I do wonder despite the flaws of the old system, was there something genuine lost?

You had to actually “hunt” down what you wanted to watch, make discoveries, build context and knowledge to what you want to watch / listen to. IMO the “hunt” is part of the joy in the same way as perhaps building a PC is a big part of the whole gaming enjoyment and at the end of it you can sit down and fully emerse yourself into the art. Now? You are presented with an almost infinite choice of what to get spoon-fed and I feel it de-incentivizes everything. The distinction between music and noise isn’t about the physical properties of sound. Instead, it depends on how we perceive and assign meaning to what we hear. My point is, it’s harder to create that meaning these days.

They did touch upon this in the video. Seems like the new streaming model creates a passive, scrolling consumer rather than an engaged enthusiast where “art” becomes just disposable content pushed by algorithms.

Also, streaming pushes you to over-consume on stuff, which causes the same problems.

I was also searching for one a couple of months back. I went through these ones : termpdf.py, tdf ,fancy-cat, meowpdf

Most of these support pdfs only though from what i can recall. I ended up with Sioyek (not a terminal reader)

and many don’t know there are alternative chatbots like Gemini and Claude that many people think are even better.

Alphabet (Google) paid Trump also though:

YouTube Capitulates to Trump - YouTube

Twitter (X) paid him $10 million to settle a case they’d already won. Facebook (Meta) followed with $25 million. And now Google (Alphabet) has paid $24 million - not to Trump personally, but funneled through tax-exempt trusts supposedly for the National Mall, but really to fund construction of a massive 90,000-square-foot Mar-a-Lago-style ballroom on the White House.

Seems like more of the same ass kissing for most of these big tech companies. Is Anthropic any better?

Did not know that is something people do on arch!

He talked about this in a interview recently ! Echasnovski (mini.nvim creator): “gpanders is WRONG About the Setup Call” (allegedly)

Thanks for sharing, bookmarked. Was just reading about the problem of free parking and parking minimums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdQ5FZSGLK8

In Neovim after re-writing my config I actually opted out of even using a LSP. If you have a picker with grep + fuzzy finder honestly the experience is not that bad and keeps things lean. You will need to change your workflow a bit but very doable. So I can stand behind the “meme”.

Is it built into the editor itself? In neovim you need to install a separate plugin “nvim-treesitter-textobjects” to get that.

I bought my ADATA Lancer Blade DDR5 6000 MHz CL30 back in May for 95 eur.

I checked December 6 the prices were around 300 eur. Now I check again and it’s 500 eur. This is so cooked. I heard SSD’s are about to get expensive also. I’m so lucky I did a full upgrade that will last me for a long time, i was even considering whether to upgrade then or wait until winter.

Thanks for giving a more balanced perspective.

Damn… had to look it up, apparently it’s true. Unbelievable what ideas their minds back-flip into.

I’m shocked :D

Terry Davis was right…

Edit: For anyone that don’t know : https://youtu.be/3HD43lvNvCA?t=2084 He was mentally unwell but he called it !

why does the base color matter at all? What is “base” anyway when every word has a syntactic meaning?

Well… the base color is about establishing a baseline of neutrality so that the deviations (the highlights) actually register as signals. Like he said “if everything is highlighted, nothing stands out”. If you highlight an entire page of a book, you haven’t highlighted anything, you’ve just printed the book on yellow paper.

why does the base color matter at all? What is “base” anyway when every word has a syntactic meaning?

I think there exists both passive usage of colors (feeling the structure through colors) and active usage (consciously looking for “green” when you need a “string”). The author is suggesting that with too much highlighting you can’t use the latter.

But the best part is that the post contradicts itself: the suggested minimal theme doesn’t even address that typo use case mentioned above, because it doesn’t feature a distinct color for special keywords. So if one were to follow the post’s advice, return and retunr would look exactly the same, making it worse than the colorful theme it criticizes.

True, but I think he showed that to illustrate a broader point that current themes are so noisy that even when color changes you don’t notice it, not that somehow his minimal theme would help spot it.

Yep, he does not like syntax highlighting at all. I think some is still useful.

Thanks! I have never heard of literate programming before.

Like someone said in some thread that I read awhile back : – “if I wanted rainbows, I’d code in fucking skittles” 😂

I had no clue it was this bad

that you need to use the product as intended by the company and circumventing the intended use case is illegal.