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There is always Glove80, choc switches have very little travel.

Certainly LaunchBar as mentioned above.

Launchbar[0] is also still around - not actively developed, but actively maintained. Happy user since 10 years already, even though I own a lifetime Alfred license.

[0]: https://obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html

Raycast has only rudimentary file workflows. Constant efforts for monetization (VC money) and milking AI hype are just cherries on top.

Yes, the SUV - I have barely seen the limousine on the road. The "luxury limousine" segment seems to be pretty dead here, in Germany, too :/

Have no hands-on experience with EQS, other than that it stands next to my door (neighbour's), but EQS is huge, costs 2x Ionic 5, has a 100 kWh battery, aerodynamics of a brick, presumably better suspension... a completely different segment.

I way looking at Ionic 5, but it was shortly before the facelift, so I could not even configure it anymore. Got a VW ID.7, very happy with it.

I still have a full box of SuSE 7.3 on my shelf, the first (and only) Linux disto I've bought. :)

Guilty as charged! I've used it to de-DRM and transfer my bought ebooks to read them on my pocketbook. But, good to know that me, refusing to buy another kindle as a successor to my Kindle Voyage was the right decision. Every aspect of amazon these days is garbage experience - be it retail, books or video. Also got rid of prime years ago.

I was complaining about lack of physical buttons in my VW compared to my BMW before it, but then I thought about it - what do I actually use? Climate control is set to 20C and stays there. Carplay starts when I board the car and resumes what it was doing the last ride. Seat and wheel heating start dependent on temperature. There is actually nothing to set besides window heating (dedicated buttons) and volume (slider and wheel buttons). I was a bit angry at capacitive wheel buttons, but since I've discovered that I can set speed by 10 steps with a swipe I have to say that I don't care that much.

I still think that Skoda has much better controls, though. They also look and work quite similar to the control in OP.

Looks better, support weather, supports more sensors, more configuration options… But Stats is sufficient, I just use iStats for ages and it ask for little money ~two times in a decade.

It was also a native application on macOS (OS X at that time). But then it was replaced with this Electron abomination which would have a runaway process any other day and consume all battery and would require 2 years to implement sorting in playlists.

I truly ask myself what their development team is doing.

I agree, even after only working through examples and small learning projects in "Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation" writing is quite easy. Maybe the secret is writing lisp instead of writing about and studying it. The same approach also works with every other programming language, as a bonus :)

Ah, what would be a lisp thread without the inevitable lisps-decline-because-of-the-syntax-explainer, who will write a small roman about how bad lisp is and how no one cares about them /s

On a more serious note, anecdotes are not data, correlation has to be proven. Lisps may not be popular (a fate they share with most c-syntax language without corporate money) but also absolutely un-dead at that point. I am fine with it. In fact, as someone who earns good money with mostly JS, I couldn’t care less, I wouldn’t touch JS with a stick for my personal projects.

*Some* people behind Rhombus think that lisp syntax is a problem - we will see. My prediction is that it will not even leave a dent - people get all kind of strange ideas without having any kind of data to prove their claims. To me it looks like just another python:

https://docs.racket-lang.org/rhombus/index.html

I would recommend to look for a manual lever - either Flair or Cafelat Robot, or models with a boiler like La Pavoni or Olympia Cremina if milk is required.

It is easier to adjust flow and pressure in many cases than grind size. Also you will notice that a flat pressure profile is not that good - you will see and feel when puck start to degrade and you have to go down with pressure. People tend to make science out of everything these days, but you can perfectly go by feel if you have immediate feedback. As a plus, all these machines are incredibly simple, robust and serviceable. The Cremina I've got is from 96 and has all chances to outlive me.

The only thing I really would pay attention to is ratio - is can shift the taste a lot between sour and bitter.

You are absolutely right - I thought about adding that Denote is a true successor to Notational Velocity[1], not to Zettelkasten systems like org-roam, Logseq and Obsidian. For me personally notes are "cold" storage - I sometimes link to them in Org tasks but mostly I interact with them by using consult-ripgrep.

1: https://notational.net/

I've skimmed through the manual - it seems to be quite more complex than Denote. Denote is very simple, I've had basically to configure my own fuzzy search with consult-notes-search to make it work. Howm has all that out of the box. The appeal is lack of configuration, I guess, but I can already see that there are things I would never touch - a skinny org-agenda replacement is not very appealing these days. I guess it really predates the existence of org.

There is nothing linux-specific in this list, you describe learning UNIX and could do it on any *BSD, including macOS. I would agree that knowing you way around unix is very helpful, having some specific linux knowledge is worth very little if your job does not consist of managing linux machines. And even then you will require a lot of distro-specific knowledge.

I use Org-mode because it is simple *and* capable - still just plain text, synced over iCloud, workflow can be as complex or as simple as I need it.

On the other side, I have some years of GTD practice and know, that tools themself matter little for productivity. I have some minimal feature-set I expect to be there, like some kind of daily outline and priorities and I don't care about the rest. Omnifocus is nice, but I barely use it on mobile devices, beorg is sufficent. Know you needs and don't go more complex than that.

Look at Kinesis 2/360, Glove 80, Keyboardio Model 100. I've used most of them for extended periods of time and would not touch a staggered keyboard with a stick.

Another angle for optimization would be QWERTY itself.

> The big cat achieves a scratch on one baboon and then runs away from the troop.

It is most likely running away because it found itself completely overwhelmed by multiple attackers - it is not a hunting style big cats go for.

The US are proud of getting some terrorist in the middle of Pakistan or putting pressure on whistleblowers internationally but when big money is involved getting a criminal scumbag responsible for ~1m deaths is suddenly a huge problem.

Can someone compare it to PAIP? I assume SICP handles functional programming ans CS basics and PAIP is more about programming practice in general?

Aha, the cries of the once well-payed SWE laid off and replaced with some cheap hire oversea come up at least once a week for a year or two already. The funny thing about transnationals - they do not care about the society they operate in.

But what about the rest, not these lucky SWE who had a good run for the last 10-15 years? How is it going, education, medicine, crime, inequality? All is splendid, I assume?

Stop trolling and throwing around wild accusations. Here are your words:

>You need big companies with scale that pay huge wages as those mean a lot more tax revenue.

Now provide proofs that we need some big corps dodging taxes, including FAANG, and not more small and middle-sized business.

I would worry more about export in the long run, since lock-in is a thing and re-typing 100 login entries is not fun, I've been there...

IMO No. Raycast:

- Took VC money and pushes for subscription instead of a clear payment model.

- Rides the AI Hype train.

- Is still not able to handle file workflows properly.

- Alfred workflows are easier to write and to debug due to workflow editor, you have to be a web developer to find the proposition of writing what is basically a small react app a good one.

- Also, IMO, not very fast, consumes a lot of resources and has a clumsy UX due to using stateful multistep apps.

I would always prefer Alfred to Raycast, but I am stuck with Launchbar which is still the Launcher with most smooth workflow for me. The whole <Object><Action> paradigm is just so fast - select something, tab, match an app with 2 keystrokes-enter -> Opens in app. Works on text, files, whatever.

I have yet to see how the defaults of windows are more ergonomic. I am also not aware that humans have significantly changed as a species since the 80s, so all the the ergonomic considerations are the same.

Besides, it completely misses the point - ergonomics are often about convenience and knowing what to expect. A zoo of frameworks and UI paradigms is a most terrible outcome with any kind of HIG. Microsoft is not able to keep a consistent UI paradigm for their own software - what a shining beacon of chaos they are.

After many years of updates I've also bought the mega supporter license this year, which I deeply regret - not because of the money lost but because it seems that author has misused our trust.

I was also tilted by the Bartender debacle and removed it. Tried HiddenBar, but then I realized that a lot of apps running in background offer a possibility to hide the tray icon (it is of no use anyway) and after some clean up in the Control Center it is fine as it is. YMMV, of course and it still would be better if Apple sherlocks it. Such small QoL changes should be a no-brainer.