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by gsinclair 3y ago
> But I only spent a hundred here or there; how did it blow past $4700? This is basic human frailty and completely orthogonal to mathematical ability.
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by gsinclair 3y ago
I too love logic/rhetoric nitpicking. Not sarcastic! Your reply is illogical. GP only identified a false argument. They didn’t say there was no valid argument on the page. There is no straw man.
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by gsinclair 3y ago
Pre-cisely.
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by gsinclair 3y ago
It is indeed amazing. I’m don’t generally remember dreams in much detail, but have sometimes been amazed to recall that part of my dream was reading a newspaper or magazine article. Like, close up. So my brain was manufacturing copy _and_ d
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by gsinclair 3y ago
This appears to be a misinterpretation. GP did not say or suggest that any standard or manifesto is pointless, only that it was possible to use good versioning systems prior to their creation.
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by gsinclair 3y ago
Maybe the scratch notes could be published outside of the paper itself. It’s not an ideal solution, of course, because links can go stale. But maybe it’s a starting point.
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by gsinclair 3y ago
That experience is very limited, and the word “most” in that sentence is a.most certainly very inaccurate. Some people are noisily turning vim into vscode. The rest of us love vim exactly for what it is, but love neovim a little more for an
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by gsinclair 3y ago
A judicious balance of “what comes naturally” and “what research shows is a good idea” is probably best.
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by gsinclair 3y ago
Honourable mention to fff even if only for its name.
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by gsinclair 3y ago
I really appreciated this post. Bram was a hero for his long term dedication to such a great piece of software, and for the great design he put into it that made so many people’s lives better. Justin and the other Neovim developers are hero
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by gsinclair 3y ago
It wasn’t a recommendation. It’s good to be made aware of things that are potentially interesting even if sometimes they turn out not to be.
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by gsinclair 3y ago
That is a massive exaggeration, indeed outright misrepresentation, of what people are saying.
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by gsinclair 3y ago
Take a look at the vim-sensible plugin. No need to install it, just see what the generally agreed sensible settings are.
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by gsinclair 3y ago
You’re absolutely right that this can happen, but wrong that it is representative. Let’s take all the serious vim users in the world. How many have this kind of plugin hell experience? A tiny percentage. Serious vim users don’t try to creat
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by gsinclair 3y ago
The thing is, using a plugin like ‘surround’ Is just so nice. When you’ve chosen to use a pleasant and powerful editor, I don’t see the benefit in depriving oneself of further pleasure and power.
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by gsinclair 3y ago
False. The fd mapping would only apply in insert mode. Jumping to d only occurs in normal mode.
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by gsinclair 3y ago
I looked in the dictionary while replying. A swath is a broad group. Your example is a narrow group. I replied carefully, not wanting to nitpick. But I think the distinction is important.
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by gsinclair 3y ago
I think your experience report of the NeoVim subreddit is severely misrepresentative of reality. I have never seen a RTFM response. Many answers point to exactly which part of the documentation would be helpful. Your Jenga tower of dependen
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by gsinclair 3y ago
No, you never have to learn two plugin managers. Never.
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by gsinclair 3y ago
The iPads with buttons: too complicated for a whole swath of our population, or just for a small specific age range? I wouldn’t want the take-away point from your experience there to be over-generalised.
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by gsinclair 3y ago
Sounds awesome. Thanks so much!
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by gsinclair 3y ago
Thank you for your sensitive curatorial work, Steve.
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by gsinclair 3y ago
Dude, it’s ok. I loved the work _why did back at the time, in general. Doesn’t mean I loved every single thing. In particular, I never bothered to finish the poignant guide. It didn’t speak to me. But I loved the fact that it enthused other
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by gsinclair 3y ago
Your long rant is not actually interesting or factual enough to criticise in detail. I’m only writing this reply to point out that you have already engaged in a lot of making footless inference about other people’s person, so please don’t b
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by gsinclair 3y ago
Why on earth was there a sub about staying hydrated? Just drink some water, for crying out loud.
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by gsinclair 3y ago
Nelua is mentioned in another comment.
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by gsinclair 3y ago
Same here. And I picked up LuaLatex at the same time, by coincidence.
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by gsinclair 3y ago
0-based also makes more sense when modular arithmetic calculations are involved, which is not that uncommon.
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by gsinclair 3y ago
Insane. School shootings are genuinely frightful, not the subject of artificial fear-mongering. This shallow and ideological analysis represents such a callous disregard for the trauma that any child would experience is they had to go throu
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by gsinclair 3y ago
Navigating back a word while in insert mode is just unnecessary. The purpose of insert mode is to insert text, and that’s it. This occupies a very small proportion of total editing time.

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