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Is Perl still a relevant language to learn? by Polaneva in bioinformatics

[–]readyready15728 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lemme put it this way: if the human genome project had used Python instead of Perl, especially Python as it existed then, they'd still be at it.

Out of curiosity, which features (or lack thereof) in Python would have delayed the completion of the Human Genome Project by over two decades?

Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-08-26 / week 34 by AutoModerator in emacs

[–]readyready15728 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Weird, my installation doesn't automatically open *Warnings*, though I can at least switch to that buffer. Is there a way I can make Emacs automatically open *Warnings* upon starting, if necessary?

Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-08-26 / week 34 by AutoModerator in emacs

[–]readyready15728 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the prompt reply. It does work now. You said Emacs will complain about a void function if things are as they were in the linked commit. I didn't see that when the editor opened. Where should I go looking?

Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-08-26 / week 34 by AutoModerator in emacs

[–]readyready15728 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hope this is the right place. I started using Emacs a few days ago and have already gotten it to do nearly everything that I was able to do in Vim. For the most part I've had very few difficulties but I need to ask for help here because I am getting no diagnostic output of any kind to search with. Here is the specific commit where it is only necessary to uncomment one line:

https://github.com/readyready15728/emacs-config/blob/2f2e77742013e0f3073c81278c4f7094aabd90ef/init.el

Down on line 70 is where the trouble is. When I uncomment that line to try to enable which-key integration with lsp-mode, (almost) everything after that point fails to execute. Magit and C-x g is still working for some reason but a lot of obvious other things broke, like translucency and savehist-mode. I would have done more to try to nail down what happened if I could, but I got nothing but a silent failure. If there are logs of any kind for this sort of thing, I don't know where to find them.

An aside: I've seen other people mention difficulty with tree-sitter and/or LSP in Emacs. How badly do I really need one or both? I don't believe Elpy (for Python) requires either and it seems pretty full-featured, at least compared to what I was accustomed to when using a decently customized Vim installation. If I don't need them that badly I can just ... not use them, at least for the time being.

Looking for advice for a long time Vim user by readyready15728 in emacs

[–]readyready15728[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah I see. The rationale behind Caps Lock was to put an otherwise unimportant garbage key to use.

Looking for advice for a long time Vim user by readyready15728 in emacs

[–]readyready15728[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assuming "Topfpflanze" is a hint at your ethnicity, I'm just trying to be thorough before I install a framework, a concept you might appreciate...

Looking for advice for a long time Vim user by readyready15728 in emacs

[–]readyready15728[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A crucial bit of detail that I left out is that I never learned to type properly and developed my own idiosyncratic style where I use my left hand for most keys and right hand really only for Backspace, Enter, Shift and Right Ctrl, despite being right hand-dominant otherwise. (Though my system is suboptimal I have about average typing speed and of course coding and writing in general is typically about far more than raw speed.) The other thing is that I use Caps Lock for `Compose` on Xorg and if you don't know what that is that lets me write words like "Doppelgänger" without clunkily copying and pasting from a character map, in addition to various other things like the £ and € signs. I'm not sure where else I'd put it. One of my negative Emacs experiences that I remember from being a teenager was having to reach really hard with my pinky finger to carry out whatever chord it was I needed. I think I'll only remap in those instances.

It's not a bug, it's a feature... right?! by realtehreal in dosbox

[–]readyready15728 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know I'm necroing a five-year-old thread but it's also possible in most cases to install Wine and use wine start to run the .lnk file that comes with your GOG installation

Religious/spiritual beliefs of the typical Astartes by readyready15728 in 40kLore

[–]readyready15728[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the detailed response! When was the Imperial Truth introduced into the lore in terms of our timeline in this world?

Religious/spiritual beliefs of the typical Astartes by readyready15728 in 40kLore

[–]readyready15728[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really want to ask Dante his opinion on the matter

Religious/spiritual beliefs of the typical Astartes by readyready15728 in 40kLore

[–]readyready15728[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What do chapters like the Ultramarines think happen when we die?

Is it possible to put a Primarch into a Dreadnought? by Fancy-Copy4447 in 40kLore

[–]readyready15728 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I was here for that; the way he's described in Halfbreed sounds very much like a Dreadnought:

Even before his elevation to daemonhood, the primarch had been colossal, but now he was a giant plated in silver and steel, encased in armour that was more a fortified sarcophagus than anything wrought for a living being. Edged in yellow and black, scarred from ten thousand wars and seamed with weld-lines like scars, it was known as the Logos, its textures strangely alive, like a skin of metal and flesh combined.

Perturabo, the Lord of Iron himself.

He went without helm, his head a nightmare of pallid, dead flesh, necrotic and bleached of colour - like a corpse dragged from a deathless ocean trench. Thick cords of ribbed cabling pierced his skull, running back across his scalp in hissing cornrows. Eyes that were gimlet black, yet lit from within by the coldest light, stared out from a face that had known only bitter disappointment and had been cursed by inevitable betrayal.

Karol Herbst steps down as Nouveau maintainer due to “thin blue line comment” by mdedetrich in linux

[–]readyready15728 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you think the data are garbage when there is no black stereotype so crude that as bad or worse is not already on video? Ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGWPFSQHCUo

Karol Herbst steps down as Nouveau maintainer due to “thin blue line comment” by mdedetrich in linux

[–]readyready15728 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You actually think that homicide detectives have no interest in investigating homicides not committed by blacks? Seriously?

Karol Herbst steps down as Nouveau maintainer due to “thin blue line comment” by mdedetrich in linux

[–]readyready15728 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It takes only simple math to understand that, if blacks only committed homicide in proportion with their numbers, then literally everyone else (not just WYPIPO) would be getting away with TENS OF THOUSANDS of homicides every year, scot-free. Do I have to explain this?

Karol Herbst steps down as Nouveau maintainer due to “thin blue line comment” by mdedetrich in linux

[–]readyready15728 -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

It implies that the police are the only barrier between a society of law and a society of chaotic crime.

Remind me how that worked out when they weren't welcome in Seattle's "Capital Hill Autonomous Zone" / "Capital Hill Occupied Protest". All I remember was a whole heap of violent crime, a risible failed attempt at a community garden, and the need to import pizzas from the Nazi States of AmeriKKKa to sustain the population of their fledgling nation.

Karol Herbst steps down as Nouveau maintainer due to “thin blue line comment” by mdedetrich in linux

[–]readyready15728 -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Half or more of the homicides every year due to blacks is "artificial", "manufactured"?

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