The world goes on.

Indeed. And most of us don't notice either.

A bunch of William Gibsons.

Philip K. Dick's Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, and Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.

Clifford D. Simak's City.

Classics.

I was 11 when I started roleplaying with gamebooks. I vaguely remember L'œil Noir as a classic among "Livres dont vous êtes le héros". The same year I saw the older kids play a full D&D campaign with the adults during summer camp. In the following months Casus Belli and Jeux & Strategies, two magazines dedicated to RPGs, gradually replaced comics… and we eventually put together an "official" club at our middle school, where we played D&D for a while, and more games as we discovered them: MEGA II, Paranoia, Rêve de dragons, le JRTM, Call of Cthulu, Zone, etc.

Fond memories of Laelith ;-).

> I vaguely remember L'œil Noir as a classic among "Livres dont vous êtes le héros".

Oh yup I read/played those books too! The earliest one you could find the end by going, literally, to the last page of the book. Then at some point they changed that and you couldn't cheat anymore for the end was "hidden" at some random place on the book!

Thanks for reminding me about those (Cthulu I remember too!).

Not sure what's the most surprising to me. That an attack on ANTS happened or that the Entrevue rag still exists. Also, for what it's worth: https://ants.gouv.fr/toute-l-actualite/communication-sur-la-...

> Do you separate the product from the founder?

Yes… if the founder does. I don't care on which side of which ring they are as long as they keep me out of their pointless fights.

FWIW, you don't have to do any of that to enter China.

only to exit

Not true also.

if you say so

The problem is that compositors typically don't have the notion of 3D scene.

It's all just a stack of layers, one window per layer. There is no shadow to speak of, only a mask around the window that provides the illusion of shadow. So there is no real interaction between all those items, no source of light, no distance, and no way to do ray tracing or some other techniques.

They add this black line when an important figure of tech dies. It is the HN equivalent of a black armband: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_armband

Today, it's Tony Hoare: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324054

Interesting. Thanks for info.

Assuming you already had a ~/.vimrc, the only non-defaults in that list are:

    :let no_man_maps=1
    :let loaded_matchparen = 1
    :set comments=""
    :set matchpairs=""
    :set paste

All the other lines set options to their default value, which is pointless.

The values for 'comments' and 'matchpairs' are incorrect, they should be:

    :set comments=
    :set matchpairs=

Enabling 'paste' by default is a very bad idea, with lots of side-effects.

Setting the following variable is useless if you don't enable the 'man' plugin, but maybe you do it manually during a session. I don't know. YMMV.

    :let no_man_maps=1

>All the other lines set options to their default value, which is pointless.

I kinda like doing this for some programs, both as a way to see the current settings at a glance, and to avoid issues if defaults change in an update. At least twice mpv has changed default behavior and ruined my day. Once when they made scrolling vertically change volume instead of seeking (trying to match VLC?), and once when they disabled subtitles if the language matched the audio. Both easy to fix in the config file, both cases where I liked the default until they changed it.

Thanks,I will have to revisit the settings. These are from the move to vim 7.0. 7.0 without these settings was a nightmare and if one was missing it would not work the way I wanted it to.

I didn't switch because there was no reason to. And there is still none.