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how many bearings does a single speed bike have?
Doug Landau wrote:
mmm, cecilie skog Right. Norwegian super-star climber and polaric explorer. She lost her husband, Rolf Bae, on K2. The drama-documentary "The Summit" by Nick Ryan from 2011 is about these 2008 events. There was a Swede on the mountain as well, Fredrik Sträng, a bit of a goofball, but at least he survived. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 |
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Radey Shouman wrote:
I use emacs every day at work on a Windoze box. Works great. emacs was considered a bloated, slow monstrosity years ago, but now bloat has overtaken it, and emacs is now a comparatively light and fast application. Bloated is a misused term. Emacs isn't bloated, it is *loaded*. When you throw one zillion gizmos on a desktop so that the whole operation slows down, or you mentally can't focus because of all the visual noise, this is bloated. But with Emacs (and a Unix shell for that matter) it is all hidden below. When you need it, it is there. It is like a fully equipped repair shop only no matter how much equipment you have, you will never stumble over it and there will always be room for more. Not to mention that I could hardly stand to read Usenet without Gnus. Gnus is the best thing ever! Here is a dump: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/figur...gnus-group.png -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 |
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On Sat, 05 Aug 2017 04:52:46 +0200, Emanuel Berg
wrote: John B. wrote: Does that number include the porters who carry their luggage and supplies? If they reach the summit (8 611 m), yes. And this is not uncommon as the Sherpas from Nepal are better acclimatized from day one and often superior climbers as well. Frankly with the advent of graphics I can't seem any advantage to either vi (vim) or Emacs. Sure you can write entire applications in Emacs with lisp (is it) but today you can download free apps that do everything that you used to do in Emacs but who cares? After all we aren't tied to a single black and white dumb terminal any more. Just click the mouse that presto-chango! a new screen with a new app. Emacs (or Vim) typically do not attract people who use the mouse or are fond of downloading apps in the modern sense, tho there is ELPA, the Emacs Lisp Package Archive, so virtually the same is possible and happens every day. It is as free, and even more free, than smartphone apps as I've heard sometimes they charge for them and sometimes they come with ads. Ah but the hand phone app's don't come with a guarantee that they are "FREE!". -- Cheers, John B. |
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Emanuel Berg writes:
Radey Shouman wrote: I use emacs every day at work on a Windoze box. Works great. emacs was considered a bloated, slow monstrosity years ago, but now bloat has overtaken it, and emacs is now a comparatively light and fast application. Bloated is a misused term. Emacs isn't bloated, it is *loaded*. When you throw one zillion gizmos on a desktop so that the whole operation slows down, or you mentally can't focus because of all the visual noise, this is bloated. But with Emacs (and a Unix shell for that matter) it is all hidden below. When you need it, it is there. My point was that slow startup used to be a reason some avoided emacs, it was the reason for the "undump" utility, which was a pain to deal with if trying to build. Not any more, by modern standards emacs is almost spartan. It is like a fully equipped repair shop only no matter how much equipment you have, you will never stumble over it and there will always be room for more. Not to mention that I could hardly stand to read Usenet without Gnus. Gnus is the best thing ever! Here is a dump: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/figur...gnus-group.png -- |
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Radey Shouman wrote:
My point was that slow startup used to be a reason some avoided emacs, it was the reason for the "undump" utility, which was a pain to deal with if trying to build. .... When was this? The 80s? My Emacs takes but a few seconds to start and without all the custom Elisp it would be even quicker, virtually zero time. I also have a very slow computer by modern standards, a Raspberry-Pi. But it is very cool - from the UK, of course But even if Emacs' startup it was much, much slower it wouldn't matter as it shouldn't be exited. The computer is on 24/7 and so is Emacs. Maybe this was different in the 80s as well. I only knew a Mac Plus in the 80s but granted, what I remember MacWord started all but instantly, and yes, I switched off the computer Not any more, by modern standards emacs is almost spartan. There is, to my knowledge, no application that is comparable to Emacs in that Emacs is a text and code editor, an e-mail and Usenet client (Gnus), a web-browser (Emacs w3m), an IRC client (erc), a browser of documentation (the man and info pages), a package manager (the ELPA and MELPA just mentioned), a file browser (dired), a shell, and tons of other things as well. It is the opposite of spartan - it is everything. And this is what people who use it like, that everything is under one roof and the customization and extention interface and programming environment is the same for everything. It is like a drug that has ruined many a young man's career. Just like fishing and bikes. But what do you need a career for when you have Emacs, fishing, and bikes? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 |
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On Friday, August 4, 2017 at 7:55:42 PM UTC-7, Emanuel Berg wrote:
Doug Landau wrote: mmm, cecilie skog Right. Norwegian super-star climber and polaric explorer. She lost her husband, Rolf Bae, on K2. The drama-documentary "The Summit" by Nick Ryan from 2011 is about these 2008 events. There was a Swede on the mountain as well, Fredrik Sträng, a bit of a goofball, but at least he survived. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Skzs32Ai4 13:55 |
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Doug Landau wrote:
Right. Norwegian super-star climber and polaric explorer. She lost her husband, Rolf Bae, on K2. The drama-documentary "The Summit" by Nick Ryan from 2011 is about these 2008 events. There was a Swede on the mountain as well, Fredrik Sträng, a bit of a goofball, but at least he survived. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Skzs32Ai4 13:55 Yes, Dren Mandić, Serbia, and Jehan Baig, Pakistan, two of a total eleven casualties on K2, August 2008. The others, sorted randomly, a Jumik Nepal Kyeong-Hyo Park Korea Dong-Jin Hwang Korea Gerard McDonnell Ireland Hyo-Gyeong Kim Korea Hugues D'Aubarede France Rolf Bae Norway Karim Meherban Pakistan Pasang Bhote Nepal -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 |
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