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Comment · 1 year ago
If I could get you access to a spacecraft a million miles away, would you stay there and never come back?
Comment · 1 year ago
You're overcomplicating this. If RMS and his lackeys were so hellbent on ridding prop OS's from the world, they could move marginally closer to that goal by simply deleting w32* ns* and android* from GNU Emacs. That they instead collectively spend several man-months per year stressing about their upkeep means they care more about expanding their userbase than any bullshit notion of "freedom."
Comment · 1 year ago
Your litany of butthurt actually bolsters my opinion of the bozos at emacs-devel, who I've long criticized for hypocritically advancing emacs on proprietary os's despite their ostensible mission to destroy them.
Comment · 1 year ago
I wish I could. I'm also rather curious how "cave men" lived.
Comment · 1 year ago
I’ll drop them as a client

Not unless they drop you first.

Comment · 1 year ago
Sapiens is a bait-and-switch. It starts out great promising at least a hypothetical account of early man, then begs off saying 30,000 years is too long ago, and burns 300 pages on essentially wokeism.

Bryson's book is great, but it's wide-ranging pop sci, not specifically about early man.

Comment · 1 year ago
employment is apparently the highest achievement a person can aspire to

Your words, not mine. But gene propagation is up there, and steady wages is a sufficient if not necessary condition for that to happen.

Comment · 1 year ago
That he burned 11,000 words on his text editor tells you why emacs users are unemployable.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'd say the opposite. Every time a guy crushes me, I flip the board over and call him a fuckwit.
Comment · 1 year ago
I do, dipshit.

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