it did, but this is about electron, which isn’t relevant to sublime. sublime’s plugins mechanism is a little different from atom, which is much more like emacs

so the cashier knows where one customer’s groceries end and the next begin. this feels like she’s going to punish herself, buying his groceries, out of pettiness, i guess

nah for sure, but i’d give a bet ruud was running on consumer hardware which has far less fault tolerance built in

more common when dealing with servers. they just have to work harder

yeah playing with the three types of irony was extremely popular in early 1700s britlit. early american lit tried to distinguish itself from britlit by focusing less on irony and more on allegory and symbolism. however by the late 1800s american lit came to emphasize irony almost as hard as the previous century’s britlit had, though i think our only author to really do as much verbal irony (saying one thing, meaning another) as that era of britlit was F Scott Fitzgerald in the 1920s.

i’m curious now how Australian literature plays with irony. if there’s an absence of verbal irony, is there more literary irony (the consequences of the action are tied comically to the action) and dramatic irony (the audience knows things the characters don’t)? and did the divergence happen because our war of independence resulted in the brits no longer using our southern colonies as a penal colony just as they were getting bored of this?

or were early Australians more likely to reject this device because they felt it was a signifier of their oppressors?

hey don’t blame us, we learned it from the brits

said solution will be a cloud service where your files are at more risk of exposure to bad actor

and then realize microsoft and google are both pushing toward “fully agentic” operating systems. every file is going to be at risk of random deletion

if they do that’s not release ready software that you should concern yourself with imo. that’s a problem of project maturity not runtime choice

why?

i read them and am not refuting them. the conversation is about bad and good situations for pie charts. we’re talking about a scenario in which what is being compared is two proportions. a scenario in which the articles you linked said a pie chart is a reasonable visualization

i’m not convinced that’s true though. bar graphs are best for visualizing a simplification of an aggregate set and comparing it against a related aggregate set. that doesn’t sound like a good way to visualize a proportion. much better to display a whole broken down into the componets of that whole.

why would you use a bar chart to display a proportion?

i don’t think one or the other is strictly superior. there’s been a lot of scientific research (paywalled, thanks, academia, or i’d link it) about how this changes our perceptions of time. there is yet to be any study into how this change in perception changes anything or everything else. that is what i am worried about. jettisoning something potentially useful and turning it into a lost technology, on purpose, before we even know what the consequeces are

link to a summary popular science article to get anyone interested started

but is it good that we think differently than prior generations thanks to the advent of the affordable digital clock in the 1970s? i think we lose something in that conversion that we might not be fully appraised of until the last analog clock is gone. a policy of elimination seems concerning to me because it presumes that a single perception is the superior perception rather than a different perception

i’m less concerned with the loss of an aesthetic and more concerned with a transformation around how time is perceived entirely. when we made the shift from sundials to 12 hour clocks, it was part of an industrial revolution that saw the workers go from taking life day by day with a greater degree of flexibility to highly regimented and dehumanizing subsegments of time. now we’ve gone from the largest unit of time we display being 12 hours to 1 hour. we feel a constant state of disconnection from the moments that got us to this moment and a lack of concern about the future moments as our environments are further degraded.

i’m less worried about millenials, gen z, and gen alpha not liking rolexes than i am about our constantly grinded down state of being. we percieve time differently than the generations that came before us and it makes us feel isolated and like everything is moving too fast. and much of the wisdom about how to transition from a colonial society to a post colonial society is to collectively slow down and i don’t know how capable we are of that as we lose the slow sweeping hour hand displaying a fractional time rather than a number constantly climbing but always displaying an exact timestamp rather than a set of portions

hey hey, there there. don’t worry. most of the major NoSQL DBs implement just as horrible of travesties

afghanistan has been the maker and breaker of empire throughout all of history.

and then you got all these “do your own research” MFs saying the stupidest shit ever who clearly think “research” is looking at facebook memes from russian bot farms

i envy you. i’ve met people who don’t thrnk birds are animals, including one veterinarian.