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FreeFull··on Kakoune Code Editor
Judging by https://github.com/mawww/golf kakoune is capable of completing the majority of the same editing tasks as vim in a very similar amount of keystrokes. The main advantage of multiple selections is that you can see which text you will operate on ahead of time, rather than having to first select which operation you want (delete/yank/change/etc) and then which text it will affect. I think pointing out that vim's selections aren't as capable as kakoune's is a fair response, and saying that you can accomplish similar things without selections is a bit of a deflection.
FreeFull··on You cannot play Diablo 2 resurrected after 30 days of being offline
I believe Rocket League was a special case, in that they offered refunds for everybody who bought it to play on Linux/Mac, no matter how many hours of it they have played.
FreeFull··on Kakoune Code Editor
Visual mode only allows for a single selection, though
FreeFull··on Blackjack: Procedural, node-based graphics modeling tool
Running into the same issue on linux. No clue what's causing it, since the github repo for rend3 seems to be publicly accessible without any issues..

Edit: I managed to fix it by editing .gitmodules (changing the url line to `url = https://github.com/setzer22/rend3.git`) and then running `git submodule sync; git submodule update --init --recursive`

FreeFull··on Colors in movies and TV: What happened to them?
The first Matrix originally only used practical effects for the green tint (including physically green-washing all clothes).
FreeFull··on The Great Siberian Thaw
What about temperatures up to 49 degrees Celsius, like the heatwave in India back in 2019? If the air is moist, it can become literally impossible for even healthy humans to survive without some external way of cooling off.
FreeFull··on Study: 1960 ramjet design for interstellar travel—a sci-fi staple—is unfeasible
Why would that happen only to the antimatter and not to matter?
FreeFull··on The Matrix looks dramatically different on Hulu versus on HBO Max
In the first movie, they tried to achieve it practically, by giving all of the clothing and props a green tinge. Certainly not as effective as doing it in post-processing, though.
FreeFull··on Tetr.io
I haven't noticed any input lag with my setup: Firefox 95.0.2, Arch Linux with the 5.15.11 kernel, CPU+graphics: 4th gen (Haswell) Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4500U CPU

Perhaps your browser isn't using hardware acceleration properly, or something like that?

FreeFull··on An intro to finding things in Linux
You could also do `strace --trace=open some_app` or `strace --trace=%file some_app` to have the strace do the filtering by itself (the latter will match any syscall that takes a filename)
FreeFull··on Microsoft blocks EdgeDeflector to force Windows 11 users into Edge
You might not even need the Windows install at all for gaming. With all the work Valve has been putting into Proton, even games with funky anti-cheat should work on any Linux distro by the time the Steam Deck comes out.
FreeFull··on Greenfield – The In-Browser Wayland Compositor
One difference is that while broadway only works with GTK programs, Greenfield theoretically should work with any Wayland-supporting program (including apps using GTK 3 or 4). I wonder what options there are for running an X11 server in a browser..
FreeFull··on Signed integers are asymmetrical
Pianos are more complicated, because they also use stretched octaves that aren't just a simple 2:1 ratio, due to inharmonicity of the thick bass strings. There are only a few exceptions, where instead of thicker strings the piano was made really long.
FreeFull··on Canyon.mid
Question is, would you be able to put a Soundblaster 16 inside it?
FreeFull··on BootOS: Monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code
If you're fine with overwriting the partition table, you can go up to 510 bytes of code, followed by 2 bytes for the mandatory MBR boot signature
FreeFull··on On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking
I am not on the autistic spectrum, but in my experience walking does help a lot with thinking things through. Part of it is certainly the lack of distractions, but there is something about the movement too. I'm not sure why you've brought autism up.
FreeFull··on JPL's Plan for the Next Mars Helicopter
I imagine with Mars's thin atmosphere, it'd be hard to get enough buoyancy to lift off.
FreeFull··on Supporting half-precision floats is annoying
The article didn't talk about f16 or anything like that. It just talks about some complications when implementing f16 support. I'm not sure what exactly you want the author not to bitch about.
FreeFull··on New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered at CERN
The charge would actually be (-2 + 1 - 1 - 1)/3 = -1 of a proton's charge. There isn't any physically viable combination of quarks that would produce a non-integer charge. The article mentions the bb tetraquark can only decay through the weak force, but I'm not sure how long it'd live either.
FreeFull··on France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes
Strictly speaking, contagious cancer is a thing, but not in humans. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_transmissible_venereal_...
FreeFull··on Netcat – All you need to know
/dev/std{in,out,err} are provided by Linux, and bash does stay out of the way there. I'm not aware of anything that provides /dev/tcp/host/port, although I think Plan 9 might have something similar. If the file happens to exist, bash will use the file rather than its own special functionality.
FreeFull··on Netcat – All you need to know
It definitely is a bash feature. From the bash manpage:

       Bash handles several filenames specially when they are used in redirections, as described in the following table.  If the operating system on which bash is running provides these spe‐
       cial files, bash will use them; otherwise it will emulate them internally with the behavior described below.

              /dev/fd/fd
                     If fd is a valid integer, file descriptor fd is duplicated.
              /dev/stdin
                     File descriptor 0 is duplicated.
              /dev/stdout
                     File descriptor 1 is duplicated.
              /dev/stderr
                     File descriptor 2 is duplicated.
              /dev/tcp/host/port
                     If host is a valid hostname or Internet address, and port is an integer port number or service name, bash attempts to open the corresponding TCP socket.
              /dev/udp/host/port
                     If host is a valid hostname or Internet address, and port is an integer port number or service name, bash attempts to open the corresponding UDP socket.
FreeFull··on Is π the Same in Every Universe?
With regular spherical and hyperbolic geometry, yes, it is flat-ish if you look at a small enough area. On the other hand, if you have a different distance metric, the ratio of a circle's diameter to circumference can be a different constant. For example, in taxicab geometry, it is 4
FreeFull··on Servo Engine contributions this year
A bunch of code originally developed for Servo has ended up in Gecko, so it at least has definitely been useful as a testing ground.
FreeFull··on Charter charges more money for slower Internet on streets with no competition
Frontier is getting sued by the FTC and a bunch of states for lying about the internet speeds they provide, so hopefully the other ISPs will be similarly held responsible too.. It might take years, though.
FreeFull··on Building Outer Wonders for Linux
I'm curious about why they didn't statically link SDL2 in. It wasn't an option with SDL1.2 due to licensing, but SDL2 explicitly allows it.
FreeFull··on Use Alacritty instead of Termite
If last time you tried using Wayland was Sway, maybe this is the issue you were running into: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/issues/2889

TL;DR: Drag and drop involving chromium or electron windows has been buggy. wlroots/sway has not implemented _NET_CLIENT_LIST_STACKING, and both the fallback code inside Chrome/Chromium and the way sway has been stacking Xwayland windows have been buggy. A patch has been submitted to Chromium to fix the faulty fallback, the sway bug will be fixed, and wlroots will also support _NET_CLIENT_LIST_STACKING, so by the time the next sway release comes out everything should be ironed out.

FreeFull··on Interactive IPA Chart
Jean Luc Picard is a well-known name from fiction, too.
FreeFull··on GCC 11.1
It's not like C++'s move semantics magically get rid of the necessity of copying data either.
FreeFull··on SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube
Are the people who tend to use adblock likely to actually engage with the ads with adblock off?
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