JackCh

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by JackCh 8y ago
I'll never buy a car that doesn't allow me to turn on the air conditioning without taking my eyes off the road. In other words, physical buttons and dials that are always in the same place. Something I can feel with my fingers a
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by JackCh 8y ago
Many of them fail to implement macros in my experience. Though I've heard VSCode got this part right. The most productive vim keybinding I ever came across was: noremap <Space> @q Since the key to start a macro is q, yo
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by JackCh 8y ago
:grep is what I used originally and found it unsatisfactory; eventually I switched to my own keybinding for !ack <cword>, then some time after that switched to Ack.vim with ag.
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by JackCh 8y ago
Neovim promises to close the loop and finally bring balance to the world, but whether or not those lofty goals are realized in practice remains to be seen. https://neovim.io/doc/user/msgpack_rpc.html
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "Same. I had quite a lot some time in the past, but also made the "using vim on some foreign machine and being confused as hell" experience by trying to use hotkeys or commands that didn't exist." I've f
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "or you could just hit ^z and use the unparalleled power of the Unix shell." Or I could use both, when the need arises, which frankly it never has for me. Ack.vim does not preclude using ^z when you have a special need, it
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by JackCh 8y ago
Not formally in the Emacs sense, but you can of course have configuration only load depending on the filetype so you end up with different keybindings (or other settings) depending on what sort of file you're in.
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by JackCh 8y ago
Nearly all vim plugins worth a damn come with documentation that integrates smoothly into vim's help system. That vim plugin developers care enough to write such documentation is a credit to vim's plugin culture.
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by JackCh 8y ago
I don't see why being effective in vim means you ^z out of vim to run `ack` or `grep`, instead of pressing ^f (for example) to run Ack.vim on the <cword> and have the results displayed next to your code in a window that, when you
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by JackCh 8y ago
I've never liked nerdtree, everybody seems to suggest it but I never saw any utility in what it does. Why would I want a filebrowser taking up an entire window in vim when I have wildmenu command line completion for :e and, for deeper
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by JackCh 8y ago
I don't think that describing a system which deliberately suppresses the legibility of posts you've already scrolled to see as 'soft censorship' is an unreasonable "redefinition" of censorship. If you disagree
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by JackCh 8y ago
Maybe it's indicative of which sort of conversations I choose to participate in, but I rarely see comment sections go beyond the page fold. Supposing we take your argument seriously though, comments past the page fold which also have t
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "I'm not criticizing other cultures" Maybe that wasn't your intent, but that's certainly what you did. You basically said that all they have to contribute is knowledge of herbs.
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by JackCh 8y ago
A world in which culture is discarded in a pursuit of optimizing for 'economic worth' is not a world I want to live in. Nor I think is it a world you would want to live in, if you really gave it some careful consideration.
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by JackCh 8y ago
Upvotes do not suppress the readability of comments. That workarounds exist is beyond the point.
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by JackCh 8y ago
In and of themselves, no. However, I think an argument could be made for the visual suppression of posts, which occurs after too many downvotes have been given, being a form of soft censorship. The information is still broadcast but it&#x
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by JackCh 8y ago
I think you misread that post. He was quoting HN's forced cooldown that's imposed if the system thinks you're in some sort of heated flamewar. I assume he means to suggest this is a form of soft censorship tied into the int
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by JackCh 8y ago
Maybe you take internet points entirely too seriously. If you find that getting downvoted has emotionally wounded you, I recommend abandoning all your accounts and creating new ones with zero karma (presumably much less than your old ones.
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by JackCh 8y ago
Has the BBC ever reported on it happening, as more than just a potential?
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by JackCh 8y ago
Only on Hacker News would I expect to see somebody celebrating the demise of a language in the name of social progress.
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by JackCh 8y ago
Etiquette from a bank is like water from a stone. Consider moving your accounts to a credit union.
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by JackCh 8y ago
Has there ever actually been a confirmed case of a nuclear warhead being sold by an arms dealer?
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by JackCh 8y ago
It still flashes a white screen at you when it's loading a tab that had been unloaded (this happens when you have a restored session and you click on a restored tab for the first time.)
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by JackCh 8y ago
Disable animation effects to improve TST performance.
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by JackCh 8y ago
Probably calibrated for smaller framed people, to error on the side of safety/legality.
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "But among friends who do, they absolutely feel pressure to tip," I'm pretty damn skeptical of that, since in America the vast majority of customers do not put anything in counter tip jars. Maybe you've got some
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by JackCh 8y ago
Tips to wait staff are voluntary but have significant social pressure behind them. Tip jars at counters have no social pressure behind them. That's not reductive, that's just the practical reality of tipping culture in America.
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by JackCh 8y ago
Tipping a garbage collector is bizarre from an American perspective too.
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "Want one once of 16 different beers? No problem." If I want one pint of 16 different beers, will it comply or will it cut me off for being visibly intoxicated?
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by JackCh 8y ago
Starbucks isn't taking anything; they are receiving from people who give willingly. If you choose to give them your money, you've got nobody but yourself to blame. In the case of tip jars at counters you can't even blame

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