A lot of (western) people really insist on and lie their asses off about the importance of organic food and how GMOs are evil, for example all the lies and misinformation about golden rice, telling third world people that non-organic food is poisonous and will eventually kill them. If you really tried to live in a purely organic and pseudo-"sustainable" world (no farming of any type is ultimately truly sustainable, but you can always be smarter about it), billions would starve to death, but those people live in the third world so they don't really matter.

I hate stuff like PDFs, when having to open a PDF from someone because of tax info or some other stuff, I always think "what sort of zero day am I executing now?"

The syntax of some of these examples seems more verbose and harder to follow than just writing the XML or JSON itself, especially the anchor examples. Aside from that, XML to JSON conversion exists, though with limitations, seemingly the same ones, such as no comments in JSON so instead you're adding an additional key. Might as well just write one or the other and convert, especially because libxmq is nearly JSON anyway.

I got a sense that it started to change because they wanted to "Millennial" one to be as long as possible to include as many people as they could. Then again it really was always changing and never really set in stone to begin with, but I always got a sense that some would make Millennial 50 years long just to more bitch about as many people as possible. I'm Gen X until they move the goalposts further back... again.

I'm torn between Eloi and Morlocks just because the latter has the whole avoiding the sun thing, i.e. somewhat analogous to never going outside unless you have to.

CowBoy Neal recommended that I use Firefox to download his nude pix, but I mostly use Firefox for development because it's got the best tools and Chrome for everything else. Sometimes Opera for testing.

And yeah, it's really, really big.

The memory foot print of modern browsers, I mean.

I pretty much covered that.

Largely doesn't mean always.

Yes.

No shit, I never said it wasn't a personal choice, and nice nonsensical statement claiming that it's not my choice what people use, that's just weak politician-style bullshit jargon speak to always win an argument. it's pretty clear that from what I said and my follow up comments that it's my opinion.

I'm sorry you couldn't understand it, even though other people who replied clearly could, so maybe you should work on that, or should I say "you must work on that" so that your next reply won't read like a poorly Xeroxed newsletter.

Well I didn't want to start a whole thing and wanted my bias to clearly be hating both, but out of the two, I always did like emacs better, but I could never find a real good use case for it, for myself at least, and as I said I only used vi(m) out of necessity on Unix or Linux.

I'm not an expert on vim, but why isn't find also / or n as it is in vim. Is it just a similar style of commands and control rather than being a sort of vim command overlay for shortcuts?

I didn't provide any evidence at all. But something that did happen in reality is I actually replied to another person in this thread with questions about vim plugins, because I am curious about why people use them, the purpose, the benefits, etc. Sure blog posts out there which are rewrites of other blog posts will provide vague anecdotes, but I have enough of those in my own life. You did provide me with some useful information though.

Honest question: I've heard about people using vim plugins in GUI IDEs, what benefits do you see in general, and is it a way to avoid using the mouse or is it a visual thing? I've never installed one.

Both vi(m) and emacs suck and there are countless better text editors and IDEs and so on, they can't do the job as well as a good IDE, and no Sublime Text isn't even on my radar despite the weird cultish claims. That doesn't mean they aren't useful, hell, in the last 25 years I've had to use vi countless times to edit things, largely so I can prep a system to install a better text editor before moving on.

Other than that nano/pico, ee, PhpStorm, IntelliJ IDEA, and RubyMine pretty much cover everything very well (I don't work for JetBrains), and sometimes Visual Studio if I have to. I remember hearing about the vi vs emacs thing back on Usenet so long ago, and I didn't understand it then, and I especially don't get it now... other than seeing it as a joke or weird reference to arguing over which pile of shit smells less bad than another.

It's fine if you want to believe you work faster with vim because your terminal is redrawn with things super fast, but I've never seen evidence that anyone works better.

...is how much he hates RMS.