Hexnut @ambihelical@qoto.org

@deech conCATenative programming

@freemo @cunningstuff yeah I haven’t grokked nixos yet although I’ve made a few feeble stabs. It seems to take much more time and effort than installing j random distro. Your glowing descriptions are annoying me though, Freemo lol.

@ambulocetus Yup

@deech I think it's how much career growth and money are you willing to give up for those tools you really want to use and not what everyone else is using.

@freemo I have no idea, but I assume it was in the deep south where he grew up and went to college on the GI bill in the 50's. I can't ask him, sorry, he's been gone for awhile.

@freemo My father joined (or started to join, it's not clear) the freemasons in college. He decided it was the stupidiest mumbo-jumbo thing he ever experienced. Didn't recommend it. Let me know if he was right.

@freemo @alecui I confess I don't know much about his cabinet other than Harris and Buttigieg, and the fact that the demographics are at least an attempt at diversity. If you say they are pretty awful I can't really argue about it. However, the fact that you are claiming near uniform awfulness or at least being mere tokens is suspicious to say the least. I would need receipts of some sort to believe this.

@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.