Unpopular opinion: I really dislike the UI style of the magit pane, which is taking over for everything. It gives no feedback on location, the evil bindings don't work well, and it uses a different paradigm from the rest of emacs.
@aleks I mean when you M-x magit it shows you a window, broken into sections, and each can be expanded/collapsed, and pressing keys on them make things happen.
More and more other packages in emacs are starting to use it too.
e.g. in the one below, it is really tricky to copy-paste one leg of the diff to experiment with it
Especially if this will be your first total eclipse, my advice is to go light on cameras and optics and focus on just experiencing the event. There’s a lot more to see and feel during totality than just the occlusion of the sun.
I’m planning on bringing a tripod (it gets dark!) and wide angle lens to capture the overall environment. But I’m leaving the “portable solar observatory” stuff to the astronomers.
I recall seeing one in South Africa. And a really simple and safe way to view is to literally make a pinhole in a piece of paper, and hold it above a flat piece of ground.
I just had a comment removed from instagram for violating their community standards. Apparently they think I’m spamming for mentioning Unicode I guess. Honestly I’m not sure. It was in response to a instagram rule asking why the kiwi bird isn’t an emoji.
I posted it once, and to a instagram post from someone I’m following. I don’t think I’ve made a comment about Unicode or emojis on instagram before.
when movies were shot on film, screwing up light levels would make your footage utterly unusable (and you'd still be out the cost of the film and the cost of developing the film), so even very low budget movies would have absolute experts doing camera and lighting, so you got a lot of beautiful trash
One of my first ever projects was a controller for "light valves" in a movie printing machine. It had to adjust the physical vanes exactly on the frame line according to the editing instructions, read from punched paper tape
Can the principles of moldable development be applied to Erlang? What would that look like? What is already there (good tooling for system insight, for instance)? #MoldableDevelopment#Erlang
Looking for a word to use in contrast to "exascale" to mean "the laptop-sized computing that is all 99.9% of researchers need". Thought about "human-scale" but that doesn't have enough zing. Suggestions?
Hot take of the (EU) night: Due to banking fees and bookkeeping overhead, your donations to #FreeSoftware projects and other NGOs have more impact if you choose few recipient per year and pay a larger sum than distributing your money in small chunks to many NGOs / projects.
I wonder if there could be a matching service. you say your budget and who all you want to support, it lines you up with other supporters so you pay only one recipient, but all your intended targets get something.
finally breaking down and installing the guix channel that shall not be named (https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix), and it's just to install firefox. how did we get here