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> Why would you continue to subscribe to a bullshit company that does this? They said they subscribed which could mean that they have since unsubscribed. I think they’re texting th…

> Some of the packages are included, all of them have to be turned on and configured I see where you're coming from, but I think this is a bit exaggerated as well. For some concret…

> Emacs is now nothing more than a glorified Org editor I must admit that if it wasn’t for Org, I as a long-time Vim user wouldn’t be using Emacs :)

> terminals whose keyboards lacked the keys vim users use to navigate in modal editing, and there's no reason for it anymore. Vim keybindings really are more comfortable if you str…

For that example: Any reason the server doesn’t just have an SSH server? Then you can use `git clone` in the “usual way”, using SSH certificate authentication.

> If you are running servers passing passwords as command line arguments in that device, they have all that. I make a point out of never doing that. It’s way too easy to accidental…

I don’t know Pyjion, but I have used Numba for real work. It’s a great package and can lead to massive speed-ups. However, last time I used it, it (1) didn’t work with many third-p…

> You'd really have to be a complete data engineering newbie to not understand it I think? I do occasionally use Pandas in my day job, but I honestly think very few programmers tha…

Congratulations on a major release! Genuine question: Would you recommend learning Tcl/Tk from scratch in 2024, and in that case for what use cases?

Yeah, I believe Pandas was inspired by similar functionality in R.

Above that it says “DataFrames for a new era” hidden in their graphics. I believe it’s a competitor to the Python library “Pandas”, which makes it easy to do complex transformation…

Based on e.g. [this classic]( https://youtu.be/a9xAKttWgP4?si=oMQQVbIziq60Cd1F ), it seems people are fluent and productive in APL in a way I doubt anyone can become in Brainfuck. …

> Debian's … installer … seems quite apt I see what you did there

I switched to Ubuntu back in 2008, and have used it on and off since then. When it first arrived, it was IMO significantly better than Debian for end users: Debian was notoriously …

I actually like the concept of foot pedals or thumb cluster keyboards, which sound like two of the most ergonomic ways to use modifier keys. The main issue is that due to my work I…

I used to do exactly the same. But then I developed RSI in my left forearm, which I blame on overusing it for all modifier keys (including CapsLock as my only Ctrl and only using l…

If I have a typo, I typically Ctrl-W to delete and retype the last word.

Yes. You can think of it as: If you’re surrounded by an equal amount of mass in every direction (because you’re at the center of a set of spherical mass shells), then the gravitati…

This is a valid point. I’m a big fan of Python the language myself, but packaging and distribution is quite the mess. I honestly wish we at least got first-class support for adding…

I used to take some notes on paper (if it needed math and diagrams, or for meetings that require eye contact), and some notes on a computer (programming or pure text). My iPad repl…

Why?

1Password (password manager), iCloud+ (cloud storage), Arq (backup software), BackBlaze B2 (backup hosting), various streaming services (switching from month to month). I have also…

In general, Vim on an iPhone (via iSH, a-Shell, or iVim) works surprisingly well. I thought the idea was ridiculous until I gave it a proper try (even though I was already a Vim us…

Unpopular opinion: Your problem isn’t Vim, it’s the NeoVim ecosystem. I know because I’ve had the same time sink problem after the Lua ecosystem took off, and have been much happie…

> The eMacs ones are a bit more common in more applications I think it depends on your platform? On macOS, nearly all apps support a (very small) subset of Emacs keybindings. On al…