I find it really interesting that almost all of the recent comments on the YouTube video are 95% the same and praising “how great all this transparency” is, completely drowning out all other comments. They’re also worded very very similarly.

Jap… bin gestern erst am Versuch mein Minze 20.04 hochzubewerten gescheitert. Hab dann stattdessen LMDE drübergebügelt…

They’re both code/text editors, or what would you call VSCode instead? An IDE? you can make an IDE out of nvim if you want.

Yes, there is a vim mode in VSCode, but in some cases it can be very slow (like editing a few thousand columns at once), and is not as tightly integrated.

1 kW is 3412 BTU/h (=BTUs)

Most induction stovetops have a boost function with around 3-4 kW (that’s about 13000 BTUs).

BUT contrary to a gas stove top, almost all of the energy is actually put into the pot instead of the surroundings (only 30-40% of the energy from a gas stove is used to heat the pot). Meaning that a 4 kW induction cooktop should be comparable to a 40’000 BTUs gas stove (single burner).

Most nvim users I know have their setup very much customized. That takes time, effort and is a pita. But afterwards you have a tool that just works like you want it to work, and is super fast (at least compared to VSCode).

you can change that if it bothers you

Get a 2 TB SSD (the one you chose is fine)

Medically: nothing

TeXStudio if you want something that is easy to set up. VSCode + LaTeX Workshop if you need features from VSCode (other extensions, git integration,…).

Note that you still have to bring your own LaTeX installation (I always use TeXLive, but there are other options)

For literature I’ve found Zotero + BetterBibTeX plugin very nice, otherwise JabRef also exists but is much more “raw”.

Reference management is one thing LaTeX is really good at. Especially if you use it with a literature management system such as Zotero.

VSCode + LaTeX Workshop Extension is what I use today, but I would recommend TeXStudio as editor if you don’t need any specific features from VSCode.

eh, back when the “exodus” was happening it felt like every second post is about defederation. Nowadays you don’t hear much about it anymore, but if you only looked back then I see how you could come to that conclusion.

Boost feels a lot like rif which I was using and which shutdown made me switch to lemmy.

Sure you can do that, but it’s more work for both parties assuming the message hasn’t been read. I’m just saying that both Signal and WhatsApp have had this feature for quite some time now and it has come in handy for me a few times already.

That’s certainly an issue, but for me it was already quite useful for deleting unread obsolete messages (e.g. deleting “can you bring milk” after you realized that there still is some), or messages accidentally sent to the wrong person. I think limiting to a short time frame and/or only unread messages would solve most of the possible abuse.

That’s all very interesting. I might even consider re-learning the d (and the b for that matter).

I’m writing notes for myself and I can read them. When I’m writing for someone else (which rarely happens for handwritten notes) I take the time and effort to write nicer.

Also, I specifically didn’t write the example carefully because the use case for me would specifically be handwritten notes I made for myself.

Also if you’re not writing in cursive? I just checked some templates for kids to learn the letters, and at least the ones I’ve found do a circle first and then strike down. For example here. In cursive the materials I’ve found go halfway clockwise, then anticlockwise to complete the circle, up and down again like this.

I wonder whether this is something cultural.

How else do you write them? Worth mentioning that I learned cursive in school and we had to write in cursive until like middle school when I then mostly transitioned to a happy mix of cursive and non-cursive

Well, I haven’t had any issues at exams with my handwriting. But if I write something for myself, and fast then it’ll look somewhat like this. If I’d take my time it’ll be better but that’s not the point.

I like dotted paper, the dots are less distracting than grids, lined paper sucks for sketches/etc. and with plain paper I’m missing guides. But I agree that on this particular one, the dots are a bit too prominent.