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Fair enough! I’m an English second language speaker too, I understand the struggle!

But to answer about relevance: to me, text editors are just tools. I don’t really care which one you use, as long as you do the job well. I use vim (or honestly, mostly vim bindings) everywhere I can as they’re just second nature to me at this point, and I go around text much quicker when thinking in text objects than the typical Ctrl+Alt+… and home/end/pg up/pg down shortcuts. I could just as well work with Notepad++, it’s just gonna slow me down.

So in that sense, it’s just like a pencil. Some have preferences as to which pencils they like to write with. I like fountain pens and mechanical pencils. You seem to prefer graphite pencils, and guess you probably prefer ball pens ;)


Yeah, same. I have literally zero use for it outside tinkering, and knowing myself, I’ll play with it for a couple of days, then forget it in a drawer, rinse and repeat every handful of months. It’s just expensive enough that it feels pretty wasteful to do so lol


The Docker engine itself, meaning the dockerd daemon, its APIs and the docker CLI, are all under Apache 2.0. The non-free parts are mostly in their Docker Desktop offering, which is mostly a convenience GUI and not absolutely necessary (the easiest, on Windows and macOS, probably, but not the only one) to run Docker on most platforms.


“We will not risk plunging our homes, our schools, our hospitals, our special care homes, our businesses into the cold and darkness because of the ideological whims of others,” the speech said.

The Saskatchewan Party’s government’s throne speech claimed new federal regulations will kill thousands of jobs and devastate the province’s resource sector which the government says is already following some of the most environmentally-friendly practices in the world.

“It makes no sense, especially at a time that our national government should be promoting Canadian oil and gas as a reliable and environmentally sustainable option to countries facing energy shortages,” the speech highlighted.

Yes, the carbon tax is maybe not the best way to attack the issues we’re having. But what fucking parallel universe do these people live in that they can outright call the global climate crisis that’s already happening the “ideological whims of others” and gas/oil “sustainable”?



Yet many people prefer mechanical pencils. Are you against choice? What is there to get or “need”?


I mean, why compare it with vim at all then. Apples and oranges…


I’m sorry for your sister, but if shoplifting alone, a reality all retail businesses deal with, to some level (which according to this very article, just came back to pre pandemic levels, so we aren’t talking about something new), was enough to kill her business… What kind of shit margins do pet stores run on? 🤨


I never get the need to use a mechanical pencil and graphite pencils exists


It’s hard to hate nano, but IMHO there also isn’t anything to like in particular either. It’s basically a TUI notepad. It’s there, it lets people edit files… and that’s pretty much all there is to it.


NDP is IMHO basically social liberal at this point, and I can’t in good faith call anything liberalism a left-wing ideology.


Let’s keep in mind modern IQ tests scores are normalized to a normal distribution with a mean of 100 and some fixed standard deviation on purpose (15? can’t remember), so of course they’ll fit a normal curve, they are literally made that way.

I’m also admittedly extremely skeptical of IQ as a measure of general intelligence. It’s not like we have a shortage of high IQ morons out there. It’s a decent estimate of relative intelligence in certain areas, most notably of logical thinking, at best.



Maybe my English comprehension is faulty, but I’ve always interpreted “lowest since X” to mean the current level is at least as low as it was in X…


Nitpick, but that’d be the mean median, not average. Say intelligence is a scale out of 10, and we have a population of 4, that have intelligences of 2, 4, 5 and 10. The average would be (2+4+5+10)/4=5.25. 75% is actually worse than average. Extreme values mess with averages a lot - that 10 pulled up the average much higher than . The mean median would be (4+5)/2=4.5, which lines up with that statement, as it’s by definition the dead center of all the values in a statistical population.

Edit: median, not mean


Hmm, Cloudflare themselves seem to say it’s not.

What WARP Is Not

From a technical perspective, WARP is a VPN. But it is designed for a very different audience than a traditional VPN. WARP is not designed to allow you to access geo-restricted content when you’re traveling. It will not hide your IP address from the websites you visit. If you’re looking for that kind of high-security protection then a traditional VPN or a service like Tor are likely better choices for you.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-warp-plus/


Which is exactly my point. Not all VPN companies are trustworthy (I’d say most are not, tbh). You’re still stuck trusting some third-party. The problem lies elsewhere. VPNs are a band aid.



Yeah, fair enough. My point still stands though: VPNs are a mere band-aid to the underlying issue, not a solution. You’re merely shifting your trust from your ISP to another company, not fixing the problem.



Oh, the Marina Center. Passed by it almost daily growing up. Yeah, I’m not surprised the landlord is an asshole. Even as a kid I thought the place looked run down.


Free VPNs should be avoided at all costs for many reasons, and the alternatives are an additional service to pay for, to fix another service you already pay for too that doesn’t work the way it should work in the first place.

I don’t see what’s ineffectual about the complaints. Of course people will, and should, complain. Loudly.


Use a combination of allowJs and ts-ignore, do progressive enhancement, and convert your codebase file by file. Adding any everywhere literally turns off type checking altogether codebase wide, including type inference. It also means a huge PR that’s both just noise that needs to be fixed later, and messes with your git history (good luck getting anything useful out of blame or bisect now).

Just getting a green build doesn’t mean things are okay. You’re worse off than before doing that.




Just slap a formatter on there and call it a day. Semicolon or not, IDGAF, let’s just stop with the formatting bikeshedding. There are more important things to think about. They don’t encourage anything if you don’t think about formatting.


Yeah. It tends to be difficult to make natural biological processes illegal.


So the “cost” is… not making more money. Damn, I’m going to cry. I think.



Well at least some of the Jenga towers have redundant Jenga tower replicas, and that Jenga tower over there has a bunch of other Jenga towers ready to be propped up by a PAASser-by given a small cold start penalty. And this one? Nobody knows how it works, but it always worked.

Right? … Right?


Fully agree, but they’re usually kind of annoying to track regardless. On the opposite side, sometimes even getting it to trigger on purpose to be able to add a regression test can be pretty tricky, depending on the cause. Timing or time/date based stuff is a common culprit…


Development… of housing. Play with definitions all you want, I still hold that this is what happens when you treat housing like a commodity. It’s a necessary part of the system, as a side effect of said system.



This is a very narrow definition of capitalism by which I can’t think of a single country that would qualify. I’ll be honest, it’s the first time someone argues with me that our modern world of Keynesian macroeconomics isn’t fundamentally capitalist.

I also strongly disagree that having social components to your market economy makes you not Capitalist. Free Market is not all Capitalism is.


This point of view always leaves me scratching my head. What’s the point, exactly? Are we genuinely arguing that we are not living in a capitalist society?


Re-read my comment, you may have misinterpreted me 👍


I mean, are capitalists really added in? They’re baked in the system, from where I stand. How did it ever try to solve generational wealth, when wealth can be accumulated/inherited? When was it ever about wages, and not about profit incentives and private ownership of production? And is “spending your life working” the thing we want to encourage as a society?


Obviously they just dropped that shit like a hot potato, as they all do. Why change what got you voted in?


It all ties in that neoliberal belief that pure meritocracy is real and desirable.


Last I checked, half of Canadians were Christian, and more than half of those are Roman Catholic. This particular flavor of Christianity was very, very dominant in Canada. The US has a lot more denominations. Maybe that has something to do? We basically have “the Church”, they had many to “dilute” the abjectness?