AFAIK it started as a Discworld thing but has been adopted by Wiccans IRL

James Blunt is hilarious. Awful music but excellent at self-deprecating humour

That’d be an editor thing rather than a language thing, I would have thought. It’s probably configurable in some

How do you… Oh sorry

But yeah that sounds unpleasant

Bit tired (had to get up too early today) but otherwise okay, thanks. How’s your face? Blended to a fine paste yet?

You can set those things to be visible in many editors. Its ugly tho

No, no, and also no. Try again? Or cram your face into a blender? Either is good with me

That would indeed be great but completely unrelated to what I said so I suspect you may have answered the wrong person

Oh you’re a luddite, you’re also a hater and about as intractable and strupid as a trump supporter. You can be many crappy things at once!

Hopefully this means the haters will shut up and we can get on with using it for useful stuff

In the case of zsh it will quite happily do either and ask you which you meant just like if they were called Dir1 and Dir2. Also works if you have a dir1 and Dir2 in the same directory as well

The amount of solar energy that hits the Earth every day is enough to power it for a year, and that’s not including wind, wave, or anything else. (yes I know we can’t gather it all but the amount of energy available is absolutely gigantic

The anti-ai luddites are about as intractable as trump cultists, and their arguments just as asinine

I think you mean:

yes (the environmental angle is a complete distraction and red herring from moving towards more sustainable energy production generally; the ethical one is just plain nonsense spread by people with absolutely no idea how these things work)

yes (people use and like them, people have fun with them and create great art with them. You might not but that’s a you problem)

and … well actually probably no tbh (but that’s a problem with capitalism not technology).

Stop making shit up to dismiss new technology because you’re a luddite

Half of The Meg 2 is basically Jaws, but with Jason Statham Jason Stathaming the sharks

It’s more powerful than nano, sure, but it’s also needlessly more complex a ui. Your use case is legit and that you know vi is a reason to continue using it, but it absolutely should not ever be the default for anything any more!

If I am forced to use an editor in the terminal, nano generally. But I very rarely need to because I have a functioning modern computer from within the last 25 years and therefore have a gui I can rely on. If I somehow manage to break the gui in a way that requires me to edit a text file (itself very very rare) I can fix it with nano.

Now, why would you voluntarily use an editor with a ui that’s needlessly confusing and convoluted, an arse to learn, and notoriously difficult to even save a file and close without checking help files if you haven’t already memorised completely random key combinations? I would say we’d love to know, but we already do. It’s because you’re an arrogant dickwad - at least that’s what your last comment makes you look like

Literally anything up to and including poking yourself in the eyes and trying to develop laser vision to manually modify bits on the disk platter

100% agree. A bunch of utter morons shouting bollocks really loud. Wish they’re shut the fuck up and let the rest of us get on with doing something useful instead of calling them on their bullshit!

Maybe you should learn about them and realise that ai is not evil?