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Re:Emacs Bedrock 2.0 Released on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @10:14AM (#49610649)
A theme in Emacs can execute any functions and not limited to changing appearance only.

I agree that it’s counterintuitive and even sounds somewhat dangerous.

Re:Emacs Bedrock 2.0 Released on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @07:47AM (#49608999)
With the new newcomers-presets theme in Emacs 31, I removed most of my customization in the init.el. I’m not sure if a minimal starter kit provide anything over it.
It doesn't look like much of an improvement over `tools/tools.go` with blank imports like this:

``` //go:build tools

package tools

import ( _ "github.com/xxx/yyy" ... ) ```

Re:Ghostty 1.0 on Friday December 27, 2024 @08:49AM (#42522020)
Thanks, that's exactly what I am used to!
Re:Ghostty 1.0 on Friday December 27, 2024 @01:50AM (#42520381)
For some reasons, the font looks thinner compare to Kitty on macOS. Not sure if it is a bug or intentional.
Re:Wormable Substack XSS on Monday August 12, 2024 @10:23PM (#41231568)
Calif discovered stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vunerability in Substack
Re:Garage: Open-Source Distributed Object Storage on Friday July 19, 2024 @09:59PM (#41013372)
> S3 is a horrible interface with a terrible lack of features.

Because turn out that most applications do not require that many features when it comes to persistent storage.

Re:Why people in Google hate Go? on Friday November 03, 2023 @07:04AM (#38126948)
> When you search "golang" on google for a long time, the question "Why people hate Go?" comes up at the top.

I don't see this article in the first page when searching for golang. Maybe the results is personalized based on your search history?

> Why people in Google hate Go?

I really doubt that. Most developers I know, that worked with Go for a while, love it for its simplicity and tooling.

Re:Why people in Google hate Go? on Friday November 03, 2023 @07:00AM (#38126911)
Single letter variables like `i`, `j`? How `index1`, `index2` is any better?
Re:Bram Moolenaar Passed Away on Saturday August 05, 2023 @08:44AM (#37011469)
Sending heartfelt condolences to Bram's family. His last commit is just one month ago: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/4c0089d696b8d1d5dc40568f25.... I wonder who else has access to vim.org and the official git repository and if there will be anyone step up to become vim's BDFL.
Re:Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @11:35PM (#36981046)
Even the fanless configuration is still fast enough for most use cases.
Re:Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @11:33PM (#36981034)
Something is very off with ThinkPad development recently. A few years ago, I could pick any T-Series ThinkPad and expect them to have excellent Linux support.

My last two ThinkPads have various annoying issues: battery drain when sleeping, trackpoint freezing after a while, fan kicking in for no reasons.

I have used a System76 laptop in the past, everything is working as it should, but the hardware quality is not comparable to Thinkpads.

Re:How to Design Programs 2nd Edition on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @08:40AM (#35786511)
> Abstractions lead to coupling and complexity.

Without abstractions, we would still programming using punched cards.

Re:Rust, RR, Neovim: A perfect debug combination on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @08:09AM (#35523989)
rr is pure magic! I wish that it is available on macOS.
Re:Rust, RR, Neovim: A perfect debug combination on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @08:07AM (#35523970)
I tried nvim-dap but it is somewhat clunky, unintuitive to use. Turn out that that using delve, gdb, pydb directly on the command line is fine, I don't really need editor integration.
Re:Neovim 0.9 on Friday April 07, 2023 @08:47AM (#35481044)
> EditorConfig support is now builtin.

That's great, one less plugin to install.

Re:GNOME 44 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @06:53AM (#35272741)
Why would anyone want to use Ubuntu 4ee7bb27a0ff1cbc203a0df93919980ccbcfd4f1 over Ubuntu 22.04?
I feel lucky when decided to buy a Brother printer instead of HP. Super easy to setup, press the WPS button once to connect to WI-FI and I can start printing from my Ubuntu laptop without install anything.
Re:The extensible vi layer for Emacs on Friday March 03, 2023 @09:31AM (#35010063)
Now I finally understand the comment in another Emacs thread. I thought people was talking about the Mew - a mail reader for Emacs.
Re:Use GNU Emacs on Friday March 03, 2023 @06:24AM (#35008183)
Which walled garden you are talking about? You can install any programs you like, just like on Windows or Linux.
I don't think C-x C-s + C-x C-q is any easier.
Re:My IDE is too heavy so I moved to Emacs on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @06:43AM (#33967550)
If I'm a cook, I should not cook outside of the restaurant ever?
Re:Redbean Tiddlywiki Saver on Saturday November 19, 2022 @01:32PM (#33673116)
Maybe it’s obvious from the blog post, but I just want to point out that Tiddlywiki saver works out of the box if it is served via WebDAV.

All you have to do is: install Nginx, enable WebDAV module, place the wiki.html file in the WebDAV directory.

Re:Fedora Linux 37 on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @08:03PM (#33617521)
Last time I heard Fedora 37 will remove hardware acceleration for decoding video via VA-API. Not sure if there is a workaround yet, but I image it will be a deal breaker for many people.
Re:My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop (2021) on Friday October 28, 2022 @08:24AM (#33370509)
Or people who argued that "4k is pointless, you can't see the different with 2k anw".
Re:Canonical releases Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu on Thursday October 20, 2022 @08:04PM (#33282506)
I’m happy with the Emacs snap. It is one of the few programs I like to have latest version installed.

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