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Bala Chandrasekaran

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Husband. Dad. Researcher. Educator. Photographer.

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Jane Goodall, chimpanzee expert and animal rights campaigner, dies age 91 - follow live The primatologist was a

So sad :(

www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...

01.10.2025 19:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Fantastic!

18.09.2025 17:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The entire article is a worthy read.

17.09.2025 18:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Really nice.

02.09.2025 18:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nice! Thanks!

26.08.2025 22:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The book โ€œThe Boy in the Striped Pyjamasโ€ by John Boyne

The book โ€œThe Boy in the Striped Pyjamasโ€ by John Boyne

A nice find in a second-hand bookstore.

23.08.2025 20:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œThough 16 OUGHT to be good enough!โ€ Canโ€™t believe you said that :)

04.08.2025 12:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I do but havenโ€™t noticed the slow downs. I am likely a slow coder.

04.08.2025 00:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just emacs.

04.08.2025 00:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Same here. I just spent a day rewriting all my customizations. So far itโ€™s fine. Every 3-5 years I revisit the config :)

04.08.2025 00:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I donโ€™t know how to get to the line being edited in emacs, but the skim integration works also with skim +emacs-mac.

04.08.2025 00:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I will apologize to your coauthors. If there is a student among them, then Iโ€™ll delete these posts :D

My advisor and I learnt most of git while working on a paper. It never made it on time. At least we didnโ€™t have to complain about rev B for the rejection.

03.08.2025 12:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image 03.08.2025 12:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not that you would be swayed by silly screenshots, but emacs-mac (or even plain old emacs) is quite nice these days.

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/aifma...

03.08.2025 08:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That could work too. The following are the incantations that work on my Mac.

brew tap railwaycat/emacsmacport

brew install emacs-mac --with-modern-icon --with-native-comp --with-mac-metal --with-imagemagick --with-xwidgets --with-starter --with-librsvg --with-natural-title-bar

03.08.2025 08:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I loved the auctex and dictionary integration. Anyway, at some point, quite sure for some silly reason I switched and have never looked back.

I think the โŒ˜+ combinations work on plain emacs (guess I am using some package or it works out of the box). The clipboard integration also seems to work.

02.08.2025 19:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I assume you use emacs for coding, writing, and emails!? If time permits, could you explain what clunky means in these use cases. I am just curious.

02.08.2025 19:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Is there a reason you canโ€™t move away from aquamacs?

01.08.2025 14:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I loved aquamacs but moved on to using emacs-Mac or plain emacs many years ago. Itโ€™s sometimes painful to upgrade versions every two years or so, but otherwise no issues.

01.08.2025 14:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nice!

01.08.2025 13:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I use git and emacs with magit. Itโ€™s quite nice in helping you pick what you want to commit (from one file, several files, โ€ฆ)

01.08.2025 13:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My kid said that the odd one out of Africa, Amazon, Asia, and Antarctica is Amazon โ€ฆ because Amazon is a shop ๐Ÿ˜

22.07.2025 05:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Never mind. Just started reading the original post and it already provides some hints.

16.05.2025 16:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Do you have a pointer or two on the fundamental aspects of the language that make it impractical, if not impossible, to speed it up?

16.05.2025 16:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congrats!

05.05.2025 06:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A page from Ian McEwanโ€™s โ€œThe Cockroachโ€

A page from Ian McEwanโ€™s โ€œThe Cockroachโ€

Read Ian McEwanโ€™s โ€œThe Cockroach.โ€ So much of what he wrote seems like has become the reality today.

26.04.2025 09:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks!

24.04.2025 12:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Where?

24.04.2025 12:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Jeffrey Sachs Goes Off, Roasts Donald Trumpโ€™s Trade Talk, Says 'Mickey Mouse Is Smarter Than Him'
YouTube video by ET NOW Jeffrey Sachs Goes Off, Roasts Donald Trumpโ€™s Trade Talk, Says 'Mickey Mouse Is Smarter Than Him'

This panel with Jeffrey Sachs seems quite good on this topic: youtu.be/gNson4TqUO4?...

24.04.2025 12:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congrats!

10.04.2025 20:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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