None of the boo vs. yay wars that plague this topic are interesting; it's really just "I feel boo" and "I feel yay". We're trying for something else here.
Is it though? The new verified system was rolled out really poorly.
There should have been a migration path from legacy to new verified, but instead they just unverified everyone (including obviously government accounts that under the new rule should retain a grey check).
I must be using a different site from you. Letting people pay to get boosted has turned the top of every thread into a hive of emoji-pasting, cruel, low-effort cretins.
It sure is great that this industry doesn't have a larger than normal population of neurodivergent folks, or this might be a real problem for a lot of us!
or, conversely, turn them off before it starts and try to figure out what he's doing and why. then when it's done, turn the captions on and watch it again!
our living room turns into bedlam when we do this. everyone shouting what is about to happen or why it's happening and we're almost always wrong. it's great!
It's been a long time since I've seen anything from his channel, but I recall that he would put out blog posts explaining the processes shown in the videos too.
The video descriptions and the pinned comment are also really information dense though.
And John Plant, the guy running Primitive Technology, has published a book, which I've not read but could be of interest to people who like this kind of content and would like more of it in the text form.
Not entirely sure why you appear to be shadowbanned (nothing looked egregious in a quick scan of past comments), so I vouched for this comment so it shows for people that don't have showdead on.
Maybe it's that most your comments are very short and single sentences and it's triggering some automated system looking spam as a false positive? Maybe it's worth being slightly more verbose in replies for a while, in case that's it. I assume if you get enough people vouching for comments the ban reverses itself, but I don't really know. You could also email hn and ask why.
So many people learn that there is subtitles through the comments section after many years of watching all his videos, probably because the videos are so enjoyable even without the explanations.
I had a 2001 Audi and it was by far the best vehicle I've ever owned. I bought a 2016 Audi trying to replicate that and I was dumbfounded by how little it had changed in 15 years, but what _had_ changed seemed to be distinctly for the worse. I won't be buying another one :(
If you figure out how to make use of the hardware, please let us know. Getting a unit I couldn't even install another skill on made it functionally useless to me. I don't need a robot to tell me what time it is, I need someone to add carrots to the fucking shopping list or turn lutron caseta lights on when I'm rummaging around with my hands full.
Even if it's tearing it apart and repurposing the guts for a frisbee, I'm looking for ideas.
What parent @waisbrot is saying seems uncommon (the source of this whole conversation), but granted, perhaps common enough (or is it instead worrisome enough) that nvim community took it out.
I still type :Q and :W as well, but that is not what is being discussed.
Have you ever irrevocably bricked your system, as @waisbrot mentioned they have twice, from typing :W or :Q? Have you ever bricked your system from typing :X? If so, that isn’t a “use :x vs :wq” problem, that’s seems more of a use common sense problem.
> I've twice encrypted my file with password like `cd tmp`, then saved the config file, breaking my system.
I get “irrevocably bricked system” from the fact that they “broke their system” and I am inferring it could only be something worth mentioning if it were irreversible.
I originally was trying to point out that parent was off-topic, because :x and :X are different. But a fleet of downvotes flooded in, so I defended my viewpoint for the catharsis.
Some people value stability and gvim. I don't consider nvim an upgrade, it's just a fork with different priorities which may or may not suit you. I continue to use vim and gvim.
Me either, but that's because I type `:wq!` every single time instead. I'm not one of those who is afraid of typing more than a single character so I don't care if it's actually 3 I'm hitting. I am someone whose entire brain comes to an absolute crash if I type "wq" and it's asking me if I want to save over a RO file. It's like having a belt loop or pocket catch on a door handle and I despise it.
So, `:wq!`, or as I call it "write the fucking file and quit, _with feeling_"
I hope she has an infinite supply of lipstick because this pig will need it :|