They can’t won’t even hold stop supplying Israel with weapons and financial backing to persecute the war back currently.

(“They” =~ “We”, sigh)

You want Upspin. I want Upspin. But Upspin never went anywhere (it’s at least 7 years old… ever heard of it?), and I personally believe that it was because it’s a royal PITA to set up, and because the tutorial had instructions that expected you to be using GCS. If you wanted to do everything on your LAN, it was even harder.

It’s got all the of the features you mention, and it’s really the only system that does what it does; I really did try in the early days to get it running, and failed. It still has the caveat:

Upspin has rough edges, and is not yet suitable for non-technical users.

and, at 7 years old, if it hasn’t gotten anywhere yet, I think it never will. Commits trickle in, but there’s really no significant progress in usability.

Read the mission statement. It’s glorious. And then wallow in despair that nothing else does this, and it’s a zombie project.

Plus, I had gotten to a place where my tiling WM, tmux, terminal tabs, and vim tabs were all competing for keyboard shortcuts, and it was driving me crazy.

I admit, this is so bad that occasionally - and especially if I make the mistake of stopping to think about it - my brain freezes and I can’t remember the chord for a few second. What helped immensely was first kmonad, then Kanata, and finally a QMK keyboard. I use exactly the same keys for navigation, create, delete, etc operations, and only vary the layer key - WM under my pinky, tmux under my index finger. Helix has it’s own bindings and ways of managing windows that are different enough as to not really confuse me, and I don’t use terminal tabs at all, so it’s really only WM and tmux. But, yeah: a Helix split window, in a split tmux tab, in a split herbstluftwm window can occasionally get me stuck for a few second as I unbox all the layers.

I use tmux for anything I want to be long-lived. Displays, terminals, and WMs, all crash far more often than tmux. I’ve never once had tmux crash on me; at this point, I’m not sure that it’s possible for it to crash (only half-joking).

This is a lot like what I do. Where possible, my apps are TUIs, so terminals dominate. At any given point I have 4 tmux sessions with around 6 tabs in each. I haven’t refined that, though, because my editor (Helix) also has window support and many editing tasks (yank/paste) are easier with Helix windows that with multiple helix sessions running in different tmux tabs. This works best with full-screen terminals, and I find myself closing tmux panels to open helix windows… I need to refine this.

A few apps are GUI. Browsers, PDF viewers, graphics editors. Those are all full-screen.

How do you use the sliding feature this way, though, and how is it better than just having separate desktops? Do you use multiple displays, or only one?

Why?

I’ve never tried it. “Scrollable” window managers, however, imply certain things, some of which are undesirable. Like, do you have to scroll through half the applications to get from the end to the middle? Or from one end to the other?

It looks as if it can be used like other tiling WMs, with workspaces, except that each workspace can be expanded horizontally. I’m having a hard time imagining why this would be more useful than just adding more workspaces.

Why is Niri great? How does it work on multi-monitor setups? What about it do you like?

My last fridge, something in the compressor failed; it would have cost almost as to fix as replace.

But maybe fridges aren’t the same as AC units and heat exchangers. If I knew that, I could probably have fixed my fridge myself :-/

So, I learned something interesting about the technology underpinning refrigerators once. In my case, it was an old HVAC AC unit.

We had it checked once, and the tech said the until was really old, but seemed fine. It turns out the old units lasted forever, because they were made with heavy duty materials - thick steel, etc. The downside was that the efficiencies were really low. He said it was a trade-off: you get higher efficiencies by using thinner metal with better thermal conductivity, but you sacrifice durability. Basically, it’s a trade-off between durability and efficiency. Whatever built-in obsolescence you get is on top of an essential limitation in physics: it takes more energy to transfer heat between thick metal and thin, and thin just doesn’t last as long.

I’m not a materials scientist, so I’m probably paraphrasing him wrong and misinterpreting it, but since his advice was to not replace it until it died, which could be another decade, unless I had an urgent desire to get a higher efficiency unit, I figured he wasn’t BSing me and took him at his word.

I absolutely believe in planned obsolescence, but I also believe that there are some fundamental laws of physics contributing to lifespan of appliances. If you want high efficiency (in some types of appliances, such as refrigerators), you’re generally going to be working with more flimsy materials which are more prone to breaking down.

I suspect that the higher efficiency don’t make up for the irreparability and subsequent waste of replacing appliances more often, but Energy Star contributed to requiring some of that, so not all of the blame can be laid on manufacturers.

Thank you

Decades ago, there was a small, local company named Copper Cricket in Oregon that sold and installed rooftop solar water heaters which worked really well - despite the fact that the Willamette Valley, where most of the population lives, got something like only 3 months worth of cloudless days peer year (July, the month with the fewest cloudy days, has an average 40% cloud cover during the month).

This is pre-internet history, and I’m unable to find references, but when the company went out of business the rumor going around was that power companies were funding zoning lawsuits against Copper Cricket, and this eventually shut the company down.

A while ago, I wrote a tool to generate change logs from commit messages. It grabs all commits from a tag to the previous tag, and collates them into a Keep A Changelog format.

An unintended consequence is this is that my commit messages are in keepachangelog format; the tool just groups messages by type and adds the version and date decoration, and then inserts the text at the right place in the file.

It’s fantastic. Because I know the commit messages will end up in the changelog, it encourages me to describe the commits in terms of:

Adds blah blah Changes blah blah Fixes blah blah

Anything that doesn’t start with a keyword is discarded, so I can still jot notes in the commit, but by far the biggest benefit is that it’s completely broken me of the habit of reiterating the code change that I committed, and write the reason for the commit in descriptive language.

Having a little reinforcement such as tooling can do wonders for building good habits.

He’s not a murderer … yet.

“New”?

I… I don’t get this. The trains are functioning as batteries? Regenerative braking is nice, but why is only a third going to power the trains themselves? Why not 100%? TFA says they’re issuing the “spare electricity” in the grid; “spare?”

These aren’t perpetual motion machines; they’re not violating the third law, and they consume more energy than they produce. Most off these article is about the (obvious) benefits of adding regenerative braking to subways around the world, regardless of cost; what confuses me is: why are they spending money and effort to route regenerative braking into other uses, which is what the title literally says (“trains”, not “train power grid”). It seems like an inefficient and circuitous way to tap other demands into a subway power grid.

Unless what’s really happening is that Barcelona is just tapping other demands into the (robust) subway power grid, and coincidentally adding regenerative braking, and someone decided to make the wild conceptual link that the power being fed back into the grid by braking is part of the overall power being used by new sinks. Which is like saying that my piss is being used to provide drinking water, because it goes back into the overall water cycle one way or another.

They should have kept them there, like badges. Collected more and gotten totally blinged out. It should have a badge for WWII.

So, do I extrapolate to the rest of the world?

Yes. Also assume that anyone who disagrees with you is either insane or stupid. It’s the modern human condition!

I was wondering if this was a pre-Thagomizer comic, or just a missed chance at self-reference.

I stub my toe. Is that a “have to?”

It looks utterly repulsive, but I kind of love the idea… the sheer convenience.

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But that’s not a very friendly spider emoji. I sense an unfair bias.

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