syklemil

Yeah, it's essentially a weathervane or thermometer. You can indicate the state of a country by it.

At this point the US has joined the ranks of, well, grim theocracies. Not that the people at the top in the US worship anything but Mammon.

>What is C++? A miserable huge pile of "should"s

TIOBE literally ranks languages by search results. It's at best a measure of SEO. It is, generally, a trash metric that shouldn't be used for anything.

When the leader of the world's largest superpower dreams of Anschluss of their otherwise allied neighbour, that's not clickbait, it's the state of international policy and diplomacy with the leader the US elected.

not the "I have no mouth and I must scream" future, just the "I have a mouth and I must groan" present

Texting vs talking has some situational context. E.g. if you're somewhere public, talking on the phone is often frowned upon, but you may text quietly. In a car it's reversed.

But a lot of us old folks do want people to sit down and shut up. It likely also plays into impressions of foreigners—a lot of immigrants are probably doing something they consider normal by talking on the phone on the bus, while everyone around them thinks they're being incredibly rude.

Calls and meetings can often be an email, too. Better to not disrupt others if you can avoid it.

It's one of many things out of the bible that have pretty much just become a saying (the splinter/beam one)

Yeah, this is just pot calling the kettle black, or seeing the splinter in his neighbor's eye but not the beam in his own (or whatever it is in English).

I've moved on from vim to neovim, and I think I'll continue using something in that family in the future. It's a pretty stable experience overall, but the inclusion of LSPs and tree-sitter have been good improvements too.

Ultimately editors are tools, similar to keyboards, os-es, screens, chairs, shoes and so on. There are some objective quality differences between a well-constructed tool and some slapdash nonsense, and there are a huge amount of subjective quality differences. What suits me may not suit you, and vice versa.

It's generally good to try out some new (to you) stuff and see if you like it. If you do, great; if you don't, well, now you know. I think my worst experience was with Acme (or Wily? can't remember), during a phase where I experimented with Plan 9 stuff. Ultimately very not my cup of tea, but apparently Rob Pike (who made it) and some other gophers still enjoy it? Which is good for them, just like it's good for me that I can choose not to use it. It's just personal tastes, and I still think it's good that I gave it a go.

The debate over holding down modifier keys vs modes is also a part of the Emacs vs vi debate from many decades ago. There might be some statistics for what works best for the most people now, but again, use what suits you. And try some new stuff when you get curious, it's generally good for you.

The Energiewende seems to be progressing okay as far as I can tell: Solar rollout is exceeding expectations; wind is lagging but still proceeding.

They seem to be struggling more in a couple of other Wende: The Wärmewende hasn't even gotten to the point where they ban fossil heating in new construction (we banned oil furnaces in existing buildings back in 2020 here in Norway).

And as for the Verkehrswende, the rule seems to be don't mention the Verbrenner. They seem to be pretty good at pulling out any excuse not to drive less, or at the very least drive electric. Meanwhile with some tax breaks on EVs and high taxes on fossil cars Norway almost has no new fossil car sales; even the buses here in Oslo are almost all electric now.

I guess at least they're paying us well for the fossil fuels we sell them. It's starting to feel a bit like being a sober drug dealer.

That's what the bloatee is for

I think you'll have to look in the retirement segment for that. Us millennials had a bunch of trouble getting into the housing market but I think were eventually able to with parental help; we're likely currently managing some mortgages OK.

The generations after us seem less able to get into the housing market even with parental aid. I'm sure it's nothing to worry about, it's not like a housing crisis could destabilise politics in general or anything.