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>> Yes, Canada, you are indeed in danger as well as Mexico.

> No evidence. Unless you're arguing while NAFTA was around this was a way to create a "United America".

Trump recently posted an image on Truth Social of a White House meeting in which a map is displayed, of north america with the US flag superimposed on Canada, Greenland, and Venezuela. [1] He has repeatedly suggested that Canada is the 51st American state. [2]

[1] https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/greenland-trump-tariffs-tra...

[2] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trumps-remarks-on-cana...

When did Biden say the US needs 300M more immigrants?

When did Biden say the US needs 300M more immigrants?

hehe

I think it took me about four months of daily use to know most of the editor basics without having to pause to look up things. Another eight for it all to feel natural. And, maybe about six years later, it remains my favorite text entry and code editing environment.

I've been using the LazyVim <https://www.lazyvim.org/> neovim setup and a handful of extras, but not too many. I still have to look up some esoteric stuff, but for the most part, it's completely natural.

And for the first few years, I was a hardline keyboard-only absolutist, but lately I've been using the mouse where it makes sense, and sometimes it does.

(MacOS, iTerm2, neovim, lazyvim, love this combo)

The implications of the ongoing ruptures to the global political and economic order are significant. Tech is both influencing and influenced by these changes.

Completely agree, but at the same time I can't bring myself to believe that reinforcing systems like the electoral college or reinstating a state-legislature-chosen Senate would yield better outcomes.

Most people I know who have strong political opinions (as well as those who don't) can't name their own city council members or state assemblyman, and that's a real problem for functioning representative democracy. Not only for their direct influence on local policy, but also because these levels of government also serve as the farm team or proving grounds for higher levels of office.

By the time candidates are running with the money and media of a national campaign, in some sense it's too late to evaluate them on matters of their specific policies and temperaments, and you kind of just have to assume they're going to follow the general contours of their party. By and large, it seems the entrenched political parties (and, perhaps, parties in general) are impediments to good governance.

Good people too. a friend of mine used to babysit for them

similar observation here, with a 2.33-year old. In small doses we've exposed him to videos[1], never unsupervised, never as a parental substitute, but there are a class of them (which happen to be the lowest-effort, highest-contrast, most insipidly soundtracked CGI dreck I can possibly imagine) which are absolute baby crack. He watched some a few months ago and now he can't get them out of his head. It has gotten to the point where we are simply at a hard "no" about any videos because it always devolves into an inconsolable tantrum tearfully begging for more video crack.

[1] kid loves trucks and garbage trucks and trains, and so for a while it was fun to pull up a video of real life trucks and trains and watch them and talk about them. We'd read a book about trucks. He'd point and say, "what's that do," and I'd explain, then say, "wait! I can show you." Which was fun, until it became triggering.

I wonder if there is a somewhat predictable formula for the shape and size of the tail of a "death spike" based on rankings or other factors within this study?

Very helpful comments in much of the example code.

But Dash does acknowledge this, only slightly obliquely and I think more usefully broad:

reason #3 Markdown succeeded: Built on behaviors that already existed. It succeeded because it came from the culture it was born in. Email formatting conventions. HTML. Plain text.

I love seeing a Definition List (DL/DT/DD html tags) in the wild. Often more hassle than its worth to make them appear the way you want, but semantically pleasing and underused.

I just re-did my resume last week using Typst, and the experience had me contemplating building some kind of generator as well!

Anyway, I really enjoy using Typst.

> Give me something that qualifies your anonymous remarks or its not worth anything to me, its just he said she said.

This is where journalistic reputation comes in. Do you trust the journalistic entity providing the story? Do they have a history of being correct? Has information from anonymous sources in other stories proven to be true?

The current administration is regressive and explicitly, triumphantly anti-expert.

Within this environment the decision to eschew the font that was expertly designed for present needs in favor of one designed in the past for different ones makes perfect sense.

> we recommend keeping task-specific instructions in separate markdown files with self-descriptive names somewhere in your project.

Should do this for human developers too. Can't count the number of times I've been thrown onto a project and had to spend a significant amount of time opening and skimming files just to answer simple questions that should be answered in high-level docs like this.

I suppose an upvote should be sufficient, but I am so unhappy with the new UI I am actually holding off switching to a new M4 MBP and sticking to my old M1 still on Sequoia 15.7.1. I also try to give these things time and I am usually ok with the changes eventually, but the new UI elements are so incredibly distracting it's actually affecting my ability to focus on what I'm actually doing.

I think group moderation/points emerged as a remedy for trolling and the flame wars which would ensue. And not only flame wars but also simply low-quality, substance-free posts.

In certain unmoderated Usenet forums, and later web forums (e.g. Slashdot), there were often huge chunks of threads you'd have to scroll past and read between to find nuggets of value. Points systems emerged to separate the wheat from the chaff, and in many ways ushered an improved reading/discussion experience.

Just seeing those names brought back a lot of memories. I was especially fond of Superpaint and Deneba Canvas. But I also got a lot done with MacDraw Pro, which I think at the time was considered limited.

Still love OmniGraffle which itself is getting long in the tooth but still has one of the nicest diagram layout engines I’ve used

I use native browser bookmarks all the time for project- or work-oriented purposes, organized into folders. All my dashboards, git repos, various hobby stuff, etc.

I miss del.icio.us. That was my favorite, by far.

I could never get italics to work correctly when in iTerm2/tmux mode. Pure tmux, yes, iTerm no tmux yes, iTerm+tmux I would get weird background colors instead of italics. It's been a while so I don't remember specifics

I ran into so many little annoying color and font issues with vim, tmux and iTerm2 that I gave up on tmux (for local work). What small benefit I got from tmux on my local machine (basically surviving updates and a little more session persistence) I rarely miss.

I wanted it to be better, and might go back if I could figure out the font issues, but I just don't have the time right now.

> natural solution would be to increase the number of teams

Reminds me of my dad (b. 1945) talking about his HS sports experience in the early ‘60s at a large (~3500) Southern California public school. Not only were there varsity, JV and frosh teams, in high-interest sports like football and basketball there were multiple teams for every grade. Competition was still high if you wanted to play at the highest level, but if you wanted to play, there was probably an option for you.

Public schools are simply not funded the same way today

I didn't see the post as pissing into the wind so much as calling out several caveats of coding with LLMs, especially on teams, and ideas on how to mitigate them.

cmd-K for Cut? I don't ever remember that on the Mac.

I remember the lower left row on the US keyboard was always the first four operations from the nearly-ubiquitous Edit menu since day one.

    Z - Undo 
    X - Cut
    C - Copy
    V - Paste

Certainly not the flagship apps from Apple. Can you remember an app that did this specifically? I seem to remember even early apps from Microsoft were fairly respectful of the early Mac HIG

Early apps frequently also had "Clear" in the Edit menu, which was like Cut except the cleared item didn't go into the system Clipboard

Linguistics and history of language folk: isn't there an observed slowdown of evolution of spoken language as the printing press becomes widespread? Also, "international english"?

Is this an observation of a similar phenomenon?

It seems there's some kind of corollary to what you're saying to when (in the US) we went from three major television networks to many cable networks or, later, when streaming video platforms began to proliferate and take hold -- YouTube, Netflix, etc.: The barriers to entry dropped for creators, and the market fragmented. There is still quality creative content out there, some it as good as or better than ever. But finding it, and finding people to share the experience of watching it with you is harder.

Same could be said of traditional desktop software development and the advent of web apps I suppose.

I guess I'm not that worried, other than being worried about personally finding myself in a technological or cultural eddy.

It seems to me that an underlying assumption of every so-called "social" app is that its users wish to avoid contact with people in real life. That the users wish for some sanitized, safe and dimensionally meager simulacrum of human interaction.

Obviously, that's not an absolute; clearly people yearn for human contact. But as you point out, there was a time when people participated in social activities and public life with a much higher degree of physical presence than they do now, and the popularity of apps which sidestep this indicate to me that people also desire not to engage with others so proximately.

If you want to have relationships with people, go to where people actually are, buckle your belt, set aside your dread of rejection or indifference, and introduce yourself.

Very annoying. Designers, ui developers: please don't do this, it sucks.