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I was obviously joking, but it's nice to know that you treat this seriously.

IANAL, but doesn't it fall under HIPAA?

What's ugly about "petrichor"???

Good point, stupid me!

Sort of related: I once heard someone pronounce "testicles" like a name of a Greek hero (think Heracles), just for the lulz. I found it hilarious...

> It’s one of my favourite words

Wait, shouldn't it be the second one, right after _petrichor_?

Came here to say that.

Also, to some extent, Emacs. There are thousands of functions (actually, a bit less than 10k in stock Emacs without packages, and over 46k in my Emacs) performing various low-level tasks, and much fewer commands (~3k in stock Emacs, almost 12k in my config), i.e., interactive functions, often higher-level, designed for the user.

My solution to this is to use Emacs whenever I can. (Almost) any text in Emacs is in some buffer, so you can usually mark (select) it, kill (cut) it etc.

It's also worth knowing that `G` in Emacs Info viewer is bound to `Info-goto-node-web`, which opens the current page in a web browser. (This only works for Emacs manuals, though.)

> Maybe not a red one, but at least mauve.

You mean mauve, as in "the universally recognised colour for danger"? ;-)

While the idea of writing such wrappers is pretty nice, they still missed out. Rebasing is incredibly useful.

To each their own. Frankly, I also don't have an issue with games. But a web browser is a different thing - there's always so much interesting stuff on the web...

I admit that I only skimmed the article, but I'm wondering if psql's \crosstabview would help?

> That's easily fixed. You just delete the games.

I get your point, but this is like telling Odysseus not to pay attention to that siren song...

Which is useful, but too crude.

Where did he repeat any "abhorrent positions"?

> really no country on earth as the freedoms of speech and expression that America does

Of course, you wouldn't be _arrested_ in the US for saying certain things, but I'm afraid you could be lynched/fired/etc., so _technically_ the freedom of speech is still preserved – but from my point of view it doesn't matter much whether I'm assaulted by the police or an angry mob. (In fact, I would probably prefer the police.)

It is sort of ironic, in a morbid and very sad way. When I was a kid, we looked at America as the "land of freedom", unattainable for us in a communist country. Now I'm much older and I witness the US slowly (or maybe even not that slowly) gravitating towards communism.

I wouldn't be astonished if expressing "unpopular opinions" on certain subjects (in a way not even offending anyone) were more risky in the US than here.

> You, arrested? Probably not. Jordan Peterson, maybe.

That is obvious. Still, the whole situation makes me sad.

Thanks. Please note that I explicitly don't want to make _rude_ comments – apparently, it is enough that someone is _offended_ by my comments. (And yes, I know that you said "potentially rude", but still – rudeness has little to do with it.)

Fascinating.

Serious question. Assuming I offend some Scott by writing something on my blog, putting an issue on Github, or editing Wikipedia – is it then safe for me to travel to Scotland as a tourist? I'd love to visit Scotland some day – I'm told that it's a beautiful country – but if there is any risk of that, I'd rather stay home or travel somewhere else.

Smooth - definitely not. Continuous - yes. (SCNR.)

> scroll bar

I didn't even realize, I don't see a need for it anyway.

> Ctrl-F to find, did not exist

That's because Kitty has something much better:

> Sometimes you need to explore the scrollback buffer in more detail, maybe search for some text or refer to it side-by-side while typing in a follow-up command. kitty allows you to do this by pressing the ctrl+shift+h shortcut, which will open the scrollback buffer in your favorite pager program (which is less by default).

> There's no menu bar at all in fact.

Which is a big plus. Emacs has a menu bar (and a toolbar), and I obviously turn them off, because they take up screen real estate.

> Sadly Kitty is very bare-bones.

Care to elaborate? I had an impression that it's a pretty complete piece of software. I've been driving it daily for more than 1½ years, and I'm pretty happy with it.

There is in kitty: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/#shortcut-kitty.Reset-t...

Well, not me, of course;-). And Multics Emacs is long dead, the only Emacs that is still alive is GNU Emacs (well, XEmacs is still developed probably, but not many people use it, I guess).

This is fantastic. This is why I think non-professional programmers could (and maybe sometimes should) learn to code - to solve little (or larger) problems bugging them.

You might be interested in Emacs, which is an environment for manipulating text and creating text-based workflows using a pretty nifty language called Emacs Lisp disguised as a text editor. ;-) (Full disclosure: I am an author of an Emacs Lisp textbook, and a long-time user and fan of Emacs.)

And here is a somewhat famous relevant quote from rms:

> Multics Emacs proved to be a great success—programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the secretaries, who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared off. They read the manual, discovered they could do useful things and they learned to program. (https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html)

And in Polish, where people often add a ", nie?" to the end of the sentence, with a similar result.

Thanks for your reply. One comment, though:

> Ask them what they want, do what the want, cash the check.

That person is very much not tech-savvy, and I consider my role to help them find out what they need (not "want"). (Also, there's no check involved - this is a friend of someone in the family, I'm doing this for free.)

Understandable, though they don't use gmail, and I'm not sure about the quality of the spam filters of their provider.

While I personally detest the PI vacuum machine that Google has become, this is actually quite a reasonable idea I might use in this context. Thanks!

Interesting. I can see two (perhaps a bit unorthodox) uses for this.

1. As an Emacs-lite on some server I have access to, but don't want to install full Emacs on for some reasons. Currently I use Zile for that. And yes, I know about TRAMP but I have reasons not to use it.

2. As a toy editor for my 7yo son to learn/practice typing on a computer/basic text editing. Currently I just fire up Emacs for him (what else?;-)), but it's easy for him to accidentally press something with unexpected results (and then daddy has to C-/ and/or C-h l). Here, I could probably make a whitelist of possible operations.