I wonder what an alternate timeline would look like if Microsoft has used Emacs as the foundation for Visual Studio Code? Would extensions be easier to write? Would Emacs get a lot more commands rewritten as asynchronous?
Layman question: is there a way to figure out how much carbon levels would drop for a given area of new trees/forest? How much would we need to plant to reduce carbon to preindustrial levels?
(I understand that trees don't permanently sequester carbon, but they do keep carbon for at least a century. Which would give us time to figure out other solutions)
It isn't; they take decades to grow to their full size and gather / sequester CO2 (about 15-25 kilos per year? Some sources say as much anyway; I don't know how that compares to emissions), but they will release most of that again if they die and are left to rot. Burying them is an option, but it would have to be in an anaerobic and/or sealed environment so it doesn't break down.
For the opposite effect, the permafrost is melting, allowing thousands of years of sequestered and frozen plant material to defrost and finally start rotting. That's adding a lot of CO2 and methane to the atmosphere, and it adds to the cascading global warming. Just that makes me think we've past the point of no return a while ago.
Exactly. The problem employees here weren't the ones moving their mice, it was the IT department who were annoying the employees by constantly locking them out of their machines.
True. It sounds better on the innocence/plausible deniability side to just use a tool in the regular corporate environment to get the presentation flag set. For example, viewing a .PPT in presentation mode, then using "Hide presenter view", seems promising.
LilyGo T5[0] has some different (smaller) sizes that seem quite good and cheap. They even have an option for battery and touch capabilities. And if eInk isn't required, they have some weirder types of devices with screens for tinkerers, like glasses and watches. Not Linux but ESP32, but I think in that form factor and performance it's preferable. Haven't tried them myself though, but they seem quite popular, my cursor has been hovering over the buy buttons for months. They usually don't come with case but there's a ton of 3d printable options and also some ready ones on Aliexpress.
+ Can open windows and tabs in a preset arrangement
+ Can choose from multiple arrangements across multiple displays
+ Tells me if there's a newline in what I'm about to paste
+ Exports its config to a JSON file in a place I choose
+ I can remove the tab close buttons to prevent a misclick (I'm clumsy)
+ I can change tab colours from a shell script
+ Multiple profiles
+ Text spacing both horizontal and vertical can be tweaked
+ I can log everything displayed and typed in my terminals, for later searching
+ I can disable cmd-clicking on URLs
Yeah, iTerm is a labour of love for the author, George Nachman, and people were acting like the ragebait-hateporn-parasocial crowd, swarming onto anything that promises a hearty 2-minute hate.
I have no idea how to solve that problem though, it's just part of our zeitgeist and I hope people get bored with it sooner rather than later.
It's useful to frame the event from the perspective of the users who were angry with the inclusion of the feature. AI is *everywhere* right now and the fatigue is getting to people. Many products are adding AI features that are genuinely useless and are only there for marketing purposes. Many products are putting their AI features front and center at the expense of their core competency etc.
People who responded with anger ("ragebait-hateporn") at this feel pressured on all sides by this AI hype cycle (not saying all AI features are hype, just that we are in a hype cycle where many are useless). It's getting frustrating and tired. For many it feels like the crypto hype cycle again.
It's easy to understand how "great, now even my terminal is putting AI features in?!" is the response, especially with a tool as beloved as iTerm, and as "close to the machine" as a terminal is. It's one thing for Notion to put AI things in, it's another for the interface where I regularly type sudo to do massive operations across my machine.
The correct response to false allegations followed by insults and threats is anything but to admit it. The software in question is a popular free and open source software that has more than a decade of trust. The AI feature fundamentally requires the user to actively engage with in order to use it [1], with no nagging or coercion whatsoever. In fact, the only people reminding us of its existence are the Mastodon mobs, not iTerm.
The feature wasn't added out of pure hype either. It was likely inspired by user feedback [2], and the dev ultimately added it because it was useful for him personally [3].
Despite all of this, people are raging about unprovable nefarious motives and making claims about spyware, as if it's Windows we're talking about. They pretend as if it's maintained by some faceless for-profit entity trying to screw us over instead of a sole developer trying to create good software in his spare time. Some are even openly fantasizing about inflicting physical violence [4].
This kind of behavior should be condemned, not praised.
Do you mean Homo Erectus or Homo Sapiens? Sapiens arrived around 300k years ago, according to Wikipedia. Erectus did indeed arrive around 2M years ago.
Must be Erectus then. This must be the time the aliens placed the Monolith on Earth (and another one on the Moon that we haven't found yet because we're WAY behind on our Moon base program).
As someone who has lost a fair bit of my hand eye coordination as I've aged, I wanted to say thank you to you and your community for developing some cheats.
Specifically those for single player games, I've used them to finish games so I can view the story/endings.
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