You can pry Vim from my cold, dead hands!
Earflap
joined 4 months ago
My problem with forums is that they spiral out of control. Forum lovers see this as a huge plus but I'm not reading 1700 pages (not posts) of bullshit across three posts just to get to the current info.
Any time I see
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ..., 653
At the bottom of a post I just click off the website and go somewhere else.
It is a text editor from the 50s or 60s, so right off the nat you aren't getting a product you're at all familiar with. Its been a while since I cracked it open but from memory you can only view one line of code at a time. You have to specify the line of code that you want to view, the commands are esoteric, and there is no help available in the application itself. As I recall it was pretty much immediately replaced with better editors, such as og vi.
Its sort of like programming in sed. Sure, you can, but why?
From Wikipedia:
Known for its terseness, ed, compatible with teletype terminals like Teletype Model 33, gives almost no visual feedback, and has been called (by Peter H. Salus) "the most user-hostile editor ever created", even when compared to the contemporary (and notoriously complex) TECO. For example, the message that ed will produce in case of error, and when it wants to make sure the user wishes to quit without saving, is "?". It does not report the current filename or line number, or even display the results of a change to the text, unless requested. Older versions (c. 1981) did not even ask for confirmation when a quit command was issued without the user saving changes.
Ed is the most user unfriendly text editor ever created.
I think this is a really interesting read on the matter: https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/godTaoist.html
Christianity has gone completely off the rails and isn't the answer, but that doesn't necessarily mean there isn't a god.
Maybe god itself doesn't have free will and is only acting according to a proscribed set of fundamental laws.
If everyone remembered your past lives you could be held accountable for actions "you" never took. Imagine being born only to find out that your last life was a serial murderer and you have 300 consecutive reincarnations left before you'll ever experience freedom again.
No, I think its better that we don't remember. Plus, life wouldn't be at all novel if you've already experienced everything there is for you to enjoy.
I dunno, I bought three pens and four inks that the internet assured me was high quality and none of them are as smooth as my pilot G2 fine tip.
Fountain pens are way cooler though.
I developed a spreadsheet for a company I worked for a few jobs ago. When I left I used a picture of Dennis to lock everyone out of the spreadsheet but only for one day, months after I left. Stupid idea, but felt good.
Edit: this was it:
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Trying to get my family to use signal and its like pulling teeth. "Dont you want to be on the same messaging app as everyone", "sure but you're the one with a problem"
Mate, I only have a problem because of you!