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2026-08-18 22:08 #

img Live again, more live like this.

2026-08-18 20:20 #

/me is listening to “Last Song” by Marta & Tricky

2026-08-18 16:15 #

img I did it again…

2026-08-18 15:39 #

VisiGrid: A spreadsheet built like a code editor, with a fair comparison of Numbers vs. Excel.

2026-08-12 19:13 #

BibTeX Done Right: Lot of useful advices here.

2026-08-11 17:04 #

Stata 19 now includes just over 20,000 pages of documentation. Last time I checked (Stata 15), it was 14,791 pages.

~
» for i in /Applications/StataNow/docs/*.pdf; do pdfinfo "$i" | grep "^Pages:"; done | awk '{s+=$2} END {print s}'
20309
2026-08-11 15:21 #

I guess I now have the opportunity to study statistics again.

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2026-08-11 09:00 #

Looks like they are on par and well below 50 ms (Vim = zero plugin, Neovim = 5 plugins):

» time /usr/bin/vim +q
/usr/bin/vim +q  0,02s user 0,01s system 79% cpu 0,036 total

~
» time nvim +qa
nvim +qa  0,03s user 0,02s system 79% cpu 0,062 total
2026-08-11 08:52 #

Well, I knew it, you knew it, everybody knows it. Windows is not a high quality product. I really wanted to like it, and I geniunely loved some aspects of it. But there are so, so many bugs and bad design decisions, it’s a death by twenty thousand cuts. — Windows 11 after two decades of macOS: okay, but also awful