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Emacs is an outstanding, extremely powerful piece of software. It just lacks a decent editor.

I know this is the joke, and I know Evil is the jokey reply, but ... both sides of the joke carry a grain of truth, as good jokes do.

I know a lot of people become comfortable with the default editing tools in Emacs, and many of them are good, but on the whole, vanilla Emacs does not ship with a great editor.

The Vim family makes up amazingly well designed editors.

Evil is a Vim implementation in Emacs. It is the best of both worlds, and not just on paper. It actually works.


Not ever remotely true. Emacs has one of the best plain and structured text editing ever known to humans. Buffer abstraction alone is a godsend. Indirect buffer editing allows you to edit any piece independently - e.g. I can edit code comments treating them as completely different thing - with different highlighting, fonts, behaviors, etc.

In what editor can you peak&edit folded text without unfolding it? Answer - only Emacs.

Ask someone who needs to write texts in Arabic or Hebrew - Emacs has far, far better RTL support.

Org-mode is just light-years ahead of anything else, nothing even comes close to it.

So, your stupid joke (if you really believe it) is on you, truly.


evil-mode

There’s a lot in a name.

Evil stands for Extensible VI Layer, it's not "literal Google".

Yuck!

Well, I don't understand why he did not complain to ICANN? This would be the second step after customer support failed. Last step is a lawsuit. GoDaddy is opening itself up there to liability big time.

[Assuming that the poster gives true statements, but I have no reason do doubt this]


> Well, I don't understand why he did not complain to ICANN?

It’s slow. At ICANN, IMO, registries > registrars > registrants.


Trademarks mean Bullshit. Facebook closed a site of mine besides having a registered and valid (US) trademark that precedes everything.

A trademark means nobody but you has the right to use the name in commerce. It doesn't mean Facebook is forced to give you a site (whatever that means).

Bullshit

Trademarks can't magically prevent someone from doing something wrong. That doesn't make them useless.

(No idea how this relates to Facebook, so responding to your comment generically.)


Somebody using this name claimed my site if fraudulent. Now, please show your ignorance regarding trademarks and ask how he could use the name if I have an old trademark....

"If we’re being clear-eyed about it, America has, historically, been brutal to many of its citizens. For some, that treatment is far more recent and unfamiliar, inspiring the desire to find happiness, safety, and security elsewhere. And while it’s tempting to believe this sense of urgency can be wholly blamed on Donald Trump, he was, in reality, an accelerant to a necrotic system.

When the middle class began to crack in the years following the 2007 economic collapse, the old American instinct to migrate in search of opportunity shifted. If leaving was something Americans did domestically, the horizon shifted further afield."


No plane is invisible. It is totally unclear if Russian or Chinese technology can detect them. I mean, there is one way to find out....

This being said, should the "invisibility" fail, it becomes a plane that can't dog fight, cant fly very high, can't fly very fast, can't carry a lot of load, needs an insane amount of maintenance (10h per 1h flight) and is expensive. Big bet!

Superiority comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superiority_(short_story)

Fun fact: German stealth figthers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten_Ho_229

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBB_Lampyridae

The modern background of stealth figthers comes from the soviet union: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_technology


Dog fighting is not a serious concern in modern fighter combat because missiles have gotten so effective that the current strategy has been forced into beyond visual range combat. And stealth doesn't just "fail". In bvr the first side that sees the other is the side that gets to fire a salvo first, which is the primary advantage of stealth technology: so that the enemy doesn't see you from as far as you can see them. All stealth does is linearly lower the radar return of your plane for a given distance and angle, but radar return is inversely proportional to the fourth power of distance. This means that if you get close enough then any decent radar can eventually make out an f35. The whole point of stealth is to make that distance as small as possible.

"Dog fighting is not a serious concern in modern fighter combat"

We heard this before and it was a disaster.

"And stealth doesn't just "fail"."

Nothing is invisible. It depends on your frequency that you use for detection and other technologies. You will find out if your are "invisible" for an able opponent (speak, China, Russia, not Iran) in battle. But then it may be too late.

Read the Sci Fi story "Superiority", formerly required reading at MIT engineering courses.


I have a better idea: Let's ChatGPT learn from the ad conversion what output to deliver....

How is it the other way around? What is the status of Waydroid?


Works.


It is one of the best jurisdictions for any business involving crime, money laundering, or scams.


Greek|Latin -> Arabic -> Latin

His pupil, the English scholastic Daniel of Morley, recorded one of Gerhard's methods[6] in translation: His Mozarabic assistant Ghalib (Latinized Galippus)[7] translated the text orally into medieval Castilian, Gerhard listened and wrote the text down in Latin. In the case of the Almagest, which had been translated from its original language of Ancient Greek first into Syriac, then into Arabic, and which Gerhard translated into Latin via the oral route of Castilian, this long chain of transmission introduced numerous sources of error.


From Reddit: "I heard that the opening 27 minutes of Saving Private Ryan were loosely based on a game of dodgeball played by Chuck Norris in 2nd grade." ;-)


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