Hexnut @ambihelical@qoto.org

@freemo @alecui I'm not sure why he hasn't apologized for his past racism, oh now I remember, that's your take, I'm not convinced. I think he was just mistaken at the time. I don't really expect politicians to dredge up their past mistakes, this isn't what they do. I would rather have that than politicians that do one thing and say another, almost at the same time some of them, it's pretty much performance art. There's plenty of that on the other side of the aisle right now.

I don't watch him closely enough to sense any sincerity or lack thereof. Do you have some incident in mind?

@freemo @alecui Yes that sounds bad, but even if he meant it as it sounds, I have to believe that people are capable of growth. I can think back at my own biases as a young adult and how I've changed, and have to believe that others are capable of the same thing. As I said, if he was truly racist, he would not have stood as VP with Obama, nor would Obama have selected him.

And since you are not that old (not remembering Reagen at all), you might not realize this: Some people do not grow at all, and are hopeless. Other people live, look and learn, work on their biases, and grow as human beings. The process takes years and decades, but people do get better. Do you honestly think Biden is the same person he was in the 70's? I really doubt it.

@freemo @alecui I dunno about this. At that time (I lived through this) there was a lot of opinions about what would be better for black scholastic achievement. To me, I would think busing would be very disruptive, and it probably was. So it was not clear that was the best choice. Also doing deals with nasty people is just part of being a politician as well, you can really fault one for trying to get the best deal possible, even if it is far from ideal. It is more likely that Joe Biden was just wrong on his political stance as judged by history. This is not unusual.

I mean you are talking about a guy who was VP for the first black US president, ever. No racist would have accepted that role.

At the end of the day, current actions speak louder than past mistakes, at least in my opinion. On this score, Republicans are doing poorly. Democrats, fairly well, if not as well as we might like. End of story.

@freemo @SteelFolk Indeed, it's pretty surprising. I was going to post it as a reply, but then had a look at this thread...

@humblenair You will want to figure out which hashtags are used in your field, and then follow those same hashtags, as well as use them in your posts. Otherwise you will be mostly limited (at least on the home feed) to the posts of people you follow. You may know this already, but since you didn't use any hashtags in your intro, I'm assuming not.

Bored this evening and thinking about #emacs defaults due to posts by @kickingvegas and @summeremacs

I wonder if adopting something like Rust's edition scheme would be the narrow path that would satisfy everyone. So a variable e.g. emacs-edition would control what defaults you get. If it's not set, it defaults to the legacy defaults, which are whatever they are before the 1st edition. If it is set to a a particular revision, you get the defaults which were active in that revision. If it's set to 'build you get the defaults of the build you are using. If set to e.g. 29, you never get any 30 defaults, but you could get 29.1, 29.2, 29.3, etc.

No clue how practical this is, and it's just a thought, and not a very deep one. Assuming someone implemented it, the hard part would be what color to paint the next edition's bike shed, I'm sure.

@inigo Nice. Repo appears dead though...

@robertnorlyn @Strandjunker

Unless we are talking about dividends (I assume not), capital gains are not income until they are realized (something is sold), but as I read your replies, you shifted to talking about seizing capital. And then you shifted back to taxing income. Seizing capital is a wealth tax. You might as well call it that so that you don't confuse people. You may think of both categories as the same thing, but they are two different things which must be dealt with in different ways.

Property taxes on houses are wealth taxes, so you would be using a similar model for stock assets. This isn't a new idea but implementation has been found to be difficult, house values are easier to estimate than stock values, which are much more volatile and depend on a lot of intangible factors. The main purpose of stock markets is to estimate the value of public stocks, but it's far from perfect. Private company values are even harder to estimate. This will be an uphill battle for advocates of a wealth tax.

@Strandjunker @robertnorlyn No I’m saying they didn’t get rich from what is considered income by the government. So your idea won’t work. If you want to consider stock gains theft I won’t argue it but I don’t really see how it could be considered that.

Some pvc pipe percussion and lead shovel for ya

https://youtu.be/2aSJ5gUbzaY

@robertnorlyn @Strandjunker

Those fellows didn't get wealthy from "income".

@kickingvegas All of my diffing needs have been met by magit or diff (and git diff) from the command line. In fact I wasn't aware of ediff before a few days ago. Having some FOMO though, and will probably see if it is useful to me.

@jannem @b0rk Yeah some bios only support modern standby. Worse. idea. ever.

Continuing my exploration of #meow keybindings for #emacs, I'm finding that just the process of getting ready to use meow is causing quite a few changes to my configuration, independent of meow, for the better:

1. I am very habituated to having a bunch of vim-like keybindings for window (in the emacs sense) management which are under C-w in vim and evil. This won't fly for meow, so I finally started using super bindings, adding s-w as the first super binding, and avoiding evil functions for these. I've been avoiding super for a long time since I use the windows key as super under linux. In ms-windows that key by default brings up the windows menu, and I decided not to rock that boat. With the pressure on to have at least a few comfortable vim-like bindings, I found a way to allow the window key to be used for super under windows, without much restriction (win-l and win-g being the exceptions).

2. I use the capslock for my i3 modifier key, and didn't have an equivalent for windows. Mapping this key to the old windows-key functionality turned out to be super easy with powertoys, and it's kind of analogous to the i3 modifier, if you squint a little. The linux key mapping is to hyper, while windows hyper has been appropriated by MS to be something completely useless and difficult--maybe impossible--to bind to a key. So this seems like a good use of an available key, and I don't want to keep the original caps-lock functionality as it's really rather useless and can be a foot gun when typing in passwords.

3. I had been binding M-w for other-window, that usage was already provided by a subbinding of C-w and now s-w. This allows some workarounds I had for magit to be removed, and allows using the binding when evil is not active.

4. I've for a long time bound the function keys as sort of a keyboard driven menu system organized around errr... functional groups of frequently used commands. As I will need to use emacs macros if I stick with meow, I needed to provide something equivalent to f3 and f4. So I moved the kmacro original definitions to C-f3 and C-f4 respectively. I am hoping this works out with meow.

I'm not sure I'll continue with meow (I still haven't finished the tutorial because of all these yaks to be shaved), but the changes its been driving are quite useful and will be helpful if I ever drop evil.

@TruthSandwich @GatekeepKen User name checks out

@banjofox2 I found this helpful: https://aloso.github.io/2021/03/28/module-system.html

@galdor While the previous owners of B aren't the victim, as they usually benefit, B as a concept (it's products or culture) is a victim of A. Not sure how it can be seen as just a monetary transaction when so many other things are affected.

@bram85@emacs.ch I had a feeling that was the case. I thought a little about how that would work, and it seems difficult from a UI perspective...