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And there is ever decreasing need for cutting edge with containers and sandboxing. And hardware improvement is no longer so rapid so buying the hotness of 2+ years ago is cheap and effective and well supported.

I’m not surprised Emacs users would be seeking them out

They aren't. Someone did it, probably more than one person, but if you look hard enough you can find people who do all sorts of weird stuff. It's not an "Emacs thing" at all.

This and the joke itself really make me wonder about bizarre Emacs (and Emacs users) that exists in people's heads.

I see you use capital letters in your post, so you presumably used a modifier key (shift) - unless you do modal caps with CapsLock all the time. I don't know why people find that normal and easy, but as soon as it's Ctrl or Alt they get in a tizzy and start talking about RSI.

Funny how over the decades I've known many Emacs users, and many RSI sufferers, but the overlap in my Venn diagram of that is exactly one person.

Not to mention an emissions decline means we're still making things worse, but not quite so quickly.

Obviously the path to making things better would have to pass through here, but just as people thinking electric cars are a solution rather than more of the problem, the delusion that this is winning is also part of the problem.

Could you explain what he's saying about caret (presumably cursor?) positions because I can't make sense of it.

I naively thought it I may as well take a job using Go, as learning a new language is broadening, and some people like it, so lets find out first hand... I knew it was a questionable choice, looking at how Go adoption tailed off a while ago.

Turns out I hate Go. Sure it's better than C but that's a very low bar, and C was never a good alternative choice for the use cases I'm encountering. I'm probably suffering from a codebase of bad Go, but holy shit it's painful. So much silent propagation of errors up the stack so you never know where the origin of the error was. So very much boilerplate to expand simple activities into long unreadable functions. Various Go problems I've hit can be ameliorated if you "don't do it like that", but in the real world people "do it like that" all the time.

I'm really starting to feel like there are a lot of people in the company I've joined who like to keep their world obtuse and convoluted for job security.

floppy drive, hard drive, sechs drive — we got building blocks. Crowd sourcing a joke could work.

Excellent, the punchline is sorted, now we just need the rest of the joke.

I've had buffalo wings, and American barbecue. Also I've been to American Thanksgiving meals with weird things like sweet potatoes with marshmallows on. So I've had some American ethnic food for one thing.

I had no idea you could do that - I was thinking of Mastodon. I don't see that as an option and don't see any emojis on posts there. Where do you have in mind?

It would weaken my point, but there is no algorithmic weight attached to it. You can't sort by how many negative emojis are attached.

Yes - the only way to express disagreement is to compose a post.

[This is particularly bad on Facebook where an account is typically public with your real name, so reactionary blowhards spout their shit and the only possible resistance is from people willing to publish a statement against them. I find it ironic that (in my opinion) their requirement against anonymity significantly adds to the level of toxicity. But that's Facebook and Facebook should die.]

Superficially it could be argued this is beneficial, as you have to have thoughtful reasoned discussion, or something, but in reality when I see something I think is wrong-headed or toxic, I just have a dread of getting sucked into trying to fix "someone is wrong on the internet", and move on leaving them unchallenged with no sign of disapproval or disagreement, and I'm pretty sure my reaction is typical.

I find it interesting that, in my opinion, negativity (downvoting) and anonymity are actually positives for healthy discussion, contrary to many people's opinions and a common contemporary cultural view that only positivity is helpful.

I remain skeptical that the microblog format is beneficial for anything much, except for the self feeding logic that people use it, so therefore it becomes a place to discover things.

Discussion is limited and stunted, with negative feedback only be of the form of posts. Systems without negative feedback cannot be stable. Facebook groups have the same problem and it's one of the reasons its geographical groups descend to toxicity.

On the one hand the Lemmy/Reddit style is better, but I'm pessimistic Lemmy has the ability to survive the manipulations that grow with popularity. Both are best in their backwaters that avoid bot/shill or authoritarian enshittification.

I have a similar approach but primarily in Emacs rather than a terminal. Tiling WMs — i3/Sway specifically — have definitely become home.

I've been through a bunch of tiling WMs after Ubuntu dropped Unity (where I had enjoyed some light pseudo-tiling but wanted more). I started with i3 but couldn't shake the feeling it was kind of impure and slightly inelegant. But every other one I tried had more annoyances and weirdness and I came back to i3. To me, i3 it is to tiling WMs as Python is to programming languages - nagging feelings of impurity, limitations, and grubby corners, but in the end it is very practical and gets the job done well and has been refined over the years to round off its rough edges.

Recently with things like PaperWM I thought perhaps I could get the benefits of being closer to mainstream, but after trying to get comfortable I just could not and am back on i3 and will switch to Sway eventually.

I3's model of workspaces per monitor, and semi-automatic tiling, semi-manual, and i3-msg, sometimes feels inelegant but is actually highly practical. You can add plugins like autotiling to automate more, and powerful scripting behavior attainable through i3-msg and Python bindings (I recommend if you start piping i3-msg output through jq to get info, just make the full jump to scripting in Python, it's easier in the long run).