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That’s certainly up for debate. Thinkpads are some of the most rugged laptops available, and their top models are made from magnesium alloys or carbon fibre. Only their lower end E…

Go beyond the specs, though. Which windows laptops have similar combination of all metal build with tight tolerances, a display hinge that doesn’t wobble, a nice keyboard and even …

I feel I can given up most packages I use for some hand rolled code (with a significant time investment, that is). There will be tradeoffs. Every thing except magit. I can’t think …

The important part is you don’t have to remember that gobbledygook. I don’t know why author posted that key stroke list as it seems to remove value from this post and make it look …

Isn’t e-paper the general category of low power displays? I understand that “e-ink” are a trademarked subset of the broader e-paper category, which also includes memory-in-pixel LC…

Pebble was my first smartwatch, all the way back in 2015. It was fun and quirky back when it was first released. Then it stopped production for many years while smartwatch category…

I believe (correct me if I’m wrong), their point is that with time, we’re writing less code ourselves and more through LLMs. This can make people disconnected from the “joy” of usi…

My Sony TV has android and is fairly responsive. Maybe a second lag, but definitely not 10-20 secs. I do need to give it time to “warm up” when I start it, though. I use it so rare…

This is a great resource! I’ve used awk for only the most basic field wrangling. This makes me more confident in doing fancier things that I’d otherwise use grep for.

I don’t see myself switching from 1password simply because I don’t think Apple passwords autofill will work natively with non-safari browsers or Linux, both of which I also use. Al…

I live in India. My newspaper costs ₹230 a month. That's ₹2,760 a year and ₹27,600 for a decade (not factoring inflation). At today's conversion rates, that's $333.58 for entire de…

I use modus-vivendi on Emacs. Love the contrast and readability.

IMHO there are better fonts for easy legibility. Inter’s uppercase I (eye) looks exactly same as lowercase l (el). Moreover, there’s only a subtle difference in curvature between a…

I don't really dislike any language i've worked with, but I find myself looking forward to writing some Elixir at work and Common lisp in non-work situations. Ruby is pretty great …

I'd recommend a batteries-included Emacs distro like Doom to try out. That way, you don't spend a lot of time customising the editor before getting invested. Vanilla Emacs is plent…

> elisp is dead I’m not sure it was ever alive to begin with. Not in the classical sense. I mean, I don’t think elisp ever got good (or any) use outside of emacs configuration and …

This! It’s generally a good idea to have a lot of smaller “dumb” views that are stateless and depend on their parameters, and a few “intelligent” views that bring the children toge…

Org mode is easy to get started with if you’re an emacs user. I am one. But before I used emacs, there was no org mode in my life. And let’s face it, while emacs and vim allow you …

I try to exercise every day. This includes sometimes going to gym, or just visiting a park to play badminton with my wife. I like to read, although that has taken a back seat for s…

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