I have a Macbook with retina at home and a ThinkPad without one at work. Yeah, retina makes text a little nicer, but overall it's not so big deal for me. It may be because, when I'm coding at work, I'm usually pissed off by a couple different things at least, so a less than perfect font is not even on my radar.
> "Under Linux, setting multi-monitor configurations especially using multiple GPUs running binary NVIDIA drivers can be a major PITA" - Bollox.
Not Bollox, multimonitor setup and hdpi scaling is in a sad state in Linux
- "Applications development is a major PITA" - this is ridiculous.
Yea, that is the major framework should I use to desktop app that will be supported in 10 years? Compared to Windows compatibility, it is a joke.
I use Linux for more than 10 years, but let's not pretend that it is in the same league as Win/Mac as Desktop OS. It is great if you use it for dev work, but for general Desktop use, usability, security, compatability is trerrible.
With all the different variants of Linux and customization, I have yet to find a desktop environment that I'm actually happy with. Windows has a lot of features I like, they built on them and make them better. For Linux it usually seems there's no direction, they are all spread thin or not optimized and are slow. Even things like file explorers, since they all need to make their own, they are lacking in comparison to Windows. It is incredibly frustrating to be able to do something in Windows file explorer, and to not be able to do the same thing on Linux and instead have to open up a terminal to do something that just takes 2-3 button presses with a proper GUI.
Dolphin is better than Windows Explorer IMO. What can't it do? I would say Dolphin is just above Explorer in terms of the 'top' graphical file managers across operating systems
I don't really like KDE, so of the environments I've used, they don't use Dolphin. You can install it otherwise, but it tends to be buggy. Part of it too is that when you open/save a file in Windows, it effectively gives you a file explorer. There are some apps that roll their own, but on Linux basically all of them roll their own. A lot of the times they lack features like simply being able to create a new folder when you are saving something.
Dolphin is better than any other Linux file managers but Windows Explorer is best IMO. In directory that contains many files, Windows Explorer runs quickly but Dolphin isn't quick as it (and alternatives are much worse). Also I like ribbon UI on Explorer.
I hate LaTeX typesetting, it looks very archaic and reeks of academism (is that a word?). Unless document require lot of formulas, LaTeX is not a right tool in 2019.
Of course it can, but by default it does not look good, and it is not trivial to change things, hence you see documents which look straight out of 90s.
You probably don't hate Latex typesetting. It's just that the kind of default styles that people, especially beginners, tend to use that often look archaic. Latex doesn't make creating your own unique styles too easy though, which is why I personally prefer Context.
There is nothing shocking here, parent implements strictly regular expressions and compile them to DFA, so of course it will be fast, especially using only ASCII characters and hand chosen regular expressions. Russ Cox articles covers this very well.
Well, most commonly used features like back-references allow to define not-regular language, so there is nothing funny that most regular expression engines are not "regular".
I like to use term regex for "regular" expressions implemented in most languages, by PCRE engine or in Perl and term regular expressions for actual regular expressions as defined in theoretical computer science, that is expressions which can be recognised by finite (either deterministic or non-deterministic) automata.
>Well, most commonly used features like back-references allow to define not-regular language, so there is nothing funny that most regular expression engines are not "regular".
The funny thing is that they're still called regular.
You have no idea. Many Master Planned Communities have very restrictive CC&R's (Covenants, Codes & Restrictions) that you must contractually agree to abide to in order to buy a property there. I've seen all kinds of fun rules like only being allowed to paint your house one of the approved seven shades of beige, only using one type of roofing material, only planting trees and shrubs in any publicly facing frontage/backage/sideage from an approved list, maintaining no publicly visible weeds, maintaining a green front lawn year round and even put up a minimum amount of holiday decoration (lights) during December. Little Boxes, indeed[0].
The homeowner's association has a lot of power in the US, so it is inevitable that it will be misused and used incompetently. However only in the most close-minded and controlling of suburbs can you not plant a vegetable garden.
In some areas, tall grass becomes a habitat for snakes, which can be problematic for children.
For most areas, it's aesthetic.
Here in the south-east, a short lawn will have no mosquitoes but a grassy area will have plenty (as in you'll get 20-30 bites in one evening outdoors), so that's a strong motivation.
On the other hand, snakes eating all the rats would be good for children. Rats are reservoirs for many human diseases, but the think on the snakes!! is a common alibi for forcing your neighborg not to having shrubs, roses, grass, climbers, rocks, ponds and everything that would make your own garden look duller by comparison.
HOA's and HOA bylaws are normally mandated and created by the bank doing the construction loan. They do this to protect the value of the property while they hold interest in the remaining lots. The mortgage industry also loves this since in the end they may be stuck with a property if there is a default.
In some places, particularly wealthy places built up after WW2. Some people like it because "muh property values". Just as many hate it because "muh freedom"
