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I was mildly disappointed the other day when I did a , and instead of "apropos" I saw "search for command". Apropos was one of those killer features that was, as far as I know, uni…

20 or 25 years ago it almost never crashed. Now I might see a crash or freeze once a week or so. And slowdowns several times a day. Of course I'm running more modes now in a more c…

A modernization, really.

My favorite, kind of ironic, advantage of tubes over transistors is that it's easier to source replacements.

But capacitors may hold high voltage DC, if there's no path to discharge them.

The arc of the U.S. economy over the last 80 years contradicts your position. There has been reduced regulation since the Reagan administration, and also reduced competition. A few…

And to add to this, you rarely need to read a log message when just visually scanning code, its fine going off the screen.

That's why Python should have gone all-in on significant spaces: tabs for blocks, spaces after tabs for line continuation

I find it jarring compared to commas after the words, making the commas unnecessarily prominent.

+1 to this. Why throw away an extra dimension of expression available by choices in formatting in the name of consistency? I find it helpful to use blank lines to separate code int…

yes

Aye.

Yeah, that stood out to me as a virtual tie also. When I got pretty good at debugging was when I began to recognize which of these approaches would likely be most effective in a gi…

I think graphical debuggers are a big help: 1. It separates the meta-information of the debugger into the graphical domain. 2. It's easier to browse code and set/clear breakpoints …

That's why I gave the caveat that if using a language with the ternary operator, one should know that operator. Python tried using English words for a ternary, but I think that's a…

function getOddness(n: number): return (n % 2 === 0) ? "Even" : "Odd"; Lowest boilerplate makes it the most readable. If working in a language with the ternary operator it ought to…

Exactly. And a certain amount of maga are still in favor of a coup, and then a certain amount of blissfully ignorant new voters.

How is not a big deal that a few thousand citizens were various levels of conscious and unconscious participants in an organized coup attempt?

Stopping payments authorized by congress, for one.

Arguably, they aren't government officials, because DOGE isn't a legitimate part of the executive branch.

I forgot it existed, was using it at a couple of jobs circa 1989-1992. Completely blocked it out of my mind.

I never felt real comfortable with Xcode. Working on a medium sized c++ project now, and mostly using emacs. Xcode only for the debugger, which I much prefer in a GUI. CMake sets u…