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  1. Comment on Going Mouseless, Or Using The Computer Without a Physical Mouse in ~comp

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    I think it's funny that he's charging money for mouseless

    I think it's funny that he's charging money for mouseless

  2. Comment on The GNU nano text editor is named by analogy in ~tech

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    it's like comparing a hammer to an entire workshop

    it's like comparing a hammer to an entire workshop

  3. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    For me, it's like a post-it note system. It prevents having a bunch of files in my home directory like: asdfsvf.txt

    For me, it's like a post-it note system. It prevents having a bunch of files in my home directory like: asdfsvf.txt

  4. Comment on Oblivion Remastered releases today in ~games

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    misc note: it's 125 Gb, which is 2600% larger than the original. My hard drive does not like the trend of every new game being massive.

    misc note: it's 125 Gb, which is 2600% larger than the original. My hard drive does not like the trend of every new game being massive.

    17 votes

  5. Comment on The GNU nano text editor is named by analogy in ~tech

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    just gonna use this opportunity to say that I love emacs

    just gonna use this opportunity to say that I love emacs

    4 votes

  6. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I've been learning elisp by making an automatic file namer for emacs. It just cuts each word, sorts them based on frequency, then sorts out the top 100 most common words. The idea is from this...

    I've been learning elisp by making an automatic file namer for emacs. It just cuts each word, sorts them based on frequency, then sorts out the top 100 most common words.

    The idea is from this horrid one liner from one of my bash scripts

    FILENAME=$(tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' < "$FILE"| tr -s '[:space:]' '\n' | tr -d '[:punct:]' | 
grep -vwFf .stopwords.txt | grep -E '.{5,}' | sort |
 uniq -c | sort -nrk1,1 | awk '{print $2}' | head -n1)
    1 vote

  7. Comment on What lesser-known alternative would you recommend as a substitute for something more popular? in ~talk

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    libreoffice is the only text related tool that compels me leave my emacs every once in a while

    libreoffice is the only text related tool that compels me leave my emacs every once in a while

    6 votes

  8. Comment on Firefox now supports native vertical tabs in 136.0 release in ~tech

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    Just found out you can enable this feature in librewolf by setting sidebar.verticalTabs to true in about:config

    Just found out you can enable this feature in librewolf by setting sidebar.verticalTabs to true in about:config

    2 votes

  9. Comment on On its 50th anniversary, Bill Gates has published the original source code of Altair Basic - the first commercial software released by 'Micro-Soft' in ~comp

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    Found someone who used OCR to scan the pdf and put the results in a git repo There's also a decompilation, I wonder how the two compare? Interesting stuff.

    Found someone who used OCR to scan the pdf and put the results in a git repo There's also a decompilation, I wonder how the two compare? Interesting stuff.

    4 votes

  10. Comment on What's an atypical thing you do that you'd recommend to others? in ~talk

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    Fitting username. I don't know if I've ever had an apple so juicy that I had to wash my hands.

    Fitting username. I don't know if I've ever had an apple so juicy that I had to wash my hands.

  11. Comment on Steam Spring Sale suggestions in ~games

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    For $15 it's a steal. I can't imagine it would be a purchase you'd regret, because you'll almost certainly finish the story.

    For $15 it's a steal. I can't imagine it would be a purchase you'd regret, because you'll almost certainly finish the story.

    2 votes

  12. Comment on Steam Spring Sale suggestions in ~games

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    I just got every thief game for $6 :)

    I just got every thief game for $6 :)

    4 votes

  13. Comment on Everything is Chrome in ~tech

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    "Firefox? I haven't heard about that since middle school." - Guy in my programming course. I really wish normies could be sold on more privacy conscious options. However, I am a bit of a crazy...

    "Firefox? I haven't heard about that since middle school." - Guy in my programming course.

    I really wish normies could be sold on more privacy conscious options. However, I am a bit of a crazy person. The introduction of ai tooling for firefox nightly made me switch to Librewolf.

    3 votes

  14. Comment on What’s a book that we were never supposed to be able to read? in ~books

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    I know it's somewhat common knowledge, but Emily Dickinson wanted all her poetry burnt but her sister Lavinia decided against it.

    I know it's somewhat common knowledge, but Emily Dickinson wanted all her poetry burnt but her sister Lavinia decided against it.

    9 votes

  15. Comment on What are some books for which the critical/public opinion has flipped over time? in ~books

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    You're right! The appeal is that other people are reading it. Although it's still likely one of the most read books for any given year, the "harry potter craze" has been finished for quite a while.

    You're right! The appeal is that other people are reading it. Although it's still likely one of the most read books for any given year, the "harry potter craze" has been finished for quite a while.

    1 vote

  16. Comment on What are some books for which the critical/public opinion has flipped over time? in ~books

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    If you're talking specifically to a literature person, their opinion is likely different than it was in the 2010s. It's ability to find mainstream appeal doesn't matter as much to me.

    If you're talking specifically to a literature person, their opinion is likely different than it was in the 2010s. It's ability to find mainstream appeal doesn't matter as much to me.

    4 votes

  17. Comment on Bashly: A command-line application (written in Ruby) that declaratively generates feature-rich Bash scripts in ~comp

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    For the purpose of *scripting on a *nix system it's really good. Like if you know command line you know bash. It would, however, be psychotic to recommend it for any other purpose.

    For the purpose of *scripting on a *nix system it's really good. Like if you know command line you know bash. It would, however, be psychotic to recommend it for any other purpose.

    2 votes

  18. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    Lolita is beautifully written, frustratingly so. I would want nothing more than to discount it completely, but it demands attention. Nabokov only gives hints to the reader as to why this is...

    Lolita is beautifully written, frustratingly so. I would want nothing more than to discount it completely, but it demands attention. Nabokov only gives hints to the reader as to why this is happening. Why this is a story worth being told, and what makes men like these.

    For Purity of Heart, I think I would recommend it for a new reader before Either/Or. Especially for a religious or ex-religious mind.

    1 vote

  19. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    I mostly read philosophy. Out of character I decided to read lolita. It took around a month to read the ~300 pages. Then I picked up Purity of Heart by Kierkegaard, which is 200, and finished it...

    I mostly read philosophy. Out of character I decided to read lolita. It took around a month to read the ~300 pages. Then I picked up Purity of Heart by Kierkegaard, which is 200, and finished it in 3 days. Fiction is just so hard for me.

    1 vote

  20. Comment on The 88x31 GIF Collection in ~tech

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    This is so niche but thank you for posting. This is exactly the type of stuff I like to see

    This is so niche but thank you for posting. This is exactly the type of stuff I like to see

    21 votes