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·24 дня назад·discuss
Bedrock Emacs is pretty much this, its what I finally used after I declared config-bankruptcy with Doom, and it gave me the room I needed to get my own setup together

https://codeberg.org/ashton314/emacs-bedrock
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·2 месяца назад·discuss
Glanding, throat-mic; I see those Culture-isms :^)

Certainly far from Banks' Minds sadly; though I could certainly see an Eccentric with a hyper-fixation on fantasy creatures
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·3 месяца назад·discuss
Oh man, I played with teapot once a long while ago, but couldn't figure out how to parse values from XDR files in $LANG, or export some given sheet into CSV or other format- which sadly put a stop to my experimentation. Super interesting otherwise, and wish it had more eyes.
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·3 месяца назад·discuss
Does learning/using new words make you a worse writer?

The handful of times I've used a thesaurus is usually 'for aesthetics', in that the word/phrase I have in mind clashes with the flow of the text. I know what I want to say, and I know how I can say it, but I _also_ know that I can jostle the wording around so that the rhythm doesn't deteriorate.
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·6 месяцев назад·discuss
It's not a democracy (by definition)
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·6 месяцев назад·discuss
Why even leave this comment?
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·7 месяцев назад·discuss
Disclaimer: I used the /royal/ LISP--as in the 'lisp family'- my introduction, and language of choice, has been Clojure (who's qualification as a Lisp is technically contended by certain fundamentalists), but it is still quite paren-based either-way.

And I do, I bounced off it the first time long ago, and really took to it the second go around, its been my daily driver at home and work for some years now- it brings me great joy.
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·7 месяцев назад·discuss
Working with lisp quickly made me realize how over-rated operator precedence (or even the concept of "operators") is. All such effort and early grade-school hours spent on this arbitrary short-hand instead of treating the operations themselves as functions and embracing the divine order of (more) parens.
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·7 месяцев назад·discuss
"Sense business wise" seems to vary quite a bit nowadays, at least every other day there's a headline of a company on here doing something almost exclusively for short-term value at the detriment to long-term health.
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·7 месяцев назад·discuss
The proximity of this and Bitnami pulling their 'free hardened images' is amusing, and I'm just as concerned about another (eventual, but imminent) rug-pull down the line. Docker Inc historically seems comfortable with the typical VC/"growth"-fueled strat of:

1. 'generous' initial offering to establish a userbase/ecosystem/network-effect

2. "oh teehee we're actually gonna have to start charging for that sorry we know that you've potentially built a lot of your infrastructure around this thing"

3. $$$
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·7 месяцев назад·discuss
Depends on bot-detection and if its a CPC or CPA campaign
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·7 месяцев назад·discuss
I was gonna say, I miss when this is what headlines looked like in my country.
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·8 месяцев назад·discuss
??? why does any company do it? Money?
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·8 месяцев назад·discuss
> I'm assuming the people who are asking for Orion to be open source are not paying for it.

I think this is an odd/slightly-disingenuous statement.

I mean, I'm on linux, so I'm not, I'm happily paying for kagi though, and would pay for Orion+ if it was available to me :)

I would also very much like it if Orion was open source, it would make me feel a lot better committing to and recommending a browser if I had actual assurances it's behaving appropriately, beyond a company saying "trust me", no matter how nice/cool they seem at the time.

Honestly, I kinda wish Orion+ was the only option, I think having a free option (and the incentives that can create) is kind of antithetical to Kagi's whole raison detre.
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·8 месяцев назад·discuss
Well, paying money for consumer apps/services (besides games) has always seemed a bit more normalized in the iOS ecosystem, and I imagine it must be a _somewhat_ simpler interface than the lovecruftian monolith of windows-N

saying this as a Linux user, I've never owned an apple device in my life (nor do I want to)
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·8 месяцев назад·discuss
Oh man, I first looked at this project what feels like _forever_ ago and remember thinking--almost verbatim, "Wow I wish I could see this 5 years from now", and lo and behold I suppose it has been about that long!

Very happy to see it finally hit 1.0
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·8 месяцев назад·discuss
There's a batch of dialog that indicates an interest in 'digital sovereignty', so it sounds like they are less interested in being an explicit customer of a given company.
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·8 месяцев назад·discuss
This kind of comment is better suited to reddit, or twitter, rather than HN.

Please refer to the HN guidelines to help keep this place as wonderful as it can be: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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·8 месяцев назад·discuss
I assumed the post was sarcastic, but Poe's Law I suppose, sadly..
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·8 месяцев назад·discuss
Looking around my area, unsure what the heuristics are for determining whats a climbing/boulder gym, but there's quite a few false-positives. I got excited because I thought there was some new options in my otherwise duopolized island.