Also doesn’t help that the grammar reeks of LLM.

I’m also a fan of baud. I really should alias cat to baud -400 cat or thereabouts.

Bonus: run baud -800 bat --color=always and you get that wonderful old dot matrix printer feeling of the cursor just stopping whenever the color codes are being processed.

Be kind, rewind.

re: mksh I have snippets in my editor for shebangs++. E.g. #!<tab><enter> nets me

#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

or

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# pyright: strict

etc

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They are utility, as long as you don’t have a theme that randomly picks a new colour every time the token type changes.

It’s a bit like having a bunch of different tools or utensils in separate colours. Even if the drawer is messy and the colour ultimately arbitrary, you can pick out utensils because you’re habituated to looking for a given colour.

Just stick to one theme and you’ll get the same thing but for code. Theme hopping kills your habituation, and resets you to the “I can tell that these are different things because the colours are different” stage.

The stance coupled with the garish background colour reminds me of how Pike also had a very dismissive view of using colours for syntax highlighting, and then later opened up about having a kind of colourblindness.

Both of them also seem to mean colour when they write syntax highlighting. That’s just one typographic tool among many. We also use bold, italics, underline, and even whitespace to highlight programming syntax. We could write a lot of programming languages as if they were prose, but we don’t. People hate that and call it “minified code”.

Humans also have a great capacity for colour vision, much better than most mammals. Some of us are even tetrachromats. Our colour vision is basically a free channel of information: It’s always on; we don’t have to concentrate to be able to discern most colours. When things in nature are more colourful than usual, like leaves in fall or a colourful sunset, we don’t find it tiresome; we find it refreshing and seek it out. But when our built environment becomes all shades of grey, we tend to find it depressing.

But humans are also different in many ways here. Better or worse colour vision is one thing, but some are also prone to getting overstimulated; others require more than average stimuli. We have great selective attention as a species, but again, individuals vary. There’s no one syntax highlighting that works for everyone.

Ultimately we should just find some syntax highlighting that we find generally pleasant, and then stick with it until we reflexively use the information carried in those colours. Use habit formation for our benefit.

Tonsky may enjoy his garish background colour and have found a mushy colourscheme that works for him, but he’s also way off base in his assessment of colourschemes in general.

Depends on culture and level of education. For someone who comes from a culture where we use decimals, I’d interpret this in the math/physics class way, i.e. 10.

Yeah, their real world usage has a huge variance. My parents had one for like a decade and almost never filled it with gas, almost only drove it as an EV. But when they bought it, the previous owner had apparently used it as a pure petrol car … and the petrol engine had terrible efficiency.

How is this related to solarpunk? Is this just a spambot?

This seems to be a pretty experimental release to test some new stuff before the next LTS is scheduled to drop in April.

I’ve actually been running sudo-rs on my machines since the last CVE in plain sudo and it seems to do what I want, at least.

But expecting some smoke for this smoke test release :)

Yeah, I’m used to having my config in git. Buuuut I guess non-devs aren’t really used to that workflow.

Because Windows ME really deserved the “Mistake Edition” moniker, and I already knew some people running Linux.

Ah, we’ve got horse chestnuts, but only as street trees. So I usually see them as trampled remains in huge quantities.

It’s pretty common in the far north as well apparently, with some people claiming people are willing to drive for several hours just for a party.

In the central east, people generally aren’t willing to spend all day in a car. A couple of hours drive is acceptable, but once you’re at ~5 hours we generally expect to spend the night there. And to not leave at 0600 in the morning:)

As a bonus, some of those mountain passes can be a bit finicky, so they’re often good to … not plan very optimistically.

What is that thing even? I think it’s not a part of my local nature

Yeah, we frequently get them in Norway. People who want a weekend trip to Oslo and drive to “the fjords” and back one day, or see stuff after 1500 in winter.

Distribution usually isn’t considered a strong point for Python, though.

For other languages that build a static executable, the more expected method of distribution would be some automated workflow that builds artifacts for various os/architecture-triplets, that you can then just download off the project page.

Hrm, the pre-commit issue is still open.

Like the others in that thread, I’m not married to pre-commit or the check happening before the commit as opposed to the push, I just want to have some easy-to-setup, standardized way of preventing myself from pushing stuff that will be rejected by CI.

It’s ultimately good news, but the framing is bizarre.

Who criticises global warming? Well, people like us, and pope Leo. As opposed to people who’d rather criticise us and claim that global warming is no biggie (or even not happening).

Similarly, who minimises climate change? Well, people who are actually doing something about it. People who are switching away from burning fossil fuels and taking other steps to minimise the impact of not only themselves, but others, by working in fields like renewable energy, transit, heat pumps, etc.

Even the other framing of “minimising the impact of climate change” means working with adaptation strategies.

I can only assume the framing is so weird because of choices the BBC made.