IdiotSavage

This annoys me so much. Don't tell me what you're gonna say next, just fucking say it.

  "Pills here!"
    ―Louis

I see that it applies styles to markdown documents, but keeps all formatting characters visible (e.g. # for titles). I guess I wasn't happy with that and looked for another solution.

Unfortunately printing support seems to go out of fashion, at least in macOS land.

Lately I needed a quick printout of a markdown document. I could have used TextEdit for the raw text, but I wanted the styling too. Learned that neither VSCode, Xcode nor Obsidian can print. (There is a community plugin for Obsidian.)

Oh yeah? I remember when they introduced these shitty animations that made everything feel extremely laggy.

From the article linked below:

"Microsoft Excel now animates certain actions as you work. For instance, when you move from one cell to another, it animates the move. When you paste copied information, it animates the paste. Or when you enter a formula, it animates the calculation."

https://www.adventuresincre.com/disable-animations-excel/

Then why bother installing a different OS?

You seem to be implying PowerShell aborts on any error. That's not the case:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof...

  param(
    [parameter(mandatory)] $name
  )

  "Hello, $name!"

  $ ./script.ps1 Dave
  Hello, Dave!

  $ ./script.ps1 -name Dave
  Hello, Dave!

  $ ./script.ps1
  cmdlet script.ps1 at command pipeline position 1
  Supply values for the following parameters:
  name: <cursor here>

  $ pwsh -nonint ./script.ps1
  script.ps1: Cannot process command because of one or more missing mandatory parameters: name.

Clicking around on news.mit.edu I see lots of cool ideas. Articles mention "the software allows users to...", yet I never see a link to actual software.

For example, I expected to be able to try that 3D-zipper generator they show in the video myself.

Edit: found something:

https://github.com/tichaesque/FabObscura

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9FsQXYVgUE

The obvious solution would be to use something more sane, like PowerShell or nushell, but instead old experts will always defend the skills they have honed for years, while criticizing anything that's different.

Why don't they inform users about how to properly use private mode, which works with any website, instead of rolling their own solution, which the user has to learn just for that one website?

No, it doesn't. It feels way more responsive.

My pet peeve is "stopwatch apps" which trigger on release instead of on press. When timing something where fractions of a second matter, most people won't realize that it triggers on release and tap down when they want to start / stop, adding some arbitrary delay until they actually release the button.

"Users should vote and comment when they run across something they personally find interesting—not for promotion."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#:~:text=Use...

  jot -r 100 0 1 | rs -t 10

https://docs.deno.com/runtime/desktop/backends/#webview-(def...

Omitting those characters makes it good for generating passwords if they need to be typed in by hand.

Double-clicking a base58 string always selects the whole string and it doesn't wrap accidentally, thanks to missing / and +, so it's also convenient to copy and paste.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/28002687

https://stackoverflow.com/a/32282390

https://stackoverflow.com/a/18062293

Naive users used to copy paste those things from StackOverflow, now they can use line completion in their editor.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/cargo/reference/unstable.h...

  #!/usr/bin/env -S cargo +nightly -Zscript
  ---cargo
  [package]
  edition = "2024"

  [profile.dev]
  opt-level = 3
  ---

  fn main() {
      println!("Hey, man!");
  }