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For me, it's about comfort. No need to bounce my right hand between the home row, the arrow keys and the mouse. No need to stretch my left pinky to Ctrl and Shift for every shortcut. Everything is near the home row in Vim, by design.
For all of the ciw examples, ce is easier since the cursor is at the first letter of the word.

Where dw works, this game teaches vlllld instead, which is a bad habit to teach.

Ctrl+A increments the first number after the cursor, which is easier than, say, f6r7 in cases where they do the same thing. Similarly, Ctrl+X decrements.

t:t: is weird when fY is much easier.

The Vim simulator has a minor difference compared to real Vim:

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Start on line one and do CTRL-V then j then CTRL-A. Real Vim would increment both. The simulator only increments the one under the cursor.
*Murhpy's law
Not just Claude. In my experience, almost any LLM running in Pi would rather go down rabbit holes than ask for clarification. I think the solution is to restrict what the LLM can do: If it keeps running into "permission denied" when trying to run disassemblers or read files in /lib64, then it's probably not doing what the user intended it to do.

But you're right, that report is definitely written by an LLM. Humans don't typically put parenthetical postmodifiers in headings ("Mechanism (from the shipped libc.so)"), but LLMs just love them too much.

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

  > == Observing Impact on openssh server ==
  > 
  > With the backdoored liblzma installed, logins via ssh become a lot slower.
  > 
  > time ssh [email protected]
  > 
  > before:
  > [email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).
  > 
  > before:
  > real 0m0.299s
  > user 0m0.202s
  > sys 0m0.006s
  > 
  > after:
  > [email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).
  > 
  > real 0m0.807s
  > user 0m0.202s
  > sys 0m0.006s
Re:Qalculate – The Ultimate Desktop Calculator on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @01:07PM (#37065651)
I use it as my calculator app on my phone