The thing about painted bike lanes and flex posts is that there's a pretty big difference in user experience between places cars *shouldn't* go and places cars *can't* go.
Paint and flex posts are like rumble strips: they are designed to gently remind cars where they should go in a way that does not damage the car. This makes sense for a highway off-ramp, but it clearly falls apart when we're talking about safety for someone on the other side.
bash scripting
I've been slowly becoming more evil ever since I learned you can have terminals in gvim.
function :e () {
gvim --remote-send '<C-W>:e '"$(realpath "$1")"'<CR>'
}
function command_not_found_handle ()
{
case "$1" in :*) gvim --remote-send '<C-W>'"$*"'<CR>'; return 0;; esac
/usr/lib/command-not-found -- "$1";
return $?;
}
Neurospicy ramblings
@Sophie You are probably unusually skilled in sensory imagination, or at least sensory memory.
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Still playing BIT.TRIP Runner (in perfect mode with feet and a spaced repetition system), but I think the pace is picking up now? No more learning new buttons/mechanics at least.
I've been writing again! This is a story I've been wanting to tell for ages, despite it involving the darkest thoughts and moments of my life. It's about the time I time-traveled in order to save my life.
(Or that's one way of looking at it, at least.)
Huge bold font blinking content warnings for suicidal ideation on this one!
https://medium.com/@tattie_potate/saving-myself-252d2cac327a
#TattieWrites #transgender #trans #suicidalIdeation #trauma #hope
@dbdean I have this bookmarked for that purpose: https://cassielabelle.medium.com/help-somebody-i-love-is-transgender-part-1-what-does-that-even-mean-905d98684884
I saw a post here (that I can't find) that kinda changed my life.
It said the best first step to changing the world into a better place is to just stop making fun of people. Ever. For anything. Including in your own thoughts that you may never speak aloud.
I try very hard to do this! it's such a stabler and nicer-feeling foundation to my thoughts and my life. It sheds a mental weight/burden I couldn't see before.
Such a great distilled bit of advice for a big concept!
vim
@minego Anything specific that gvim is missing?
@BenPaddon I didn't read it as sarcasm. I'm choosing to take this as a good sign about my mental state, rather than a bad sign about my ability to detect likely sarcasm.
I am also glad you're enjoying threads, and I would like to be wrong about it eventually becoming shitty. I take no joy in people losing platforms where they were having fun and connecting with people.
@BenPaddon That just means threads is still in phase 1 of this: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
Which, given that it just launched, I would hope so.
The reason I'm on Mastodon is that I expect for-profit social media will always become shitty eventually, and I want to be on a platform where that won't happen. (Also, I genuinely like it here. I can spend a little time each day reading things my friends like and/or care about and then feel satisfied and go do something else.)
@b0rk Synergy does not work well in server mode on X11. The way that it monitors mouse inputs in X11 is visible to applications and can sometimes break them. This doesn't happen on Windows because input hooks happen to work well for this use case. I now use Barrier, but it has the same limitation.