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That's a very cool script! And it looks remarkably like Arabic. At first I thought it was a descendant from Arabic, but a Wikipedia detour shows that the most common ancestor is actually Aramaic script.
Yeah. Another one I like but not quite as much is Tibetan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_script It looks like some kind of alien runes. It's not vertical and has discrete letters but nevertheless, looks nice.
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I've worked for maybe ten years in the open source space, as a maintainer and contributor. I've seen thousands of pull requests in that time. Some great. Most ok. Some terrible. All made by people who want to contribute in some way for free. I've seen close to zero spam pull requests. Are these common?
https://github.com/expressjs/express/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Acl...
Checking out this repo just made me realize that a good way to prevent getting spammed pull requests in your repo is to maintain it in a langauge other than English.
I've worked for maybe ten years in the open source space, as a maintainer and contributor. I've seen thousands of pull requests in that time. Some great. Most ok. Some terrible. All made by people who want to contribute in some way for free. I've seen close to zero spam pull requests. Are these common?
THIS! So much this!! With the jump from 2D screen to AR-based UI, we have the chance to re-think all of the conventions that have gripped UI/UX design over the past few decades. How many apps would benefit from being able to visualize data in a 3D space? How many new ways could we interact with computers, if we could reach out and touch things? Text editing, video editing, image editing (visualizing Photoshop layers?…
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I find it hard to believe you encountered a single key combination when starting to use vi. Maybe you got far enough to see "ctrl-v"? There are 108 unmodified choices before you'd ever need a combination.
: is shifted on almost every keyboard layout, so saving or quitting would require at least one key combination (OK, arguably you can quit with caps lock, Z, Z, caps lock). But I suspect he meant "sequence of keys" by "key combination" in what was clearly intended to be a humorous parody of the previous comment.
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I've worked for maybe ten years in the open source space, as a maintainer and contributor. I've seen thousands of pull requests in that time. Some great. Most ok. Some terrible. All made by people who want to contribute in some way for free. I've seen close to zero spam pull requests. Are these common?
In addition to what the other replies have said, just a couple of years ago some company or group was running a competition which gave away something and caused a bunch of nuisance PRs adding almost literal garbage to READMEs. After criticism the ones running the competition eventually said repository owners could opt-out. This is only from recollection so I might have some things wrong about it. Fortunately it hasn'…
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I don't mean this to be a striking criticism of Emacs, however, I had the exact same experience. To be fair I've been using Vim for many years so that may have influenced how difficult it was for me to understand the Emacs key bindings. I didn't even have enough time to check out all the cool extensions
As an emacs user I genuinely believe vim bindings are better, but emacs is more powerful than at least vim (I can’t speak for neovim). Edit: and I really do wish there was more unbiased content relating to the pros and cons of either.
I've used Emacs off and on for years, and lately have settled on Neovim. The Spacemacs / Doom style configuration gives Emacs a fairly nice user interface, but I've never managed to hit a sweet spot of running all the fancy stuff I want to run, and not having the editor randomly pause / stutter.
With Neovim I've found that I can load it up and it still starts in under half a second, keeps up with typing/scrolling under all circumstances, and so on. For me that's the right tradeoff, ymmv.
Checking out this repo just made me realize that a good way to prevent getting spammed pull requests in your repo is to maintain it in a langauge other than English.
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English had beautiful writing, but it was destroyed by technology. First by the printing press, then by typewriters, then by low-resolution computer monitors. All of the human character and calligraphic qualities of the script have been mechanically stripped away in order to better accommodate what are now outdated legacy technologies, but everyone is so used to the status quo that we don't even realize what we've lo…
Alternatively, we've made things a lot more legible for people from different backgrounds to understand. Deciphering modern fonts is a lot easier than deciphering cursive script, and hand-writing complicated scripts just raises the barrier of entry for people to communicate in written form