gsinclair

I resemble that remark!

“…the person you don’t care about…”

Your comment is below the intellectual and interpersonal standard that makes HN a good place to be.

I don’t doubt your sincerity and I can abide your opinion, but you should be restrained in ascribing such points of view to others.

I sometimes want to create PDFs that contain text (Python code) that is not selectable. I want my students to type it in, not copy and paste.

I don’t know whether this tool enables that, but the idea is in the neighbourhood of “make it look scanned”.

That’s a serious misreading of the NeoVim ecosystem, and I’d bet good money against your predictions coming true.

I wrote a TUI to search for words/phrases in a crossword dictionary. I’ve never written a reactive TUI before, and never written Go either. I was very happy with the assistance rendered by ChatGPT.

Of course, it was great to have exactly the features I want, and I enjoyed learning some new things.

I think seeing superiority or obnoxiousness in the comment you replied to was a pretty large reading error on your part. The tone was sympathetic to people whose inboxes receive more than they can handle.

The last sentence of your comment sounds quite condescending.

Same here on all counts.

Garages in duplexes typically are not big enough to fit an average car comfortably.

That’s a huge exaggeration. Tall buildings require a much greater footprint than a single detached home.

Knock down three adjacent homes and you can get maybe 6-8 levels, which would be no more than 40 families.

If I had the “lots of money” required, I’d try out a zero-day work week instead!

If you made income, and enough gain in stocks to pay that much in tax, you should be happy.

I want to know why you are keen to become an Australian citizen if you’re not enthusiastic about contributing your share.

Constructive discussion about appropriate levels of taxation is important, but let’s at least agree that the things we rely on (roads, hospitals, schools, defence, …) cost something.

The car wash example is interesting, as something I’ve seen and experienced but never thought about in that way.

I wonder how it truly factors into productivity, though. How is productivity measured, and does that measurement capture what is true?

You mention automated car washes as a baseline. I never used those in the past because I figured they’d be rubbish or would scratch the car or whatever. So I’d occasionally wash the car myself, and that’s it. Now that we have manual car washes available, I use them from time to time. They clearly (I assert) do a better job than anything automated. And they do it inside and out.

So I find the comparison interesting, but in need of elaboration.

I think you need to make a case for DEI being “one of the industry’s greatest strengths”. It’s not obvious to me.

Our doctor told us not to give the baby/toddler a bath every day. Didn’t need to tell me twice.

(Every second day is fine, and better for their skin.)

People have developed plugins for this. Check out “sesh” for instance.

Switching between sessions with fuzzy finding, and creating new ones when needed, is a wonderful feature.

Depending, of course, on how many artworks he’s sold.

There’s more than one issue. It’s not wrong to try to solve one of them.

Yes, Music for 18 Musicians is such a wonderful companion for sustained focus. I look forward to checking out Electric Counterpoint more closely.

Take a look at the site guidelines.

I don’t love vi-mode, but I’ll address your comment.

Many people these days, including yours truly, have caps-lock mapped to ctrl if held or esc if tapped. That’s good ergonomics and worth considering for any tech-savvy person.

Instead of the 3b I would type bbb (because I agree with you that typing numerals is a pain).

So (caps lock)bbbcw isn’t bad. It’s better than it looks, because if you’re a vim user then it’s just so automatic. “cw” feels like one atomic thing, not two keypresses.

And importantly, it doesn’t involve any chords.

And the friction of storing stuff. I want to listen to music, not manage a collection.

I believe Uiua is an excellent one to look at first. It’s simpler than the others you mentioned without sacrificing any power (that I know of). You can type in meaningful words which then appear as cute glyphs, rather than learning new ways of entering things. Each glyph has only one meaning whereas APL (and I think the others) assign context-dependent meanings to some glyphs.

Check out folke/flash.nvim for a motion jump plugin. It’s brilliant.

That’s good, and I also have spoken to people in public about their noise several times, but…

That dude shouldn’t be turning it down; he should be turning it off.

My go-to line is: “Excuse me, do you have any earphones?”

This is a very valuable resource for me. Thanks for posting!

The publisher changed their mind, too. I don’t think the author was pointing fingers, just sharing information that his readers might enjoy or find useful.

What’s the counter-factual here? Coca Cola not allowed to exist? Plastic not a permissible material for soft drink bottles? Nobody allowed to drink soft drink? Companies forced to clean the streets?

I dislike plastic pollution as much as you do, but your elected representatives have more responsibility here than Buffett.

I’m not convinced.

It’s hard to go from (I privately think you’re cheating) to (I accuse you to your face), though.

My programs are not full of engines and cars and planes and boats and aquaplanes.

These metaphors used to teach OOP back in the day seemed appealing but never proved their worth in actual software design and implementation.

I looked at that link but didn’t understand what I was looking at and didn’t see a link that would give me an overview. I’d like to know more about it.