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Re:Making Emacs Popular Again (2020) on Thursday November 04, 2021 @12:29PM (#29109198)
So does neovim. As an example:

https://github.com/rktjmp/lush.nvim#readme

Re:Eliminating gifted programs won’t make education fair on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @05:07PM (#28936629)
Finland had a great educational system, that pushed them to the top of the PISA world ranking, changed it with a new "progressive" one, still got good scores the very next year because of pure inertia and became the darling of the Left worldwide. Right now their PISA scores are tanking, they barely made top 10 in 2018, ahead of Poland, and are behind all developed Asian countries, plus Estonia and Canada. That should explain why no one harps about how great Finnish educational innovations are lately.

https://factsmaps.com/pisa-2018-worldwide-ranking-average-sc...

Re:Nim 1.6 on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @04:25PM (#28923302)
Or you could use Neovim with Treesitter for selections that use the language grammars.

https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter#increment...

Growth happened before EU accession in 2007 and it was faster and more robust as it's pretty obvious from the graph I linked. What triggered our economic expansion was reforms that began when we almost defaulted, around the time the first non-Communist government (Democratic Convention in 1996) took power. We stopped printing money to cover huge budget deficits and got rid of hyperinflation. We privatized, simplified and decreased taxation, opened the country to foreign investment, stopped in large part protectionist measures, massively deregulated the economy etc. From a closed economic model inspired by North Korea, we now have an economy that's more free than most of Europe, including our regional competitors like Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Russia or Turkey. UE big government career bureaucrats that can't even "fix" their own failing countries, had nothing to teach us and have no merit in what we have achieved.
Romania GDP per capita grew more that 6 times in the last 30 years. Talk about being clueless:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?locat...

Still on the subject of Romania, no, it's not the mythical EU funds that fuel this growth, because the funds are tiny compared to the size of the economy and 2/3 end up not being spent at all because extremely strict anti-corruption measures that make it a massive pain in the ass to try and access EU funds. Government debt is at 35% of GDP, growth rate is constantly among best 3 in EU, constantly over 5%, unemployment under 4%, wages grow between 5-7% annually, inflation is under 3%, criminality is way lower than the West etc. Is that bad? And I think Romania could do even better if not for EU's idiotic trade policy and regulation bullshit.