Vincent L. [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.
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Vincent L. Too bad I don't have much to say. Subreply is cool.
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👨‍💻 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 L. 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 L. 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 L. 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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👨‍💻 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 !
😀 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?
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Vincent L. Memo: Maxima's equivalent to Maple's seq is makelist
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Vincent L. Just look at all these stupid medical websites that still haven't managed to update to provide useful info when labs and hospitals are overwhelmed with covid tests and care. See how much room for improvement there's still for tech in 2020.
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🗨️ Fui I feel I understand you. Desktop computers have a kind of physicality that makes them more reliable, a sturdiness akin to a good old-fashioned workshop tool, like a vise, or a sledgehammer. Even if most of it is just a projection, there's a mental comfort in feeling confident in its tool-like hardiness that a flimsy laptop cannot provide.
Vincent L. The world feels less alien to me knowing I'm not the only one ;)
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Vincent L. Silly me. Laptops never felt like real computers to me. Call me old-fashioned or just dumb, I don't care. I want a sturdy desktop. A *place* for my mind to flow towards programming and other technical stuff.
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🗨️ Fui I feel I understand you. Desktop computers have a kind of physicality that makes them more reliable, a sturdiness akin to a good old-fashioned workshop tool, like a vise, or a sledgehammer. Even if most of it is just a projection, there's a mental comfort in feeling confident in its tool-like hardiness that a flimsy laptop cannot provide.
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🦿 Lucian Marin I have an ad free experience on my Android smartphone. iOS is horrible.
Vincent L. Thanks. Good to know. I may change my mind. But it's not like I actually have any defined idea what tomorrow will be like.
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🥝 Mr I don't use apps unless they are paid. Ads on social are inescapable but you don't have to use those either. I tried the light phone (2) and enjoyed the first day or 2 with it, but honestly a phone without GPS or the internet is kinda useless. Everyone communicates with links, images, videos, articles, locations now more than ever. I don't really want to talk on the phone anyways. If anything I want a mobile device that can't make phone calls, not the other way around.
Vincent L. I sympathize with your point and it makes perfect sense. Mine, on the other hand, is that I'll ultimately become unreachable by any means ;)
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Vincent L. I think I'm done with smartphones. Were I able to script stuff on them they'd be useful but I don't need an ad dongle stuck in my pocker. Soon to be back to Nokia 105. Hopefully.
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🦿 Lucian Marin I have an ad free experience on my Android smartphone. iOS is horrible.
🥝 Mr I don't use apps unless they are paid. Ads on social are inescapable but you don't have to use those either. I tried the light phone (2) and enjoyed the first day or 2 with it, but honestly a phone without GPS or the internet is kinda useless. Everyone communicates with links, images, videos, articles, locations now more than ever. I don't really want to talk on the phone anyways. If anything I want a mobile device that can't make phone calls, not the other way around.
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Vincent L. Finding up to date info to properly install Python on macOS is a nightmare. Homebrew seems like a nice route but it's hard to find and make sense of their indication about 'unversioned symlinks' e.g. naked 'python', 'pip', etc as opposed to 'python3', etc. The symlinks are actually installed in an odd directory (/usr/local/opt/python/libexec/bin). So I had to add this weird directory to my path.
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Vincent L. Opinion: "pip install jupyterlab" > "brew install jupyterlab"
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Vincent L. Who decided on the default colors of emacs? Of ACME? When? Why? It's history! It would also tell something about the trend of thought that led to these choices. Personal preference? Ergonomics studies? Some agreement over a crowd? Evolved over some community and generations?, etc
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Vincent L. M-x org-insert-times TAB... TAB... Nothing. What was that command already. 30s later: M-x org-insert-time-stamp. Very annoying. Maybe should I just define the command as an alias and be done with it... Or do so and add a motivated "pull request"...
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