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sping

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  • What's your most cynical opinion about the world?

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  • That's less bad, that's not fixing anything. There is no universe when using energy to move 1.5-3 tonne private vehicles around for transportation is sustainable. I've heard numbers typically in the 40-60% region for the lifetime energy use of electric vs ICE. That is not fixing any problem, that's making the problem worse less quickly.

  • What's your most cynical opinion about the world?

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  • You think electric cars are some sort of solution? They are part of the problem, not the solution. Making things worse but not quite as quickly is not making things better.

    Truth is we could never stop it without radical global abolition of high energy activities. That's impossible given the short term gains of breaking ranks and the unpopularity of that level of denial. We didn't have to destroy ourselves as quickly, but the path was set when we had the industrial revolution.

  • Using Vim is Amazing

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  • Hmm, I'm not taking about hacking defaults, I'm talking about hacking functionality. I'm talking about making capabilities that didn't exist, all seamlessly part of my typical integrated text manipulation environment (that's way broader than editing)

    The unique power of emacs is it doesn't have typical boundaries, so integrated personal unique functionality is possible. May well be a huge downfall, security wise - it rides a lot on security through obscurity.

    Frankly it's taken me decades to properly appreciate how my computer experience can be so fungible. Most computer systems don't allow it.

  • Using Vim is Amazing

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  • Lazy about tooling? The biggest point people make is that IDEs tend to work out of the box while the likes of vim or emacs need configuration and have an initially steep learning curve.

    Well, as in this discussion, some people sometimes also tend to raise a lot of features as if only IDEs have them, but that's frequently just ignorance.

  • Using Vim is Amazing

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  • Hackability not on your list? It's the ability to extend and adapt it to my particular needs that, above many other things, means I am too deep into Emacs to even imagine leaving.

    Plugins are a very weak substitute that cannot provide that utility, and I notice Helix doesn't even offer plugins. That sword does have the horrendous opposite edge of almost total lack of security, so perhaps I'll regret that one day. There are so many ways I value Emacs that isn't matched by any other text environment that none of the others are even on my radar as possible replacements.

    Out-of-the-box experience is very weak on Emacs, but I'm decades past that being a concern to me directly, though it does inhibit newcomer uptake.

    Other than that, for me it ticks your boxes while barely scratching the surface of its merits. At least its speed and latency is not something I notice any meaningful benefit when working with something that people praise, like vim. Come to that most of the time like now, typing into a browser text box, I'm not even bothered by latency, and that's way worse than Emacs.

    It's biggest failing to me is working remotely when there's significant network latency, where VSCode is clearly superior, but I have neither the time, nor probably the ability, to fix it.

  • Using Vim is Amazing

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  • Dude, your þey business immediately turns 80% of readers against any message you may be trying to convey while the rest will be saying "Okay, they may be an insufferable dweeb, but that doesn't mean they're wrong, so let's try to give it a fair read"...

  • Using Vim is Amazing

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  • I swear some of you people think some of the most talented and productive experienced devs use vim and emacs because of some snobbery or because they haven't noticed vscode etc exist.

  • Using Vim is Amazing

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  • It really is unique.

  • Animated particle constellations in 42 lines of JavaScript

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  • Well j = i + 1, and drop the equality test.

  • How many cars are needed

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  • Yeah I had a commute through Boston US and the subway took 40-45 mins including 5 mins walk each end and the bike took 30-33 mins door to door. Subway was 50-70 for a while there when overdue critical repair work was ongoing. The subway route was straighter too.

  • How many cars are needed

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  • A subway is the American word for metro surely? And London's is generally called The Underground.

  • How many cars are needed

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  • This would make sense if anyone was going to ban all cars, when generally the idea is to drastically scale then back for when they're necessary while making less inefficient modes more useful and attractive.

  • Rachel Reeves ‘plots tax raid on solicitors and GPs in crackdown on UK’s wealthy’

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  • So that's the independent these days is it? Given it's a weird long standing tax dodge being closed, that's an interesting choice of headline

    I remember the start of the Independent. They prided themselves in a lack of bias, to the point it was a dull paper, but serious .

  • Meshtastic

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  • Meshtastic is fully dominant in user numbers, but is fundamentally broken by design for what most people actually want to use it for, which is a distributed zero infrastructure communication network. As soon as numbers rise it is crushed by the weight of its own administrative traffic. Also, it's way too easy to set nodes up as ROUTER nodes, which crushes the mesh and swallows traffic ironically.

  • Check two conditions in bash ? [solved]

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  • Linux does use Python syntax... in Python.

    In Bash though, it uses Bash syntax.

  • in what proportions do you mix beer (pale lager) and apple juice?

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  • I remember it as just beer and cider, with the addition of blackcurrant making it a Purple Nasty, and all sorts of tales of how they allegedly reacted to make a vicious drink more than the sun of the parts that I am sure was fiction.

    And for Americans, this means alcoholic ciders, since they also call raw apple juice cider, and most Americans have no idea what a blackcurrant is (a delicious intense berry that was illegal to cultivate in the US for a lot of the recent past).

  • Americans are getting new trains

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  • Looks like they have reasonable height windows, unlike the weird little slit windows that Amtrak typically has for some reason. I've always assumed it's to minimize greenhouse effects, because maybe nobody was able to imagine blinds or heat-reflective glass used elsewhere.

    While Amtrak trains always seem crude and old fashioned compared to modern trains in other countries, one thing they've always been is very comfortable and spacious. I'm a little concerned by 27% more seats - is that the end of the generous space?

    I'm probably unlikely to find out for a while, because faced with the usually dramatically higher prices for ~20% shorter journey times, I usually choose the cheaper, slightly slower standard Amtrak service instead of Acela. It's a testament to the benefits of rail that even the rickety slow Amtrak trains are often still a good option for the few journeys they serve.

  • Switched to TPU tubes, and it feels like I'm cheating now.

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  • Well yes they are more efficient than butyl for drag and weight, it's just a very small amount that would be hard to detect. And it's only for acceleration that rotational weight counts extra - up to double at the tire edge. Climbing at constant speed it is just simple weight.

    And if course on the flat at constant speed weight is irrelevant, which is why a few kg of weight has a small effect on times, and 100-300g less tube weight is barely measurable, being a fraction of one percent better some of the time.

  • Switched to TPU tubes, and it feels like I'm cheating now.

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  • I don't think so. I think they're better but it's a very small percentage in terms of times. Close to latex IIRC.

    I do believe there is a solid benefit in comfort compared to typical butyl with supple tires but that's pretty subjective.

    The only downside in my mind is they're slightly loud. I'm very happy with them, and recently had a puncture and was happy that the patch seems to hold.