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Bedrock Emacs is pretty much this, its what I finally used after I declared config-bankruptcy with Doom, and it gave me the room I needed to get my own setup together

https://codeberg.org/ashton314/emacs-bedrock

Glanding, throat-mic; I see those Culture-isms :^)

Certainly far from Banks' Minds sadly; though I could certainly see an Eccentric with a hyper-fixation on fantasy creatures

Oh man, I played with teapot once a long while ago, but couldn't figure out how to parse values from XDR files in $LANG, or export some given sheet into CSV or other format- which sadly put a stop to my experimentation. Super interesting otherwise, and wish it had more eyes.

Does learning/using new words make you a worse writer?

The handful of times I've used a thesaurus is usually 'for aesthetics', in that the word/phrase I have in mind clashes with the flow of the text. I know what I want to say, and I know how I can say it, but I _also_ know that I can jostle the wording around so that the rhythm doesn't deteriorate.

It's not a democracy (by definition)

Why even leave this comment?

Disclaimer: I used the /royal/ LISP--as in the 'lisp family'- my introduction, and language of choice, has been Clojure (who's qualification as a Lisp is technically contended by certain fundamentalists), but it is still quite paren-based either-way.

And I do, I bounced off it the first time long ago, and really took to it the second go around, its been my daily driver at home and work for some years now- it brings me great joy.

Working with lisp quickly made me realize how over-rated operator precedence (or even the concept of "operators") is. All such effort and early grade-school hours spent on this arbitrary short-hand instead of treating the operations themselves as functions and embracing the divine order of (more) parens.

"Sense business wise" seems to vary quite a bit nowadays, at least every other day there's a headline of a company on here doing something almost exclusively for short-term value at the detriment to long-term health.

The proximity of this and Bitnami pulling their 'free hardened images' is amusing, and I'm just as concerned about another (eventual, but imminent) rug-pull down the line. Docker Inc historically seems comfortable with the typical VC/"growth"-fueled strat of:

1. 'generous' initial offering to establish a userbase/ecosystem/network-effect

2. "oh teehee we're actually gonna have to start charging for that sorry we know that you've potentially built a lot of your infrastructure around this thing"

3. $$$

Depends on bot-detection and if its a CPC or CPA campaign

I was gonna say, I miss when this is what headlines looked like in my country.

??? why does any company do it? Money?

> I'm assuming the people who are asking for Orion to be open source are not paying for it.

I think this is an odd/slightly-disingenuous statement.

I mean, I'm on linux, so I'm not, I'm happily paying for kagi though, and would pay for Orion+ if it was available to me :)

I would also very much like it if Orion was open source, it would make me feel a lot better committing to and recommending a browser if I had actual assurances it's behaving appropriately, beyond a company saying "trust me", no matter how nice/cool they seem at the time.

Honestly, I kinda wish Orion+ was the only option, I think having a free option (and the incentives that can create) is kind of antithetical to Kagi's whole raison detre.

Well, paying money for consumer apps/services (besides games) has always seemed a bit more normalized in the iOS ecosystem, and I imagine it must be a _somewhat_ simpler interface than the lovecruftian monolith of windows-N

saying this as a Linux user, I've never owned an apple device in my life (nor do I want to)

Oh man, I first looked at this project what feels like _forever_ ago and remember thinking--almost verbatim, "Wow I wish I could see this 5 years from now", and lo and behold I suppose it has been about that long!

Very happy to see it finally hit 1.0

There's a batch of dialog that indicates an interest in 'digital sovereignty', so it sounds like they are less interested in being an explicit customer of a given company.

This kind of comment is better suited to reddit, or twitter, rather than HN.

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I assumed the post was sarcastic, but Poe's Law I suppose, sadly..

Looking around my area, unsure what the heuristics are for determining whats a climbing/boulder gym, but there's quite a few false-positives. I got excited because I thought there was some new options in my otherwise duopolized island.

I've been using Clojure for a few years now and zippers have always been a blindspot (had no idea even _when_ they would be useful), this is a remarkable tutorial!

But those 99.999% of users won't be using F-droid or direct-installs to begin with.

> The unauthorized party also gained access to a small number of government‑ID images (e.g., driver’s license, passport) from users who had appealed an age determination. If your ID may have been accessed, that will be specified in the email you receive.

The quick turnaround time on that is rather poetic- glad the UK was able to help keep everyone safe with that age-verification business.

Orion as well (by the Kagi people), not available on linux yet but there is a roadmap: web-kit based.

I don't see the corollary here.

Also valid--but I think both work.

I'm a fan of grammatical radicalism, the parens are appropriate if they're meant to convey a certain tone/voice in the writing, like a quick added-in-fragment after you're done saying the original title (as if you were giving a presentation).

This is a conflation of "Simple" and "Easy" (rather, "complex" and "hard"). 'Simple vs Complex' is more or less objective, 'Easy vs Hard' is subjective, and changes based on the person.

And of course, Easy =/= Simple, nor the other way around.

'Hermetic' is an interesting word-choice, considering Clojure has a habit/raison detre of attaching to other host languages/ecosystems i.e. Jank (C++), ClojureScript (JS), Basilisp (Python), Phel (PHP), Babashka (general scripting), and of course, Clojure itself on the JVM.

It's not a complaint, it's just a fact to consider.