@kevlin You had a talk on space and indentation some moons ago, if I recall correctly. I came upon the recording some time later, so I didn't comment at the time, but I think this rule works in all cases I can think of:

If any count of whitespace depends on the length of any lexeme, you're doing it wrong.

I'm sure there's a less pretzel way to express it, but I can't think of a counterexample. It avoids whether to break or not, but captures using spaces to create columns.

@jscalzi Choose your words carefully here. It seems equally universally true that there's a software stack to sink any hardware.

And for some reason, that often comes pre-installed.

@ellie copy / paste. I was forced to use a mac for a few months and literally the only positive was consistent M-x, M-c, M-v everywhere.

Also, the correct way should be to have key combo produce Cut, Copy and Paste keysyms, because those exist btw and then bind those.

@acb

@alice @webhat Sure, but who gets blamed if it goes slightly wrong? I use it too, but they're definitely dumping the responsibly to get it right on you

@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
Hear, hear!

Yeah, I could see myself giving our kids a hard time for expressing themselves lazily, but never for swearing appropriately.

@alice @acb @webhat an example of Executive Function Theft, I think.

(Making you do the work)

https://hedgehoglibrarian.com/executive-function-theft/

(Oh, she made a separate page for this. Nice.)