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  • The boring answer: the boring shit pays the bills. If you want to apply your programming chops to science then academia is your home

    UBI often touted as an answer to this kind of thing though, breaking capitalism through removing cheap labour will have untold societal shifts, including an uptick in creative thought and independent research. Beware though: most research today costs way more than you think to generate meaningful breakthroughs






  • Olap@lemmy.worldtoProgramming@programming.devVim 9.1 released
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    6 months ago

    For me vim is one of those things that just works. It’s ever present, reliable, and dependable. The simplicity of it mirrors the unix way and my usage of it is so closely wrapped in screen, /tmux, bash, gnu-coreutils, and a few terminals over the years that any change is going to have me asking ‘why?’ essentially. So a command line flag allows familiarity of existing tooling to really sing, and I suspect offers far more compatibility than the suggested fix too given the length of the windows addendum to the guide

    And totally agreed about out in, I use Arch btw. And I’m not in a hurry to switch to nvim either, I tried and switched back pretty quickly. Pathogen is still an amazing plugin system, leveraging my git and bash knowledge to boot


  • Olap@lemmy.worldtoProgramming@programming.devVim 9.1 released
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    Excellent, TIL. It should be bash scripts though. Setting strange write modes and obfusticating paths, combined with a set and a let (now having to go learn the difference) isn’t something I would recommend to anyone.

    Add alias vim=nvim --vimrc-compatibility to your ~/.bashrc would be my prefered migration path