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georgia_peachon Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture

Vim has had mouse support for a long time.

georgia_peachon Ask HN: What tools do you use to make your website/browser interactions faster?

https://www.qutebrowser.org/

georgia_peachon Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture

In the software biz, where one day--Allah willing--we may find ourselves in direct/indirect competition with Microsoft, integrating one of their data probes into the heart of the business does not seem like the best move.

VSCode! It has electrolytes!

georgia_peachon Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture

M-x, C-x, M-Shift-x is emacs, not vim.

It's :q<Enter> in vim.

and to suction: because vi pre-dated those paradigms

georgia_peachon Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture

Here's $0.00. Take it, and buy yourself a real editor. Anything you choose to pay above that goes to needy children in Uganda.

corrected per systemvoltage:

https://www.vim.org/sources.php

georgia_peachon How fat does a fat binary need to be? (2021)

> eventually every operating system is just going to support x86_64-linux-gnu

Whether it's batteries included, or batteries sold separately, we'll still be stuck with batteries. If I want to run Linux on my Mac, that's what UTM is for.

Despite my reservations, nothing but respect, & enjoyed your Feross presentation.

georgia_peachon How fat does a fat binary need to be? (2021)

In the world where a windows binary is not expected to run on a mac, and vice versa, they still have the option to change things on an as-needed basis (like the golang breakage on osx). In a world filled with APEs, you will have canonized all of the present OS idiosyncrasies that made APE possible in the first place, & we will be stuck with them forever.

georgia_peachon How fat does a fat binary need to be? (2021)

This thing of yours is quite an accomplishment. Even so, I hope it goes no further. If it does (& it probably will, because it is convenient), most of the computing world will have stacked yet another sub-optimal low-level mono-culture on top of the one that was already there.

From the robustness/survivability perspective, the mono-cultures we have are bad enough.

georgia_peachon How fat does a fat binary need to be? (2021)

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/140

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/51900

& from what I gather, APE is tightly-bound to x86_64, & depends on an embedded emulator for other architectures:

> All we have to do embed an ARM build of the emulator above within our x86 executables, and have them morph and re-exec appropriately, similar to how Cosmopolitan is already doing doing with qemu-x86_64, except that this wouldn't need to be installed beforehand. The tradeoff is that, if we do this, binaries will only be 10x smaller than Go's Hello World, instead of 100x smaller.

could still be useful as an optional build target though... (i.e. GOOS=cosmopolitan)

georgia_peachon Cloudflare Tries to Ignore the World

Law enforcement blew him off. That's a civil suit. Filing a motion to quash on a subpoena is within their legal rights.

The FBI won't do its job, so cloudflare should do it for them?

georgia_peachon Cloudflare Tries to Ignore the World

> successfully blocked taking the harassers to trial

Source please. They are still a US company, and must comply with all lawful requests.

georgia_peachon Cloudflare Tries to Ignore the World

Good. A utility shouldn't be in the thought-policing business. If something illegal is going on, that's what law enforcement is for.

georgia_peachon What Is Socialism? (YouTube)

The existence of personal shortcomings vs having one's entire social arrangement built upon a lie are very different things.

georgia_peachon What Is Socialism? (YouTube)

They failed because they were heresies--elevating the material above the spiritual & dragging the Gospel down into the muck of economics & policy.

> Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

- 2 Corinthians 9:6-7

georgia_peachon What Is Socialism? (YouTube)

> Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, "Why was not this ointment sold for three-hundred pence, and given to the poor?" The he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

- John 12:4

georgia_peachon As the world burns, Americans buy bigger cars

altogether ignoring matters of quality

georgia_peachon As the world burns, Americans buy bigger cars

money is downstream of power. far, far downstream. shuffle the money around, they'll win it all back +interest in less than a generation. eliminate the money entirely, they will change their operations over to a different status marker, which will become the de-facto currency in-turn. contrary to the marxist lie, there is no political answer--especially in a democracy. the only effective counter is the personal one: self-control, self-denial, the way of the boycott & doing more with less. of the thousands of talking heads we have today, cathy fitts is the only one smart enough to understand this.

georgia_peachon As the world burns, Americans buy bigger cars

1. fly from one of my 4+ seaside mansions to davos in personal private jet

2. discuss with my fellow swells how many bolotnikovas i'll have to pay-off to point the finger at bubba & the soccer moms

3. get dumb proles to pass carbon credit legislation

4. sell my allotment (in finance/media/advertising/mgmt consulting; didn't need them anyway)

5. +brokerage fees transacting carbon credits for other industries that have to actually produce things.

6. mansion += 1; bonus = not as many filthy proles clogging up the airports, highways, beaches;

7. life is good

georgia_peachon Reading fast, reading well, and reading widely (2020)

I also call BS. If he only did two of the three, he'd be far more interesting than he is.

georgia_peachon The UNIX Programming Environment (1984)

Chapter 5 is the best intro to shell programming I've ever read. If you read it for that purpose, don't skip chaps 1-4.

georgia_peachon ‘Aquariumgate’ Is New Child Trafficking 4chan Conspiracy

Okay people, move along. Nothing to see here you looky-loos.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.7697629,-105.0593886,3a,15y,...

georgia_peachon Help Me

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  TU Aquarium 301-313 Newfield St, Venus, TX 76084
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  XK Aquarium 300-398 Towne Vue Dr, Castle Hills, TX 78213
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georgia_peachon Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal on whistleblower story

For those who don't know who "Mudge" is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peiter_Zatko

georgia_peachon Ask HN: Company I just started working for has security policy NO Firefox

Given that they exist primarily as an anti-trust policy for Google, and word on the street is that they've laid-off most of their actual developers, good on your company!

georgia_peachon TMTP a Internet protocol combining elements of email and the web

Wrong place to share. The harmless people here will nitpick you to death as the adult version of sucking-up to teacher & showing how smart they are. The dangerous ones will silently steal the better parts of your idea & run with them, but with better funding & connections.

georgia_peachon A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal

They all embed themselves deeply into our communications, for not-so-altruistic purposes--allegedly to "serve us better", realistically to train the shit out of their AIs in the hopes of growing (or at least maintaining) market share. If people weren't such cattle, a hard line would have already been drawn. If...

georgia_peachon Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (2014)

APL also has great one-liners if that is any help as a potential breeding pair.

georgia_peachon Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (2014)

> get rid of all the footguns about expanding unquoted variables

The shell's power & it's footguns are one in the same. "Fix" them, and becomes a general-purpose language--a jack of all trades & master of none. CS professors will love it, but doing anything meaningful in the shell will look more like a one-page python script instead of the l337 one-liners the Jersey boys graced us with.

georgia_peachon Ask HN: Why is there no performant remote desktop for Mac/Linux?

RDP also does its fair share of raster shuffling. Where it has the edge is that most windows programs still use GDI (i.e. windows native draw commands), and RDP can send a lot of that as commands instead of pixels.

Xwindows used to have the same advantage, but lost it for most modern applications (i.e. ones written in GTK or Qt, which pre-rasterize almost everything for simplified cross-platform compatibility). Nowadays, unless you restrict yourself to classic X applications, X forwarding is going to be a slower, dumber, version of VNC.

Mac has so many fades & animations that, raster or command, it will probably always be slower.

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Neither. 4chan is best.