That it didn’t select everything was only the default on Linux, to accomodate the folks using the middle-click clipboard (primary selection).
But yeah, I don’t remember, if there was a good reason why they removed it. I think, they replaced the URL bar implementation and just have this feature in the new one. So, maybe they’d accept a PR?
Hmm, it’s been a few years since I’ve run Fedora, but that’s an experience also still stuck in my head from that time.
I always figured, Linux had just gotten better at that, because I switched to a more up-to-date distro afterwards, but in retrospect, it’s not like Fedora is terribly out of date, so maybe that is just a weird configuration on Fedora…
I mean, I doubt Kate or Geany or Vim would’ve closed due to OOM, but sure…
Firefox unloads old tabs when restarting the browser, so most of those are more like temporary bookmarks.
Don’t think I’ve ever seen someone open 300 tabs in one session or on Chromium…
Rust does an interesting thing in this regard. It does still have == for checking if two values are equal, but well, it actually doesn’t have a traditional assignment operator. Instead, it has a unification operator, which programmers usually call “pattern matching”.
And then you can use pattern matching for what’s effectively an assignment and to some degree also for equivalence comparison.
See a few examples here: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&edition=2021&gist=1268682eb8642af925db9a499a6d587a
I believe, this entire post is fiction…
I didn’t mean that the feature is universally available. I meant that lots of people will intuitively start moving their mouse to find the cursor, because our eyes are good at spotting motion and because it might be placed somewhere which matches its color.
Maybe not everyone starts shaking rapidly enough to trigger the feature, but well, you don’t want it activating all the time either…
You need to be on Plasma 6.1+.
Then it’s under System Settings → Accessibility → Shake Cursor, although I think it gets enabled by default.
I was going to suggest setting a delay in Spectacle, but seems like the enlarged mouse cursor does not show up in screenshots, even if you set “Include mouse pointer”…
Because shaking your cursor to spot it is kind of universal?
I mean, that is more obvious and more readable.
But what I really don’t like about it, is that it’s less clear to what it applies. For example:
not list.isEmpty() and x > 3
Is that not (a and b) or (not a) and b?
Obviously, you can define precedence rules, like there also is for !, but that’s again just additional things to learn.
I’m definitely not generally opposed to special characters. I do also hate significant whitespace, because I find that less readable than braces.
For me, it’s pretty much the opposite. With the exclamation mark, I’ll see the inversion, then I’ll read the actual condition and try to make sense of it, and then I’ll remember that this thing was supposed to be inverted. Or I won’t remember, that’s unfortunately also a possibility.
Might just be what we’re used to, though. I have been working in a codebase with mostly .not() for the past year.
Oh, I know where it came from. That’s also why we have all kinds of maths operators in the syntax of virtually any programming language. Because back when we didn’t yet know where this programming thing was going, we just threw in the conventions of maths and theoretical logic.
What I’m saying is that we have our own conventions now, i.e. objects and methods, so I think, it’s worth reconsidering whether we still want to have these old conventions that are special cases in the syntax.
Alright, spicy opinion time: I think, the ! operator is dumb.
It’s yet another symbol with a meaning, which people have to learn.
And it’s easy to overlook, especially in languages with parentheses in their if-conditions:
if (!list.isEmpty()) { ... }
I think that just a .not() method on Booleans is cooler:
if (list.isEmpty().not()) { ... }
You can do this in Rust, which is where I have that idea from: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&edition=2021&gist=dedb71bd84243c78ee0afad0f30b80c3
You must’ve caught my comment shortly before I snuck that “non-security” into there. 🙃
Slowroll can alleviate that pain, if you’re fine with non-security updates being delayed by up to six weeks or so.
The guy is the lead dev of the Budgie desktop environment. Budgie started out kind of reusing components from GNOME, but Strobl has been rather frustrated with GTK and the directions it took with GTK4, for various reasons: https://joshuastrobl.com/2021/09/14/building-an-alternative-ecosystem
(The disclaimer is important, some opinions on what alternative to use changed, but the frustrations with GTK remain.)
Here’s their FAQ answer for that: https://just.systems/man/en/what-are-the-idiosyncrasies-of-make-that-just-avoids.html
I imagine, there’s various smaller differences in how the recipes are defined, but yeah, this is the big one.
I find that Just feels a lot like just a collection of script files, with built-in error handling for argument parsing and during execution. And it also offers easier discovery of available tasks and how to use them.
For example Rust needs to be able to dynamically allocate memory for all of its syntax to be intact.
Hmm, you got an example of what you mean?
Rust can be used without allocations, as is for example commonly done with embedded.
That does mean, you can’t use dynamically sized types, like String, Vec and PathBuf, but I wouldn’t consider those part of the syntax, they’re rather in the std lib…
Apparently, they’re currently in the process of turning people’s Manifest V2 extension off. They seem to be stretching it out over a few weeks to sidestep a shitstorm.
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate/mv2-deprecation-timeline#october_9th_2024_an_update_on_manifest_v2_phase-out
Afterwards, there will still be uBlock Origin Lite, but the dev didn’t choose that name for funsies. It will be even worse at ad blocking, and be missing some important features like automatic block list updates and the element picker.