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by dm319 4y ago
There have been generational changes which may explain the different attitudes. I am an older millenial, and was brought up on the idea of putting in extra to learn and develop my career. I followed the leads of my boomer seniors. But I d
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by dm319 4y ago
Ok, so in vim I'd type 'd$' as "delete to end of line". What is the equivalent in helix? EDIT: while I'm here, where are the sentence and paragraph movements?
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by dm319 4y ago
What do you think about beginning of line and end of line movements? Is it really home/end? Seems like a common movement to assign to far-away keys?
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by dm319 4y ago
One of the reasons I love n/vi/m is the ergonomic benefit of using keys that are close to your touch typing position. I'm a bit disappointed that beginning and end of line in helix are home and end.
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by dm319 4y ago
> Leave me be in the terminal where I have everything I need at my fingertips as fast as I can think. People talk about vim nit being an IDE, but I think a lot of people think of the unix command line as their IDE.
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by dm319 4y ago
I agree, I find it amazing. I don't understand any of it, but it's like deep sea exploration to me. Poking around in the dark depths of a very complicated black box.
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by dm319 4y ago
Deluxe Paint, ah! fond memories!
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by dm319 4y ago
I love this cover by Natalie McCool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtpAVTPJaJQ
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by dm319 4y ago
I was watching one of Ben Eater's videos recently, and realised that the machine code he was demonstrating seemed very similar to the way an HP42s was programmed. Was programming the HP42s basically machine code?
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by dm319 4y ago
Some similarities with RPN, except instead of two calculators working on two registers side by side, it's one calculator working on the bottom of several registers. Both allow you to do complex interim calculations that can be hard to
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by dm319 4y ago
The bike comes with the hardware required to allow this functionality (a quick shifter needs the physical ability to reduce the torque to the gearbox to work), what a waste of the world's resources to kit out these machines with these
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by dm319 4y ago
I can't stand this. If I buy a vehicle I expect to own it, not be locked out of hardware that has used the Earth's resources to exist, and has been 'paid' for by the consumers as a whole. What a waste.
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by dm319 4y ago
Agreed, where are all the MPVs going? We have a Cmax grande and it has more space than most SUVs. It even has better head and leg room.
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by dm319 4y ago
Agreed, there should be a 5 year refresher. There are similar refreshers for other life-affecting licenses (medical / first aid licenses for one).
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by dm319 4y ago
Interesting to see this come up, as I only recent came across Pure Data [1]. I find it surprising that the numerical programming languages aren't flow-based. R makes good use of pipes, and I guess it works a bit like flow-based progr
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by dm319 4y ago
I don't have a microPC, but I've had a couple devices with soul. They've never been a regular phone or a laptop, but my old Psion 3a and Nokin N900 had it.
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by dm319 4y ago
I've yearned for a small ARM device with a keyboard, since the Psions of old. He is right that there is something about having one of these devices in your pocket that is empowering. I was recently on holiday with poor reception in t
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by dm319 4y ago
As someone with decades of full-size keyboard use and corresponding muscle memory, I moved recently to a 60% keyboard. Initially I experienced some difficulty getting used to the lack of cursor keys, delete, escape. But with a short bit of
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by dm319 4y ago
I've read it was 'finally!', in response to an official tweet about a launch of some public buses. This was in 2019, and it seems like she got some abuse from a guy in Saudi, who is believed to have reported her using some k
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by dm319 4y ago
Have you seen the Tesla yoke turn signals?
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by dm319 4y ago
I was trying to use my e-tron to change radio station this week. But it kept registering my press on the station as a small scroll. Probably due to the slight undulation of the suspension. Very frustrating and dangerous when travelling a
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by dm319 4y ago
I don't work in IT, but in the medical field. We have the advantage/disadvantage of working in many teams during our training (around 20-30). There are varying cultures in teams, and what I found was that teams with high levels
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by dm319 4y ago
I'm an older millenial, should be earning a good wage (doctor/consultant etc..) in the UK. Correction, I am earning a good wage. My parents can't understand how so much of my money goes towards mortgage, commuting costs, bi
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by dm319 4y ago
I bought a Thinkpad T40 for new back in 2003 and used it for just shy of 10 years. It's single core processor meant that the web by 2013 was unusuable, but I could get by on the 1024x768 screen and upgrade the memory. It forced me to
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by dm319 4y ago
Might be nice to use at 17" with a 60% mechanical keyboard.
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by dm319 4y ago
I get terrible USB mic issues but only with native MS Teams (linux is terrible, Windows is not much better). These issues are weirdly resolved using the web client through Chrome on both platforms.
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by dm319 4y ago
Funny, I was just comparing two photos from some holiday snaps I have taken. One on a Google pixel phone and another on an old 100mm lens produced in the late 70s paired with a DSLR. The differences are stark, and remind me that focal len
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by dm319 4y ago
Yes, I think the difference this time is motivation (because M1!) and some money going this way.
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by dm319 4y ago
Agree - I like being able to just start putting the values in before I've figured out what needs calculated first. You can then shuffle them around and bring in value from further up the stack as they're needed, all while seeing
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by dm319 4y ago
As a long-time Thinkpad user, it usually helps to not go for the latest/greatest, but even so, the time between release and 99% working linux is in the region of months with Thinkpads, whereas it can be years-never with Mac. I had some

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