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[–] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 17 hours ago

As an Emacs user my typical mode for dealing with server files is to edit them remotely from my local emacs, not using an editor on the server.

But the commitment required to adopt Emacs isn't to be underestimated.

[–] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

Editing speed is generally not all that significant in my experience. Actual editing is a small fraction of most work IME as a coder and even more when administrating etc..

Exploring, researching, organizing, executing, debugging, monitoring etc is what most people spend most of their time doing. For actual editing all editors work pretty well.

Emacs is a text manipulation environment that includes some editors (including vim if you want) that can be very productive in the long run for all of your activities, not just editing, in a coherent integrated manner. Most things boil down to text after all. But takes significant time to ramp up with and get to rich fluidity. It's an environment that you program and mold to your needs over time.

I just reached 30 years with it of continuous improvement and related rewards. There is nothing similar out there.

[–] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I'm curious why markdown works better for you?

I just switched to denote - liking the simple elegance.

[–] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago

It tells us that everything we've done so far is an ineffective approach, and therefore not really a big deal and to do anything useful we need a radical rethink. I think I envy your faith that scaling up our best approaches yet can resolve our predicament, though I'm not quite sure.

[–] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 day ago

I'm skeptical - I was recently eating outside literally watching three of them come at my ankles while people sitting right beside me were being left alone.

[–] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

From the linked study:

between 1998 and 2022 across 41 countries from six continents [...] total emission reductions between 0.6 billion and 1.8 billion metric tonnes CO2.

Oof, it very much reads like that's total over 24 years, rather than per year. Global emissions being over 37 billion tonnes last year and rising, if my quick googling is to be believed.

a small fraction had a big impact

I wonder what glowing words would be left to describe a hypothetical situation where we were actually making things better, rather than just making them worse fractionally more slowly.

[–] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

Yep, I was thinking Lemmyversary.

[–] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 days ago

Your analysis is good but you conclusion is ... fucked up.

[–] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

We're not facing a problem, we're in a predicament.

We always have, we always will

That's a statement of religious faith. We have barely ever even existed so it's possibly nonsense, and there is no rule of the universe that we must continue to exist or that we cannot unfixably destroy our planet's ability to support us. You're just baselessly asserting "they'll think of something".

[–] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 days ago

Ah yes, the No it wont argument.

[–] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

I don't agree at all from my experience. But I do not have my moka flow rapidly at all, so the filter doesn't constrain it significantly I think. Whatever, the filter only improves it in my experience.

[–] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not really. KDE Connect does all sorts of things, file transfer being just one and really not in the same way. It also does notifications, media controls, remote control, ...

 

The lack of keyboard interface on Lemmy is killing me, but really what I want is a good client in Emacs. However, it's beyond my Elisp to design and start such a project, but I could probably help. Anyone on it?

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