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julesnpon For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad (1976)

The entire restaurant.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kfc-halal-menu-boycott-1.7258...

julesnpon The Lord of the Rings Family Tree

Balrogs would be under the Maiar category, but most have no recorded name. I suppose the one from the trilogy could have been listed as "Durin's Bane."

julesnpon White space does matter in C23

I think the way F# implemented it is pretty good: if you want to use a keyword or whitespace in a variable or function name, it has to be enclosed in double backticks.

e.g:

  [<Property>]
  let ``Reverse of reverse of a list is the original list`` (xs:list<int>) =
      List.rev(List.rev xs) = xs

julesnpon Surfingkeys – Vim-style controls and text editing in browser

I've used this in the past, but switched to Vimium-C after this incident:

https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys/issues/1796

julesnpon What if OpenDocument used SQLite? (2014)

You wouldn't necessarily need to track every change, you could just have 2 tables, one which contains the last "saved" version of the document, and one which contains the last modified version of the document. Upon opening after a crash, if there is a more recent modified version, the program will ask if you want to load that version.

julesnpon micro – A Modern Alternative to nano

Don't forget centi-, deci-, deka-, and hecto-.

julesnpon The unix69 keyboard layout: nerdy and nice

For my preferred layout in QMK, I have Caps Lock mapped to Caps Lock only on tap, and Control on hold. I also have the right Alt key mapped to Backspace on tap, Alt on hold, to give me an additional backspace which I can hit with my thumb, keeping the rest of my fingers on the home row.

http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/#/gists/4d894ef5848c4f...

julesnpon My long goodbye to Windows XP (2022)

Encrypted disks would be the key issue here, older CPUs likely can't handle the encryption work required.

julesnpon Learn Vim (2021)

Ah, I hadn't thought about international keyboard layouts, yes, that sounds like it'd be a pain to type.

julesnpon Learn Vim (2021)

If you already have Caps Lock remapped to Control, why not just use Ctrl-[ to get back to normal mode?

Ctrl-[ is the same keycode as escape in terminals, and it's much easier to reach. For me, remapping jk in insert mode results in lag after typing 'j'.

julesnpon Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”

I would say the core goal of most living organisms is to propagate, rather than survive, otherwise you would see males of some species like Praying Mantis avoiding mating to increase their longevity.

julesnpon Vim: ZZ and zz: Do you know the difference?

You can use this plugin to get the same mappings in insert mode for Vim:

https://github.com/tpope/vim-rsi

julesnpon Tell HN: Vim users, `:x` is like `:wq` but writes only when changes are made

I use the 'confirm' option in my vim config, that way I can always use :q and then get a prompt on what to do if a file's been changed.

I also map <C-q> to :q to speed things up a bit.

julesnpon Show HN: Ezno, a type checker for JavaScript and optimiser for React

The automatic generics look at lot like how OCaml implements inference for structural typing.

julesnpon Backsliding on free expression around the world needs to end

> I also think there are also exceptions to tolerance in the case of an emergency, with the distinction that it has to be an actual emergency universally (agreed on by logical people), and also temporary unless it’s really, really bad (like everyone dies once we stop). e.g. covid in January-May 2020. If we had a super strict, solid covid lockdown when the virus first broke out, we may have actually eradicated covid. Yeah we’d be violating essential freedoms, we’d have to lock up or possibly execute people who go outside, and may even have to curtail anti-science speech. But with said lockdown we may have actually eradicated covid, IMO that is worth being intolerant of dissent for 3 months.

I'm sorry, but this is just a bizarre argument. I don't see how the outbreak of a disease with a 1% death rate [1], or even the initial 3.4% estimate given at the start of the pandemic, could ever justify executing people for going outside. Even China never went that far, is this really something you believe "logical people" would agree upon?

1. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

julesnpon DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation”

To me that has to do with search results being tuned for relevancy, not due the the perceived quality of the information.

julesnpon The weight of the clipboard

If you don't need the old URL, I'd recommend this plugin:

https://github.com/inkarkat/vim-ReplaceWithRegister

julesnpon Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt'

In Canadian English we use the "Antony" and "tortuss" pronunciations as well. For "often", I usually only pronounce the 't' if the word is stressed in the sentence.

julesnpon Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt'

Having learned some Irish Gaelic in the past, I'd say it actually has much better correlation between spelling and pronunciation than English, it's just that it uses very different rules, which can cause confusion when the words are brought into other languages.

'S' for example is always pronounced like the English 'sh' if it's next to 'e' or 'i', and like a regular English 's' if it's next to 'a', 'o' or 'u'.

julesnpon Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt'

We do in a different word: adept :)

julesnpon Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt'

That's true for the -omb words, but I've never heard anyone elongate the 'u' in any of the -umb words, at least not in Canadian English.

julesnpon End of the line for Uber?

I've had an overage charge once. The driver hadn't selected in the app that he'd dropped me off, and drove for about an hours afterwards. I messaged Uber about it when I saw the overage charge, and it was refunded about 30 minutes later.

julesnpon My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown

Folks were hospitalized with aphasia, where they couldn't figure out how to write normally any more.

That's quite an extreme reaction. Do you have any links about this? I'm unable to find anything through Google.

julesnpon Players to sue for hundreds of millions over use of their statistics

Isn't the harm to the players' reputations coming from their own quality of play in publicly viewed matches?

In my opinion a third party would only be liable for harming their reputation if the statistics being published were untrue.

julesnpon Dev Fonts

Also MATLAB: ~= Delphi: <>

And if you go a bit beyond top 20, there's Haskell: /=

julesnpon Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel

Wouldn't any heat energy gains be negated by the energy needed to ship the heavy iron from the Sahara to the Netherlands?

julesnpon Computer science professor Christian Grothoff testifies in Assange hearing

While it could resolve ambiguities when discussing two objects that happen to have different grammatical genders, it seems it would introduce more anaphoric ambiguities when discussing a person and object with the same gender.

For example:

"George a laissé tomber le livre et son dos était cassé."

Which back was broken here, George's or the books?

julesnpon Android 11

I find their "Junk files" feature in the new Files app very useful for clearing up space:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

julesnpon Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000)

I have two questions for this:

What is the basis for your belief that smaller groups of people will intrinsically care more about the environment than larger groups?

In an anarchic society, what mechanism would be limiting these cooperatives to 10,000 employees? How would this be enforced, and what would the consequences be for exceeding 10,000?

julesnpon Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000)

I would say it's the fact that despite humanity's initial state being anarchy, all over the world human society has developed along basically these same patterns.