I always found discoverability of vim commands really poor and this game really helped me. In practice mode you can see an optimal solution to the problems which helped me to internalize new ways of achieving the same thing in less keystrokes. Would recommend if you feel inefficient in vim.
TIL there are two units of measurement that are both called ton but confusingly are not the same as a ton. One is a tiny bit more than a ton (1.016 tons) and one is a bit less (0.907 tons). Apparently people use the prefixes long and short to differentiate them, at least that part is intuitive.
Cool idea! Unfortunately the terminal doesn't really work when using fish shell. The prompt is always stuck at the top. Also the "artificial" notch is larger than the physical notch and even larger than the menu bar which is mildly unsatisfying and I didn't find an option to adjust the size.
I see a lot of negative comments in this thread about Sonos in general, which is interesting to me because I'm currently thinking about buying Sonos speakers. What exactly don't you like about it? Is there a good alternative to Sonos that ticks all the following boxes?
- Connect two or more speakers wirelessly to get stereo sound (I hate cables)
- Good support for different audio sources (bluetooth, Spotify, AirPlay, aux, etc..)
- Ability to connect speakers of different models (which means you can upgrade your setup later as you see fit, for example add a subwoofer)
I too think it's very impressive but wouldn't it be even more impressive if it was made using canvas? It would mean that you would need to implement your own rendering loop and layout engine. You'd need to reimplement a lot of elements such as input fields or buttons. You get all of this for free when building on top of HTML/CSS.
Proof? This is just some random person claiming it's not true but they link to an article which explicitly states that it is in fact true. Am I missing something?
In Swiss German I would spell it "glustig" or "gluschdig". I would "germanize" it as "gelustig". If you are "glustig uf öppis" it means you have "Lust darauf", often used in the context of food. "glust" on its own just means "Lust" as in "Gelüste". As explained in the article if you are "glustig" you are not necessarily hungry but you just crave some food. "Ich hab zwar schon gegessen aber irgendwie hab ich voll Lust auf nen Döner!"
As a native swiss german speaker it was relatively easy to understand the poem in the article. Definitely easier to understand for me than modern Dutch. Also the word "gluschdich" that was mentioned at the beginning of the article seems highly swiss to me.
Could anyone with more linguistic knowledge than me shed some light on whether Pennsylvania Dutch is really closely related to Dutch or if it's more closely related to German / Swiss German as I suspect?
There is a simpler way to suppress the massive log output every time you enter a directory managed by direnv. You can simply add the following line[1] to your .bashrc or whatever:
> The config files in this repository turn vim into a modeless editor. Instead of remembering cryptic commands, you can use standard key binds, like Ctrl+S to save, select text using Shift+←/→/↑/↓, and copy/paste using Ctrl+C/V.
> This configuration is not meant for the aficionado who prefers vim over graphical editors. This is meant for people who normally use GUI editors (like VSCode), but sometimes need an editor that can run in a terminal.
I think it's unrealistic to expect users who only occasionally use vim to edit the odd config file in the terminal to fiddle with a custom vim setup.
If you're really looking for a good editor that behaves like GUI editors I really recommend micro [1]. It has mouse support by default, syntax highlighting for many languages out of the box, most keybinds are the same as in GUI editors and copy/paste works like expected.
I used to run NixOS on my main computer for a few months until I encountered some situation that I couldn't resolve using my nix skills. I think I needed to run some software that wasn't on nixpkgs.
Nowadays, I just use nix (the package manager) on top of PopOS.
I use nix on my laptop because it's absolutely brilliant when it works. To me it's a fascinating technology. Being able to easily use different versions of some tool in two different projects, declaratively defining my dotfiles using home manager or quickly trying out some software using nix-shell -p is almost magical to me.
Eventhough I've used nix for years now, I have no deep understanding of nix and I'm a very curious person who always tries to understand how stuff actually works. Nix makes me feel really dumb. It makes me feel like when I was twelve and I "programmed" by cluelessly stitching together code examples from online tutorials. I don't really understand what's going on outside of the really common use cases for nix.
I read the entire nix docs but I think it's the kind of documentation that's only useful if you already kind of get what's going on. It feels like you have to gather the knowledge from various random blogs. Last time I checked there surprisingly was not a single book which covers nix. I feel like a comprehensive book which teaches nix from the ground up and explains all the different ways of using nix would really help me and I would purchase such a book without hesitation if it existed.
For me the key to success was to accept and to internalize the following facts:
- 95% of content and posts have no value and are simply a waste of time
- Using any of the usual platforms for more than 10 minutes will damage me and make me a worse person (mental health, attention span, it makes me angry, etc...)
- Basically the only reason why I use those services is to kill time and to avoid responsibilities which I have in the real world
- All of those services have net negative effect on society and humanity and by using them I support a system which I despise
To summarize roughly: There is simply no value in using any of these platforms. Doing virtually anything else will be better for me and the world.
Once I really accepted those facts it was not really that hard to stop using them. The problem was that for a long time I told myself (at least subconsciously) that there is some value in using some of those services.
For example I told myself "I'm really exhausted now and I wouldn't be doing anything productive anyways, so I might aswell doomscroll for a bit." Or "There really is some high quality content on YouTube, it'd be a shame to miss the quality videos if I abandon the platform as a whole."
You need to get to a point where your brain immediately calls bullshit as soon as you come up with an excuse like this.