TIL about ruler-mode; now I can delete my own half-assed implementation of the same.
And compare-windows looks really handy. I was about to write a note in my init file to my future self telling me to start using that, but then I saw there is already a note there from my past self, telling me about compare-windows.
scroll-all-mode seems useful, but it seems to only handle keyboard scrolling, not mouse-wheel?
Use `C-h k` and then middle click on the ruler-mode’s header to find out what command is bound to the middle mouse button, then bind that same command to a different mouse button:
We play another hypothesis testing game in our family where one player invents a secret rule and gives a single example of a thing that's acceptable. Then the others have to guess other things that might also be acceptable, and the inventor answers yes no. So the inventor starts off with for example
- Roquefort.
and then the q&a follows
- Gouda?
- no
- Milk?
- no
- a Nac Mac Feegle?
- yes!
- oh maybe it's everything blue, my backpack!
- no
- the whole universe
- since that includes gouda, no
- a cat
- which cat?
- greebo
- then yes
- it must be something smelly!
- Yes, that was quick!
It's a bit like Zendo[0], but with .. anything. Could be "words rhyming with -ing" or "flat stuff" etc. etc. Rules have to be fairly simple to be guessable since it's so open, but I did once manage to guess my kid's rule of "things that don't fit into any of the categories made in any of today's rounds of this game".
Some rules can lead to interesting (heated) arguments, which is always entertaining. One thing that could be better is we don't really have a good system for when you can guess a rule vs just giving exemplars, it can get a bit boring if people just guess rules, but OTOH you don't get too far that way since you can't get a "yes" from any other rule than the right one.
You can! But the set of just one thing tends to be easily guessable, just like the set of all things. The hardest (or most frustrating) rules are the ones that have two or more "components" like "smelly but also is in our house", we had to ban those. Gauge your audience I guess. "Must be one of the colors of the rainbow" was toeing the line.
If "the latter hypothesis" of parent commenter was that "AI will replace ~80% of white-collar jobs", then that hypothesis clearly not supported by the current layoffs. AI isn't replacing workers, AI just happens to be an easy excuse for it. Could as well have been "COVID" or "tariffs" or "the economy" or "the end of Zero interest-rate policy"
Why not? I have literally got several first hand examples where people are fired because of how good the AI models became. Why do you find that questionable?
I've been a happy Fastmail customer for years, and one of the best things about Fastmail has been how they just incrementally make things slightly better, as if they somehow haven't learnt how to enshittify.
So on seeing this title, I was a bit worried.
> It’s worth being transparent about what that looks like at Fastmail: we haven’t integrated AI into your inbox, and your mail isn’t being processed by a model in the background. Our MCP server is simply an API endpoint available if you want to connect an AI client of your choosing with your explicit authorization, and nothing changes if you don’t.
"The Search for the Perfect Language" is a really entertaining book if you like codes, languages, occult history, and/or chuckling at hubristic academic endeavors.
Umberto Eco is a wonderful writer, up there with Borges. They shared a deep philosophical interest in language, exploring it from various angles in their works. Both widely versed in obscure literature, approaching it with wit and humor.
> EMACS, Electromagnetic Control and Survey, is an AIM (aeronautical information management) tool that applies advanced simulation techniques to perform airport and Enroute electromagnetic environment analysis as well as airport and en-route electromagnetic site verification.
And compare-windows looks really handy. I was about to write a note in my init file to my future self telling me to start using that, but then I saw there is already a note there from my past self, telling me about compare-windows.
scroll-all-mode seems useful, but it seems to only handle keyboard scrolling, not mouse-wheel?
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