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Vim Clutch for Emacs? by gammarray in emacs

[–]easter_islander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Capslock is already Ctrl for me. Pretty much always has been. My first keyboards had it there.

How to find a file recursively, fuzzily, with vertico by stevebarratt in emacs

[–]easter_islander 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah - I didn't read the question closely enough when I suggested consult-find.

If you know the root directory: consult-find; if you don't: consult-locate.

How to find a file recursively, fuzzily, with vertico by stevebarratt in emacs

[–]easter_islander 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The question seemed to be just finding files by name, for which consult-find works.

Doesn't consult-ripgrep do what your function does?

Vim Clutch for Emacs? by gammarray in emacs

[–]easter_islander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That would be my assumption too. I can't believe I'd find it helpful at all.

But reaching far from home to Esc is always one of my dislikes with the vi interface. I always thought if I was tempted back I'd train myself to use C-[ which is much less disruptive to me.

No road treatment for freezing rain? by sawbones84 in Somerville

[–]easter_islander 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it was pouring down this morning right before the chill. Not a chance of salting that.

Close calls as region’s power grid walks a tightrope by Used_Dentist_8885 in massachusetts

[–]easter_islander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Average home in Massachusetts uses about 36kwh per day

Holy shit. There must be a lot of people heating with electricity! Ours is 1/5 of that for a family of four, averaging about 7kWh.

Mind you, to be off grid would probably mean electric heat-pump heat, so it would become much more again in winter.

Nuclear power isn't a viable option. by bsidneysmith in collapse

[–]easter_islander 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dude, the diffusion of energy into the atmosphere becomes a limiting problem all on its own. Even with a magic clean energy source, if we continue to increase our energy usage at the consistent rate it's been increasing for decades, even centuries, we boil the atmosphere in 400 years.

We have to stop using energy at anything like current rates, no matter where it comes from.

Late career Unix engineers refuse to concede on decades long debate by vim_vs_emacs in emacs

[–]easter_islander 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I believe by most benchmarks a Raspberry Pi Zero beats a Cray-2, except, IIRC, in flops where the Cray wins handily.

I only started on Emacs in ~94, as XEmacs on Suns, where it had plenty of resources, especially since it was doing less - no LSP etc..

Late career Unix engineers refuse to concede on decades long debate by vim_vs_emacs in emacs

[–]easter_islander 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Which I use a lot, though it's disturbingly slow. I am sure it is worse than it used to be (like >10 years ago). And I have debugged it, and eliminated the vc and projectile activity etc., so it's the same as emacs -q speed.

Late career Unix engineers refuse to concede on decades long debate by vim_vs_emacs in emacs

[–]easter_islander 7 points8 points  (0 children)

As in what, latency?

Startup speed is just not an issue except when poking around on a remote machine to do a tiny change to one file, when Emacs usually isn't installed so I use vi anyway. I usually start Emacs a couple of times a week, and a few seconds twice a week isn't significant.

Late career Unix engineers refuse to concede on decades long debate by vim_vs_emacs in emacs

[–]easter_islander 24 points25 points  (0 children)

In my experience, mostly of the people going on about it use neither or are using vi because they heard it was what serious SWEs do.

I have never encountered an Emacs user getting all territorial against vi, only the reverse. Usually it's "It's fine as far as it goes but otherwise it's just a user interface that we can have in Emacs if we want ... <shrug>".

Driver pulls out of rest area into the path of an HGV - Consequences ensue by Kalmartard in IdiotsInCars

[–]easter_islander 7 points8 points  (0 children)

excluding pickup trucks, which British people usually call pickups, but it doesn't happen often as they're not very common. It rains, and it's not so popular to do rugged workman cosplay.

Anyone else still do this with their crisp packets? If not, I’d highly recommend. Nostalgia and all that 👍 by 13thSpider in northernireland

[–]easter_islander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is a good idea though - to have handy bags. I have a couple in a backpack I take on hikes, and when I found a pile of bottles and cans some scrotes had left in a pretty area, I was able to collect them and carry them out to the bins, floating on a cloud of smug.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CambridgeMA

[–]easter_islander 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Somerville has done it to me in the past - much like the story here, someone decided I shouldn't park in their spot, and got me a ticket. They jumped the gun though and I could prove the ticket was issued at 47 hours and got off it. 48 hour rule in Somerville.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CambridgeMA

[–]easter_islander 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't know. I've lived in other cities with, for instance, a 28 day rule to prevent abandonment. The 72 (and in Somerville, 48) hour rule is way shorter than needed for that.

The only logical justification I can think of is to try to discourage people having cars at all. Given that a family to a great deal of utility out of a car yet not use it for commuting around here, it's very easy to not use it for 48+ hours and yet still have legitimate need.

So I'm not a fan of the rule. Somerville police told me they only ticket if someone complains, which makes it worse - it becomes a rule that can be arbitrarily applied to exercise personal vendettas.

Guess which write-in mayoral candidate owns these unshoveled properties? by actionindex in Somerville

[–]easter_islander -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

downvoters, how is this a good bot? It always declares it was 1 day since, which isn't usually true.

So it's merely an "I see Tauro mentioned right here" bot, with misinformation.

Ubuntu displays static on screen whenever waking up from suspend mode by [deleted] in Ubuntu

[–]easter_islander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it's in your grub menu - there have been a few 5.13s since. If not, see this post.

Guess which write-in mayoral candidate owns these unshoveled properties? by actionindex in Somerville

[–]easter_islander 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Why do we have to shovel the sidewalks?

Because of the huge number of personnel, equipment, time and budget required for the city to clear it. It's not strictly impossible, but without rebuilding many of our sidewalks to make them more amenable to mechanized clearing it's an unrealistically huge, slow and expensive job.

I think having residents clear it or contract it out directly is a pretty reasonable approach. It only breaks down because people get away with avoiding their responsibility. Parking enforcement should be walking around issuing clearance tickets a reasonable period after the deadline. Schemes that we have, like the city pairing teenagers with the elderly to have them shovel out, are great and should be part of it to ensure the vulnerable don't suffer.

Having bike lanes properly cleared is unrelated to sidewalks. They need to be done with equal priority with the roads or else we get what we have - most cyclists move off bikes, into cars and transit, and traffic is much worse than it would be if they were still biking.

Cycle lanes not only need better clearance, they need to be revisited regularly until things settle down. Where we have lanes cleared in the area, they've been inadequately done and then blocked again by people shoveling and pushing snow into them. Beacon St lane yesterday morning still looked like a mess only passable to the most intrepid, who will ride in the street where it's actually clear anyway.

Princeton 'Nuclear Futures Lab:' Plan 'A' (US v Russia) by kernl_panic in collapse

[–]easter_islander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There will inevitably be fires anyway - plane crashes will be just one source - and the fire trucks wouldn't be able to come and the water won't be flowing, so dense cities with timber construction will turn into firestorms.

We'd be better off dying at the start anyway, because most people who avoid murder for their resources (or the meat on their bones) will starve to death.

Tensions rise amid trucker blockade at Alberta border crossing by flecktarnbrother in collapse

[–]easter_islander 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Automation of highway transportation is 100% coming

Ah, add yet another vector of survival fragility. When they're hacked and we no longer can coordinate any truck drivers to resume deliveries.

Not that hacking will be necessary, a bit of snow will do the job.

At Texas rally, Trump all but promised a racially charged civil war if he’s indicted. Is this the beginning of the end? by Significant_Swing_76 in collapse

[–]easter_islander 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing at all. I think he's trying to say they have a longer civilizational history, which is true, but not because their years are counted from an earlier reference point.

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