Notices by Sven A. Schmidt (finestructure@mastodon.social), page 3

It's interesting how some people's immediate response is: this will make housing and traffic worse, because employers will try to minimise commute time.

They do that already, by forcing people to offices, making them optimise for short commutes on their own.

There's another way to get to a zero commute, it's not to commute.

@inthehands <<1s, no big surprise there!

I'd try emacs but I have no idea how to get multiple cursors 😅

@markmalstrom @Migueldeicaza I should run some tests. I believe Xcode is also quite bad at this but there must be native editors that do better!

@markmalstrom @Migueldeicaza So I've gone ahead and run a little test: A plain text file with 5k lines of “1234567890”, a multi-cursor at the start of each line, pressing “.” to insert a period, (hand-)measuring the time it takes to appear:

VSCode <<1s 🚀
Nova 2s 🤔
Textmate 5s 😓
Xcode 18s 🥵

Any other editors supporting multi-cursor I could test this with?

I’ve been testing Nova as a replacement for VSCode over the last few weeks. I like it a lot for its native feel but what’s quite sad is that the multi-cursor editing performance is much, much worse.

I was editing a 4000 line file with a cursor on each line and it’d take 5ish seconds for each key press to take effect. VSCode updated in maybe half a second. Noticeably slower than normal editing but still fine.

Bit unfortunate that the native app fared so much worse here 😞

@inthehands Man, that election was heartbreaking - and I didn’t even live in the US anymore, let alone take part in the vote. I was in a school exchange in the US in 87/88 and have been following US news and politics ever since. Was glued to CNN all night in Germany, following the news from Tallahassee. What awful, frustrating memories. The profanities I shouted at the TV…

@inthehands Great talk, loved it!

@yatil @thomasfuchs @vowe Oh, hold on. I was using @ivory’s translate, assuming it is calling out to Apple’s translate. It looks like it’s not?

@steve @thomasfuchs @vowe It’s cute, isn’t it? If you know German you can reconstruct the original from the nonsensical English but it’s very clearly a machine translation.

@thomasfuchs These narratives are so pervasive and self-reinforcing. For instance, people always claim how far ahead Google are in machine translation and yet it’s not my experience. Here’s just one example between Apple’s built in translation vs Google’s online translation.

Look at how much better Apple’s translation is.

Original post by @vowe https://social.heise.de/@vowe/109823321518701492

@Gargron Seems to be making a huge difference ?
Keep up the great work!