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Re:iPhones and action discoverability by taneq on Sunday September 25, 2022 @11:43PM (#32979155)
> My #1 blocker is that I am no longer 15 and have things to do other than just poke about until I master a new text editor.

100% this. Once upon the time my attitude would have been a bratty "you just don't want to do the work to master your tools!" My response to that now is "no the fuck I do NOT, I want problem number 8131 solved yesterday so I can move on to problem number 8132 which btw requires entirely different tooling."

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Re:iPhones and action discoverability by BeFlatXIII on Monday September 26, 2022 @11:04AM (#32984068)
emacs and vim are tools that you'd use enough that mastering them is probably worth the time investment. However, it's 100% true that mastering every package your stack touches is impractical. Learn just enough to get the tests to pass and move on to the next bug.

I was lucky enough to have first encountered LaTeX and LilyPond while still in high school.

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