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mechanicum commented on One Handed Keyboard   github.com/htx-studio/One... · Posted by u/doppp
mechanicum · a month ago
Their video on YouTube, in English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vW12gQ4Klc
mechanicum commented on State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions   jeffquast.com/post/state-... · Posted by u/SG-
skerit · a month ago
I see Ghostty does not support (and does not plan on adding support for) Sixels, instead preferring the Kitty image protocol.

Now if the Kitty image protocol is so great and the Sixel stuff is so bad, ~~why is it only used in Kitty and Ghostty?~~

*Edit: it's also supported in Konsole, WezTerm, ... but still I'm interested in why we have 2 competing protocols right now.

mechanicum · a month ago
More than two, e.g. there’s also the Inline Images Protocol supported by iTerm2 and WezTerm.

Kovid documented his rationale at some length here: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/33

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mechanicum commented on Jeffrey Hudson the Court Dwarf of the English Queen Henrietta Maria of France   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef... · Posted by u/daverol
tetris11 · 2 months ago
> Various theories existed for his size, including that his mother choked on a gherkin while pregnant, but he probably had a growth hormone deficiency caused by a pituitary gland disorder.

> No details of his captivity were recorded except that he claimed to have grown to 45 inches (110 centimetres) during this time, doubling his height after 30 years of age,[9] which he attributed to the hardships he had suffered.

Hormones are amazing, I wonder if there's any literature on what triggered his later growth

mechanicum · 2 months ago
I mean, 25 years and 27 inches later, and only reappearing after the queen Hudson served had died, with no tale of exactly where he’d been or how he got back… the cynical explanation would be that he was simply a different man claiming to be Hudson in the hope of a handout from the restored monarchy.
mechanicum commented on How I'm using Helix editor   rushter.com/blog/helix-ed... · Posted by u/f311a
inatreecrown2 · 2 months ago
I need the ability to run the current file with a shell script / program. Like Vim offers with :!whatever %

Last time I checked Helix did not offer this. Has this changed?

mechanicum · 2 months ago
These have been available since mid-2022:

  :insert-output Run shell command, inserting output before each selection.
  :append-output Run shell command, appending output after each selection.
  :pipe, :| Pipe each selection to the shell command.
  :pipe-to Pipe each selection to the shell command, ignoring output.
  :run-shell-command, :sh, :! Run a shell command
The placeholder for the current file is %{buffer_name} (not as bad as it looks, the command line has tab completion for basically everything).

mechanicum commented on Notes on switching to Helix from Vim   jvns.ca/blog/2025/10/10/n... · Posted by u/chmaynard
klaussilveira · 2 months ago
Helix still has no way to emulate Sublime's Ctrl + Click (placing multiple carets), nor Sublime's Ctrl + D (duplicating selections and creating a multiple caret for each)?
mechanicum · 2 months ago
Cmd + click places multiple carets on macOS. Apparently – I never touch the mouse when I’m editing in Helix. I don’t know which modifier it is on other platforms.

I’m not sure if replicating Sublime’s Ctrl + D is possible or not, but there are other ways to achieve every use case for it I can immediately think of. e.g. I think I’d typically be doing `<space>h` to select every instance of the symbol under the cursor, or using `s`elect to reduce a selection to a match, possibly yanked and pasted.

mechanicum commented on A recent chess controversy   chicagobooth.edu/review/d... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
abdulhaq · 3 months ago
Can anyone tell me why numbers in this article are being rendered higgledy-piggledy on my browser, Firefox / Windows 11?
mechanicum · 3 months ago
It uses old style figures rather than lining, if that’s what you mean by “higgledy-piggledy”. See https://practicaltypography.com/alternate-figures.html#oldst...
mechanicum commented on Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers   reuters.com/world/uk/brit... · Posted by u/alex77456
remarkEon · 3 months ago
>The proposals are the government's latest bid to tackle illegal immigration, with the new ID being a form of proof of a citizen's right to live and work in the UK.

How does a digital ID solve an illegal immigration problem? I watched the video and the suggestion is that this makes it easier for employers to verify that someone is authorized to work. Is that actually true? I don't live in the UK and have not visited in several years. If the idea is that a digital ID authorizes employment ... well I hope people can see the problem, here.

mechanicum · 3 months ago
I don’t think so, no. This is how it works today: https://www.gov.uk/check-job-applicant-right-to-work

If your new hire is a British or Irish citizen, you ask for their passport on their first day and retain a photo/scan. In most cases this means that a layperson has to verify that the (possibly foreign) document is genuine, but I don’t think fake passports are a statistically meaningful problem.

If they have a visa or, probably most likely in recent years, EU right to remain, they will have a share code for online verification. That takes you to a page with their details and a passport-style photo that you can download as PDF for your records.

Identifying whether someone has the right to work has never been a problem. If somebody is working illegally, it’s because the employer is either knowingly employing them illegally, or doesn’t care/bother to check (or even know that they’re legally required to do so – a perennial problem with early stage startups in London, in my experience).

mechanicum commented on iTerm2 Web Browser   iterm2.com/documentation-... · Posted by u/danielfalbo
mechanicum · 3 months ago
A small practical example of how you might use this: https://imgur.com/mTS0vHO

Helix on the left and a Clojure repl at top-right in terminal panes. Portal data viewer in a browser pane at bottom-right.

mechanicum commented on iTerm2 Web Browser   iterm2.com/documentation-... · Posted by u/danielfalbo
whirlwin · 3 months ago
Would be nice if the browser tabs had a terminal pane inside. Usually I'm reading something in the browser that I want to immediately run via the terminal.
mechanicum · 3 months ago
You can have that. Cmd-Opt-Shift-V or H to split with a different profile, or use the move/swap options in the context menu to put any panes in the same tab after creation.

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