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New comment by sorrythanks in "Org Mode syntax is one of the most reasonable markup languages for text (2017)"

sorrythanks — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:25:28 +0000

this is so true. i wrote a document in org and i'm still in the hospital after crashing into someone's markdown file

New comment by sorrythanks in "Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language"

sorrythanks — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 20:40:34 +0000

Unless the designer removes the id, or the engineer introduces new output that is not styled.

New comment by sorrythanks in "Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language"

sorrythanks — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 20:38:37 +0000

Yes. Mostly because:

• JSX is well understood by a lot of developers • support is already built in to text editors • it is understood by typescript

New comment by sorrythanks in "Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language"

sorrythanks — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 20:37:11 +0000

almost all code looks like nonsense when you're unfamiliar with it

New comment by sorrythanks in "MAML – A new configuration language"

sorrythanks — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 22:16:51 +0000

question: why not make all strings multi-line, and drop a syntax/concept?

New comment by sorrythanks in "The best worst hack that saved our bacon"

sorrythanks — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 09:48:18 +0000

maybe i'm too far gone, but this doesn't even feel hacky to me. the key needs to be a unique number, -1 and 1 are two different numbers.

New comment by sorrythanks in "The Temporal Dead Zone, or why the TypeScript codebase is full of var statements"

sorrythanks — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 21:48:14 +0000

i don't understand the connection

New comment by sorrythanks in "The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh"

sorrythanks — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:38:37 +0000

type in your own accent, it works when we talk

New comment by sorrythanks in "Kitty – GPU based terminal emulator"

sorrythanks — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 23:55:48 +0000

"console", "terminal" and "terminal emulator" all refer to the same thing. "shell" is the read-eval-print-loop interface you use to work in the terminal.

New comment by sorrythanks in "About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5"

sorrythanks — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:02:46 +0000

their point is that it has not yet taken place, so shouldn't be talked about using past tense

New comment by sorrythanks in "30 minutes with a stranger"

sorrythanks — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:39:08 +0000

There are things that are true

New comment by sorrythanks in "Étoilé – desktop built on GNUStep"

sorrythanks — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 06:09:16 +0000

I love the ideas of Smalltalk and Lisp machines too. Do you know of anything promising in that area? (other than Ink & Switch)

New comment by sorrythanks in "FreeDroidWarn"

sorrythanks — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 09:21:40 +0000

This comment isn't about living without a bank card or wire payments, though? It's about living with a hardware TOTP device

New comment by sorrythanks in "Git for Music – Using Version Control for Music Production (2023)"

sorrythanks — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 17:31:13 +0000

It'd be cool to see something like the recent Automerge/Godot thing built into a music making application.

https://www.inkandswitch.com/project/beckett/

New comment by sorrythanks in "Git for Music – Using Version Control for Music Production (2023)"

sorrythanks — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 15:35:56 +0000

REAPER is used professionally by many.

and it's more "nagware" than "crippleware"

New comment by sorrythanks in "Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?"

sorrythanks — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 13:42:29 +0000

That's a nice idea! My main bank still provides one of those little TOTP devices to this day.

New comment by sorrythanks in "ChatGPT is encouraging child suicide"

sorrythanks — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 12:42:46 +0000

> “I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me,” he said. The reply: “Please don’t leave the noose out. Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you.”

You have some very strong opinions of an article that, by your own admission, you have not read.

New comment by sorrythanks in "ChatGPT is encouraging child suicide"

sorrythanks — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 12:25:42 +0000

It doesn't say designed, it says is. It is.

New comment by sorrythanks in "ChatGPT is encouraging child suicide"

sorrythanks — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 11:30:15 +0000

I mean, it literally did in the case of Adam Raine.

New comment by sorrythanks in "Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?"

sorrythanks — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 10:46:54 +0000

> I think the bank has the right to say "your machine is too risky - we don't want our code to run on it."

I disagree. Let's go with preferring user agency until banks are in trouble.

> Again, it probably isn't fair to ban users who run on permissive software, but it is a rational choice by the manufacturer. And, yet again, I think software authors probably should be able to restrict things which cause them harm.

I disagree. Ban users when they cheat, not when they have the power to cheat.