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by drbaba 3y ago
Mainly the native feel. For example, you can use standard Cmd-based keybindings to control tabs and panes, and get smooth mouse scrolling in each pane.
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by drbaba 3y ago
Many interpreters don’t use Readline (e.g. IPython and Zsh), and enabling inconsistent Vi keybinsings in each one can be a bit annoying. From that perspective, adding it to the terminal seems a possibly easier way to get it “everywhere”?
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by drbaba 3y ago
Do you have a link to where I can read about using Nix as purely a package manager? Or a minimal example showing how a Nix config looks if used in this manner?
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by drbaba 3y ago
> It's strange that people are so against declarative systems, or even file-based OS configuration. When I get my new Macbook I was up-and-running within a few minutes. I can't imagine maintaining a list of brews I need to re-i
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by drbaba 3y ago
Modern Fortran (2008+) has built-in support for matrices, complex numbers, co-arrays (parallel programming), array slicing, etc. This makes it easy to write performant compiled code if you mostly deal with numerics. Fortran has also added s
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by drbaba 3y ago
Apple already did introduce this for iOS 1-2 years ago (assuming you have an iPhone and a Mac). I know because I’ve activated the feature by accident a few times.
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by drbaba 3y ago
Personally, I find the Overleaf web editor to be worse than a local editor (even with Vim keybindings, dark theme, etc.) But if your organization pays for Overleaf, you can sync Overleaf projects to local Git repos - and just pull / pu
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by drbaba 3y ago
> I really wish other editors would follow this convention. In editors with configurable keyboard shortcuts, you can bind this to tab yourself. For example, in Vim, the normal-mode command `==` would correctly reindent the current line.
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by drbaba 3y ago
I'm more in the Vim camp myself, but suspect that those who use nano for longer programming sessions do so using a well-crafted nanorc. Nano does support some "modern" features like syntax highlighting, it's turned just
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by drbaba 3y ago
Mathematicians usually write papers in LaTeX, which predates Unicode and doesn’t rely on it. You then just type \pi in a math context and get the right symbol. (Though here are modern LaTeX implementations that support Unicode input as well
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by drbaba 3y ago
Following up on this: As someone who uses Python with NumPy/SciPy heavily, are there any Nim libraries that would make the transition smooth? Libraries that can help with e.g. sparse matrices, linear algebra, differential equations, et
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by drbaba 3y ago
Note that “bulk” in this context means a single large chunk, not a large quanitity.
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by drbaba 3y ago
> What, exactly, are the "world changing" applications? Superconducting computing is a big one - even if we stick to classical computers (i.e. not quantum computers), there are estimates that superconducting computers could be
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by drbaba 3y ago
> why on earth are you using iCloud to sync photos Some reasons for me personally: - It works well enough. I rarely have issues (maybe once a year as you say?), and then it’s usually resolved by a device reboot. Once I had to turn iCloud
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by drbaba 3y ago
I initially liked them, but later changed my mind. The same goes for e.g. prettify-symbols-mode in Emacs or conceal in Vim, which takes the same concept further. I often work with files (both documents and code) where Unicode input is permi
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by drbaba 3y ago
> Computing the bounded index from an arbitrary index is simply i % c with zero based indexing, but becomes (i-1) % c + 1 with one based indexing. Arguably, this is because the common definition of modular arithmetic is itself zero-based
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by drbaba 3y ago
> If you have a two dimensional array A (1..N X 1..M), then flattening it becomes A[i][j] = flat[i + (j-1) * N] > When flattening A (0..N-1 X 0..M-1) A[i][j] becomes flat[i + N * j]. To play the devil’s advocate a bit: Both cases abov
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by drbaba 3y ago
> well, except for the fact that MacOS defaults to zsh now. But Zsh is also POSIX sh compatible, is it not?
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by drbaba 3y ago
If one business excludes tax from the price while every other business includes it, that’s misleading advertisement. I think writing the full price to be paid by the customer should be mandated by law, in which case no business gets a relat
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by drbaba 3y ago
> But imagine you're a small business, and you price the croissants you've just spent hours making at €1 each and you know you'll only get €0.79 of that. It feels unfair. Then price the croissant at €1.25 instead? The US m
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by drbaba 3y ago
I wonder how it would be if one attempted to make Vim’s verb-object system more visual instead? Imagine if say “dwww” would highlight the next three words in red to mark them for deletion - but until you press enter to execute the deletion
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by drbaba 3y ago
> Another issue is that commands are utterly unergonomic, requiring lots of rapid Shift presses/releases Curious. Unergonomic compared to what? Given your comment about separating commands and input language, I assume you’re using a
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by drbaba 3y ago
Not to detract from your general point - I definitely see the value in using an IDE with a Vim plugin, and often do so myself. > Vertical scrollbar? Plugin If you want scrollbars, the right solution is IMO to use a GUI Vim. I often use M
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by drbaba 3y ago
Also, if you’re not bound to using Vim without plugins, then the CleverF plugin lets you repeat with f/F instead of ;/, It’s IMO easier to hit f again than to reach for the semicolon, and moreover this frees ; and , for usage in y
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by drbaba 3y ago
> once the functionality missing gets apparent enough on a constant basis as it happened for me when switching from fish to zsh. As someone that went the other way ~5 years ago, I’m curious what made you switch :). Are you btw on a hand-
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by drbaba 3y ago
Maybe progressive taxation of companies, where they pay more tax the larger they become?
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by drbaba 3y ago
My understanding is that the main correlation between sunlight and skin cancer is for sudden exposure to strong sun . If you go outside all year without sunblock (as people used to do back in the day), and thus build up and maintain a natu
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by drbaba 3y ago
They are, but my impression is that only Emacs users use them to some extent. (Emacs has a built-in info reader that is better than the standalone client, and ships mainly info pages as its documentation.) Outside of Emacs, I’d say very few
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by drbaba 3y ago
I used Fortran 2008 a lot some years ago; initially I wanted to write a C++ wrapper around a Fortran library that seemed useful, but ended up liking the language better than C++ and just did the whole project in it. I think a lot of people
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by drbaba 3y ago
> My terminal (iTerm2) doesn't give me the full power to manipulate windows/panels using shortcuts. Which tmux pane management features do you miss in iTerm2?

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