Having used evil-mode as my main driver for years, I can confirm that it truly works as expected. Requires some setup though. I used https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs to do the heavy lifting though.
Same I love my ligatures to death. And there are some interesting goodies. I find the author take on `tmux` being unecessary interesting, albeit it's a quite divisive opinion. Nevertheless, it's refreshing to see the status quo being challenged.
I liked kitty, but this was part of what drove me away. My terminal at work spans the bottom half of my monitor, and is typically split into 2-3 panes. I’ll also have multiple named windows at any given time. This works amazingly well for me, and I have no desire to switch.
My other problem was having TERMINFO available on remote servers. I’m not about to start installing alternative terminal emulators in prod, and while there is a workaround to losing control characters, IIRC it’s a pain.
The delay in between typing and seeing it rendered, drawing large portions of text (which matters if you spend a lot of time in term based editors) etc ...
It's very subjective: some folks (me included) will notice the difference and feel frustrated if it's not fast enough, while others are scratching their head about how it actually makes a difference.
It could also be said, that it's of logical to expect certain things to be fast; especially when they've been around for so long. We're drawing text on the screen here, it should be fast.
Saying it matters with anything else than feeling/comfort would be overreaching.
The issue is that usually these terminals mean "higher throughput" when they say "faster", not "lower latency". The lowest-latency terminal in every test is Xterm, often by a LOT. Alacritty for a long time was actually quite bad at latency--and notably had a high variance on its latency, which is particularly miserable--but I think it improved recently? From what I remember of these benchmarks, someone using urxvt isn't going to be impressed by the supposed speed of Alacritty, if we are talking latency (and I agree: we should be, and everyone should use Xterm, which is actually an insanely good terminal).
As for throughput, I have lived in the terminal for decades, and as long as the various layers don't have massive buffers I honestly don't care how slow the terminal is: if I am dumping megabytes into my terminal backscroll I probably am going "oh shit" and am frantically hitting Ctrl-C... a slow terminal with a small buffer handles that almost immediately. I get the impression that there are maybe some use cases involving high-rate screen updates for apps that happen to run in consoles but are really GUIs... I don't use many of those and in fact try to avoid them, but I could maybe see an advantage for a high-throughput terminal to improve their simulated frame rate?
People writing fast terminal emulator care about throughput, latency and resource utilization. Kitty for instance deliberately limit throughput to keep both latency and CPU/GPU usage reasonable.
Also, by what metric is xterm so fast? I accept the idea that it is fast, even the fastest, but "a lot" seems suspicious to me. From the keyboard to the monitor, there is a lot of hardware and driver latency, I guess tens of milliseconds, so the effect of the terminal, should be relatively minor. I suspect xterm is so fast because the tool used to test it relies on the X server, and because xterm communicates with X directly, the latency will be really low from the point of view of X, but how is it end-to-end? Do we get the same results, with, say, Wayland?
The other one where xterm is uber low is https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/ is using this tool with software-based screen capture https://pavelfatin.com/typometer/, not sure how reliable that is as a proxy for end-to-end (at the time of the benchmark Wayland wasn't supported)
Disclaimer, I love handwriting. TL;DR handwriting = write only + self-expression
I think that handwriting and its constraints, lead to a different mindset from when you're typing on a keyboard:
- It's write Only; You can't erase easily, so you either accept it and just keep pushing forward or you get distracted by not being able to do so (good), leading you to think twice before writing (bad).
- The physical coordination involved is a soothing and mindful process (at least for me) and it feels much more creative than typing. It's way easier to stay focused while doing so (might relate to my ADHD).
I rememeber vividly myself asking my dad when I was a kid why his handwriting was so different from what I learning at school. He told me that the success criteria for writing is can you read your own writing? Can you make an effort to make readable for others when you intend it to be read by someone else? If yes, that's good enough, nobody cares if you draw letters in a uncommon fashion, as long as they can understand the words.
While questionable at times, the way that doctors write follows this logic, because when writing the prescription the tend to optimize for writing more than reading, and therefore allow themselves more freedom.
I feel that once you've taken that step, writing becomes a much more enjoyable process. When I write, a "f" will be drawn differently, depending if it's the first letter of the word, or in the middle (as in "effort").
So I end up having three "modes" for handwriting:
- Ephemeral, I'll write things so quickly that I know I'll be able to decipher it only for a few days, while the topic is still fresh in my brain.
- Just for me, so I make zero efforts, just paying a bit more attention so I don't end up scribbling "effort" into "e||o||" which may cause problems in a month or two.
- For others, where I'll keep my handwriting peculiarities, but make sure it's absolutely decipherable (so no shortcuts, no stroked words, etc ..)
Strangely, I remember myself handwriting things, but I never remember typing something (though I'll remember about the thoughts of course). It's like handwriting is a more anchored experience somehow.
While I'm not sure I see as much games being review bombed for political reasons in my sources for video game reviews, I strongly agree with you that it's really hard nowadays to find high quality reviews. It's always been bad in mainstream video games medias though, but underdogs that are more open to criticise game tend to not last very long.
The best approach I've found is to become aware of who are writing the reviews I perceive as high quality and simply follow them when they change medias and pay attention to what they communicate about their current position.
Ultimately, the best reviews are almost always coming from sources that have a business model that doesn't rely on ads.
I'm wondering if that has to do with the time spent writing Clojure code?
I have only wrote LISP code during uni and on pet projects and I always feel like the parentheses are making things easier to visually process. The AST is explicit and basically just before my eyes, and it looks nice because of the functional style.
That's an ambitious goal, I'm not sure to see how that would be maintainable on the long run.
On a much smaller scale, if anyone is interested, I maintain a black list focused on those code snippet content farms that gets in the way when you're searching for some error message or particular function here https://github.com/jhchabran/code-search-blacklist.
May I know why my domain (cyberciti.biz) was added to that list? I created my site back in 2000, and there was no StackOverflow or anything. So much for creating original content and then getting labelled as a spammer. In fact, some of the top answers on StackOverflow were copied from my work without giving any credit to me. Some people do give credit tho. But, go ahead block a site that actual humans maintain over 20+ years. Also check my About[1] and Twitter[2] page. There is no scrapping or spamming going on my part.
Interesting, I have your site on my mental blocklist as one of those scrape and rehost sites.
I'll be honest, I don't remember how I came to that conclusion but I suspect I encountered an unsatisfactory answer to a question I was looking to answer, saw the .biz and drew my conclusions.
The noise to signal ratio for most of my queries is so high that I have to start judging a book by its title, not even its cover.
I've noticed cyberciti.biz showing up in my DDG search results but I've always ignored it because of the initial captcha. I will try it now that I've seen your post here!
The .biz definitely does not help, since it hints to me that it's just another one of those worthless reposting sites, as someone else commented below.
A couple of years ago, I was at Google's office, and I talked with someone who works on search about .biz extension. They said domain extension doesn't matter. At that time, they said backlinks is one of the most vital signals apart from some PR. That was like eight years ago. So I never changed the domain name despite owning the .com version too. It will break too many backlinks.
Sure, google might be fine with a .biz. As a human consuming googles responses, my eyes typically glaze over seeing .biz and jump to the next search result. It's not that there is anything particularly wrong with .biz, but this is the first legitimately useful site (to me, probably plenty for others) i've heard of using .biz.
cyberciti.biz is one of the few sites that come up in Google search results for anything code/linux related that has valuable content. I do wonder why someone would block it.
I wanted to stop by and say thanks for cyberciti.biz! I've been using it since 2001-2002 when I got my first Verio Freebsd VPS and had to figure out what was going on.
When I see your site pop up in my search results I know the content is going to be more reliable than most of the others. Thanks for the effort you've put into it.
At first scan your site looks like one of those automated scrape and republish sites. I'm curious what got you on that blacklist (misspelling? bad first impression? automated tool gone awry?) though.
Glad you said something though, I wouldn't have looked at it twice without a human attestation.
For me personally, the titles are what makes it suspicious for me. I've almost never, NEVER found something good in an article titled "(top) xy ways to z", I've come to immediately avoid any article with such a title.
Yep, and it doesn't break if you have javascript disabled. Good work.
That doesn't really intersect with my observation in any way though. As a stranger I don't see your intent when I see your website, I just see your website.
Yes, imagine if this blocklist becomes mainstream and used by major other adblockers or extensions? Then, there is no central place where one man's project can ask to remove my domain, and it will vanish. I often read on HN how much the web is centralized, and then we come across resources that kill independent blog/sites because of an error on the list maintainers part.
As a user I think I've put your website on my mental "avoid it" list for its design. I've opened a page now and I feel like I'm instantly in a tunnel vision mode. For UX: it's not a pleasure to scroll up & down; maybe there's also a psychological element about the main content area being so slim in width.
The other comment made me remember there was captcha too, right? I had been using my own rented server as a VPN for all my internet access. But I'd have never blocked it for a public list - I've read the 'about me' page.
> some of the top answers on StackOverflow were copied from my work without giving any credit to me
That's really frustrating. I'm building a faster search engine for programming queries and just added your site cyberciti.biz as a recommended and curated source of Unix/Linux material. Hope more devs get aware of your work and you (and your collaborators) receive the credits deserved. Thanks for your work of many years.
Cloudflare sometimes triggers those when they think IP reputation is not good. Typically happens for data centre IP ranges as WAF has an anti-bot feature. So I know it is a problem for some.
Maybe it's the fact that I don't use one of the three major US ISPs. Hopefully CDNs get used to the idea that there can be more than one fiber provider.
Would you mind sharing the Cloudflare ray id displayed at the bottom of the screen when you see a captcha? I can look into it, and maybe be I will able to fix it too. Reply here or email me at webmaster@cyberciti.biz. HTH.
Not sure if you changed your Cloudflare settings, or if Cloudflare changed something, but I'm no longer getting the captcha, so that's good, but sadly I can't help debug the original issue.
To shed some lights on why power sliding is so unreliable, doing so requires to be familiar the surface on which you’re attempting it. Being familiar with it means that you basically failed to and fell down multiples times before getting it right, which already requires a good skill level.
And you cannot assume that power sliding on a surface will be similar to another one that looked the same because a slight change of humidity, dust or grease may totally change the outcome and transform the slide into a hang up that will throw you at the floor pretty hard.
So if you combine a really thin margin of error with the inability to confidently execute it on new surfaces, it makes powersliding a pretty unreliable way of braking unless it’s an emergency, in which case jumping off the board is much easier.
Meanwhile, you can power slide at will in the skate park because you know the surface by heart, and it’s easy to get it consistent by how many times you just rode it.
Your point is valid. Power sliding on the street, with speed, is definitely for advanced skaters. Particularly for the reasons you mentioned (unpredictable surfaces).
Regarding the weight, it’s a different position when you’re holding it at arms length while playing. You don’t hold your iPad in the air while reading, you put it against your knees or something else!
I would put the Steam device on my knee when seated and playing on a train, possibly on top of a backpack that's also on my knee. I'd have to try it to be sure but I think it will work out fine.
If anyone wants to give a try, it's worth noting a few things if you come from vim:
- if you are on osx, you'll may find the gui rendering quite laggy if you are using a Retina display. Using the terminal will make it snappy again. Using something like Alacritty will make it even snappier if you're sensitive to it.
- if you are on linux and use the gui, the pgtk branch is worth giving a try, it drops the old extremely outdated Xt code
