linux
If Windows is a good GUI, how do I reliably swap caps lock and control?
chr··on System76 Launch Configurable Keyboard with Open Source Code
Tex in Taiwan also make keyboards with trackpoints.

https://www.tex-design.com.tw/us-en/products.php?cid=17

chr··on McCLIM – GUI toolkit for Common Lisp
Recommendations for especially inspiring and/or informative videos on McCLIM?

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mcclim

chr··on The Problem with Gradle
Also nice how the built-in Iphone calculator app is plain and simple in portrait mode, and rivals a scientific calculator when rotated to landscape mode.
chr··on Facebook to staff: Avoid company-branded clothing for own safety
See also the protagonist Cayce Pollard, introduced in William Gibson's 2003 novel 'Pattern Recognition'.
chr··on The Internet Is for Porn
I'd subscribe to "Lisp tricks" by Lars Ingebrigtsen or Rainer Joswig.
chr··on Ask HN: What are your Windows/macOS/Linux productivity tips?
For Windows: when the external display does not reactivate when I touch a key, I turn the display off and on.
chr··on I Built My Own Shitty Static Site Generator
"Shitty software" was an old saying even back in 1995:

http://scripting.com/davenet/1995/09/03/wemakeshittysoftware...

chr··on LDM: My Favorite ARM Instruction
No exposure to assembly apart from #'disassemble in the repl, just wanted to praise the beautiful page design. Makes me want to dive into Keleshevs book.
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