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by jasone 6y ago
It's quite common for the selection created by motion to have immediate subsequent use. I do use the ';' or ' ' commands to clear the selection or end multi-selection, but typically only once per major operation.
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by jasone 6y ago
I switched to kakoune from vim in early 2020, and I really like it (previously: emacs 1994-2004, vim 2004-2020). It's worth prefacing what follows by saying that I heavily relied on the visual selection features in vim. kakoune prov
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by jasone 6y ago
Bruce's reviews were singularly masterful. He consistently condensed valuable layers of meaning into terse prose in a way that I have never experienced otherwise. As I would uncover these layers during repeated readings, I would deve
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by jasone 7y ago
This is the third time I've watched this video (admittedly with a bit of distraction today). After the first time I went off and learned about modular implicits, which appear to be a huge ergonomic improvement, especially the way the
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by jasone 7y ago
This sunk cost fallacy argument is easy to apply to many languages. Of the ones for which I've approached expert-level knowledge, C++ stands out as the one with the biggest sunk cost for the least gain. But let me tell you about my e
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by jasone 7y ago
This would have to have been at Facebook. Rachel and I worked in close physical proximity for quite a while, and as it happens, I was a major Tejava consumer (but not an actor in this particular incident). For years, Facebook routinely ma
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by jasone 7y ago
I attended grad school 2003-2009. The first few years I routinely pulled hardcopy at the library. By ~2007 I was able to get everything electronically. Not so long ago, dead trees mattered.
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by jasone 7y ago
zsh was the default sh until OS X 10.2 or 10.3. However, the zsh version was quite out of date (3.x when 4.x was already mature/stable, IIRC). A horse race between the old zsh and the latest bash was jiggered to show bash as much fas
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by jasone 8y ago
Absolutely, yes. I refuse 1) because loyalty programs are generally designed to increase income rather than save customers money, and 2) I loathe the way the airline programs play to snobbery. I tend toward cattle class seats to avoid bein
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by jasone 8y ago
I distinctly recall the ad-free experience of my cousin's cable service circa 1980, in stark contrast with the broadcast reception my family had. I can't definitively say that there were no commercials on the channels we didn&#x2
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by jasone 8y ago
> Skip is not meant to be a system programming language. So the comparison with Rust for example is difficult. Can you elaborate on this comment in the context of some of the other languages listed by the grandparent (Go, Swift, Julia, N
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by jasone 8y ago
The people who initially developed HPHP (the PHP-to-C++ transpiler) were not the same people who initially developed HHVM (the VM/JIT). I was one of the people who started the HHVM project, and we recognized early on that we must base
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by jasone 8y ago
Type correctness is pure power, or a waste of time, depending on... perspective! I can't help thinking back to the highly illustrative example of my first enhancement to Facebook's production website as a "bootcamper" i
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by jasone 8y ago
Regarding support of Trump, Facebook indeed had an overt internal tone of enmity toward Trump, to the point that admitting to having voted for Trump would have been a frightening prospect in most circles. (I can't speak to the specifi
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by jasone 8y ago
We had a morally similar concept to "machine learning" in academia during my grad school days: "non-parametric statistic". To me they were anathema, but non-parametric statistics are shockingly common both in academia a
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by jasone 8y ago
I use Dvorak (5 years total, vs 25 with qwerty), and IMO Dvorak is clearly superior for the specific case of vi motion (hjkl). Dvorak places these keys on 4 separate fingers rather than 3, and their relative positions make just as much sen
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by jasone 8y ago
There's a footnote for the first sentence of TFA that addresses this.
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by jasone 8y ago
jemalloc does not greedily allocate memory, and it's not clear to me how you would think so from reading that gitlab issue discussion. I can well imagine jemalloc not behaving as desired under certain conditions, but if so it's s
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by jasone 9y ago
I've read ~15 of Dick's novels over the past 20 years, and _Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep_ is among my least favorite, despite the excellent movies based on it. This past year I finally read one of his books that awed me wi
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by jasone 10y ago
jemalloc does support Windows, and stability has improved dramatically in recent releases, primarily because we now have continuous integration coverage for several Windows configurations.
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by jasone 10y ago
I had long been weary of juggling VMWare guests' RAM consumption on my MacBook Pro, but I held out for a modern system with more RAM (whether MacBook Pro or updated Mac Pro), until the most recent refresh. Two months ago, I purchased
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by jasone 10y ago
As a bicyclist who can sustain >20mph for minutes at a time, I find the 20mph cutoff as implemented quite frustrating. It feels terrible to easily accelerate to 20mph, and then struggle mightily past the cliff of assisted pedaling. The
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by jasone 10y ago
I went through a similar process in 2003 with two cats that begged incessantly for food. I had to bolt the feeders (of different manufacture and style) down to a sheet of melamine and add thin metal shielding at the front to prevent the ca
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by jasone 10y ago
I just bit the bullet and installed Lyft on my phone. Then I tried to complete the account creation flow, and the app insisted my (Republic Wireless) phone number is invalid. I lose, Lyft loses... While this is admittedly anecdotal, it does
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by jasone 10y ago
I just did the same, after reading two very compelling stories. It was tempting to first read one more (and one more after that...), but it's already clear to me that this is scifi worth supporting.
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by jasone 10y ago
Given the evaluation criteria, this sounds like a winner to me.
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by jasone 10y ago
The fact that this can be used on a process even if you didn't plan at launch time to monitor memory usage is awesome. The main concern I'd have about using it in a production environment is performance impact. There may be no w
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by jasone 12y ago
jemalloc works much like what you're describing. The one missing piece in terms of userland/kernel cooperation is that jemalloc aggressively discards dirty unused pages because it doesn't know whether other processes need th
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by jasone 12y ago
Hey folks, jemalloc author here, willing to answer any questions you have about it. I'll be AFK for much of today but will be around all day tomorrow.
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by jasone 15y ago
Believe it or not, my $hit meter was too insensitive to notice the visual similarity to a four letter word until it was repeatedly pointed out by readers. Now that we're all on the same wavelength, let's call a spade a shovel, or even a $h

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