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I guess the point of the parent comment is that the real issue is not whether this is a anti American or pro Russia thing, but that Google's privacy practices are bad. Any governme…

I'm starting to do this, bought some albums from bands I hear a lot on bandcamp friday. I like the idea of supporting the musicians more directly, but I still use streaming platfor…

I use neovim as mergetool and some ad hoc diff tasks, but I'm glad to see meld on Mac. It is the tool I recommend when I see someone struggling with git rebase conflicts (and not u…

I like the idea of Terror Management Theory [0], where a disagreement may be taken by a person as an indirect threat to its life. While there were some experiments, I guess they sh…

You can give VimR[0] a try, I don't know what mouse features you use on MacVim, but that was the most pleasing GUI version of vim/neovim I've used. [0]: https://github.com/qvacua/v…

I agree with you, and I wonder what would take for people to stop having Electron as their first choice when implementing a GUI app. I guess there's no other killer cross-platform …

Graphviz for diagrams, R standard library for plots, and imageMagick for simple image creation or processing.

I agree on the graphics part. I've tried doom emacs for the graphics, but it's not quite the same thing. On Mac, though, vimr[0] had a nice UI for neovim. On linux I'm yet to find …

About the cishet thing, I think that's fair use in this context. When discussing diversity, it is normal to name the groups discussed. As the cishet is usually seem as the default,…

For desktop game development it seems better. I don't know if you can use Typescript for GUI applications without Electron or something equivalent. There are some successful modern…

Some years ago I learned about ProDBG[0] and was pretty excited. It is going through a rewrite, I hope it gets usable soon. [0] https://github.com/emoon/ProDBG

I prefer my readmes in plain text formats, be it Markdown, AsciiDoc, or unstructured txt. This reminds me of two interesting projects, maid[0], a task runner that uses markdown fil…