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Show HN: Clippy for Vim

https://codeberg.org/borysj/vim-clippy

Vim has tons of small, ingenious features and is capable of many smart hacks. Most of them might be relevant... once in a while. But „once in a while” means that when the time comes I won't remember they are available, or how to actually use them.Remembering Clippy[0], I have written a snippet for .vimrc that gives me a random advice (hint / feature / hack) when starting vim. It is not certain...

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Ask HN: Threshold Concepts in Mathematics

In mathematics education we can find mention of *threshold concepts*. These are mathematical concepts that:1) are notoriously difficult to grasp, both intuitively, conceptually and computationally; 2) are central and critical for furthering one's mathematical understanding; 3) eventually become quite easy ("How is it I could not understand it before?"), because we employ them so much that any...

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Re:Show HN: Rgx.tools – Generate Regex from Text Using GPT on Thursday April 11, 2024 @11:22PM (#40009110)
Nice, thanks. Any chance you could add sed to the list of variants?

Ask HN: Reviewers You Trust?

Do you have favourite book / film / game reviewers that you could recommend? The outlet is not important (well, it rather not be paywalled); but I am looking for reviewers with independent voice which means: * they are not afraid to constructively criticise new works that almost everyone is acclaiming; * they are, vice versa, not afraid to praise works that everyone is bashing; * most...

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