I just heard about the Microsoft Recall program. What a strange name? I’m used to hearing “recall” in relation to product defects as in “A company issues recall program on product B”.

Someone asked if they were recalling PCs (the title speed–reads that way). I’m in a cave on Windows news.

I take it that Zeitgeist was a bit too early? The sadly unsurprising (or surprising) part is that by consensus, a recall program is something that most would probably consent to.

Command line completion is probably another lesser known one. The command line window is minimized, but typing q: (commands) and q/ or q? (search forward/backward) opens it up completely. Wild mode configures its behaviour.

My SEO strategy is heretical. Search engine rankings accelerate spam from 0 to 100, so I keep a % of my sites' content unindexed. This violates incentives and makes for a good bot repellent. A search console’s sole purpose is to confirm the “efficacy”.

Writing or linking can also be risky or get you DMCA’d (it’s an angry world). If SEO is not a priority, then there’s maximum freedom. My technical friends and the curious know how to find things anyway.

I read about the history and legacy of the Delta Clipper recently. It’s incredible how notability and the right people propels niche technology into popular culture. It “Fulton follies” onto the mainstream and amasses social proof.

Abbreviations are another completion primitive in Vim. Since it’s full auto, it wants to be magical. <Key> presses and scripts can be replayed. Paired with custom completions and output from external tools, it transforms into advanced witchcraft and/or cursed sorcery. In my case, it just expands acronyms.

There’s an artful wisdom gained from age, maybe. I’m still young though so let’s say; personal experience. It’s understanding that sometimes you don’t have to play the game.

Knowing my luck, I’d have light expertise on Intel CPUs right about now if I still had interest in playing games. I heard somewhere once that processor imperfections influence the numbering of its variants (i3, i5, i7). If so, then the wonders of economies of scale?

Here’s Vim editor thesaurus completion. This kind of completion has its various limitations that I might detail later. I mentioned thesauri in passing but my Internet connection is pitiful and writing about editor meta feels a bit bizarre.

More Vim editor meta? Since posting a video of my LaTeX/Vim shenanigans, queries for tips arrive occasionally. Completion and whole line completion are boilerplate hammers. The more buffers and windows loaded, the more “robust”.

I do not contemn the knowledge of the strange? Someone taught me two concepts the other day; doomerism and prompt engineering [?].

Honestly, a lot of global tech news sounds like a prompt engineering session of doom. Hallucinating bots and crawlers is just a beautiful piece of work.

But what on this doomsday is up with its subculture? Why does it read like promptly engineered satire? Wikipedia is a giggle.

I sometimes forget that KiB style units are confusing. The kB / KB is practically ambiguous. Kibi is “2 to the 10” or 1024 (binary), but…

1 kB ≈ 1 KB ≈ 1 KiB ≈ 1000 B ≈ 1024 B? Read my mind?

The SI metric system is still a great feat though and unifies primary dimensions (length) on equivalent units (meters). Instead of hands, inches, feet, chains, furlongs, barleycorns, rods, and links — it’s just meters prefixed arbitrarily. Time’s probably messed up though.

True story: I saw a ‘6 soft white rolls’ bread package morph into “6 50 foot white rolls” because of metric illness.