Absolutely. I could pick right up with edlin like I never stopped. It was so handy for really quick edits.

It's all about theta waves. Those who have become "clear" and can harmonize the frequency of their theta are known as operating thetans.

Honestly, since they left for Bluesky, X/Twitter has been more civilized. At least my feed is. The hate from just a few years ago seems like it ran out of steam, but maybe it's just on a different platform now.

That makes sense. Here in the US, I was an early reader of Linux Journal and Linux magazine. I hadn't heard of this one either.

I did. Was going to make it, but was beat to it.

Well I know that you can't argue over personal tastes, and many people like modal editors, but I don't think it is about "educating yourself". Perhaps the opposite is true, as this interview with vi's creator, Bill Joy, explains:

REVIEW: What would you do differently?
JOY: I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard. I think the interesting thing is that vi is really a mode-based editor. I think as mode-based editors go, it's pretty good. One of the good things about EMACS, though, is its programmability and the modelessness. Those are two ideas which never occurred to me.

I never had a Surface Studio. But I always wanted one for its 4500x3000 display. Microsoft did a good job in pushing 3:2 aspect ratio and driving the PC market away from the horrible letterboxing that dominated laptops and monitors for a decade. It's a pity that panel was never sold in a standalone monitor (Huawei talked about it but the product never reached the market).

Did you try asking one chatbot to check the quotations given by the other chatbot? If you ask the AI to find something then it will do its best to please you. But if you ask it "is this quotation real" or "is there any evidence for X" then at least some of the time it can perform the useful service of saying "no, can't find it".

I upgraded my video card recently. I need four DisplayPort outputs so I picked a Nvidia RTX A2000 (old generation, not Ada). The prices on ebay.co.uk looked good value. Then I looked at the seller, and he had about a dozen of these cards for sale. I guess Bitcoin or crypto mining costs have reached some threshold where these cards no longer make money.

(The A2000 is a power-limited card drawing only 70 watts, intended for workstations, but I guess that might also make it suitable for mining.)

And everyone is using a VPN these days, often from another country with favorable peering for their activities. On the internet, no one knows I'm a dog posting from an IP address on Mars.

I can't really blame the author. If ChatGPT -- or any website -- provides a way to link to a page, it's a reasonable expectation that you can share that link and it will work.

Couldn't you take the legal brief generated by an AI, and feed it into ChatGPT asking "please look up all of the cases cited in this brief and give a URI for each"? Personally I feel that getting AI to check for errors in work is much more useful than getting it to write the work itself.

That's the point Stroustrup is making. With the current C++ language and standard library (STL), he claims, you don't need to write code with pointers, and you don't need to mess with new and delete. The container classes like vector handle it safely for you.

All of mine are. They come in handy. No code in the car though. ;)

Hmm, I've been using hi-dpi (220 pixels per inch or more) for about twenty years (starting with the IBM T221) and using them with Windows has usually been fine. Even ancient versions let you set a text size of 200%. They mucked it up starting with Vista, doing a blurred scaling in the GPU for some applications, but you can turn that off.