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New comment by mghackerlady in "Emacs appearances in pop culture"

mghackerlady — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:48:44 +0000

He also wrote a emacs mail client

New comment by mghackerlady in "Emacs appearances in pop culture"

mghackerlady — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:16:17 +0000

There's two reasons for this, I think. The most obvious is that emacs has better CJK support compared to any other editor of the time. The less obvious is that Japan liked lisp machines and lisp in general a lot

New comment by mghackerlady in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

mghackerlady — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:31:26 +0000

I really wish they made a new Zero that doesn't use ddr2 ram to ensure that it can still be made far into the future. As far as I'm aware, nobody is making ddr2 anymore

New comment by mghackerlady in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

mghackerlady — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:27:16 +0000

I'm personally of the mind that any .gov or utility website should work on old browsers, or at least have a lite fallback to ensure everyone can at least read how to do something the pen and paper way

New comment by mghackerlady in "Retro-Tech Parenting"

mghackerlady — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:30:39 +0000

I thought it was fishy, but the text on one of the CD cases gave it away

How the Internet Invented Bread Clip Science

mghackerlady — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:18:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNwHnHL2Pgs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48408680

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

HORG: What Are Occlupanids?

mghackerlady — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:49:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.horg.com/horg/?page_id=2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48394536

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mghackerlady in "Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products"

mghackerlady — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:05:30 +0000

For a while I had installed in wine for frontpage

New comment by mghackerlady in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

mghackerlady — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:33:34 +0000

All of those also describe America, but in typical American extravagance, there's two parties

New comment by mghackerlady in "Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products"

mghackerlady — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:28:24 +0000

Use libreoffice, its good for the occasions you need actual office software instead of latex

New comment by mghackerlady in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

mghackerlady — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:27:08 +0000

Right, but if you bought office 2000 it was established that you would get to keep using office 2000 for as long as you wanted

New comment by mghackerlady in "Don't Build Your Own Lisp"

mghackerlady — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:59:08 +0000

What if its really fun though

New comment by mghackerlady in "Private Equity Bought America's Essential Services"

mghackerlady — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:04:15 +0000

(I agree, but generally commenting about downvotes isn't something we do here from what I've seen)

New comment by mghackerlady in "Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews"

mghackerlady — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:23:41 +0000

Did it ever release on the PS2? Regardless, I think there are a few games with fan servers up (particularly final fantasy xi).

New comment by mghackerlady in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

mghackerlady — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:20:10 +0000

free market capitalism will always end like this though. the end goal of capitalism is the consolidation of all things into a megacorporation or oligarchy that controls everything, creates nothing, and earns infinite money

New comment by mghackerlady in "The user is visibly frustrated"

mghackerlady — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:58:23 +0000

"You poor creature" XD

New comment by mghackerlady in "A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft"

mghackerlady — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:29:58 +0000

No need, just use exwm or whatever the current wayland equivalent is and run shotcut or blender in it

New comment by mghackerlady in "Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews"

mghackerlady — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:28:22 +0000

I've played a few hours of the gamecube version online. I honestly would rather play the dreamcast version, I'm not a big MMO person so the novelty is why I'm playing

New comment by mghackerlady in "Incident with Actions and Pages"

mghackerlady — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:23:28 +0000

I don't understand anyone still using github for anything unless they have to or have payed for it. Move literally anywhere else

New comment by mghackerlady in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

mghackerlady — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:15:17 +0000

We needed a study for this? I've always had the best ideas while walking. Granted, I always forget them if I don't write them down, but I do have them