dimensional_dan's comments

On: How the biggest plane would supersize wind energy

[dimensional_dan]

Maybe make them seaplanes if making airports is too expensive? I just want to bring seaplanes back any way we can really ;)

[_ph_ → dimensional_dan]

Well, for any coastal location, you can just take a ship.

On: It’s a Unix system I know this

[dimensional_dan]

I also used it, a relative had one for their startup. There were dozens of us at least!

On: The case for bad coffee (2015)

[dimensional_dan]

That was one of the most romantic things I have ever read. And like most romantic things it was fundamentally flawed. Excellent prose though.

On: Show HN: I built an interactive course that helps ...

[dimensional_dan]

The comparison is not between hjkl, arrows and mouse movements. Vim motions are far richer than that.

On: Forget the hype, “thinking machines” can’t replace...

[dimensional_dan]

Yes, this is true, but machine learning is but one aspect of artificial intelligence. There's also neural networks, and I reckon we might see some interesting stuff come out of Quantum Computing too...

On: Forget the hype, “thinking machines” can’t replace...

[dimensional_dan]

It would be hard to argue that DNA coding directly effects behaviour. DNA only determines how genes are expressed and proteins are built, where behaviour is an emergent phenomena - behaviour is genes and DNA but it is also the large scale interaction of all of those processes and external input which makes it much more than the sum of the DNA parts.

On: Forget the hype, “thinking machines” can’t replace...

[dimensional_dan]

The sad truth is that most jobs can be replaced by "unthinking machines". This is what is actually happening.

[yieldcrv → dimensional_dan]

which was the whole point of machines

On: Show HN: I built an interactive course that helps ...

[dimensional_dan]

You're just assuming that one set of optimisations are the most important for everyone in UI design. Good UI design doesn't state that it is always the case that people should be able to use it intuitively. Sometimes enhanced performance, speed, and focus over the long term are optimised over intuitiveness. This is the case for Vim. There is room in the world for both sets of optimisations.

[nmz → dimensional_dan]

I do not see how performance, speed and focus are a characteristic of vim. if anything, that's the one thing it lacks.

On: Show HN: I built an interactive course that helps ...

[dimensional_dan]

> I really want to like vim

> Also, why do I have to have a special mode to insert things?

First and foremost Vim is a modal text editor. If you don't like that Vim is probably not for you. Your comment is kind of like saying I'm really trying to like chocolate, but I don't like the flavour.

There's a Vim way of doing things, if you really take the time to learn it then the questions you are asking will all be resolved.