Is there a way to do the equivalent of Word's 'track changes' feature in Vim/Neovim? As an editor who reviews manuscripts in Word, I want to be able to make edits, have the author review/approve them, then clean up the result into a file that goes to the typesetter. If I could do that, then a plugin like this becomes potentially more useful to our workflow.
There are no good options for grandma these days. I've been helping my 85-yr-old mother with her computer stuff (she has an iMac) and there's so much user-hostile, broken stuff--not just on the Mac itself, but many of the internet-based services she has to use--it makes you want to take a baseball bat to the while affair.
Long ago I was working for a programmer writing an accounting system for a client (I wrote the user docs). The machine we were replacing was an old NCR plug-board system. Programmed by wires plugged into holes on a board. One person left at the client knew how the machine worked. No one knew how the programming worked. If the wires fell out of the holes it could not be put back together again. At one time someone knew that, but the knowledge was lost. This is the system we are building again today.
This was pretty much inevitable. The real death-blow was the collapse of the independent distributors. The effect of centralized buying and distribution was fewer slots for 'midlist' books and more slots for lead titles, so for most books, it was harder to push out enough copies to actually make any money. Print runs declined and unit costs rose. It was easier to sell trade paperbacks in traditional bookstores, then ebooks came and ate the bottom of the market.
Mass. passed a high-income surtax a few years ago, with the result that we raied a lot of funds for schools & infrastructure, and we atill have plenty of rich people. Wealthy people hate paying taxes, but after paying, they're still pretty wealthy. And, some of them like living in a state with decent schools, health care, etc.
Rare and unique books usually end up at specialty dealers, not generic websites. But it is possible that some hard-to-get items could be lost, and there's no way to know without an inventory.
Every version of Windows released was an unusable piece of garbage, back to the beginning. MS put it out, it was crap, but somehow managed to convince users that they needed to have it, patched it until it was marginally usable, then, when users were used to it, forced them to move on to the next.
If it’s a known company policy and people know it’s supposed to happen, they’re going to notice when it doesn’t. So it highlights that the managers priorities don’t include you.
Hunter-gatherer societies got a lot of calories from seeds and nuts, which are about the same calorie content as insects, and we did come up with a farming system for them.
There's a pretty wide gap between 'eats insects' and 'eats only insects.' Other primates eat ants, and there are human cultures where ants and other insects are routinely eaten. Other food may also be involved. Hunting large animals doesn't preclude eating other things. HUmans will eat anything they can get into their pie-hole.
Dickinson's dashes tended to vary over time, and were not typeset during her lifetime (mostly). Also, mid-19th century usage was different—the em-dash was a relatively new thing.
Sure, why not? A lot of them are already heavily invested in ms services. Where I work, laptops are on three year leases, they’d be easy to switch if the IT suits thought it would be cheap enough.
The article did address differences in the rates of 'same level falls' vs. stairs, etc. So they accounted for that too.
We just finally got my 85-yr-old mother to move out of her house into a nice apartment near us with elevator access. She has already had some bad falls. Now we just have to worry about her driving. She shouldn't need to drive as much in her new place, but she probably will anyway.
It's not the biggest problem, but if your government is shooting masses of its own people in the streets and they are trying to keep the rest of the world from seeing it, it is a problem.