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Comment Re:Ed man! !man ed (Score 1) 402

I occassionally use ed even on normal machines while I'm running X... it does a fine job on simple little edits, and just feels so nice and lightweight, it doesn't even clear the terminal.... (which can be handy, e.g. when you want to preserve your terminal context)

Comment Re:depends on what you're doing (Score 0) 402

However, as an admin, I have long ago standardized on VI for the simple reason that it's included by default on every single *nix variant out there.

It's not installed by default on Debian.

You can easily install it, of course, but you can easily install a bazillion text editors....

Comment In other news: (Score 1) 3

In other news:
Work productivity accross the US today recovered to levels last seen 10 years ago, especially in industries/professions with a high ratios of female workers.

Comment Re:Art (Score 1) 71

The Cray supercomputers use to look really impressive. Blinking Lights, Red Liquid coolant dripping down a glass/plexiglass enclosure. Even the Cray 1 with its round design, with benches made it look really cool.
Now it is just a bunch of Printed Plastic covers, on a set of square boxes.

For the cost, you might as well make it look really impressive.

Comment Re:How does this work exactly? (Score 1) 28

I'm still not quite sure how it is they've solved this issue they claim, however the ability to selectively transmit information to make the image seem to appear between the eye and the screen is the wrong solution. For those over 40, the problem isn't moving the screen closer but rather needing it further away. I have this happen if I put my phone too close in the car - I can't effectively see the GPS prompts or warnings without a second or so of re-focusing effort, and even then it's a challenge with my normal glasses on (seeing it without my glasses is fine, but then distant objects are indistinct).

What's needed is to be able to focus on this object as if it were further away than the screen.

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