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  1. Re:How is everyone supposed to use Emacs? on It Looks Like Apple is Killing the Physical Esc and Power Keys On New MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    Escape requires me to stretchy my pinky to the upper left part of the keyboard. ctrl+[ does not require anything as the resting position of my hand includes ctrl (caps lock) and [

  2. Re:Distro??? on Emacs and Vim Combined In New 'Spacemacs' Distro (spacemacs.org) · · Score: 1

    I think distro is an accurate label. You simply can't "add" spacemacs onto emacs, it completely remodels how emacs, configuration and package-managing works. In fact, when you install spacemacs, it wipes out everything in the .emacs.d directory and installs its own packages, default configurations, etc. If that isn't a distro I don't know what is.

  3. Re:Level up Vimmers. :-) on Emacs and Vim Combined In New 'Spacemacs' Distro (spacemacs.org) · · Score: 1

    Huh? Spacemacs uses Evil. It's not re-innovating or replacing anything. As far as I'm concerned it installs a whole bunch of default configurations, packages, etc. while making configuration very simple. The alternative of creating your own Emacs configuration could take several weeks before you get to the point of productivity as most of people's previous VIM configs. For spacemacs the process is much faster.

  4. Re:Giant Douche or Turd Sandwich on Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Is Secretly Funding Trump's Meme Machine (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    It's funny because conservatives will mock liberals for having "safe spaces," yet they have their own safe spaces themselves. They are completely unself-aware. They will even mock political correctness and people who get offended over jokes, yet their beloved trump has sued everyone and anyone who talks shit about him, and they themselves will try to shutdown conversations they don't like. I've even seen entire waves of people get angry at jokes made towards conservatives made by people who these same people criticize for getting angry at jokes make towards their own political leanings (ei: David Cross and Patton Oswalt). The whole problem from both sides stems from tribalism.

  5. Re:I only "trust" AI on Study Indicates Americans Don't Trust AI (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    I would think it would be pretty hard to understand neural networks except for blatantly obvious hard-coded things.

  6. Re:Why craft? on Microsoft Finds Legal Path To Launch Minecraft In China (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Everybody knows triangles are better then cubes..

    Think of it as two triangles? :)

  7. Re: who freaking cares on Microsoft Finds Legal Path To Launch Minecraft In China (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Choosing a WAD Editor

    A tool that the general public either does not know how to use or could not spare the interest/time to learn how to use. A game that the general public could find intuitive and start creating things in the matter of a few minutes while simultaneously playing the game. How is this anything but apples and oranges as parent post states?

  8. Re:Is X11/Linux more niche than Windows Phone? on Microsoft Needs To Fix Skype (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    It costs money to support software on a niche OS.

    Then how does Microsoft get away with supporting apps for its Windows Phone operating system, which is about as niche within the mobile market as X11/Linux is in the desktop market?

    It doesn't, I own a windows phone and the skype app is pretty atrocious. Constantly crashes, messages will confusingly disappear, chat history is often inaccessible, almost never receive notifications of when a message is received, etc etc. Haven't been fixed in ages.

  9. I've been using DDG, and it has the superior black font.

  10. Why would you want to use a keyboard that gives no actual feedback? I guess people don't care to type fast without making mistakes and not having to look at the keyboard like an idiot. It's a really frustrating experience on mobile or foldable keyboards.

  11. All I can think is if she's going to be remembered because of her work at NASA /or/ that she just because she was a black woman. In other words, would this video, this article, her popularity, etc etc, exist if she were not a black woman? Hmm.

  12. Ketucky. KET.

  13. Victim blaming? I hate this attitude when it comes to these sorts of things, it always sends the message that people don't have to worry about their own security and safety. In the end, it is partially the victim's fault because if the victim had decided to employ more security and caution, they would not have had their car stolen. Same as how it's the criminal's fault because if they had not decided to be a shitty person on that day, no car would have been stolen. There's a legitimate difference between employing all the security measures you could but still finding yourself in a situation where you are forcefully unlocking your car door by gun point, and in a different scenario having said "fuck security, it's never the victim's fault" and just leaving your car door unlocked of your own volition.

  14. Re:NEWs...the point is it's supposed to be NEW on Google Chrome Extension Caught Stealing Bitcoin From Users (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    So you don't think any effort should be made to let as many people as possible know about the danger so they can avoid the app until it gets taken down?

    That's a good point, I'd rather not see a post for every single new virus introduced into the google playstore. Thanks for bringing in a new perspective.

  15. Re:NEWs...the point is it's supposed to be NEW on Google Chrome Extension Caught Stealing Bitcoin From Users (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I was almost sure I was going to get a reply like this. Yes, I'm admitting that I'm going against my own standards of not judging if an article belongs on Slashdot or not. Congratulations on dissecting that for us. Anyways, I'm glad that you lack the attention of the majority of other Slashdot readers and insert "What part of that seems wildly out of place on Slashdot" before reading the next sentence where I state why it seems out of place on Slashdot. I don't know why you're projecting about women in coding, you are make rather large assumptions. I care about as much for women in coding articles as much as I do for men in coding articles.

  16. Re:NEWs...the point is it's supposed to be NEW on Google Chrome Extension Caught Stealing Bitcoin From Users (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    Exactly, I'm not one to judge whether something should be on Slashdot or not, but even I have to concede that this seems wildly out of place. The plug-in itself has only 5 ratings and 94 users, maybe if there were 100,000 users or something this would be relevant, but the app is clearly dead at such low statistics. Not to mention the functionality is completely pointless, "blocks ads from bitcoinwisdom.com" -- do people just have a unique extension to block ads for each site they visit? Such a weird story to find on Slashdot.

  17. Re:debunked already on France To Pave 1000km of Road With Solar Panels (solarcrunch.org) · · Score: 1

    This. This is the first thing I looked for when I opened this article. Everything I hear people debating/arguing about has already been covered in this video.

  18. Aboose on Companies Want To Insert Ads Into Unicode (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Unicode was and is used to support foreign characters. Emojis are a blatant abuse of unicode, I don't know a single use of emoticons besides general spam. On a sidenote, I'm tired of people abusing unicode characters to represent their name in some untypeable mess, like "".

  19. i wonder what apparal will confuse it the most on Detecting Nudity With AI and OpenCV · · Score: 1

    From what I'm trying, men in wifebeaters and women in chainmail

  20. Ironic? on After 6-Year Beta Test, All Gmail Users Get 'Undo Send' · · Score: 1

    The people who will use this feature are too impatient to read their email before sending, yet patient enough to wait six fucking years for a stopwatch.

  21. Re:Because Microsoft laid off their QA team last f on Windows 10 Will Be Free To Users Who Test It · · Score: 0

    Only when providing new theories or evidence or hypothesis' or whatever. AC being a goatfucker is not common knowledge, windows layoffs are common knowledge and aren't exactly anything new. You'd have to provide a link every other sentence if that were the case.

  22. Re:Say Good By to the Rainforests .... on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    Yes, and I'm sure not being a stamp collector is a hobby as well.

  23. Beneficial For Trolls? on European Court: Websites Are Responsible For Users' Comments · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I would think this would be beneficial for trolls/assholes/etc. You could pretty much just say whatever the fuck you wanted to and let the website get in trouble or force the website to enforce some stricter policies.

  24. Re:Not even 2% on Malware Attacks Give Criminals 1,425% Return On Investment · · Score: 1

    1425%. Not 1[,.]425%

  25. Re:Height increase justifies nothing on CDC: Americans Getting Heavier, Average Woman Weighs As Much As 1960s Man · · Score: 1

    Ok fine, let's sum up: a mathematician (!), a political science professor (!!) and somebody from a restaurant industry association (!!!) don't like an indicator that is used worldwide by physicians to measure obesity, and that is used to rank countries' obesity by the World Health Organization and the OECD in their annual papers. Thanks, very useful. To guess what the BMIs of those 3 guys might be.

    It's pretty ironic that you point out that a mathematician(!) is against BMI when it was a mathematician(!) that created BMI.