https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.

Emacs is a pretty nice OS - all it’s lacking is a good text editor.

I guess I should take another look at evil-mode.

git config --global core.editor "ed"

if you don’t like using vim.

Yes, started using vi when I started using a Unix login at university. That was in about 1994 or so. When I started using Linux it was definitely vim.

I’ve tried using evil-mode and vim keybindings in other editors. I somehow keep coming back to vim, though.

Water makes explosions worse.

I had put a bunch of dry ice into a Falcon tube (50 mL screw top plastic centrifuge tube) and suddenly realised that I wasn’t actually in the mood for a loud bang, so I chucked it into a perspex water bath. The bang was muted but the water spout hit the ceiling and the water bath failed, drenching my supervisor’s notes.

Interesting project!

A 19 year old guy is old enough to make his own decisions.

that will benefit both my wife and I.

It’s “that will benefit me”, not “that will benefit I”.

It’s more commonly called ternary.

Whether climate change is occurring, what damage it’s doing and what’s causing it are scientific questions. How to address it is a set of political questions: How do we get humanity to emit less greenhouse gases? How do we get countries on the same page? How do we make sure that the effects of these changes don’t increase global inequality?

The scientific questions have been answered very well, and are continuing to be answered in more detail all the time.

The response to the political questions has been an abject failure so far.

By in large

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/by_and_large

Similarly, developers have many misconceptions about addresses: https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/

That’s not what a frog looks like inside at all.

Oh, wait, this is that thing about explaining a joke and dissecting a frog, right?

Anyway, congratulations, Dr!

git log --pretty=fucked-up

I just wish I could have AfterStep’s mini desktop pager in a modern window manager. It was so cool seeing an overview of my virtual desktops next to each other and being able to drag windows from one to the other without switching desktops.