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Could you elaborate?

I've been using the Boldvoice app (no affiliation), it's not perfect but pretty good; my spoken English has definitely improved in a few months. I would recommend it.

Can't be natural selection, can it? Sheer luck?

If someone finds a way, I'm in.

FWIW, if you just like the filename on the left, you still can save forks with: `<quux grep xkcd`

> But we should look at what Lua did for Neovim. There has been an explosion of development effort now that Neovim finally added a reasonable programming interface. It is very much…

Reading the docs and searching into it on a regular basis is the single best advice I could give to Vim users wanting to improve. The odd cheatsheet, the post with a few tricks and…

> "If you have to write more than 10 lines, then use a real language" I swear, there should be a HN rule against those. It pollutes every single Shell discussions, bringing nothing…

It's a case of knowing the wooledge website (and working with shellcheck), or not. Picking snippets on stackoverflow will probably do more harm than good, tbh.

I still remember 3223 :)

Did you hang out at Maubert Electronics? I also recall a few RTC servers, blast from the past!

Yes, it can be cryptic and not beginner-friendly, but it's powerful and once you know it, you know it; it will be useful for years if not decades, as opposed to some tools or frame…

Good book, for all levels, I recall stealing several snippets into my cheatsheet.

String bets not allowed, whatever their encoding ;)

Not OP, but I would say that we, regular Bash users, don't really write complex programs in Bash, even though it depends on what you call "complex". Some of our programs can be pre…

Multiple-cursor editing is a nice and cool feature, and for what it's worth there are some vim plugins to get it in vim, but let's see the alternative: - multiple-cursor: select no…

I also like and use tools like sed and awk; using the vim internal tools are very easy to learn if you come from there, and they have the advantage of being better suited for worki…

Yes, if you want/need an IDE, by all means do. Vim is an editor, a very powerful one with all sorts of tools, but it's generally ill-advised to try and make it work like an IDE. As…

Churchill, IIRC.

Slightly tangential, but that former stance you describe partly is a consequence of the age-old dualism between emotions and reason, to which people quite frequently subscribe desp…

To each his own I guess. As far as I'm concerned, I'm mainly interested in the one-column spreadsheet, tweaking a few input rows and checking how it impacts some other rows. I stil…

I like dc too, and wrote this plugin for Vim: https://github.com/fcpg/vim-colddeck The power of old tools :)

Emails are cheap, quick and asynchronous (contrary to phone), there's a log of the conversation which can be forwarded if need be, and you can attach data to it (document, video et…

IIRC, he claims that foreign aids directly help autocratic rulers stay in place, by giving them means to pay off their vital support. So he says that it clearly prevents uplifting …

No need to call others' opinions ignorant when you have another one. Here's a good book dealing with foreign aids, among other things: https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Beh…