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reddit_clone··on A curated directory of 700 Mac menu bar apps
If it is not a hassle, could you please share some of these scripts? I always find rearranging apps/windows (I use multiple desktops) after a reboot quit painful.
reddit_clone··on Capsaicin is a psychoactive substance
>What happens instead is that the spice forces me to eat slower

Thats interesting. It is the opposite for me. When I get hit by spicy/hot I start shoveling more and more food into my mouth to lessen the hurt. Somehow I find air hitting insides of my mouth after some super-spicy food more painful than more of the same spicy food :p. I couldn't figure it out.

reddit_clone··on Nice GUI
Nice!.

Is it intentionally slowed down? The reaction (for example when I click the checkbox) seem very slow in the demo page.

reddit_clone··on Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers
Not surprised. When I read the description I was thinking 'sounds like a job for Nix..'
reddit_clone··on Thoughts on the potato diet
I wouldn't judge quickly. For several decades, fat was considered bad in all forms. Now views are changing..
reddit_clone··on RESH: Rich Enhanced Shell History
I am a long time user of Zsh with FZF history search. Can't live without it now. (Same as Emacs+Helm everywhere).

I tried McFly for a bit (Was interested in optimized search based on the current folder). But the whole UI was wonky and jumping around. So I came back to FZF.

reddit_clone··on RESH: Rich Enhanced Shell History
I use Zsh + FZF and am very happy with it. My history is about 30K entries long and it handles like a champ.

I use a poor mans version of the tagging you speak of. I use hashtags at the end of long commands I would like to reuse.

$ <long winded shell command> #restart #remote

FZF history search finds them easily.

reddit_clone··on Does cooking with vegetable oils increase the risk of chronic diseases?
I remember it was one guy who had heart problems waged a PR war against McDonalds and made them change their cooking oil.
reddit_clone··on Common Lisp Resources
Well put. I agree on both points.

CL has a very advanced TDD. You actually develop by executing snippets in REPL and pull them all together in a function (already tested!).

reddit_clone··on Not everyone should meditate
People who suffer from severe ADHD, meditation is nearly impossible.
reddit_clone··on Learn Elisp the Hard Way (2011)
That is my experience as well. I had a messy, ball of mud .emacs file for a couple of decades.

When I found Doom, I dropped my .emacs and it became just a few dozen lines of org/templates config. The rest is all doom.

I even adopted Vi (A lifelong Vi avoider..) and am getting proficient with it.

Sometimes you want to get your hands dirty and configure everything. Sometimes you adopt something that is created and supported by experts and just enjoy it. Both are fine I guess.

reddit_clone··on Effortless personal productivity (or how I learned to love my monkey mind)
That is so true it is not even funny.

But the essay(s) don't mention ADHD at all. Is that intentional ?

May be some dopomine deprived people don't even have a choice other than to embrace the monkey :-(

reddit_clone··on Batteries included with Emacs (2020)
You don't really have to. Try DoomEmacs or something similar, very little tinkering needed to get going.
reddit_clone··on Child suicides in Japan hit record high
> is mimicking the valley girl inflection

:-) I was thinking this but couldn't find the right phrase.

It could also be expressing uncertainty. You want to make an assertion but not 100% sure you are right. A question mark at the end expresses some self doubt and leaves it open to correction. I use '?' that way quite often.

reddit_clone··on Sorted 3: Tasks and calendar events in a unified timeline
Ya big org-mode fan here.

I try to get everything I do as a TODO item. Add the link to the Jira item in the title. When it is marked as DONE, it adds a journal entry into Org-Roam/Daily file automatically.

Still haven't figured out how to use org-roam idiomatically.

reddit_clone··on Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly
Looks interesting.

How does this handle multiple desktops in Mac OS X?

reddit_clone··on My MacBook Pro had over 10k USD in repairs
I have a strange lag problem too.

My CapsLock key (mapped to Esc because I am a Doom Emacs User) gets really slow over days. Like in ~4 seconds to register. A reboot fixed the delay. But it degrades again.

Happened twice. Thankfully, after the last reboot, it seems to be holding.

Last year MBP running Big Sur.

reddit_clone··on Zx 3.0
Give Perl6/Raku a shot if you haven't yet.

IMO, it is pretty much the best-of-all-worlds language that is still accessible. (Meaning not exotic like Haskell or Erlang..)

The concurrency is beautifully painless.

reddit_clone··on Google bookmarks won't be supported past September 31, 2021
Pocket. Well integrated into FireFox (for good or bad, thats a different discussion).

I am also trying a locally running Zotero. But not getting the hang of it yet.

reddit_clone··on macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)
> VMware Fusion

Does it work? When I upgraded to BigSur and Fusion 12 the networking just stopped working.

VMs dont work with NAT at all. In Bridged mode, it partially works. Completely stops if I get the Mac host in to company VPN.

All of this used to work prior version of Mac OSX and Fusion 11.

reddit_clone··on Mise-en-place for knowledge workers
Yes! I started a very similar process just this week.

Some of us have no choice but to multitask. I just learned about multiple desktops in Mac OS X and using something very similar to what you just described.

Each desktop gets its own browser window, emacs frame, Iterm window and a sticky. Sticky says what was the last thing I did and what is next. So context switching is easier.

I keep Outlook and Slack on a second monitor always visible. So far I am liking it. I am dreading the inevitable reboot.

I also wish Apple supported renaming the virtual desktops.

reddit_clone··on OpenSUSE Leap 15.3
I have always wondered how Microsoft and McAfee convinced people to install their stuff on linux servers !

What do they actually do, other than actually increasing attack vectors?

reddit_clone··on Ad block shouldn't break your checkout
Funny. But why do I feel sad?
reddit_clone··on Lung cancer in never-smokers: a hidden disease (2019)
That's my theory too. Mean people cause stress to others and send them to early graves. They themselves live free of illness causing stresses.

Karma is something people invented for some temporary solace.

reddit_clone··on George R.R. Martin Writes Everything in WordStar 4.0 on a DOS Machine (2014)
The way Winds of Winter is progressing, I would believe if they say he is writing on stone tablets.
reddit_clone··on Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up
Brings to mind the (quite funny) movie 'Bedazzled'.

However Brendan Fraser's character tries to phrase his wishes, the devil finds a way to mess him up.

reddit_clone··on Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up
Something about LOC and Bug Count :-)
reddit_clone··on John le Carré's crucial, covert collaborator
Bourne Identity was one of my top favourite at the time. But later books started dragging (Just like with Tom Clancy)

Now, I can't stomach either one of them.

reddit_clone··on Texas and Mississippi to Lift Covid-19 Mask Mandates, Business Capacity Limits
I am really baffled. Ok, opening or not opening businesses is a big topic with a lot of economic ramifications.

But Masks? Why can't people extend this simple courtesy to the rest of the population? People follow traffic rules so as not to kill others or themselves. Wearing a mask is at best an inconvenience. I don't understand this at all.

reddit_clone··on Noise pollution hurts the heart
Indeed. Are leaf blowers that much more efficient than good old fashioned rakes?

Especially if you pay some kids to do it? They get exercise and money out of it. We get some peace and quiet.

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