If you were assessing a company you would give them your report at the end and leave. It’s their problem to fix it

When you can type at 70wpm you can only do that when you’re copying text or taking dictation, maybe at double speed. Detailed thought doesn’t come at even 20wpm

I learnt to touch type quickly, the only thing I type at that speed now is my passphrases

Lines added, lines deleted

The UX guy is the one I’m agreeing with

Prusa still let’s me sneakernet the print file to it, it’ll do it over the LAN, but USB is faster. I’m the only one who uses it, but I’m pretty sure since they’re focused on user experience it wouldn’t be onerous

M5 needs the printer logged into their server, needs the user authenticated and has no USB slot

No alternate calendar could overcome the inertia of the current one, but that’s worse than most, it breaks the week cycle

What I know of the FOSS angel is that it is perfectly happy with all the FOSS editors

I try to ctrl+x ctrl+c in things that aren’t Emacs. Whichever you choose you eventually learn it well and it seems so easy that it’s hard to see what the advantage of an alternative might be good for

No one can argue against you as you know how to use the tool. Vi and Emacs are both perfectly capable editors, both have been used to make huge amounts of code. Both are great for updating configuration files, both beat the simple editors when it comes to syntex highlighting and encouraging correct updates

Nano is fine for editing, fine for working with configuration files. It only fails when you try to use it as a development editor

And in Emacs ctrl+k means kill the line or selection (adds it to the kill ring) and ctrl+y yanks a value from the kill ring. Meta+y cycles to the next item in the ring. Meta is usually escape, unless you’re using the computer of someone with a key called meta

This comes from being earlier than MS-DOS, so it couldn’t copy someone else’s work (why did it take so long for DOS and windows to come up with the innovation of a copy history. It came after the windows key

Gnome is fine if it works the way you do.

Most old ones - older than vi - are terrible. I have to sometimes use the IBM mainframe editor at work. It is terrible.

Emacs has a menu, it’s not exactly hard. F10 to open the menu in text mode

Not at all, the ledger is public, it’s not tied to names, only IDs but it’s trivially easy to tie a person to a Bitcoin account if they’re under surveillance

If you live in a country that cares about law you might attract attention with a large Bitcoin balance and enough transactions to tie it to you

I agree with them. You might survey for pain points before the change, but once you’ve built something, you’re not asking users for whether it’s perfect

I used to work on a product with version numbers year.release - 2005.9 then 2005.10, though we only had about six releases a year

Cakes have multiple sides, you can have your bits in your chosen order if you turn up to the party in person

I use that style of birthday candle, but I only place as many bits as needed.

The year before adding a bit then has all candles lit, the next has only one lit

Though the new bits don’t come very often. My last was 31 to 32, my next will be 63 to 64, I don’t like my chances to see one after that

In place of a 3 cord red/white/yellow cable? That’s a simple analogue cable, it’ll be fine

Yeah, if the cable impedance is small enough that you can still get the volume you need it doesn’t matter

The comment above is informed by radio electronics - in 1980s Australia had TV on low enough frequency that we used balanced wires (two parallel conductors, like speaker wires) for best interference rejection, with opposite voltage in each conductor and interfering signal will affect both conductor equally and opposite, cancelling the interfering signal (we also needed a “balun” on the antenna to match between the balanced wires and the unbalanced antenna)

Now every antenna you see on roofs and wifi devices connect with coax cables and connectors which are impedance matched to the antennas because impedance really really matters at microwave frequencies, those cables need shielding as they can’t reject interference in the way balanced cables can