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Please show me source code as plain text. My fonts and colour preferences are better than yours.

Yep.

I use Gentoo.

I wonder how this compares to a native GCC build. I always build Firefox myself (as I do with everything) and is always been noticeably faster than the binary. I hope this doesn't mean there will be problems doing GCC builds in the future.

> (Thank God for Linux From Scratch!)

Don't thank God, thank the people that actually made it possible. RMS, for example. You don't have to use LFS to be free. You can use any other free software distribution.

Second in a car is optimistic. I often have to put it in first and just let the engine tick over. Some people don't think their car can do this. I'm not sure if that's true or if they are just bad drivers, though. My car will happily roll in third if it's flat.

I find I'm usually able to keep rolling in gear, which doesn't use any more fuel than just idling, and not apply the brakes in most "stop and go" traffic.

I'm not sure what other commenters are talking about, but the vast majority of open source is developed by programmers in isolation and the only collaborative tools used are some kind of VCS like git and some kind of "forge" like GitHub.

Nice. I think the best way to learn how to use programming tools is to actually see the need for them yourself. Starting with a basic text editor, no make, no debugger etc. is great.

I just don't believe in this "social conditioning" thing. I've seen absolutely no evidence for it in my life. My sister grew up with three older brothers and we became a programmer, an electrician, and a mechanic. Right from birth she was surrounded by computers, electronics, engines and gears. She is not interested and will not be interested no matter how hard someone like you tries to make her interested. She is instead an artist and a wonderful one. She just did what she wanted to do.

I've had intimate relationships with more than twenty women in my life. I've had friendships and professional relationships with many times more. I'd hazard to guess that my experience with women is way above average for this forum. I've not met a single one who told me they really wanted to be a scientist/engineer/programmer etc but found that society didn't let them. In fact, I find the contrary to be true: the ones that have chosen those fields were offered more encouragement than I ever was.

Just let people do what they want to do.

Hey, why not just stop all development? WEP was fine. IE6 was fine. I'm sure you still run Windows XP too.

What do you mean by less capable than "men"? Do you really think anyone is saying you're less capable than all men at anything at all? I can say with complete confidence that that is completely untrue. But you must accept that there are some people who are better than you at some particular thing. And if you must worry about who is the very best in the world at that particular thing it might well be a man. But why do you care?

I don't even understand why this is controversial. I've explained this to a number of women before and none of them have felt hurt. On the contrary, in fact, it makes them feel better. Humans always fixate on extremes. Men and women. It's a problem in our society. We always want to see the very best and we're not interested in others who are still way above average. There are thousands of women doing great science, engineering, programming etc., but the very best are almost always men, and it's our fault that we only care about the very best.

I've been using emacs for more than ten years and I've loved how I've been able to invest heavily in one text editor to cover all my needs. Back then everyone else seemed to be using special purpose IDEs so it's interesting to see that only now lots of people are seeing the advantages of more general purpose editors.

VSCode is not emacs, but it's not bad at all.

Honestly, if you like VSCode you should have been using emacs rather than vim all along...

Glad I don't use Chrome. Hope this doesn't happen too Firefox or that'll be another entry in my /etc/portage/patches

I don't know any. What I meant was just to find good looking tables yourself and study them with an eye for typesetting. The manuals for LaTeX packages, including booktabs, are often very good too.

Using booktabs for a start. There are various other packages for making tables nice but that one gets you a long way. Also study well typeset tables to learn why they look nice.

At one point I tried lots of different terminal emulators but none of them were better than xterm.

It's hard to say because there are many other things that are better any my current office. Having the nice view outside certainly isn't a bad thing. At home I work in classic geek style darkness, though.

I was hired as a data scientist for a large company that thought they needed data scientists. They didn't and I added no value to the company. I left after about a year. If there are many people like me then that might explain the shortage.

I think some comments are missing the point. I used to work in an office that definitely had "natural light" because it did have windows, but the view from the windows was basically just other grey buildings about 10 metres away. I now work in an office where I can look out and see grass, trees, and the sky, and it's much nicer.

But we are already living unsustainably. I don't believe for a second that if governments were disbanded everyone would downgrade their lifestyles to become sustainable. It's one thing preventing inflation to the point of unsustainability, it's quite another to require deflation.

> Governments won't solve this issue. We the consumers have to solve it, the problem is that nobody gives a fuck.

Consumers will never "solve the problem". Why would they? Why would someone downgrade their lifestyle when everyone around them continues to live unsustainably and are more happy as a result? It's all or nothing, and only governments can enforce that.

"bat" is not a better version of cat, it's a completely different tool. cat is short for concatenate. If you want to view a file use less, and if you want syntax highlighting etc. then use view (comes with vim).

That makes it exit immediately like cat.

MDMA quickly loses its effect, though. I've done it twice in a month before and even then the second time wasn't that great. I'll only experience full waves once a month at most. And you can't just take more next time. It doesn't work. It will just give you a suicide tuesday.

Yeah that struck me as odd too (and I'm not American). I think a year of school makes me more educated, but not more intelligent.

> And you need heating non-stop in winter

No you don't. I don't know anyone who leaves their heating on at night. In the winter I run my heating for a few hours a day maybe.

> And there is a lot more energy spent heating in the north than there is cooling in the south.

Source for this?

I write any document that doesn't need extensive custom typesetting (which is 90% of stuff) in org-mode and then use pandoc to convert it to "normal people" formats at the end. I have made a basic template for MS Word that looks pretty good.