MicroEmacs

In testing, to settle a bet by a rabid cult-of-vi peer, I opened a given set of files in each editor, each a day apart because I couldn’t be arsed to clear caches. This guy, otherwise a prince, was railing about emacs, but otherwise suffered days of waiting.

10/10 the memory usage by his precious vi was same-or-more than emacs.

There’s so many shared libs pulled in by the shell that all the fuddy doomsaying about bloat is now just noise.

I avoid vi because even in 1992 it was crusty and wrong-headed. 30 years on the hard-headed cult and the app haven’t changed.

I don’t see how microEmacs can improve on what we have by default, and I worry that the more niche the product is the harder it will be to find answers online. But I’m willing to be swayed if anyone can pitch its virtues.

vi versus emacs

You write “vi versus the world” funny.

The existing maintainers won’t live forever, having Rust in the Kernel is a bet on the future.

You’re drastically reducing your talent base by requiring membership in two groups of experts. Well done.

The comma splice gives it away, but you’re new at organizing groups and practicing set theory, aren’t you?

yum history undo last

There’s a colossal amount of work that goes into making that command usable and reliable, and I’m glad to say the yum-adjacent distros are still putting in the effort. That may change, but so far it’s been there to save my bacon when I need it.

Canada’s military holds a world record.

Let’s calmly talk about America not stealing water.

I wish I had your crystal ball. I only know a dozen cops - only 2 in my family as we’re mainly infantry - and they seem to unanimously not be dicks. Stressed and wary, but not dicks.

What you must have suffered personally, I can’t imagine. Clearly.

can easily spend $2,000

Do you always do math based on ‘could’? What’s the tax rate on “we could win the lottery”?

We don’t get to vote for the perfect party. We choose the least-worse from those who can win and deliver on their plan.

Ever? That’s a lot.

That’s a terrible sword to live by. How do you expect to get blood, then? If you’re unconscious you can’t take it by force.

ZFS. It’s come so far, and it has so far to go. but it’s a good concept for sure.

Firefly.

Because, many will argue, the white male is now a minority thats being oppressed…

At 49.8% or some similarly dumb number, the facts are there. And I’ve seen advertisements for jobs etc that say my genetic mix isn’t welcome, like being French is a choice or being left-handed. The components of reverse sexism are there.

I hope that if I learn to cope with minor disadvantage, that we can keep the equality movement as an equality movement and not some revenge play where I get penalized too often for something I wasn’t a part of.

There. I know my own opinion smells like virtue signalling while it also doesn’t placate people who’ve been hurt and want payba-uh, justice. Ironically I’ll be downvoted to hell for promoting equality, I expect.

Very well said. I’m saving this one because I’ll never do better with my own brain.

There are things in the AB NDP platform that I really like, and there are some things that I’m indifferent to. There are some things I wish weren’t there, and some things that I really wish they made a bigger deal about.

When you both-sides like this, though, it trivializes one important contrast: there are ideas the NDP have that I don’t agree with, but there are ideas the Cons have that are actually harmful. The different between “what I prefer” and “what allows people to live” is hard to paint with that both-sides brush.

Sure that wasn’t the plan, and I’m picking nits; I would totally agree if you said that. But our language may help contrast the two better by focusing on those differences, and sway the vote or bring more to the polls.

Wood houses and oil. Fire’s Favourite food groups.

You have so few natural resouces[sic]

Wait. You’re from the “no child left behind” generation, aren’t ya? Resources is really what we do well. That, and repelling invaders with drunken arsonists.

many phones with a headphone jack that have an IP68 rating which invalidates your whole point

Typing on one right now.

I’ve literally never used the headphone jack on a phone in 10 years

We understood that as soon as you said “literally”.

I’ve not used on*star, a fire extinguisher or a #2 pencil in a while either, but I bet they’re important. Beware false consensus.

Oh, that’s a great suggestion.