jbaber

HN crowd told me they're porting to swift. When I asked "why not Rust", they said the C++ code was very OOP, so it was easier to port to swift.

vim vs. emacs

It doesn't matter if you personally like emacs more, far fewer people use it.

https://plenz.com/tmp/vi.html

Busuu looked promising.

Fastmail is really, really nice.

For my family member who moved out of country, signal's voice quality was not very good. WhatsApp's quality was better than a regular phone call, very impressive.

Also, outside the US WhatsApp is some kind of standard the way rich Americans think iMessage is. Companies will ask her to contact them on WhatsApp, so she'll have to have it regardless of your personal involvement.

There's also jitsi.

Tangentially related: Barber also wrote his Adagio for Strings as an Agnus Dei. It's great.

I vaguely recall there being a stereo record needle explanation for this.

How?

sudo apt remove ratpoison

"Ubuntu" is Zulu for "can't install Debian".

Wait, really? I've had it disabled for a while for other reasons. I'm safe from a Win11 forced upgrade?

I discounted this theory the first time I heard it because it's too cool.