Can we collectively refrain from making comments like this on Hacker News—or in any venue, for that matter? Is it that hard to read an assumed “In my experience, it is often the case that…” in front of everyone’s comment?
I was stating that I have great success showing how said items should be prioritized and budgeted, across numerous organization types, sizes, and industries - and making it happen.
The care and thought you put into your writing, regardless of medium, says everything about how (and how much) you care and are thinking about your audience.
When I think of royalty free music for “creators,” my mind instantly goes to the sort of cliched, bombastic audio that is used to score “epic b-roll” that serves no purpose in so many YouTube videos. The world needs less of this, not more.
I don’t know about you, but reading that first paragraph of the organic chemistry textbook was not a drag. It may not have been Carl Sagan’s Cosmos but I don’t understand how any generally curious person wouldn’t find it interesting. For the record I never took anything beyond Chemistry I in college.
I basically gave up on Emacs and switched to a combination of VS Code and old-school vi for Go and everything else, respectively. Finding an effing theme that allowed me to program in Go in a terminal without making LSP’s overlays unreadable was nearly impossible. I spent days trying to make this work. I’ve used Emacs since 1991.
This is possible, but it's a bit of a pain. One problem is that the popular themes cater to GUI Emacs users where you have 24-bit color depth. On the terminal this gets approximated to one of the available 256 colors, and this approximation is often not great. This makes themes on the terminal look weird sometimes.
With some work, you can enable 24-bit color support in TTY emacs, which solves this problem. Combine this with some work to either tweak or remove the more obnoxious LSP overlays and you can have a fairly good LSP experience on the TTY.
I wanted a monochrome terminal but was willing to tolerate traditional ANSI color. Once you start with 24 bit color you may as well start using a VNC client.
What sapped my will to live was the impossibility of doing a C-u C-x = on the overlays to determine how their contents were styled, forcing me to go into the source code of a ton of different packages to go fishing for face names to coerce to visible values.
Yes it’s possible but it’s insane. Emacs carries around all of this terminal baggage but many module developers seem to have forgotten about terminal users. Additionally, theming is conceptually broken in that it creates an MxN problem with themes and modes’ face names. This could be solved if modes stopped with the proliferation of mode-specific face names but good luck with that.
Upon reading it my thoughts went to yesterday's Verge article on the audio recordings of Zuckerberg's Q&As. Facebook has many vocal rank and file people who seem to believe they've arrived at Enlightenment and want Zuckerberg to toe the line. His imperfect attempts to walk a tightrope that keeps everyone happy infuriate the Enlightened, who believe tightrope walking is in its very conception a concession to Evil. They conclude that he's an Agent of Hatred and start taking steps to coerce him into compliance with Correct Thinking.
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The claimed "plausible deniability" benefit seems dubious. You are carrying a branded device with marketing materials that tout its ability to offer you plausibly deniability…
Plausible deniability refers to Nitrokey Storage's hidden volumes. They can optionally be setup, but no need to, and without the appropriate password it can't be distinguished. Similiar to VeraCrypt's hidden volumes.
So how long do they interrogate you before deciding there's really no hidden volume? And even if you do reveal a hidden volume, how could they ever know it's the only one? It's pointless, even if they know about the technology.
It really much depends on the individual case. In a constitutional state it should make a difference if obviously an encrypted volume is used or if there is the possibility but no certainty of one, two, three or four hidden volumes.
