If you really like food then learning how to cook is one of the most rewarding skills of all. Personally I think it’s even more than that. I think it’s harder to appreciate a really good meal until you’ve learned to cook it yourself.

Yeah. Today the means of production is your laptop!

A billionaire beating up a bunch of starving postdocs!

This is what the Unabomber was trying to warn us about!

I never had any issues writing LaTeX with vim. I used UltiSnips and wrote a bunch of my own snippets for it. I also wrote a lot of my own macros in LaTeX.

I’ve tried. It breaks my brain too much. I’ve even used emacs without evil but the unholy combination just does not work for me.

I have the same problem with all vi/vim emulation modes in other editors. There’s always some incongruity that messes me up.

I prefer to call it the dark side!

I don’t really recommend people learn vi/vim even though I’ve been using it for years and love it. It’s a very personal thing and the time you invest into learning it might not be worth it if you don’t use its features enough.

I think it’s dependent on your personality and neurodivergence/neurotypical characteristics (I don’t know a word that encompasses all of this). If you’re the type of person who gets really annoyed/distracted by any sort of “friction” in the editing process then I think you may be a good candidate to learn vi. Otherwise probably not!

Edit: by the way I’m also a LaTeX user!

Yeah. A lot of people who use vim don’t know how to use the full power of vi. They’ll often install plugins to do things they could have easily done with built in features!

The one area where regular vi sucks though is undo. If you want multiple undo then you’ll have to at least go with something like nvi.

That’s not particular to Americans. Lots of people put their heads down rather than try to fight. Look at Russia!

This phenomenon is called depoliticizaton. Philosopher Vlad Vexler talks about it often.

Reminds me of German chancellor Franz von Papen. He was instrumental in bringing Hitler to power but he never accepted responsibility for it, even though he lived until 1969!

Except Los Angeles. We don’t need that kind of superficiality here!

If you’re revisiting BG1 via the Enhanced Edition it’s actually been changed a lot from the original game. One of the biggest differences is that summoning spells don’t scale in the number of minions you get the way they did in the original. I remember summoning great big walls of skeletons with Animate Dead and just having my entire party pelt the enemy with slings and arrows from relative safety. Can’t do that anymore!

I actually prefer walls of text these days. I find myself too impatient to sit through long, voice-acted diatribes. I can read 10 times faster than the voice actor can speak, so I just end up turning on subtitles and skipping most of the voice acting anyway.

I also just find that voice acting tends to compromise the amount of writing. They just won’t have the VA read a wall of text and instead they’ll cut it right down, removing tons of nuance. Voice also similarly compromises the amount of dialogue options available to the character. I have yet to see a voice acted game with the sheer breadth and depth of dialogue option choices as games like Planescape Torment or Fallout 2.

The issue with “easy mode” is that it can be disabled. Scammers can and will find ways to trick grandma into disabling easy mode on her devices and then get her to install malware.

Yes and men are better at recovering from injury. Testosterone causes both effects. It’s a tradeoff!

Civilization series AKA dictator simulator!

Exactly. He’s serious about wasting everyone’s time and distracting from his attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure. He’s serious about flattering Trump with delusions of grandeur about a 19th century gilded age of “spheres of influence” so that the US abandons Ukraine.

Putin still has a lot to worry about though. The European sleeping dragon is getting restless.

Ahhh, that’s where I messed up! I forgot to cool the bacon first!

People have been doing hot water bath canning at home for well over a century. It works great for acidic foods like tomatoes or pickled vegetables. It’s completely safe if you follow the USDA Guide to Home Canning.