Mastodawn

my favorite IDE was at one point Komodo, the "scintilla editor widget married to the old Firefox XUL runtime". It really worked well - since the editor was a native component, you had speed and performance that Atom et al couldn't handle.

It died when Mozilla ended XUL, obvs. The lead dev made a short effort to "port" it to Electron but it went nowhere.

I think I'd love to try to bring it back. I think it could work.

Vyvyan Basterd 12h ago

the M7/M8 program was about selling an idiotic dream, a way to extract money from dipshits who don't fight. The Marines, and now SOCOM, have their heads on straight: use what works https://youtu.be/uZB4GSoFbOo

Why U.S Special Forces Switched to a Hyper Velocity Rifle

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Vyvyan Basterd 14h ago

@sennoma funniest part to me are the Catholics - as many as a quarter of Catholics, by some studies! - who do not possess a belief in the supernatural parts. Resurrection didn't happen, no burning bush, no miracles. They're just in it for the love of the game

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Vyvyan Basterd 1d ago

@sennoma @PatrickoftheG I think it's notable (accuracy) in an academic/text-critical frame, but theists will always use their holy texts as proof for their prejudices; I mean there's entire separate translations that favor the complementarian reading. I guess, it's like, I wish I had a better class of opponent. The ones who yell KJV at me, are just insane apologists and dogmatics.

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Vyvyan Basterd 1d ago

@poundquerydotinfo install X11 libraries and desktop env, connect over ssh, remotely display filesystem browser, drag and drop

Vyvyan Basterd 1d ago

It should be legal to hunt the Island Boys for sport

Vyvyan Basterd 2d ago

I think it's unfair to link the "fractal of bad design" article every time PHP comes up, because it's just not relevant now. Things got better.

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Vyvyan Basterd 2d ago

@PatrickoftheG a good and recent video, with examples https://youtu.be/KVcV__ZuiR8

Is the most famous Bible translation really all that good?

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Vyvyan Basterd 2d ago

@PatrickoftheG another fun thing I learned, getting into text-critical approaches to the Bible, is just how fucking bad the KJV is, on like every level. It's crap! It wasn't even good when it was created! And yet people use it as a real thing.

Vyvyan Basterd 2d ago

i updated my lil Ottocast doohickey to the latest version, and it actually seems to have resolved most of the skipping. So it's from "going in the garbage" to "tentatively OK"