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Obligatory plug of my keyboard layout which solves the awkward right hand contortions: https://pzel.name/pl-lefty.html It comes bundled with xorg nowadays, you can use: Option "Xkb…

Also see Snap!, a fork of scratch3 (the js-only version, not the squeakvm-in-the-browser versrion from TFA). https://snap.berkeley.edu/ Snap! is made by folks previously involved i…

I'm going off of this entry: https://www.etymonline.com/word/novice Sure the root word might be Latin, (and so is a majority of European vocabulary), but the specific usage of "nov…

Beginner's mistake!

Are you referring to the trend of desacralization or resacralization of religious terms? This is the dictionary definition of shoshin from kotobank.jp: > ② (「しょほっしん（初発心）」の略) 初めて悟りを…

Yes, in the same way as "evangelist" and "novice" are everyday words in English. This does not invalidate their original religious meaning. Daisetz Suzuki I'm sure was quite aware …

I find that the regular `M-x shell` functionality gives you a reasonable approximation of the acme `win` workflow. The 'shell' buffer acts mostly like a regular text buffer, so you…

I managed to silence arc by aliasing my arc command to be = `arc --no-ansi COMMAND` See http://no-color.org for more. I'm happily not using arc for work anymore.