Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 👽Mar 7

Well fucking shit motherfuckers. Vim & Neovim are both contaminated with LLM slop.

I mean, I can just use ed. Or roll back Vim to an old version and never let it update? Fuck.

I do have a new Mac coming, so I could just commit to BBEdit, tho that's less optimal for code editor. Assuming siegel hasn't done something stupid?

Ha ha I could finally switch to emacs with vile binds and then NOTHING will work.

Fucking fuck darkest fucking timeline.
https://hachyderm.io/@AndrewRadev/116175986749599825
#vim #butlerianJihad

Show threadJyrgen NMar 9
@mdhughes @cstross Homebrew has nvi. And Emacs, of course.
Show threadCharlie StrossMar 9

@jyrgenn @mdhughes Emacs, consistently over a 30 year period, has given me RSI *within a week* every time I've tried using it as my main editor. It was designed for a keyboard layout that no longer exists (outside weird homebrew builds).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard

Show threadLisPiMar 9

@cstross @jyrgenn @mdhughes I do have to remark that the ergonomics of most keyboards until fairly recently were sorely lacking.

I can't imagine doing much of anything with them without getting RSI or other postural issues over time. (Yes, even the space cadet & others.)

(Nostalgic as that beige IBM keyboard may be, it was still terrible for ergonomics.)

Model M keyboard - Wikipedia

Show threadCharlie StrossMar 9
@lispi314 @jyrgenn @mdhughes The good thing about the Model M wasn't it's layout, but the buckling-spring key mechanisms, which current mechanical keyswitches have only recently caught up with. Mind you, adjusted for inflation a circa-1986 Model M would probably cost US $500-1000 today.
Show threadRevK Mar 9

@cstross the layout was also quite cool.

So was the “volume” :-)

Show threadD IngramMar 9
@revk @cstross I've tried using my Unicomp USB buckling spring keyboard in the office, and both times (different companies) I've had coworkers lose their minds. There's just something about that noise. My partner didn't mind it during thesis write up as it was easy to tell when not to interrupt a flow.
Show threadHugo Mills
@ingram @revk @cstross I love my Model Ms, and the new-build Model F that I'm typing on now (which is even louder), but I wouldn't use one of them in a shared office.
Mar 9 at 12:45pmWeb
Show threadRevK Mar 9
@darkling @ingram @cstross Ah, I had the advantage that I was the boss 🙂