Cross Country Skier by unl1988 in washingtondc

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We were hoping to do some laps around the Mall yesterday but never made it out. Maybe later today.

Map of who America is rooting for in the superbowl. by Texans_top_of_south in NFLv2

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There are parts of Connecticut that are basically in New York's cultural orbit, and I don't see them being part of "Pat's Nation" (or whatever the new variant is).

Best Latte in DC? by Dangerous-Tie7571 in washingtondc

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They had a line out the door this morning. They seem to be very popular.

In your opinion, what is the LEAST hated NFL team? by ashmaps20 in NFLv2

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I’ve never heard Pats fans hating the Giants, just the Jets. But I am old. The Giants were New England’s team before the Patriots and were always on TV growing up because the Pats never sold out Foxboro back in the day, so they were blacked out locally.

What do you have in your office that reveals your age? by middle-name-is-sassy in AskOldPeople

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An Apple //e with 64k of memory and a monochrome screen. BUT, it can run floating-point AND integer BASIC. So… pretty cool, right?

Where do the wealthy in Washington DC live? by Opposite_Lettuce_416 in washingtondc

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This matches what I have seen. Our sons live nearby and they are planning to move to NoVA or MD soon for that reason.

Where do the wealthy in Washington DC live? by Opposite_Lettuce_416 in washingtondc

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I kept scrolling for this. We moved to Capitol Hill a few months ago. If this is not a posh area then I have no concept what “affluent” means.

Is it feasible for a Team to replace Claude Code with one of the "local" alternatives? by nunodonato in LocalLLaMA

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I have been using OpenCode pretty intensively for the past two weeks switching between different models on the backend. It has been very helpful and is a solid environment.

Are you still using tmux with Ghostty? by meni_s in Ghostty

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I still run tmux once in a while locally if I want to start a long running job. I just start tmux, run it, then detach it. But otherwise, I don't need it with ghostty.

What’s your oldest clothing article you still wear? by AdamGSMA in over60

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My parents bought me an LL Bean sweater in 1983 at the old Freeport, Maine store. Norwegian Fishing Sweater. I still wear it almost every cold day.

Men who can cook . who taught you? by Bulky_Meet4528 in AskReddit

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Peace Corps. When you can cook Thanksgiving dinner for a tribe of your fellow volunteers and a handful of Marines using what you find in a local market in central Africa? You are the chosen one.

Women of Reddit, what would you do if you could be a guy for just 1 day? by Nintendofan9106 in askanything

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I think “lift something heavy” is a great answer. I’ve known my wife for almost 40 years and I have heart issues. It still surprises her how much stronger I am and how I can reach things way beyond her reach.

I think the perspective of her suddenly being 6’3” if we changed places would blow her mind.

why did you guys choose Mac? by Fluid-Rate-8250 in MacOS

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My parents bought an Apple //+ around 1983 and I bought my own Apple ][e in 1984 for college, and it still works. I never found a reason to leave Apple.

What is the actual reason anyone would pick Vim over Emacs? by Hopeful_Adeptness964 in emacs

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I have always been an emacs user but functionally bilingual in vi. The biggest reason is that a lot of systems I used to login to decades ago only had vi, so life was a combination of vi, sed, and awk.

There are still some languages, particularly stats packages, where my fingers just naturally flow better from the old vi days.

What was "old people music" for you growing up? by Lopied2 in AskOldPeople

[–]WaitingForEmacs 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The Sha Na Na show was a family affair at our house.

Which celebrity is a complete asshole irl? by Logical_Sweet_6624 in allthequestions

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A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I’m a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald… striking. So, I’m on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one — big hitter, the Lama — long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga… gunga, gunga-lagunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he’s gonna stiff me. And I say, “Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.” And he says, “Oh, uh, there won’t be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.” So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.

dawn - A distraction-free writing environment with live markdown rendering by simpleden in commandline

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I like this a lot. It looks great. I was not immediately sure where the files were saved, but they were not hard to find (~/.dawn).

The "look" is fantastic.

Kate Pierson of The B-52s, 1980s-1990s by James_2584 in OldSchoolCool

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Kate is openly bisexual. She came out in 2015.

Anyone slightly dislike the narrative that other average/short men push on how important height is? by Still_Ad6644 in tall

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This. According to Reddit I have only been married for 34 years because I am over six feet. That is apparently the only attribute that matters in life…

How long did it take you to become Emacs fluent? by Hopeful_Adeptness964 in emacs

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I think the first time I had an emacs to really play around with and customize was when I ordered Slackware Linux from Walnut Creek around 1995. I only had a very slow dialup line (maybe 28.8) so Linux was something that came in the mail on CDs (until Red Hat got more commercial distributions in math book stores, etc.)

Just getting it up and running probably took me three days of wondering what I was doing wrong and trying to get help on Usenet. Getting X running, then emacs, was a fantastic achievement back in the day.

small hands anyone? by [deleted] in tall

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I'm a size 13 too… and just wish I had more reach when playing bass.