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I've to admit i tried to edit the post multiple times, even checked the formatting options https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc (having links between angle brackets didn't work :( ) sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for doing the effort :)
> Urls become links, except in the text field of a submission.
E-ink diplays...
Plan 9 in general.
I keep hearing about it and its influence, but I can't really figure out if it's active or dead or even If I can use it on a virtual machine or so. 9p.io doesn't seem to even load on my machine
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It's good for a c or c++ project where libraries are very environment specific. But most modern languages have their own package/environment managers which makes Nix redundant.
Not really. I introduced it to our Python projects at work and it's been great. Partially because of poetry2nix, and partially because it makes it easy to include other stuff like a specific version of Redis for testing purposes. Everybody gets the exact same dev environment, reducing a ton of "works on my machine".
I'm thinking unpopular could mean the tech is polarizing or frequently dismissed/overlooked. * APL -- I haven't dedicated the time to learning in part because there's little support where I normally work. I'd love for APL to have be adapted like a domain specific language a la perl compatible regular expressions for various languages (april in common lisp, APL.jl in julia). * regular expressions. https://xkcd.com/117…
Also how do you use zimwiki? I've been trying it for a month and I don't find it that great compared to something like Obsidian or QOwnNotes or even TiddlyWiki. Do you have a specific workflow?
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It's good for a c or c++ project where libraries are very environment specific. But most modern languages have their own package/environment managers which makes Nix redundant.
Not really. I introduced it to our Python projects at work and it's been great. Partially because of poetry2nix, and partially because it makes it easy to include other stuff like a specific version of Redis for testing purposes. Everybody gets the exact same dev environment, reducing a ton of "works on my machine".
- I'd like Emacs/org-mode knowledge common at least starting from universities because we need the classic desktop model and Emacs is the still developed piece of software implementing it alongside with Pharo, but Pharo is usable only to play and develop while Emacs is ready to end-users usage with a gazillion of ready-made packages;
- feeds, in the broad sense, meaning XML automation on the net/web so I can get my bills just from a feedreader, all transactions digitally signed, so both party have a proof (ah, of course a national PKI is mandatory), news, anything in the same way making my information mine in my hands instead of wasting time in gazillion of crappy services;
- IPv6 with a global per host, so we can finally profit of our modern fiber-optics connections instead of being tied to someone else computer, i.e. "the cloud";
- last but just aside: R instead of spreadsheets for the business guys, so they do not produce and share anymore crappy stuff, LaTeX for similar reasons to produce nice looking pdfs...
GnuPG/PGP and the web of trust[0]. A lot of things I see blockchain being used for today (e.g. NFTs) seems like it would be better solved using standard OpenPGP signatures with no backing chain. Additionally, as machine-generated content proliferates, I think having services use something like the web of trust concept for membership would be super powerful. The problem is, of course, the terrible UX of cryptographic…
GPG is great. It also makes it really easy to encrypt environment dotfiles that safely reside in your source code repository. This is my favorite way of storing sensitive app configs. You don't even need a PGP private key in your keychain to do it. You can use a passphrase.