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·il y a 25 jours·discuss
I was mildly disappointed the other day when I did a <C-h a>, and instead of "apropos" I saw "search for command". Apropos was one of those killer features that was, as far as I know, unique to emacs (until the "command palette" appeared in one of the newer editors).
bogomog
·il y a 25 jours·discuss
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 customized environment. Hopefully this new version with more in it will improve the situation.
bogomog
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
A modernization, really.
bogomog
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
My favorite, kind of ironic, advantage of tubes over transistors is that it's easier to source replacements.
bogomog
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
But capacitors may hold high voltage DC, if there's no path to discharge them.
bogomog
·il y a 10 mois·discuss
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 blips when internet companies "disrupted" an existing industry, but those industries fairly quickly consolidated on a small group of players.
bogomog
·il y a 10 mois·discuss
And to add to this, you rarely need to read a log message when just visually scanning code, its fine going off the screen.
bogomog
·il y a 10 mois·discuss
That's why Python should have gone all-in on significant spaces: tabs for blocks, spaces after tabs for line continuation
bogomog
·il y a 10 mois·discuss
I find it jarring compared to commas after the words, making the commas unnecessarily prominent.
bogomog
·il y a 10 mois·discuss
+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 into "paragraphs". A complex conditional may be made more readable by extra space in some places an not others. A series of single line if statements might be clearer formatted lined up vertically, like a table.
bogomog
·l’année dernière·discuss
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 using the mouse than the keyboard.