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Any time a language forces you to create boilerplate that could be autogenerated by your toolchain, it's not a feature.


Conveniently, the solution is the editor that thousands of developers have taken time to improve over decades so that the author didn't have to start from scratch.

What are the odds that the solution involved a popular, mature tool that the developer could leverage?


needlessly requiring people to move themselves into offices

I've been on multiple sides of this environment over my 3+ decades in the job market: managed people in office, managed people while I worked remotely, worked in an office, worked remotely (mostly for the last 13 years).

I'm very sympathetic to remote work, but my experience tells me that your "needlessly" is not well-founded.


Why do you need people in the same physical space than you? What can't be achieved via remote tools?


they don't believe people could consciously want to make things better

The hard part is that often they're right, especially in California - as with the Sepulveda Pass Freeway Expansion Project, where TFA says that the commute times were actually increased.

You can argue that it's a somewhat self-fulfilling belief... but the regulatory state is where it is. The CAVErs today are dealing with what exists.


Can second that recommendation. On top of the good advice in the book about your back, the author also has a lot to say about the missteps a lot of doctors will make in treating back problems. Those missteps can serve as red flags in evaluating your medical practitioners.


And yet, when the Democrats control Congress and the presidency (like they do now, like they did in 2010), they do absolutely nothing to show us how wonderful their programs could be -- if only they had control!

Government programs don't need Republicans to add the dysfunction.


They don't actually have the ability to pass general bills without Republican support though. Outside of budget reconciliation, neither party has had the power to pass legislation without at least some bipartisan support since Ted Kennedy was replaced in 2010.


They do have the ability to pass general bills without Republican support, actually. They can pass a separate bill to suspend the filibuster on another bill, and suspending the filibuster only requires the 50 Democrat Senators and the VP.

They tried to do so in January but Manchin and Sinema voted against it.


So, they don't have the ability to pass general bills without Republican support. They'd need to change the rules to have that ability.


What a silly distinction. The rules aren't an actual obstacle; they can change the rules whenever they want, if all 50 Dem senators agree.

In fact they've already done so at least once:

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/585192-senate-passes-bil...


I used Dexedrine some years ago because I was dealing with a lack of focus, tiredness, and brain fog.

For the month or so that it worked, it was pretty awesome. My mind felt like it was hammering away and as sharp as I was in my twenties.

Unfortunately, that feeling didn't last more than maybe six weeks. I was advised by some to just increase the dosage, but my heart was already fluttering in my chest at the dosage I was at. Also, my sleep was odd, with weird dreams that would wake me up, preventing me from falling back asleep for hours. Added to that, my blood pressure got stuck over 140 and wouldn't come down.

If I could get a prescription that would give me the benefits of those first weeks of use, without destroying my health, I'd be all over it.

Eventually, my GP noticed that I had a thyroid deficiency that I'm not treating with thyroid hormone. That's helped a great deal with the tiredness and brain fog.


> For the month or so that it worked, it was pretty awesome. Unfortunately, that feeling didn't last more than maybe six weeks.

Sort of similar. I found every wrong road I took (supplements, diets, physical) helped - for 2 weeks and then never again. Stims turned out to be my right road.


My wife remembers what clothes people wear and the colors of their cars, their houses, and even the shutters on their houses.

I remember what computers people own, what the bread-winners of the family do for a living, and an insane amount of TV and movie trivia.

It's all about what captures your interest.


Probably the same way that they're blaming Trump for Russia's aggression during the non-Trump presidencies before and after the Trump one. It's almost like reality doesn't align with their tribal narrative but they can't give it up.


Standard frameworks give you text frames with minimal hooks to customize them and "good enough" performance. They're great for dumping a log file to or for small documents, but when you want the fine control of a text editor that can handle big files, you need to roll your own.


GPU acceleration of the text editing viewport, which will not show much more than 100 lines of text at any time, has almost nothing to do with the issues in editing large files.


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