Tell me you have a background in IT without telling me you have a background in IT.
Readit Newschr commented on DOGE Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week nytimes.com/2025/02/25/up... · Posted by u/xnx
Then, the ejected debris that created the canyons likely soared over the lunar surface and then collided with it at speeds of about 2,237 miles per hour (3,600 kilometers per hour).
Climbing may require concentration, try indoor autobelaying. It requires effort to think about anything but the next move. Perhaps that will start you on growing back the ability to focus.
chr commented on Neal Stephenson was prescient about our AI age theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/Rant423
The format of a Neal Stephenson book is:
A great deal of content about whatever Neal Stephenson is nerding out about at the time he's writing the book that forms the world-building (The metaverse in Snow Crash, MMORPGs in REAMDE).
There will be random digressions about other things he's nerding out about that don't amount to enough to be a major feature of the world (volcanic glass knives in Snow Crash, tuck-pointing masonry in REAMDE) that he nonetheless works into the story.
Some plot happens in this world, followed by an ending of highly variable quality. He ties Snow Crash together fairly well, as I recall. REAMDE, I was less impressed by.
For context, I've read everything of his except the Baroque Cycle up to Seveneves. He's pretty consistent in sticking to this format.
In my opinion his best writing is In The Beginning Was The Command Line[0]. I particularly like the quote "I use eMacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor." It makes me smile despite the fact that I'm a vi person. It's also uncharacteristicly short for his work.
[0] https://smorgasborg.artlung.com/C_R_Y_P_T_O_N_O_M_I_C_O_N.sh...
@mauvehaus, with your idiosyncratic spelling of emacs as "eMacs", you put Stephenson in a bad light. He knows how to spell. And edit.
chr commented on The ThinkPad TrackPoint tried to build a better mouse (2020) theverge.com/circuitbreak... · Posted by u/nequo
I would easily pay 20% more for a MacBook with a TrackPoint.
You may well be aware that there is an external keyboard from Lenovo that mimics the Thinkpad keyboard:
"ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II"
Then there are mechanic keyboards with trackpoints from Tex in Taiwan: https://tex.com.tw/collections/all
All of the parens and I can see why you would say that, but no lisper would use Vim!
From http://www.paulgraham.com/pfaq.html
What editor do you use?
vi.
chr commented on Using Asahi Linux as a developer workstation jasoneckert.github.io/myb... · Posted by u/jasoneckert
Does anyone know how easy it is to install other distributions, e.g. CentOS with the Asahi kernel?
Debian install worked fine for me, even if it was my first linux install on hardware in many years.
There are notes on Fedora install at https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Fedora
chr commented on Stack Exchange Q&A access will not be restricted in Russia meta.stackexchange.com/qu... · Posted by u/chr
Duplication of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30538864
Sorry about that. Thanks, @nosoonhui.