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Re:Emacs Timeline on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @04:38PM (#32336417)
I think people who stick with it tend to be people who see it as a hobby. If you're just looking to get stuff done VS Code or JetBrains will get you up and running way faster than Emacs, with similar productivity. I stick with Emacs because it's so configurable it can be exactly the way I want it, which I haven't found in other editors.
Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @03:17PM (#31827936)
My read was that it produces code that is correct in some circumstances, but is incorrect for the author's use case.
During my three years of working in law school admissions, GPA was a primary factor at my school and all the peer schools I knew about.

Each school would set a target median LSAT and GPA for the year's class because they were weighted heavily in the US News rankings. Applicants with both scores at or above the target median would get scholarships, applicants with one number at or above the median would be presumptively admitted, diverse applicants with solid numbers were admitted to fill out the class once LSAT and GPA were set, and then there would be a half-dozen or fewer judges' kids, politicians' kids, etc.

I used one as my main computer for about a year, I want to say 2018-2019 or so. Honestly I was pretty impressed. 4k video was out, and I had to compile Emacs from source, but aside from that it mostly just worked. I did have to be somewhat mindful of how many apps I had running, but found it to be sort of nice because it kept me from going off on as many tangents. I liked it but moved back to a regular desktop when I got back into gaming.
Re:Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy on Thursday April 21, 2022 @11:49AM (#31111039)
I hesitate to speculate on what Musk will do specifically, but often in a poison pill situation a tender offer will be contingent on the removal of the poison pill. The point of the tender offer is not to buy the shares immediately, but to incentivize shareholders to put pressure on the board to remove the poison pill, then complete the tender offer it's removed.