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Theo of internet drama fame interjecting himself into the middle of it as always.
Could you elaborate? I have no idea who “Theo of internet drama fame” is.
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It's not "a problem," it's a difference in philosophy. Sure, VSCode comes accessible out of the box with minimal configuration needed and a GUI-first settings interface. But that comes with its own price - your config is more restricted in what you can do and fragmented across json files, settings menus, and extension options. In contrast, with Emacs I can change any behavior of any function and command - built-in or…
Yeah, I'm not wrong. Its terminology is antique. As for the rest, been there and done that, but then you have to invest in your knowledge of Elisp, which has zero other benefits.
git uses "plumbing" and "porcelain" commands, referring to victorian-era plumbing systems. Adobe and other publishing tools use terms like "slug", "gutter", "folio", "pica". Debugging tools use terms like "trap", "dump", "patch". You're annoyed with what Emacs calls "window" and "frame"? And what about Tmux's "pane" and "window"; or "session" - "an ancient" term from the time of timesharing systems? Oh boy, if you afraid of words don't ever try to get into Haskell - those FP-crazies do use some real fancy words for their stuff.
> knowledge of Elisp, which has zero other benefits
The same way the knowledge of sql, or awk, or bash, or vim motions, or ssh, or tmux has zero benefits outside of their respective domains? What are you even talking about? I, for one, get daily gains, benefiting from knowing elisp - anything that has to do with text, just about anything can be automated with ease.
Just the other day - watching my colleague over Zoom, I decided to fix that for my note-taking. It took me fifteen minutes to write a piece of Elisp that OCRs any piece of text from a screenshot. Instead of disrupting my teammates all the time, I would now take a screenshot of a screen area with Flameshot, run my custom command and voilà - the text appears in my editor, and I can quickly grab it and use it in my notes.
I don't know where exactly "you've been" and what "you've done", but it really sounds like you haven't seen modern Emacs in practice. When one sees what people can do these days in it, it's hard not to get impressed.
Hi - Isidor here from the VS Code team. A member of the community did a deep security analysis of the extension and found multiple red flags that indicate malicious intent and reported this to us. Our security researchers at Microsoft confirmed this claims and found additional suspicious code. We banned the publisher from the VS Marketplace and removed all of their extensions and uninstalled from all VS Code instance…
Letting you know that VSCode is unable to uninstall the extension. It prompts me to uninstall, but when I confirm the window refreshes and the extension is still there, triggering the same "is problematic" prompt. This is an infinite loop. Same behavior when trying to uninstall the usual way from the extensions panel. I had to manually delete the extension's folder in %USERPROFILE%\.vscode\extensions and delete the e…
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Imagine the amount of infected packages we use every day. Probably 20 different governments see everything we do.
why worry about governments so much? You know how many different companies see everything you do? Do you trust all of them? https://www.wired.com/story/gravy-location-data-app-leak-rtb...
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As a example: Rider ( https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/ ) - a IDE - comes with everything you could possibly need to build and compile .NET apps out of the box, while VSCode - a code editor - relies on extensions (and thus mostly the community surrounding VSCode) for this. Or to make things more succinct: * VSCode is a extendable code editor (like vim, neovim, Zed and Sublime) * Jetbrains Rider is a fully equipped Int…
I'm a big JetBrains fan, but this distinction is just silly. If you look at the way that JetBrains IDEs are packaged, the differences between IDEs all come down to extensions —which are enabled by default, which are available to install at all. IntelliJ Ultimate can be made to have all the features of PyCharm with the right extension combo. And occasionally they break out a new IDE by taking an extension and making i…
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why worry about governments so much? You know how many different companies see everything you do? Do you trust all of them? https://www.wired.com/story/gravy-location-data-app-leak-rtb...
Companies didn't intentionally murder 100 million of their own customers in the 20th century alone.
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Companies didn't intentionally murder 100 million of their own customers in the 20th century alone.
They certainly aided and abetted. See IBM.
As long as government claims the right to a monopoly on violence, it is reasonable to hold them to far, far higher standards than anyone else, including corporations. There is only so much damage one company or one cartel can do, but with government, the downside is unbounded. As I suspect we're about to see for ourselves.
The day {n,}vim take away my color schemes, I die. Convenience until it isn't, eh?
Yeah well, MSFT - the behemoth among evilish corporations, invests vast sums into developing a sophisticated tool with extensive features - more than their combined philanthropic initiatives - and offers it freely to just about anyone. This generosity doesn't seem questionable at all, eh? I mean, when I use Vim and Emacs, the benefits clearly flow to users and the developer community. Back when I paid for the Intelli…