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laqq3on The provenance memory model for C

I'm wondering if you could elaborate? I'd be curious to hear more about "bloated C" and the differences between the 2nd and 3rd edition.

laqq3on Actually Portable Perl

    $ bash ./perl.com --version

    This is perl 5, version 36, subversion 0 (v5.36.0) built for x86_64-cosmo
    (with 3 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

laqq3on Gojq: Pure Go Implementation of Jq

One reason to prefer gojq is that gojq’s author is one of the most knowledgeable person for the original jq (as seen by GitHub PRs and issues), and his gojq fixes many long standing issues in jq.

Plus, for my use cases, gojq runtime performance beats jq by a fair margin.

laqq3on Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook

This looks great!

Curious whether the team is looking at improving the support of having images in tables cell? I played with the playground and it seems to work, but there seems to be some (relatively minor) glitches/bugs (e.g. difficult to place an image in a cell, moving images across cells seems difficult, and cannot Ctrl-x an image and Ctrl-v to paste it).

laqq3on Windows Terminal Quake Mode

I’ve been using Ctrl+Shift+f in Windows Terminal for this (it searches terminal output/its scroll back buffer).

laqq3on Sublime Text 4

I love Sublime Text and will be upgrading when ST4 comes out.

VSCode has one distinct advantage though: it’s remote SSH editing plugin (which has a proprietary license and closed source). IMO, the remote SSH and related extensions is bar none the distinguishing feature of VSCode in that it is so good and there is simply no competition. Every other feature has at least a worthy/better implementation elsewhere (ST, vim, or emacs).

Is there something similar for Sublime, either builtin or native? I’d delighted to be corrected.

laqq3on Who Will Control the Software That Powers the Internet?

> > 3. We need a desktop environment that's visually appealing and has a good UX.

> Such as KDE and the rest?

Just personal taste, but I don't find KDE visually appealing, and not only the default theme ("Breeze"). Unfortunately, I can't get used to the usability issues on GNOME.

IMO, the sweet spot of visually appealing and good UX is .... Windows 10 (sigh), followed by a close second in Cinnamon (and I'm also a fan of IceWM).

laqq3on London will be overwhelmed by Covid in a fortnight says leaked NHS briefing

Good analysis but small nitpick: the use of "Θ" in Θ(a×exp(R×𝑡)) is slightly inaccurate (or is it the use of "a"?) because the set of functions Θ(a×exp(R×𝑡)) is the same for all positive a.

laqq3on IceWM 2.0 – Ice Window Manager

I use IceWM as my daily driver since it has all the features I need and is very lightweight.

The maintainer is super nice too: I had a feature request in mind, raised an issue on GH, and the he eventually implemented it.

It may be appropriate to link to the donation page of the author: https://gijsbers.github.io/donate/

Thanks for IceWM!

laqq3on Restoring a 37 Year-Old IBM F Mechanical Keyboard

For what it's worth, I own a Unicomp keyboard I got in 2013 and it still works flawlessly to this day. Not doubting nor disqualifying your experience, but just want to provide a counterbalance.

laqq3on The Era of Visual Studio Code

I read about this fact elsewhere also. Could you expand on this a bit? My impression was that VSCode and its associated extensions are open source, so I'm curious how Microsoft could make certain parts exclusive to its own build of VSCode.

laqq3on The Era of Visual Studio Code

> Sublime is great but it updates once every other blue moon for a reason.

I like both editors (VSCode and Sublime) and just want to point out that Sublime Text 4 is in semi-public alpha. It is "semi-public" in the sense that the download link is given in the Discord channel, but anybody could join it.

For nine months or so, there has been a new release of ST4 every 2-3 weeks. Development is definitely ongoing (though I'm quite happy with ST3 as it is).

laqq3on Nova by Panic

Though it is made slightly (?) better for the fact that if you for 12 month consecutively, then your fallback license is upgraded to the version 12 months ahead.

(That is, the next sentence in the bit you quoted is:)

> You will receive perpetual fallback licenses for every version you’ve paid 12 consecutive months for.

laqq3on The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple

I think zero makes sense as array indices when it refers to an offset as some kind. But I find it more intuitive for counters to start at one, in line with colloquial ('1st' and 'first') and mathematical usage.

laqq3on Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap

Seconding the recommendation for Debian. I switched from Ubuntu Mate to Debian (buster) and the experience is quite smooth; most everything works the same, which is no surprise.

laqq3on Isomorphic-git v1.0

It's an isomorphism in the category of Sets.

laqq3on Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes

Opera does allow you to remove the Google search bar (actually, it's not tied to Google).

Go to browser settings -> advanced settings -> Start Page.

This is what I use https://i.imgur.com/GpF0sQt.png

laqq3on Entropy in Social Networks [pdf]

If you read the last 1/4 of the paper, you'll see that Figure 6 is an integral part of the discussion; furthermore, nothing in the discussion is proven rigorously --- they all appeal to the picture.

That is exactly what a proof by picture is.