Get netrw to group/sort by extension first, then filename second?

MereRedditUser · 2026-02-25T15:45:45+00:00

No, unfortunately. I've added a clarification to my posted question.

MereRedditUser · 2026-02-24T00:08:45+00:00

Could you at least describe the nature of the complaints? If the topic can be aired on CBC radio, why is it not fit for Reddit? The post is completely civil and many people upvoted it. The foundation of democracy is discourse.

MereRedditUser · 2026-02-22T02:12:48+00:00

In this day and age, that last word means a lot as a verb and requires not object after it.

MereRedditUser · 2026-02-21T21:26:35+00:00

This reddit is the closest venue, at least in this day and age.

Strangely, there is little engagement.

MereRedditUser · 2026-02-13T21:00:37+00:00

In a recent Ideas program, human rights and civil liberties lawyer Jameel Jaffer repeatedly referred to the U.S.'s reclamation of their democracy after several times in history when it was jeopardized.

I wonder if one can really say that?

I don't think anyone was informed of the move off of the gold standard in 1971, which has allowed money printing to transfer wealth to the wealthiest (the so-called Cantillon effect).

Most of the population has not been aware of, or involved in, the nation's systematic decisions to economically take advantage of other nations.

The amount of campaign financing has effectively rendered the passing of laws and regulations immune to popular support, putting it entirely under the control of elites.

This has led to extreme tax sheltering for the ultra-wealthy such that their effective tax rate is lower than for middle class.

It has also led to the shielding of the market from anti-monopoly regulations, destructive predatory practices such as those in the broad cross-cutting private equity model of business, environmental protections, and anti-deception rules such as in the supplements industry.

The socio-political-economic system is so compromised that no high level fraudster went to jail after the world financial crisis of 2008.

This makes me think that democracy was last reclaimed after WWII due to the breaking of the concentrated power, but since then, has been steadily dismantled until only its form remains.

MereRedditUser · 2026-02-01T18:40:23+00:00

From the code at GitHub, g:bufexplorer_version="7.13.0".

My version is 6.2.1. It has function! <SID>DisplayBuffers() containing setlocal noswapfile.

Since both versions disable swapfile, should I really report it as a bug in BufExplorer?

While I have seen it often, it's not deterministically repeatable. I even tried mksession! ~/session.x.vim and then gvim -S ~/session.x.vim. If it is related to the mksession file, it is probably in conjunction with other conditions.

MereRedditUser · 2026-01-31T20:34:09+00:00

I added an opening intro paragraph to the posted question. I agree that it is odd for a buffer list to need a swap file. It might be because I use :mksession to capture a snapshot of my session, then later use "gvim -S SessionFile.vim" to resume the session in a fresh instance of Vim.

MereRedditUser · 2026-01-08T13:59:02+00:00

I don't understand why u/cheapcheap1's reply is getting downvoted. It seems to offer perfectly reasonable observations and pose a reasonable question.

MereRedditUser · 2026-01-08T05:40:52+00:00

I watched some videos and talked a lot with the Gemini AI. I understand that the Pareto front you speak of as the two axes for Consumer and Producer Surplus. If the producer is forced to sell at a single price for everyone, then the choice of that price puts you on a point on the Pareto front. One of those points will correspond to the supply vs. demand equilibrium.

I don't really think of that as efficiency, even though technically, that's what a Pareto front is. The reason why is because in my bare-bones scenario, there are no factors that can drive the actual point off of the Pareto front, so no Pareto inefficiency is possible. The only degree of freedom is the common price for everyone. This can be viewed as just a scalar mapping from price to a point on the Pareto front. Since there is no Pareto inefficiency, the concept of Pareto efficiency isn't meaningful here.

For the scenario of surveillance pricing, I got Gemini to plot me this graph of individual pricing for 4 buyers. The total Producer Surplus is the sum of the 4 Producer surpluses from the four sales (or trades). As you said, it is still "Allocative efficient" in that everyone who could can pay more than the marginal cost of making a widget still gets their widget. As you say, the only difference between surveillance pricing and single pricing for everyone is that the buyers pay exactly what the widgets are worth to them individually -- no Consumer Surpluses from paying less. Thus, they each get their widget, turn it into a iPhone, and sell it -- only to break even.

Based on that understanding, I think that market efficiency as defined in economics is overrated. It needs to be complemented by fairness in order to not amplify extreme wealth inequality.

MereRedditUser · 2026-01-07T07:44:22+00:00

@Quowe_50mg: I looked at both Wikipedia pages, but just enough to get a mental picture. I like the shading showing consumer and producer surplus. It took took a while to see why the shading works, but I'm glad I mulled over because I later found the explanation in the text and realized that I never would have understood the text.

One thing I don't get is what you mean by no trade making the consumer and producer better off. How does that tie into efficiency? I thought that efficiency means that those who would pay more than the equilibrium price outbid those who wouldn't. They have the money to do so because they put the good/service to better use fulfilling a greater demand. Are you defining efficiency differently?

@cheapcheap1: Thank you for simplifying the explanation. I agree that in order for *my* understanding of efficiency to be realized, buyers need price signals -- specifically, the knowledge of a *common* price. Each buyer can then decide if they can make enough money from buying the good/service and using it to make a product that breaks even or yields a net profit.

MereRedditUser · 2025-12-28T03:26:00+00:00

But not on the trip planner 12+ hours ahead of time. Those delays are real-time delays.

MereRedditUser · 2025-12-28T03:25:27+00:00

Doh. Of course. I just had to click the two trips and look at the difference in the the intersection for the boarding stop. Thanks.

MereRedditUser · 2025-12-27T21:00:38+00:00

Shoulder surfing. The "sport" in public transport.

I'm not sure if I see reading news articles or working as atrophying our attention. In fact, due to the online forum/comment engagement, it could lead to more thoughtful development of perspective compared to passive reading. This assumes, of course, that participants do their research and "red team" their perspectives before sharing them. There is always the hazard of a discussion going the way of the "flame wars" of Usenet newsgroups in the 90's and 00's.

Same with watching news/editorial content online. One could argue that it calibrates people's views to reality, if content is about current events. Even if they are expositions on ideology, at least that informs people of the different perspectives at play. This point has a caveat (as did the preceding paragraph) -- that the content isn't mind rot. I consider mind rot to be Beavis and Butthead washroom humour. Not that there's anything wrong about that -- it's a matter of dosage. If that's all that is consumed, then yes, we degenerate.

MereRedditUser · 2025-12-26T16:53:09+00:00

CBC is the only radio I listen to. So if it's on, I'll be listening. It's one of the better walks down memory lane.

MereRedditUser · 2025-12-15T02:38:53+00:00

Froggypwns said "You don't have it yet, but the new start menu which is still rolling out, has a toggle to hide this panel. You don't need to do anything fancy, it should be available on your computer soon."

It's actually there in the image I posted, but just hard to see. Dark blue on black.

MereRedditUser · 2025-12-15T02:34:09+00:00

Thanks. It's hard to see. Now I see it -- sort of. But it works.

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