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gnulynnuxon Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust

Yes. In my experience, Rust projects are always easy to install. Cargo is much nicer than, say, npm or conda.

gnulynnuxon New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy

What kind of Android do you have? Are you sure you went through all the settings?

And, still, I can install LineageOS or other privacy-respecting systems on my phone. We don't have any custom firmware for an Echo or Alexa yet (to the best of my knowledge.)

gnulynnuxon Python Tips and Tricks, You Haven’t Already Seen

I'd heard of __slots__ long ago but I didn't know enough to use it. The example is good!

gnulynnuxon GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract

This is true in a lot of places. In my PhD program (in a US university), the vast majority of us are not US citizens.

gnulynnuxon Cross the world four times

Perhaps I'm just unfamiliar with the rest of his work. But this, and a brief perusal of his page, carries the same air as those self-help books written by the wealthy and privileged.

If this is intended as advice, I stand by my judgement that it's just not good. But I also think others would see that it's not good, we all generally understand travel as another form of consumerism and something available only to the wealthy. So it probably isn't advice.

But if this is a metaphor, then there is meaning that I don't understand and I withdraw my judgement.

gnulynnuxon Cross the world four times

I don't see how this is a metaphor, it seems to be pretty much on-the-face as recommending people travel the world four times.

gnulynnuxon Cross the world four times

This is pretentious and pretty bad advice.

Does the author believe most people can afford to quit working for a period of time, let alone afford to travel around the world? Does this author look down upon those who aren't so well traveled, view them as lesser or less deserving?

gnulynnuxon Get Started Making Music

I don't know anything about making music and haven't really engaged much with other such tutorials.

Those still exist and have their place, but I like this, and it lets me explore with concepts. This is fun and I like it

gnulynnuxon Composing better emails

I have to disagree here -- emails are extremely useful for two reasons:

1. It leaves a paper trail (good for accountability),

2. In the case of forgetting a detail or ambiguity, you can look back into the email.

I myself struggle with parsing and retaining spoken language, so I make sure to send email confirmations for specific tasks.