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I do wonder despite the flaws of the old system, was there something genuine lost?
You had to actually “hunt” down what you wanted to watch, make discoveries, build context and knowledge to what you want to watch / listen to. IMO the “hunt” is part of the joy in the same way as perhaps building a PC is a big part of the whole gaming enjoyment and at the end of it you can sit down and fully emerse yourself into the art. Now? You are presented with an almost infinite choice of what to get spoon-fed and I feel it de-incentivizes everything. The distinction between music and noise isn’t about the physical properties of sound. Instead, it depends on how we perceive and assign meaning to what we hear. My point is, it’s harder to create that meaning these days.
They did touch upon this in the video. Seems like the new streaming model creates a passive, scrolling consumer rather than an engaged enthusiast where “art” becomes just disposable content pushed by algorithms.
Also, streaming pushes you to over-consume on stuff, which causes the same problems.
I was also searching for one a couple of months back. I went through these ones : termpdf.py, tdf ,fancy-cat, meowpdf
Most of these support pdfs only though from what i can recall. I ended up with Sioyek (not a terminal reader)
Did not know that is something people do on arch!
Thanks for sharing, bookmarked. Was just reading about the problem of free parking and parking minimums.
In Neovim after re-writing my config I actually opted out of even using a LSP. If you have a picker with grep + fuzzy finder honestly the experience is not that bad and keeps things lean. You will need to change your workflow a bit but very doable. So I can stand behind the “meme”.
Is it built into the editor itself? In neovim you need to install a separate plugin “nvim-treesitter-textobjects” to get that.
Thanks for giving a more balanced perspective.
Damn…. had to look it up, apparently it’s true. Unbelievable what ideas their minds back-flip into.
I’m shocked :D
Terry Davis was right…
Edit: For anyone that don’t know : https://youtu.be/3HD43lvNvCA?t=2084 He was mentally unwell but he called it !
why does the base color matter at all? What is “base” anyway when every word has a syntactic meaning?
Well.. the base color is about establishing a baseline of neutrality so that the deviations (the highlights) actually register as signals. Like he said “if everything is highlighted, nothing stands out”. If you highlight an entire page of a book, you haven’t highlighted anything, you’ve just printed the book on yellow paper.
why does the base color matter at all? What is “base” anyway when every word has a syntactic meaning?
I think there exists both passive usage of colors (feeling the structure through colors) and active usage (consciously looking for “green” when you need a “string"). The author is suggesting that with too much highlighting you can’t use the latter.
But the best part is that the post contradicts itself: the suggested minimal theme doesn’t even address that typo use case mentioned above, because it doesn’t feature a distinct color for special keywords. So if one were to follow the post’s advice, return and retunr would look exactly the same, making it worse than the colorful theme it criticizes.
True, but I think he showed that to illustrate a broader point that current themes are so noisy that even when color changes you don’t notice it, not that somehow his minimal theme would help spot it.
Yep, he does not like syntax highlighting at all. I think some is still useful.
Thanks! I have never heard of literate programming before.
Like someone said in some thread that I read awhile back : – “if I wanted rainbows, I’d code in fucking skittles” 😂
I had no clue it was this bad
that you need to use the product as intended by the company and circumventing the intended use case is illegal.
So, that’s what I’m here to talk about today—the post-American internet we can wrestle away from Trump’s chaos. The kind of internet that’s possible because Trump has mobilized new coalition partners to fight on our side.
In politics, coalitions are everything. Anytime you see a group finally make a breakthrough after years of hitting walls, you can bet they’ve found new allies—people who don’t want all the same things but who share enough goals to fight together.
And that’s exactly where Trump came from. He’s leading a coalition of billionaires, white nationalists, Christian bigots, authoritarians, conspiratorialists, imperialists…and, of course, self-described libertarians whose main political drive is a scorching case of low-tax brainworms—people who’d vote for Mussolini if he promised to shave five cents off their tax bill.
Loved that!
I think Hyprland does something similar:
https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/9854
I actually remember reading about this in a book "Life after cars". Great read, would recommend !
<…> Tire companies like the one named after Sarah’s ancestor guard their chemical concoctions closely, veiling themselves behind a variety of regulations that protect “proprietary” technologies. (Fossil fuel companies do the same with the liquids they use for fracking.) The tire companies were not going to help figure out the mystery of what exactly was killing the salmon. So researchers at the University of Washington for years doggedly sifted through the dozens of chemicals they found in runoff until they isolated the one they allege is responsible for the salmon deaths. The culprit turned out to be a by-product of a molecule called 6PPD, which for the last sixty years or so has been used as a kind of tire preservative. The ground level ozone that cars give off (a dangerous pollutant that is distinct from the beneficial ozone layer in the atmosphere) can actually harm tires; 6PPD protects them against ozone-induced decay. In so doing, however, it degrades to create a different molecule, 6PPD-quinone, which turns out to be fatal to coho salmon. So the chemical that protects the polluting car’s tires from its own pollution creates even more pollution.
and
<…> Scientists say that 6PPD-quinone, along with the countless other toxic chemicals that run off our roads, could be captured by creating natural buffer zones of plants and wetlands that would filter out the poisons before they could reach the delicate ecosystem of, say, a particular stream that is vital to migrating cohos. Perhaps, like guardrails, this type of solution could be written into road engineering codes, mitigating the damage that roads do to the most sensitive habitats. No one thinks, though, that a scattering of human-engineered roadside filtration marshes could even begin to address all the harms—many of them yet unknown—that 6PPD-quinone presents to the natural world. A more systemic approach might result from lawsuits, which could pressure tire companies to find a replacement for 6PPD, but what are the chances that the replacement will be completely benign? In the meantime, the tires keep rolling along, their decay coating the asphalt that spreads across the land, mixing with rain from ever-morepowerful storms caused by climate change, and ultimately washing into bodies of water. There, the poisonous cocktail is metabolized by some of our planet’s most delicate and irreplaceable creatures, desperately trying to get upstream.


I do wonder despite the flaws of the old system, was there something genuine lost?
You had to actually “hunt” down what you wanted to watch, make discoveries, build context and knowledge to what you want to watch / listen to. IMO the “hunt” is part of the joy in the same way as perhaps building a PC is a big part of the whole gaming enjoyment and at the end of it you can sit down and fully emerse yourself into the art. Now? You are presented with an almost infinite choice of what to get spoon-fed and I feel it de-incentivizes everything. The distinction between music and noise isn’t about the physical properties of sound. Instead, it depends on how we perceive and assign meaning to what we hear. My point is, it’s harder to create that meaning these days.
They did touch upon this in the video. Seems like the new streaming model creates a passive, scrolling consumer rather than an engaged enthusiast where “art” becomes just disposable content pushed by algorithms.
Also, streaming pushes you to over-consume on stuff, which causes the same problems.
I was also searching for one a couple of months back. I went through these ones : termpdf.py, tdf ,fancy-cat, meowpdf
Most of these support pdfs only though from what i can recall. I ended up with Sioyek (not a terminal reader)
Why Owning Nothing Is So Expensive
Did not know that is something people do on arch!
Thanks for sharing, bookmarked. Was just reading about the problem of free parking and parking minimums.
Amsterdam, 1st capital to legally ban fossil ads and meat ads (worldwithoutfossilads.org)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdQ5FZSGLK8
In Neovim after re-writing my config I actually opted out of even using a LSP. If you have a picker with grep + fuzzy finder honestly the experience is not that bad and keeps things lean. You will need to change your workflow a bit but very doable. So I can stand behind the “meme”.
Is it built into the editor itself? In neovim you need to install a separate plugin “nvim-treesitter-textobjects” to get that.
I Can’t Sell You Laptops Anymore (video) (enshittification of computer repair)
Tools built on tree-sitter's concrete syntax trees (scannedinavian.com)
Found it interesting.
Thanks for giving a more balanced perspective.
Damn…. had to look it up, apparently it’s true. Unbelievable what ideas their minds back-flip into.
I’m shocked :D
Apparently, Henry Ford was an anti-Semite and even received an award from the Third Reich!
I came across this while reading the book NeoDB Book | Life After Cars by by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon, and Aaron Naparstek. Found it interesting as this is a guy that a lot of car enjoyers look up to.
Terry Davis was right…
Edit: For anyone that don’t know : https://youtu.be/3HD43lvNvCA?t=2084 He was mentally unwell but he called it !
Well.. the base color is about establishing a baseline of neutrality so that the deviations (the highlights) actually register as signals. Like he said “if everything is highlighted, nothing stands out”. If you highlight an entire page of a book, you haven’t highlighted anything, you’ve just printed the book on yellow paper.
I think there exists both passive usage of colors (feeling the structure through colors) and active usage (consciously looking for “green” when you need a “string"). The author is suggesting that with too much highlighting you can’t use the latter.
True, but I think he showed that to illustrate a broader point that current themes are so noisy that even when color changes you don’t notice it, not that somehow his minimal theme would help spot it.
Yep, he does not like syntax highlighting at all. I think some is still useful.
Thanks! I have never heard of literate programming before.
Like someone said in some thread that I read awhile back : – “if I wanted rainbows, I’d code in fucking skittles” 😂