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In the IT department in which I work, now the team is reduced to just me, I find myself using the phrase "Why fix a problem in 15 minutes with your own engineers, when you can take 3 weeks with a Managed-Service Provider?". Most of what I have to care for is office/internet network related.

People in other teams are slowly getting it. When I leave (or more likely "am let go"), the cold hard reality will become much more obvious during the next network problem ;)

coopcloud.tech ?

I'd observe that there are professional gamblers, and there are amateur gamblers.

If you know what you're doing, know how to spec a problem space, and can manage the tool competently enough to churn out good results, then everything's fine, and you're maybe being productive or increasing your productivity by some degree. (Professional "Gambler")

If you DON'T know what you're doing, and you're just vibe-coding, then I would argue that it is at least a form of gambling (Amateur "Gambler")

Both of these conditions can also be applied to "hiring people to do a job" however there we can also observe things like reputation, credentials and so on.

"It's just paying to get stuff done..." is, with respect, superflous.

It's annoying that they class themselves as "Involuntary" Celibates, because as far as I can tell the "in" part of "Involuntary" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Volcels is way more accurate.

I do (also sometimes) use Emacs on Windows, but I must admit I have little experience of the issues surrounding Japanese textual input (I've not checked but I would have automaticaly assumed "there's an Emacs mode for that", but perhaps not) - without that additional requirement just a plain old basic Emacs would have worked out of the box, no?

But anyway, good luck in your travels in scratching that itch! :)

Pretty much yes. Emacs is basically a Lisp execution environment with a customisable text-editor included.

With respect, you should learn Lisp - it will allow you to turn Emacs into whatever you want. In my opinion just keeping the Emacs keybindings but dropping all the other advantages of Emacs is missing the point entirely, and using Electron instead is just - as the saying goes - "adding insult to injury".

I've got to admit to being somewhat disappointed that the "wolf" in question wasn't the character from the film 'Pulp Fiction', because - at least in my mind - it's an apt example for Rand's original article.

I've not had time to explore fully, but I just cracked open emacs on this windwoes machine, and tried it, and it auto-added a comma to the beginning of a nested #+BEGIN_SRC...

#+BEGIN_SRC lolcode

blah

#+END_SRC

org-mode to the rescue ;p

I'm not a Linux noob, but I do have better things to do than admin/fix in the evenings too.

right - same here WRT windows partition. Not always using Live, but it gets used when it's necessary. I'm slightly disappointed that they haven't done the decent thing and released a Linux version, but .. ah well, what can ya do hey?

Thanks! I wasn't aware of the JUCE newer version issue.. I'll have to (sometime) dig into that a bit deeper. Me I don't mind the idea of the smaller-scale alternatives, but having to occasionally work withothers that aren't linux based could be.. problematic.

thanks!