Vincent Ld @vld

Eclectic moron. Expects more with less clever tech. C++, Lisp, walking, simple life.

Joined 1y, 45w ago. Seen 2w ago.

Vincent Ld Twitter is under attack. Subreply works fine ;)

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💻 Kenneth Jensen There's a fair-sized market of used ThinkPads for this reason. Whoever put these big-ass bezels on a laptop then try to pass it off as the LVDS driver had ought to be stoned. Seriously unusable without a tiling window manager.

Vincent Ld Yay to thee

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🤘 Matthew Oddly enough, I've only just started using regex in emacs. Whenever I needed to edit with regexps before, I'd switch to vi.

Vincent Ld I feel compelled to mention emacs' re-builder, in case someone doesn't know about it masteringemacs.org...

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🤘 Matthew Emacs, but I can use ed and vi when they're better suited to a given task.

Vincent Ld Emacs too... I know enough of vi to quit (without saving) 🤘 But I can use nano when I'm forced to ;)

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😀 Tom In Texas, many are without water, power, and internet. With no lights and internet, I wonder how many people's sleep schedules that's going to affect.

Vincent Ld If this is to last, I'm relocating now ;)

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🏒 Lucian Marin On Linux you can use Dash to Panel on left side of the screen. Same can be done on Windows to save vertical space. 16:10 is a lot better for content creation, 16:9 is for content consumption.

Vincent Ld Thanks for the suggestion, very nice of you :) Under Linux I'd actually be using Xmonad or StumpWM to have my screen /full/. When reading code, my mind-buffer is sometimes blurry, I need my screen to show me as much state as it can. Rant is over. There's not fighting against The Market. But I won't buy a Thinkpad until they have proper screens back :p Nay, Lenovo.

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Vincent Ld 16:9 screen on a laptop? No way. (Are they nuts or what?)

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Sergiusz I was a part-time teacher in a vocational high-school (it technician) for the last one and a half year. It was a great adventure! I wish to pursue it, but sadly I don't have enough time between my other jobs/projects.

Vincent Ld Teaching is really awesome when kids get curious about what you're showing to them

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Miso Ouch, good luck! Hope it won't take your whole weekend.

Vincent Ld Thanks :) It's fine! Have a good Sunday too!

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Miso What project are you all working on these days?

Vincent Ld I'm grading my students for their Word/Excel/HTML exam. Neat :D Otherwise, I should figure out what occupation to seek for next year.

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🏒 Lucian Marin Janet is a decent Lisp. I like how close it resembles Python.

Vincent Ld Thanks for the suggestion :) You may be interested in Hy, too. To make my original point clearer (if I had a point): I don't think I'll have a choice in picking my language, professionally. This motto is a way to reassure myself that C++ is a sane language, after all.

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Vincent Ld [Troll warning} C++ is a decent Lisp nowadays.

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🏒 Lucian Marin Janet is a decent Lisp. I like how close it resembles Python.

Vincent Ld Too bad I don't have much to say. Subreply is cool.

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💻 Kenneth Jensen Same.

👨‍💻 Matthieu V. What if people around us use the same communication channel ? I mean if I setup a Mattermost instance and I convince my friends and family to use it (separated by example by differents teams) all communication (text, audio and video) can happen in the same place !

Vincent Ld Assuming you get all colleagues and friends on your Mattermost (good luck with that :p), will you decline friendship with people who only use regular SMS?

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😀 Tom There used to be something like that for IM called Meebo. It's a great idea, but do chat systems like Facebook allow third party apps?

Vincent Ld I don't see anything changing until messaging services are compelled by law to interoperate with 3rd party apps. This mess is there to last.

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Vincent Ld How I wish all my communications could be funneled into just one channel: e-mail, chats on different media, even phone calls, etc. All registered in just one app so it stays coherent and I don't have to browse 7 apps when I'm looking for something. It's far more of a legal problem than a technical one, and it's a *shame*.

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😀 Tom There used to be something like that for IM called Meebo. It's a great idea, but do chat systems like Facebook allow third party apps?