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Indeed, I use pen/pencil and (dot) paper. Different brain space.

A bunch of wimps for not going back to actual VT220 green phosphor terminals. Lol.

Indeed this is the way. I also have variants of light and dark for different lighting conditions at night and day (particularly glare).

No, those are the same that have been around forever. They just have a new tool to "justify" their crappy behavior.

PC/GEOS v1.0 ran on an original IBM PC with 640K. The minimum for v1.2 was 1MB of RAM. In terms of responsiveness, it was an interesting compare and contrast from the Sun workstati…

Yeah, PC/GEOS was built from the ground up to give that fully scalable "WYSIWYG" "Display Postscript" experience but the PC displays at the time weren't very good. I remember learn…

Ah, I didn't realize that. PC/GEOS did in '89 or '90.

Lol. Migration of PC/GEOS to protected-mode 32-bit x86 was not some magical rubicon that wasn't foreseen. Geoworks was doing well until its sales deals got utterly hosed by the Mic…

Yeah, it took way too long to prioritize and deliver a non-assembly development chain and opening that up to the public at large. We cross-developed from Sun workstations to x86 PC…

IME, Zed's real & perceived performance is way better than Sublime.

Yeah, they don't seem to have any serious Emacs person in their team. So, like so many people who try and build editors in the last few decades, they seem to miss some fundamental …

A lot of us have been following along with Zed hoping that the clarity and action on the open sourcing front would be done or at least in the process of happening before the public…

Indeed, they are draggable.

Nice! Would be great if it could generate static images of a diagram in e.g. SVG.

You'll be called much much worse than that. IME, you'll be lumped into the "other side" as defined by each of the bad faith participants. And if you point out their bad faith inten…

I use Corne(-ish Zen) that is a split-ergo on top of my MBP keyboard. It's low profile (uses choc switches). I have an additional touch pad that I use with the same keyboard on my …

I've worn out multiple of them over many many years of using the Kinesis Advantage (and then Advantage 2) (before I went down the splergo rabbit hole). One thing to note is that pe…

Boba U4's are fantastic MX style switches. They've beaten out all of the others that I've tried on my hot-swappable Corne.

Note that for people who are used to and prefer the short travel of laptop keyboards, they should check out mechanical keyboards with choc switches rather than the much longer trav…

Good entry point for people coming from the "traditional" keyboard world -- particularly those who don't expect to invest a lot of time in things like learning radically different …

For people already heading towards (or already down :-) ) the split ergo road, the IC is open for round 3 of the Corne-ish Zen keyboard (3x6+3 or 3x5+3, wireless, zmk firmware, cho…

That doesn't answer my question about why you claim it doesn't scale.

When building your own culture, of course. However, that also misses the fact that there's also the larger context of e.g., silicon valley "norms". So much cargo culting of behavio…

It's not just the US but yes the lack of trust is a major component. Everyone seems to have a horror story of how someone made it through and sucked and caused problems. It's bizar…

Can't speak for the GP but IME, absolutely. It's much easier to dig in deeper with (much) clearer signal about somebody when they are talking/working with their own code/project. L…