"if words starts with hones" fails for "hones" itself; I suspect that should have been "honest" in the code.

Good catch — "homes" wasn't in my /usr/share/dict/words for some reason so I missed this case!

*hones

my guess is that they also had to prove that the complement process was mathematically sound

scans roughly to "macarena" if that helps (:

it seems like a natural name choice to me - "v + unix"

Vlang + Unix = Vinix (name choice). I suppose they could of went with Vunix, but "Vin-ix" flows better with both "Lin-ux" and "U-nix".

Think the majority or the V community, would vote for Vinix as the best name.

there was an old riddle I saw on usenet, "there is a key I use for one of its intended purposes several times a day, but when it stopped working I never missed it. what key was that?". the answer was the caps lock key, one of whose intended purposes was reverting back to normal after accidentally pressing it to go into caps mode.

I rebind capslock on all my new computers, usually to ctrl or cmd.

Mine is usually Esc or, when it’s an option, “Esc when pressed, Ctrl when held”.

ctrl+u and ctrl+k (to delete the line forward/backward from the cursor) are super useful too

ctrl+u generally works for lots of password prompts to reset/remove what was typed, wherever you come across a password prompt and a keyboard including those two keys.

I've been using it happily for longer than that! I do remember having to tweak the default search behaviours when I first installed it but it's been largely problem free ever since.

reminds me of the time when you got strips of fn key binding cheat sheets for various popular software packages like lotus 123 and wordperfect, and keyboards came with a space to hold them.

I just recently read the novelisation of "shada"[0]. it was altogether delightful, and reminded me of the time in college when I was a huge fan of dr who novels despite never really getting into the TV show.

[0] https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Shada_(novelisation)

agreed! I'm actually pulled in different directions; I love the nostalgic value of physical books and enjoy possessing them as artefacts, but I vastly prefer the experience of reading an ebook, especially the page turning with one finger.