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New comment by emgee_1 in "Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?"

emgee_1 — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:57:00 +0000

Definitely checkout emacspeak.

New comment by emgee_1 in "Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?"

emgee_1 — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:55:32 +0000

Definitely checkout Emacspeak.

New comment by emgee_1 in "Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]"

emgee_1 — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 17:42:51 +0000

I think you should offlineimap; Use mbsync ( iSync )

New comment by emgee_1 in "Pricing niche products"

emgee_1 — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 16:32:10 +0000

Go for Emacs.

It is niche, belongs to the oldest softwares, and a true mark of professionalism:)

New comment by emgee_1 in "How Much Water Do You Need to Drink?"

emgee_1 — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 17:47:02 +0000

Thank you for SI units. Some of us not living in the great country run by the universal moron understand this now better.

New comment by emgee_1 in "All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert"

emgee_1 — Sat, 04 May 2019 02:13:07 +0000

Just one : Emacs orgmode

New comment by emgee_1 in "I draw figures for my mathematical lecture notes using Inkscape"

emgee_1 — Sun, 28 Apr 2019 12:43:43 +0000

Yes I think serious practice is needed. There is something else that is a disadvantage: you need anyway to review your lecture notes; but since they are so beautiful you do not easily see mistakes; one way to avoid overly beautiful notes is to use a kind of draft font that deliberately looks a bit off. The drawings (with the keyholes ) are of path integrals with holomorphic functions (something I did around 1982)

But the whole idea and execution are phenomenal.

My feeling is that using emacs it could be possibly easier but I will not try to convert a vimmer

New comment by emgee_1 in "Who Killed Lard? (2012)"

emgee_1 — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 23:51:26 +0000

And add some crushed nuts like almonds

New comment by emgee_1 in "Speedgate: World’s First Sport Generated by AI"

emgee_1 — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 17:51:47 +0000

I am interested if you start selling onions or tomatoes on the internet. /s

New comment by emgee_1 in "OpenBSD 6.5"

emgee_1 — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 17:58:27 +0000

Openbsd does not support Bluetooth

New comment by emgee_1 in "OpenBSD 6.5"

emgee_1 — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 17:53:07 +0000

Highly used programs: emacs, vi, Tex , latex, R, python, lisp’s, awk, sed.

Yes No multimedia programs, cause I am a mathematician and for pdf I use pdftools; so no Adobe also; started with Slackware in 2007 after an abysmal windows period from 1991 till 2007; now I use openbsd and emacs simply rocks and is rock solid on openbsd.

New comment by emgee_1 in "48% of Canadians on brink of insolvency, online survey says"

emgee_1 — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 19:30:13 +0000

So how many of these 2000sampled families are actually on-line or have proper internet connections? How is this distributed across the country? How many have proper jobs? Are unemployed ? How does it match to the age distribution among all inhabitants? And why would 200 $ be a right cut-off for income?

New comment by emgee_1 in "My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular"

emgee_1 — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 01:11:55 +0000

On Emacs use pdftools. Qed.

New comment by emgee_1 in "How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim"

emgee_1 — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 06:54:03 +0000

Very impressive. The first displayed text page contains a typo at the bottom : CHAUCHY iso CAUCHY. As others have said physically rewriting is part of comprehension (as is rewriting new words learned in a new language) As the lecture notes are drafts from the black board I suggest using a font that does not make it look like perfectly printed. You can fool yourself believing what you wrote because it looks so pretty.

If you are writing a considerable amount of latex his setup is really cool. I will you these ideas but using emacs in stead of vim. Wonderful job!!

New comment by emgee_1 in "Scientists rise up against statistical significance"

emgee_1 — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:48:34 +0000

Statisticians are doing fine indeed. The problem lies entirely in the ( non) design of experiments ( DoE) of the “scientists”. The sorry state of affairs of graduates from universities in properly designing experiments in which proper randomization, focus on sources of variability, between groups and within groups is not understood nor accounted for in the design is the true source of the problem. Scientists should always consult a statistician when undertaking an experiment. At least if they would like to make/draw sensible conclusions.

New comment by emgee_1 in "Gmail confidential mode"

emgee_1 — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 19:02:07 +0000

I never use Gmail in a browser. This means that this functionality is not available for me? ( using iSync msmtp mu mu4e emacs setup)

New comment by emgee_1 in "The Foursquare of today is a location data giant"

emgee_1 — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 00:29:58 +0000

I just watched long shot to understand your comment :) in the Netherlands

New comment by emgee_1 in "Writing a Book with Unix"

emgee_1 — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 21:19:17 +0000

Looks like everything he does can easily accomplished using emacs orgmode and pandoc

Ripgrep is maybe an alternative for ag

New comment by emgee_1 in "PureOS is convergent"

emgee_1 — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 21:02:58 +0000

Hear hear!

New comment by emgee_1 in "Ask HN: How do you keep your files organized on macOS?"

emgee_1 — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:42:31 +0000

Emacs with dired; also on Linux and all Bsd’s