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I've used vim, emacs w/evil mode, and currently use VSCode with vim plugin.

The editor itself doesn't really matter.

Learning mode based editing with vim key bindings absolutely is.

You get like 90% of the benefit that brings with any editor that has good support for vim style interaction.

I still regularly use nvim in my terminal for quick edits here and there, but do my development in VSCode and spend a lot less time managing a config/plugins/etc.

My one suggestion is to change your escape binding to something like 'kj' or an easily accessible two letter sequence that doesn't appear in English text. Your fingers will thank you for it (even if it makes using default setups on systems you don't control a bit disconcerting for 30 seconds).
> I'll try to set a keyboard shortcut (not a global one mind you) in iTerm2 and suddenly I need to enable iTerm2 to have accessibility access?

Maybe this could be more clear in iTerm's UI, but the reason it needs accessibility access is in scenarios where it's stomping on Mac OS' system shortcut keys. I would expect Windows or Linux would need special privileges to do the same.
you are now moving the goalposts. Understanding how to cook rice is a very different thing from a sony TV remote being complicated. Meanwhile, a sony playstation joystick is among the easiest designs to use.

I disagree that my reply was condescending.
Do you... write down the name of every person that walks into your store, then cross-correlate so you have nice little lists of every time each person came in and what they bought and how they looked that day? Because doing the same thing online companies get away with is generally seen as stalking in the real world.
A lot of qualifiers there. The relational database needs to be "well-crafted" and even then is better in "most cases".

Technologies can have niches.
Well, first of all, whether you read this or not (let alone agree, or concede even an iota) thanks for the opportunity to articulate my thoughts.

I don't currently have a partner, no, but I inherited these views from many years of lovers, partners, and friends. As a straight, white man raised in a Christian nation, I held the familiar, patriarchal views on marriage and gender roles without question until I started dating queer women in college (and almost exclusively thereafter).

I think that "how they feel about it" is they would prefer to live in a world with men who are familiar with—and reluctant to participate in—patriarchal dynamics. These women have been hurt by men who mistake domination for romance, and furthermore believe this mistake to be commonplace. I can't say what they "feel" about my precise thoughts here, because I'm extrapolating from a lot of data over many years: conversations, books, research, statistics, workplace and social experiences, etc.

I think it's safe to say, though, that I cultivated a feminist viewpoint in part because the women in my milieu wouldn't have otherwise felt safe around me. This is a perspective that I took in an attempt to empathize with women who explicitly told me they were both weary and wary of men who don't take this perspective.

So unless I've made a terrific mistake and fundamentally misunderstood dozens upon dozens of women and feminists, I think they feel safe, relieved, and reassured. That's all I'm trying to be, by the way: safe, and not harmful in the ways I've seen people hurt.

...and I think engagement rings cement relationships that facilitate abuse. I doubt you spend much time interrogating the sources and prevalence of abuse, but little matters more to me.
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The Naturalist and the Jay
Earth is 71% uncarbonated water. Obviously it's flat.
Do apartment buildings count as high risk? Genuine question

Anyway if I remember my highrise fire safety training right there is at least one building where on sprinkler going off sets the others off. IIRC the pressure drop from one unit activating triggered a pump and the subsequent increase in pressure popped the other.
The sentence is talking about full switchover- that doesn't happen with sales bans. It's not a missing word, no matter what way you want to try and frame it. The sentence is written as intended.
It’s so funny, because I’m engineering from electron to container to saas. You’re going the other direction. I’m the label printer app dev that reached out a few days ago. Great job, Kyle!
This source has very different numbers: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co2-per-unit-energy?count...

Do you perhaps neglect to average over the whole year?
Unreadable white text in green bubbles punishes only APPLE USERS.

Apple so went to hell when Steve Jobs passed.
uBO is more exceptional than typical open source extensions. Its developers has shown themselves to be much more trustworthy and well-intentioned than Google.
It looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of which ideology they're battling for or against. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for—no matter what you're battling for or against.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
It's long over. She went on a speaking tour after recovering from surgery in 2019 or so.
Can it run aggregate queries against 8 GiB of remotely hosted data while only pulling down the 287 MiB of columns it needs?
How close/far we talking? Could you have touched the sprinkler and the light at the same time (if you ignore height difference related difficulties)?
I remember when "data mining" had a negative connotation :(
IEEE-754 is sign-magnitude (well, I suppose, technically sign, magnitude, exponent). It’s not obsolete.

C++ only recently (C++20 or 23) decided to declare that signed integers had to be twos-complemente.
In what way is the content of your comment strengthened by waving about a PPL? It serves only the patronize. Excise it, what does it change?
Similarly, assuming that most of the audience here, aviation knowledge or not is unaware that there are mountains with people.

Anyway, passenger cabins require 8,000 ft for normal operation, so it's a bit misleading to say there's no legal requirement. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/25.841. (And yes, I know the difference between airworthiness and operations, still misleading). Also why I'd bet a good sum you're a PPL.
Why does your setup need to be always 'up to date'? I update mine periodically, usually when I update Arch and the nvim package updates. I might spend a few hours tweaking things then, but that's monthly or less. Sometimes I'll do it sooner if I'm actively tweaking nvim to my liking (for fun). I don't see it as a burden really. I like what Neovim provides me the other 99% of the time. If you like the batteries-included nature of VSCode, you could try an nvim distro (e.g. LunarVim), or just use VSCode. I can't use Neovim at work (sEcUriTy..), so I use VS Code. It's good enough, but I definitely don't enjoy using it like I enjoy using nvim in my terminal-based workflow.
This is an extremely useful design. I never thought I'd get excited about something like this but I recently moved to an old house with chimney flues running through every room, resulting in shallow alcoves that are of differing sizes.

A fitted wardrobe would be pricey (~$4000), barely fit depthwise and half of the space would just be covering the flue if we wanted it wall to wall.

On the other hand I can just buy 3/4 of these for each wall and still come out ahead. The grooves in the rods are well thought out and mean that I can saw them to size myself, as can anyone.

The only drawback I can think of is having clothes up directly against a wall. This could obstruct airflow and be an incentive for mould to grow.

Might be time for my first ever pledge.
Please don't use HN for ideological flamewar, no matter how wrong someone is or you feel they are. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
they did not "make it required", Signal was just never developed to support anything else for username/registration. Which is what they have now almost corrected.
Happy Friday everyone! What happens if you get hacked this weekend and they get admin access?
iMessage is a much juicier potential attack vector. over 50% of the US market (trends towards the richer half, too).
Everything must always evolve, I suppose? I do wonder what will become of music when the Great Blender is done remixing everything.

Hard to predict, but I'm sure we'll get something new out of it. Imagine a talented singer just freewheeling with an AI band backing the vocals. A few prompt nudges before you start ("something in the style of Aphex Twin with bagpipes"), some buttons to make live adjustments, with labels like "darker / brighter", "more pop / more alternative" or "activate cowbell".

I guess the main thing to solve is reproducible output, but we almost have the technology to do this.

You don't have to be a singer either. Practicing an instrument could be so much more fun when a complete song in the style of your favorite band is generated along with whatever you are doing.
I gave up trying to use a mouse on OSX years ago (the acceleration curve causes physical pain for me) and leaned into what Apple did right: trackpads. I got an apple trackpad for my desk setup, and otherwise use the built in trackpad on the macbook.

Doesn't help for those who need a mouse device (cad/design/photo-editing, etc), but for what I use it for (software dev/ops work), it's great. Trackpads in a windows ecosystem feel absolutely horrendous to me, so I just use mice there lol.
The use of "rip off" when referring to a copy, typically means copies done illicitly or of poor quality. Being permitted to do so is antithetical to this.
Been using Debian Linux as my main os for over 20 years. And happy that there’s less and less of a need to run a Windows vm.

But even though most people are not happy with the recent evolution of Windows, most people will complain and then use it anyway. And Microsoft will get away with it and will take another step with the next release…
I was working in a UK supermarket when we had self-service checkouts installed in 2005 or 2006. The NCR kiosks were running a version of Windows XP. The self-service UI was a facade where behind the scenes it was just running the traditional checkout program, which on cashier checkouts ran on Windows NT. I guess the self-service UI emulated a keyboard and translated the actions that way. At the time we definitely did have to reboot devices regularly.
So if you've purchased hundreds of these you have to go through and export them all individually? You can't just download a zip of PDF's or something?

This is why I prefer my content on my own devices, not in someone else's cloud.
From what I can see of his additional tweets they don't make any further coherent argument. I understand the substance of his underlying argument, and if he truly wanted to be effective, he wouldn't be doing so with the way he's approaching this, which is to be unnecessarily vague and inflammatory.

It doesn't help that twitter is such a poor communication medium, especially prone to misunderstanding. If he wanted to have the greatest impact, a reasonable approach would be to write an articulate argument in a non-inflammatory way in the form of an opinion article in the New York Times. Why? Because the Times is the mouthpiece of the US establishment, and reaches precisely the community that he wishes he could influence. And because by making it non-inflammatory, and instead fact-based and logical, people will have a much harder time dismissing it.

If you are powerful and truly want change, you owe it to yourself to use your big brain to come up with an mechanism to effect that change. Sitting around shit-talking on your overpriced social media site is not that mechanism.
I really wish she’d do a checkable garment bag. fingers crossed
In searching for the study you remembered, I found a study whose conclusion makes a lot of intuitive sense - at least in the US, artists are much more likely to come from rich families: https://news.artnet.com/news/wealthy-people-likely-become-ar...
> Looks so simple, but I guess that's a sign of good design.

I find that this is tends to be the rule, not the exception and it's really reworked how I view things. I've started to almost (more jokingly than seriously) believe that the less novel something appears the more it actually is. The real mark for a good work seems to be "wow, how did you spend so much time on that? It's so fucking obvious" combined with "why has no one else done this?" But it is also easy to post hoc attribute something to being "well that's just x and y, so not really novel." But far too many things can be trivialized that way.

I wanted to say this because I think especially in engineering circles we have this wild novelty paradox. Where we can understand how our work, despite all outward appearances, is exceptionally nuanced and has minor details that are critical but when we judge others' works we don't consider such details. I think this is because most details are baked in when you learn of the new thing. But we got a good litmus test: is anyone else making/producing/doing this "super simple blatantly obvious" thing. If no? It's probably deceptively complex. (It's also why you should laugh at anyone who starts a sentence with "It's so simple, you just...")
It will just raise the bar of entry. Tolerance for generic garbage will decrease. Elevator muzak producers are in trouble. Real talent will still float to the top.
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Meanwhile many Portuguese cars are 25+ years old and a portion of them have black exhaust fumes that stink from a 100 meters. As in: proper black smoke coming out of the exhaust as it drives. I don’t know if there are SMOG tests, and if there are, they’re clearly not enforced.

The reality in poorer countries is that pollution reduction is not as much a priority as saving money. So yeah, I mean, I always find it funny when Portugal is presented like this ecological example. Again, it’s not “their fault,” it’s poverty, but let’s not fool anyone here. There are also piles of old furniture, concrete, and other construction materials that people are just in the habit of dumping on the side of the road in most rural areas.
> And I also hate the nonstandard keyboard layout and shortcuts.

I think you may grow to like them, especially if you routinely type in languages other than your layout.

For example, I use a physical QWERTY layout, but often type in French (the latter is an abomination for programming and similar). I can very easily use dead keys to create the accents. I type as quickly in French on a Mac QWERTY as I used to on a regular AZERTY (it still requires dead keys for some characters).

If you use terminals, now your copy/paste shortcuts stay the same across apps. Trying to copy something without paying attention won't quit your running program / return you to the end of the history.

At first, I also found it a bit weird, but it has grown on me so much that now that I don't use a mac anymore, I try to bring it with me. One of the reasons why I hate using Windows at work, is that I can't get it to have a fully mac-like keyboard. I'm pretty close, but it insists on having the right alt as AltGr, which is a PITA, especially since it can't be moved. On Linux, the Mac layout works perfectly, at least on X11.
They're not your parent, and if you treat them as such, that's a problem you need to work on addressing.

Parental manipulation works because it's completely reasonable given the relationship for it to be effective. It's a betrayal of trust.

If a company tries that tactic and it "works" too well, that's an opportunity to evaluate your psyche, not get mad at them.
Didn’t you basically blackmail the guy?
Cue the low-quality foreign made knock off branded as “Amazon’s Choice” in 3… 2…
It's part of C++23, https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/basic_stacktrace. It's not parent, and I think I am wrong that that is needed, just the current position in the stack, so assuming the trace isn't empty(), it's like stack_trace::current( )[0]
I agree with the sentiment of lack of innovation. The "scan as you shop" was already a thing in Belgium Delhaize supermarket back in 2003/2004. The Tesco checkout till takes paper coupons, but won't use your app ones, unless you trick the till into believing you've dropped a paper copy in the slip provided. Often you are stuck waiting for assistance to let you buy, alcohol or painkillers or demagnetise items (including high value food items like steaks).
Listen to any podcast in the YouTube Music app
The YouTube Music app - a pre-installed app on most new Android phones - lets you subscribe to podcasts via RSS feed. If you know the RSS feed address, that is.

So I built a thing to help you find the RSS feed address for your favourite podcast.

Super simple, straightforward, and works on anything (though you'll not, yet, be able to add shows using iPhone - YTM is rolling that out soon).
Yeah, they can read what you send. If what you send is encrypted, they can read that too, just not in decrypted form.
Why Is Medieval Art So Weird?
How did you choose them over Bose and Sony? My understanding is that they are more expensive and heavier than both of those. Is the noise cancellation so much better that it outweighs the cost and weight considerations?
I have a mechanical engineering degree, but IDK why that’s relevant.

I demographically live in a state with a LOT of trucks and it sticks out, not in a good way.

I say this as someone who loves weird car designs. I’m on /r/weirdwheels and I genuinely think the BMW i3 looks fun.

I’m okay with funny looking cars that are self aware (like a Prius with a “cool Prius said no one” sticker). But the cyber truck isn’t that, it’s taking itself too seriously it’s trying too hard. Which makes the dissonance funny.

I respect your opinion is different, I’m asking you to respect my lived experience too. I guess I’m just not their target audience.
This is so bloody stupid that it’s amazing. It literally solves a valid issue. I have a closet that isn’t deep and have short coat hangers for a bunch of clothes but this would allow my clothes to not sag off the end and fit into the closet nicely and neatly.

Off to kickstarter I go.
I've already tried a million such apps.
Can't tell if I got downvoted for obvious sarcasm, or for offending the Musk fans.
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As long as the Snap store doesn’t allow for arbitrary repos like flathub and is limited to only those apps Canonical have blessed to be present on their store (assuming of course you haven’t forked over tens of thousands of dollars to them to have your own enterprise version of the Snap store), I don’t understand how it can even be in the discussion as a legitimate software distribution mechanism on Linux.
Yes, that part is true, I agree. That's not what I was saying, though.
Not on HN. Where everyone uses Rust and yet needs a billion node web scale mesh edge blah minimally otherwise you are doing it wrong. Rather waste 100k per month on aws because ‘if the clients come downtime is expensive’ than just run a 5$ vps and actually make a profit while there are not many clients. It’s the VC rotten mindset. Good for us anyway; we don’t need to make 10b$ to make the investors happy. Freedom.
Sarcasm. Can never make it obvious enough, apparently.
As an English/French speaker who is learning Japanese I'd love to see the chat logs!

I first learned French to fluency and then I moved on to Japanese and I realized that it's so much harder to learn Japanese (and presumably other languages that use the Chinese alphabet). The issue is that when you go from English to French, for a large part you can simply translate the words. From English to Japanese I have to first translate, re-arrange the grammar and then account for idioms at the very least.

I'd love to see how the conversation went!
I have used or had to use multiple IDEs at various points over my unix career but for the first 4 or 5 years I was all about emacs and for the last 20 years I’ve used vim. It’s been fantastic for me and it continues to be useful every single day.

Whether it’s “worth the trouble” for you really depends on you, what you value and what you do so it’s hard/impossible for anyone else to judge that for you. But if you’d asked 2000 me why I used vim I would have said because it’s great to be able to use the same editor for fixing config files over laggy remote ssh connections, or writing perl as for writing my email. If you’d asked 2005 me I would have said it’s great to be able to use the same editor for bash and python scripts as I use for massive Java and c++ codebases. If you’d asked 2011-ish me I would have said it’s cool that the editor I already know well supports these new languages I want to learn like haskell and scala, etc… Fast forward to yesterday and I spent 5 hours writing latex in vim and of course it works great.

So I guess what I’m driving at is this. You have no idea where life will take you and what you will end up doing but having this transferrable set of skills so you know whatever you’re trying to do with a computer you have a toolbox that you can apply to get a leg up on any new problem is very valuable.

The one real advantage of something like vim that is very hard for any normal IDE to replicate is that it could be part of that toolbox no matter what. You have to decide whether that’s valuable for you.

And you really don’t have to maintain any kind of up-to-date setup. I occasionally tinker because I like tinkering but the vast bulk of my vimrc I wrote in like 2002 or so and has remained unchanged. Every now and again I add a single line to add or remove a plugin, but it’s really not the be-all/end-all to make changes.
Wondering how Microsoft Edge will deal with this. Follow Google?
There are some recent improvements underway over the number of rules allowed by MV3's declarativeNetRequest API.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/improvements-to-content-fi...
Core libraries at, say, Google, are supposed to be reliable to several nines. If they go down for long enough for a human to notice, they’re failing SLA.
God bless the trackpad on Macbooks. Some Windows laptops come close but none match it.

Thumbs up for Smooze if you're looking to try and have a somewhat usable mouse experience. It's 20 bucks because of course it is, why wouldn't a tool to allow a need that basic cost money? It does have a trial. Maybe another commenter can recommend something free but when I was looking a couple years ago it was the only thing that did it right.
Fantastic! How do we get access to this "European" version of Windows 11? Asking for Europeans who don't live in Europe, and for non-Europeans everywhere who want less Bing, Edge, and upselling in their OS.
Oh wow, fancy seeing you here! :D
AI Generative music sounds pretty darn good to me present day ... here's an AI Mariah Carey singing a 1990s Michael Bolton song ... you wouldnt know it's AI by just your ear. If you were familiar with the song and Mariah carey you'd probably think or ask I didnt know she sang this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whqp81U19gg
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