* I’m old. I learned Vim many years before VSCode existed and I have good muscle memory for using it.
* Vim defines many editing commands are available in other places such as shells, db clients, REPLs so I can bring my way of working with me across OSs.
* Learn Vim once and you know it for all time as other editors come and go.
* Vim/NeoVim has even more plugins than VSCode both its own and via LSP, etc.
* Vim is true FOSS. No one can take it away from you, control how you use it or insist they are given ownership of your work including training rights.
* I’ve worked with many VSCode users since it launched. The way I see them using it seems slow to do simple tasks and unappealing.
* Vim is getting easier to use because LLMs are making it easier to learn some of the obscure features.
I don’t mind what editor anyone else wants to use so long as I can use NeoVim. I’ve worked some jobs where the boss insisted everyone has to use what they use and I’ve never stayed long when that happens.
I'd nursed a foot callus for years that hurt badly when I walked barefoot. Weeks ago, sitting on the locker room bench, I hit my limit. In desperation I pulled out my pocket knife to do some field surgery. A few minutes into it I glanced up to see two guys sitting across the room staring at me open-eyed as I dug into my foot with the tip of that pointy knife (8.5" with 3.5" blade)! I just smiled and dug that sucker out.
Should have gone after that callus a year ago! Amazing how such a tiny thing can aggravate.
But you're right about a knife alarming people. Years ago in another life I opened a similar knife to cut a cable and my boss literally jumped backward and exclaimed in fear. But he came from a place where, when someone pulls out a knife someone else usually gets stabbed.
They were probably just envious you were rocking a Kershaw Iridium Dessert Warrior. Which also comes in at under $100. And the Iridium family are pretty nice knives.
Tangentially, if that callus was a plantar callus (circular with a painful point in the center), you can get sticky pads with salicylic acid from the drugstore that will gradually destroy it. Much safer than digging into your foot with a knife, but I'm glad to hear it worked for you!
Yes, I didn't know WTF was there but over the years it had grown beyond annoying , becoming so painful I couldn't tolerate it. I thought perhaps something (a splinter, piece of glass or steel, etc.) had become embedded in my foot. I was determined to dig it out. I'm tall and not flexible so I cannot easily see all of the bottom of my foot. But I can reach it.
The callus was surprisingly small (~1/2") and came out in one piece after about 10 minutes of work. Nothing embedded. No bleeding, just a lot of knife-wiggling. The bottom of the foot is really tough!
I really don't care about most new phone features and for my laptop the M1 Max is still a really decent chip.
I do want to run local LLM agents though and I think a Mac Studio with an M5 Ultra (when it comes out) is probably how I'm going to do that. I need more RAM.
I bet I'm not the only one looking at that kind of setup now that was previously happy with what they had..
Apple has made some good progress on memory sharing over thunderbolt. If they could get that ironed out you maybe could run a good LLM on a cluster of Mac minis.
Again you cannot today but people are working on it. One guy might have gotten it to work but it’s not ready for prime time yet.
> Apple has made some good progress on memory sharing over thunderbolt
The only reason that Thunderbolt exists is to expose DMA over an artificial PCI channel. I'd hope they've made progress on it, Thunderbolt has only been around for fourteen years after all.
* I’m old. I learned Vim many years before VSCode existed and I have good muscle memory for using it.
* Vim defines many editing commands are available in other places such as shells, db clients, REPLs so I can bring my way of working with me across OSs.
* Learn Vim once and you know it for all time as other editors come and go.
* Vim/NeoVim has even more plugins than VSCode both its own and via LSP, etc.
* Vim is true FOSS. No one can take it away from you, control how you use it or insist they are given ownership of your work including training rights.
* I’ve worked with many VSCode users since it launched. The way I see them using it seems slow to do simple tasks and unappealing.
* Vim is getting easier to use because LLMs are making it easier to learn some of the obscure features.
I don’t mind what editor anyone else wants to use so long as I can use NeoVim. I’ve worked some jobs where the boss insisted everyone has to use what they use and I’ve never stayed long when that happens.
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