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maybe if you had put up more effort polishing it it wouldn't have hit the front page :)


I've been using Helix daily for about three years, and it has crashed about five times. It is very, very rare for it to SEGFAULT.


> every week or so there’s a segfault and the editor crashes.


The author of the OP appears to have edited it to indicate that it's just crashing, and doesn't know if it's a segfault or just a panic. It appears there is some known potential for segfaults in tree-sitter, which is a native C dependency.


I have had treesitter crashes in the past editing markdown, causing helix to segfault, but the particular bug that caused my crashes has been fixed since years.


the HHKB studio has a trackpoint as well


The thing about SPAs is that computation can be done in the customer's machine. That usually makes it worse for everyone, both devs and users (although sometimes it doesn't). I personally believe that we can create better experiences routing more pages with more imagination, but at times this industry is quite vocal on what "user expectations" are.


Great article, great website, well done. Don't remember the last time I looked at that PowerBook G4. It is indeed _gorgeous_.


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What has actually changed in the last 13 years regarding Whatsapp? Video. And I believe that's the reason why anyone hasn't actually challenged them regarding messaging: you can build a similar application with similar features with a rather small group of people (not saying it's easy, but it's feasible). But handling those pentabytes of bandwith shared every day? Actually _promoting_ the use of DIY video as the preferred communication media? That's something you can't do as an small shop. And that's, I think, why you cannot compete. I decided to quit Whatsapp, which in Latinamerica is quite an outrageous move: that application is the communication channel for EVERYTHING: all families, all schools, all neighborhoods. I did it because I think Meta's main metric is actually hostile to their users: they want as much of your time as they can get from you, and they'll use are sorts of psychological weaponry to keep you inside. They were actually vocal about it in the past. There's zero reason to trust them. But why is it that no one has come up with a true alternative (although props to Signal)? Well, there's the network effect, for sure. They also employ very good engineers. But I believe the true reason is scale: it didn't use to be that way, but infrastructure costs are now inmense.


If you don't have a laptop, the place you live in / study at probably doesn't have a good public library.


Not a public library -- their institution's library. The context here is higher ed students in poverty situations, and I've never heard of a college or university (that isn't online-only, at least) that didn't have a library.


The article mentions how deeply compressed the files we played were back then, but I'm pretty sure nowadays it's even worse.


Not at all. Any song on youtube uploaded in the last 5-10 years is as good as a 320 kbit mp3. Why would it be with the bandwidth anyone has to today?


I think the poster is confusing/conflating dynamic range compression with file compression


Even limiting the scope to MP3 at the same bitrates modern encoders are much better than what we had back in the 90s.


Obviously you've never listened to SiriusXM.

But seriously, the poster is probably complaining about how most modern music is heavily compressed in dynamic range, so that it sounds better on crappy earbud headphones and smartphone speakers.


Funny, thanks. This is another very fun one in the same spirit:

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/what-your-favorite-sad-d...


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