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I use the karma indicator as a cheap way to detect replies to comments and this mess up this simple heuristic.
Conversely, if we are talking and you would like to engage in a discussion, just upvote! (or downvote, whatever!) This will catch my attention and make me check what you wrote.
ABOUT ME: I'm a command line geek with an interest in Arch, Windows, Sixels, ZFS and KVM!
I like new things, even those you may believe are "against the natural of things":
“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
I'll see which tricks can be reused on linux, as I'd love to cut that by 1 order of magnitude!
just embed your own vimrc with zip following the instructions
for others, see https://cosmo.zip/pub/cosmos/bin/
We now have actually portable executables (multiplatform, multios) that contain their own config file: you can just scp 1 binary and be done with it.
I don't think anyone needs (or even wants) the terminal to freeze on such a common shortcut in 2024.
Personally, I have reclaimed Ctrl S for word delete (usually done by Alt-d)
What exactly do you hate?
The site says:
> > Ctrl+S to save, select text using Shift+←/→/↑/↓, and copy/paste using Ctrl+C/V.
I haven't setup Control-S, but I have very similar bindings: Shift and arrows for selecting, then Alt or Control-Shift for moving the selection around, as shown on https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csdvrx/CuteVim/main/record...
Also, like the author I have a shortcut to change themes (F9) and another to toggle invisible chars (F8), and I try to use the top of the screen as much as possible (I show the offset in hex, the row and column position etc).
I like how vim is modal, but some Windows shortcuts (like Control-C) just make too much sense to given them up on Linux: I have put `stty intr ^X` because using Shift-Control-C to copy from the terminal was way worse.
Having a few chording shortcuts give you the best of both worlds!
BTW, all of the other shortcuts proposed on this site make a lot of sense to me: I do expect Ctrl-F to search, and Ctrl-T to open tabs, I think I will copy a few :)
+1
There's no way I'd be living there, so I'd say the exact same thing!
No need to, because I absolutely agree with you: there's no way I'd live near an active fault line, or in a place with a risk of tsunamis/earthquakes and other types of natural catastrophes that are naturally occuring and can't be protected against.
You're right, the volcano may not explode, but by being AN ACTIVE VOLCANO, it still has many ways to kill people...
The article pictures with the RED HOT LAVA tells me it's a bad idea to stay, but if they want to, sure!
After all, we need more dramatic wikipedia articles about a single person surviving in a city that previously housed thousands!
Actually I wouldn't, because I would have left THE FIRST TIME THE VOLCANO SEEMED THREATENING!
History is ripe with government officials pretending "all is good" until the volcano kills everyone:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii and more recently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Pierre,_Martinique
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902_eruption_of_Mount_Pel%C3%... :
"The newspapers still claimed the city was safe. News of the Soufrière volcano erupting on the nearby island of Saint Vincent reassured the people, who believed it was a sign that Mount Pelée's internal pressure was being relieved. However, Captain Marina Leboffe, of the barque Orsolina, left the harbor with only half of his sugar cargo loaded, despite shippers' protests, clearance being refused by port authorities, and under threat of arrest. Many other civilians were refused permission to leave town.[6] Governor Louis Mouttet and his wife stayed in the city. By the evening, Mount Pelée's tremors seemed to calm down again."
There is 0 evidence nicotine might be good, and lots of evidence it isn't.
Some of us care about absolute top performance, and don't care about the battery life
> That agnosticism is the only rational position.
Please tell us more about the insights you have gained leading to this conclusion
I'm split on that, as it made me check the README I'm rewriting, and compare it to the previous version. After noticing an increase in the amount of exclamation points and enthusiasm, I think I may decide to rewrite it again, to cut down on the enthusiasm.
Besides being an obvious waste of time, why should tech be boring?
I don't want it boring! I want my vim and my xterm to be cute!
So what?
As someone famous said, "Quantity is a quality on its own"
Can't you control which cores you use or what you put on them with the kernel cmdline? On x86-64 I use cpu0_hotplug nohz_full=1-3,5-7 rcu_nocbs=0-3,5-7 irqaffinity=4
Control+S at the end and you have a RTF that can be read everywhere.
I wouldn't like smooth scrolling when I use PageUp/PageDown, unless it added minimal latency, because for full pages it would break the illusion.
However, it may feel natural and normal with small and precise movements like multiple finger trackpad scroll for a few lines - at least if there's an acceleration curve to reduce the fps for large movements (many lines, or quick movements to scroll by full pages): it would help keep the perception of a low latency between the action and its "immediate" execution.
I have found that I like TVs using interpolation to achieve a higher FPS: it makes old movies feel more alive.
Some people have reported they don't like the high framerate, as it make them feel they are watching a TV series.
Could you recommend a modern terminal that would have the features you suggest?
I'd be curious to try them to see how different it feels!
I didn't think it was stupid, I had genuine trouble understanding how could an extra feature be hated - it didn't make sense: I thought it was maybe not the feature itself, but either the default setting, or the fact that it was a setting that could be tweaked.
But when something doesn't make sense to me, I've found it often means I've overlooked or missed something that may be evident to others (sometimes I even write: "what have I overlooked?")
Here, I missed that it would be interpreted to mean "poison under veneer".
I'd like to improve, as in "not being perceived as aggressive", so I appreciate your feedback!
It's a wonderful sub to find inspiration and great ideas!
> What I'm kind of grokking from your comment is the text on image just doesn't really bother you
It sometimes bothers me, so the default is to have it off.
But I found it can help me concentrate so I have a shortcut.
I don't know if it works by reducing the contrast of the code or by distracting my mind, but it helps me think more about the code.
Maybe this is a problem of the background image you've selected? Or maybe you don't like it 100% of the time?
I like calming background images, especially when they are animated, and turned on and off at whill.
I have a hotkey to toggle a nature scene: I've found that it helps me concentrate when I'm thinking about a coding problem: demo in https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/11w3zzj/hyprland_...
The bottom part of the image has subtle movements (the wind effect on the grass)
I already know there are many things that I don't understand, but I'm willing to spend large amounts of time to improve my understanding
No, I have trouble understanding why someone might hate an optional feature that's either turned off by default, or that they can turn off with little effort then keep it off forever.
The lack of the feature in the first place is more of a problem. With empathy towards people who might like the feature, you see the presence of the feature as a good thing, even if it's no use (or even an inconvenience) to you. If it's an inconvenience, what you hate is the default setting.
Example: screen readers. I've been sometimes surprised by having Windows start reading text aloud after pressing a shortcut, but I then thought "actually, that's nice because people who can't use a screen have this great feature working out of the box"