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I often had to poke around inside Atom to see what it was really doing, what some bug was, and to figure out how to write or configure extensions. I don't as often do that with Vim, but it's pretty clean C.

Do you not look inside the overly complex tools you use, especially beta ones? The whole appeal of "open source"/"free software" etc. is you can read the code. But if it's in something you can't stand, that's a disadvantage.

I liked Atom, performance was tolerable on my overpowered machine, but MS killing it just sent me back to Vim and modernizing my plugins.

Zed positives: Metal rendering. I use a Mac, so one platform's fine. But negatives: Rust, so I can't/won't touch any internals, and I loathe the Rustacean propaganda wing. No extensions yet. Config is another stupid json file.

You know what's great about vimrc? It's easy to put in a few config commands, and then you realize you're working in the scripting language. You don't have to switch to a whole new file format. Thanks, Bram.

I can close my eyes and remember it, so yes.

Yes. It's Apple's second most profitable platform. If I go out to a café (which admittedly was before pandemic), half the people have one, much more than laptops now. In business, it's a super common way to take around documents, presentations, etc. The kids really love them.

I've been in love with it since launch, it's a magic book.

Maybe you've heard of this device that plays music on tiny headphones, great for listening while walking. It was called a Walkman. Came out in 1979. By the time the iPod came out, there were plenty of digital music players; I carried a Rio Volt (CD-ROM full of MP3s), but the Nomad was the one CmdrTaco compared iPod to.

Many people carried Palm Pilots, Newtons, cell phones, pagers, portable games (GameBoy, Game Gear, Lynx), film & digital cameras. I used to carry so many gadgets. Sharp/Tandy PC-3 was a great little calculator/computer, so was HP-35s.

Apple's done an amazing job of making vastly better versions (eventually, in some cases; I waited for gen 3 iPod with USB), and folding multiple things into a device, and competing with themselves. So now most of those devices are gone, and we just carry an iPhone (or lame knockoff). I have a bunch of portable game devices, which live on my desk because why carry them? iPad rolled over the MacBook for portable computing. And now Vision Pro is going to roll over that (in a couple versions, probably).

The "one-hit wonder" assertion just requires someone to have lived a cave since 2006.

RCS is not end-to-end encrypted, so their bubbles will remain green.

Google's proprietary extensions add E2EE, and Apple's not going to pull a Beeper on Google.

There's a massive number of security holes in bash, shellshock being the most egregious. bash has some really terrible design flaws, especially parsing $var multiple times so you can't reliably break on spaces. Almost any other shell is safer and more productive.

csh/tcsh (not anymore, I use zsh)

scsh (more usable scripting than interactive), with the best acknowledgments

To misquote John Waters,

If you go home with someone and they have LinkedIn in their browser history, don't fuck them!

Videogame companies literally did use "megabit" when the truth was "128KiB", because it sounded better. Actual computer companies were still listing binary power numbers, because buyers had more to invest and care about accuracy.

You say "sensible", but it's lying for profit.

It's a scam by HDD makers to sell less storage for more money.