Ah contrair! I have supreme faith, brother!

I’m not saying it, but some people are.

No, just dosage.

There was a brief period when I first revisited it (since a few decades prior) where I was able to take edibles - low dose, but still sufficient for me for a high - but within a couple of uses even those started making me nauseous. Again, no vomiting, which seems to be a key defining symptom of CHS, but unpleasantly ill for the entire high.

I’m sure there are more differences; nvim has plugins written in every language. One reason I stepped away from it is because, for development, I was using a fair number of plugins, and i noticed the starting nvim would launch nodejs, a Python runtime, a Java VM, Lua runtimes… I started to feel as if I might as well be using emacs.

So, yes: you’re right. NeoVim has more features than plain vim, including a dozen different plugin managers and the ability to write plugins in almost any language. I meant that, from an editing modality, they’re very similar.

I’ll try it, thanks

While that helps, what doesn’t help is that people don’t often specify their context when they use it. An American commenting on Australian politics might very well use their own colloquial definition.

He posted an essay on the topic a while back. He gets a lot of shit for getting things wrong using the same data everyone else was using and who also got things wrong; I think the second time, he really started to look into the problems with polling and, in particular, how other predictors were performing.

He was unfortunately the face of the polling failures in 2016, but he’s a first class statistician. People easily forget part of the reason he was so vilified is because, until 2016, 538 was the reliable source for predictions, which speaks as much to how good he is as the subsequent failures. Something went really wrong with polling in the mid-2010s.

Look to one (or more) of the election gambling markets. Even Nate Silver says they have been consistently outperforming polling.

You may not be exaggerating as much as you might think. It depends on whether you read the article.

The title is clickbait; the article is about hour soon global warming will disrupt the currents in the Atlantic that essentially govern world weather patterns.

Britain: another ice age? Yes, please!

Decimal point displacement. Something I do all the time, unfortunately, when I’m doing mental math… I drop zeros. I consider it a character flaw.

$108M. A couple of orders of magnitude bigger, but still; over three years, far from “massive.”

And this is the fucker people kept bringing up as a potential alternate to Kamala.

I’m not surprised at Helix’s numbers, either. I wish we could sort by Admired; I think the picture would be more interesting.

Using my newly patented VisualSort, it looks like it’d go:

1. NeoVim
2. Visual Studio Code
3. Rider
4. DataGrip
5. IPython
6. Goland
7. Vim
8. Helix … 27 others

So, in the top 22%. And I think some of the others are cheating & cutting themselves short at the same time, because vim and nvim are fairly indistinguishable, and isn’t Goland based on IntelliJ?

What’s weird is that I’ve never heard of Rider or DataGrip[^1], yet Kakoune isn’t even on the list.

Sad to see Netbeans sink so far, though; back in the day, when I was a Java developer, it was my favorite, being far lighter weight than Eclipse and having a really decent WYSIWYG GUI designer. Nobody uses Java for desktop apps anymore, though, do they?

[^1] Edit: oh. .NET, and SQL. Well, I guess you could consider both to be programming languages if you squint a bit.

Edit #2: surveys are hard, but I really take exception to their OS survey, which they sum up as “windows is the most popular,” and then they have Linux broken up into 5 major distributions, and then yet another catch-all for “other distribution.” Windows is just “Windows,” not “Windows 11,” “Windows 10,” “Windows XP,” and “other Windows” (although they do break out WSL). And that’s not even counting Android. If you add up all of the Linuxes, it’s more popular than Windows (by this survey).

Seriously, who wrote this?

Rather than amend my older comment:

The judge would never say that, anyway. Nearly everyone has a right to represent themselves, although she might have been implying that SovCit was not mentally competent enough to be allowed to do so.

Given the questionable state of the media in the US, I kind of wish they’d go all out and just start using Trumpisms.

• “We have been unable to prove that Trump isn’t a pedophile”
• “We’re not saying Vance stole money from orphans’ homes, but some people are”

You know, that sort of stuff. It couldn’t be worse than 2 weeks talking about Biden’s age while ignoring that Trump is only 3 years younger; or jumping on every Biden brain-fart while ignoring Trump’s constant stream of incomprehensible mouth diarrhea.

Edit forgot a “t”

Hmm. There’s a quote I can’t quite pull up about evil arriving not dressed in horns, but in beauty.

Or, don’t judge a book by its cover.

I’ve become confused by the term “lib.” I’ve seen it used to refer to

• liberals, which is what I always thought it meant
• ultra-left liberals, often indistinguishable from the ultra-right except in who they worship
• rarely, but occasionally libertarians

I no longer understand what it means in any context.

Plus, there are several studies that have found the opposite, with both better sample sizes and methodology. If I were near my desktop, I could paste them for the terminally lazy, b/c I bookmark most BI articles and studies. I’ll do so if someone challenges me in early August - I’m traveling until then.

It’s a study. Not a very good one, but even bad ones can be informative. The interpretation leaves a lot to be desired.

P.S. The Center Square is also questionable. They characterize the study as a “massive study.” It was three-year, 3000-participant study at $1k/m. A total of $108k, over three years. “Massive” is vast exaggeration.

I had to look that one up.

I admit, I’ve been using EndeavorOS everywhere that isn’t a server, and I’m not ashamed; like my doctor says: there’s no reward for being in pain; it’s not a contest.

I always imagined him as more of a soul patch kind of guy.

I mean, who didn’t, amiright?