iLemming

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by iLemming 6mo ago
> most of them are dynamically typed (thus don't need sum types, as there are no types) I think you're conflating. "No compile type checking" and "no sum types" are different things. Sum types are about mode
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by iLemming 6mo ago
Ah, that's on Mac, but I forgot to tell you about the Linux. On Linux, I ran my modal-keyboard-toolkit controlled through babashka (clojure) with an exposed nREPL endpoint. That means I can query and control windows - their placement,
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by iLemming 6mo ago
Not ever remotely true. Emacs has one of the best plain and structured text editing ever known to humans. Buffer abstraction alone is a godsend. Indirect buffer editing allows you to edit any piece independently - e.g. I can edit code comme
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by iLemming 6mo ago
I'm a die-hard vimmer. I use vim motions in my editors, my IDEs, my browsers, my WMs, my terminals. I use vim-like navigation system-wide - e.g. for the volume control I switch to "media" mode and press "j/k".
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by iLemming 6mo ago
> Yeah, that's incredibly unsafe. Having a browser on your machines is unsafe. The browser is a massively more dangerous attack surface than an Emacs-based LLM tool. What I have is a curated set of Lisp functions exposed to an LLM t
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by iLemming 6mo ago
> it sounded like That exactly what it is. People's reaction is a default pattern-matching on "AI executes code on your machine." - Ay the horrors!. They have no idea of my cybersec posture, my network perimeter - vpn, fir
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by iLemming 6mo ago
"Technically superior in isolation" argument, unfortunately (as relatively short history of our field shows) rarely manifests in tools being actively used by many. Coalton's type system is absolutely more powerful than what C
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by iLemming 6mo ago
> LLM-s will stop writing human-readable code, as this is additional obstacle, they will work directly with binaries LLMs already internally operate on embeddings - dense floating-point vectors in high-dimensional space - they don't
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by iLemming 6mo ago
gptel has the built-in elisp eval tool. ECA doesn't have it built-in, I use my custom MCP (I posted the link in the comment above).
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by iLemming 6mo ago
Huh. So what do you think "modality" is? Emacs is inherently a modal editor. Transients, isearch, chords (when it expects another key after C-c or C-x) - that's all modality. VSCode has tons of modal features built-in - multi
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by iLemming 6mo ago
gptel has the built-in tool to eval elisp, prompt the LLM to make changes in the active Emacs session and watch it do it.
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by iLemming 6mo ago
(setopt gptel-default-mode 'org-mode) For persistence: https://github.com/agzam/.doom.d/blob/main/modules/custom/ai...
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by iLemming 6mo ago
Evil stands for Extensible VI Layer, it's not "literal Google".
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by iLemming 6mo ago
Evil is not just great. It's the only "true" vim layer outside of vim/nvim worth commending. Gary Bernhardt once said: "there's no such thing as vim mode", in the sense that every single attempt to emulate
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by iLemming 6mo ago
> If you let the footgun machine constantly generate new code Are you talking about autonomous LLM projects that automatically write code? Yeah, no shit, I wouldn't run anything like that directly on any machine without sandboxing.
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by iLemming 6mo ago
Don't try to "learn Emacs". Grok the foundational layer - Lisp. Emacs is not an editor - it's first and foremost Lisp interpreter with a built-in editor. You need to get two things: REPL (evaluating Lisp expressions in-p
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by iLemming 6mo ago
Can't agree more. Lisp was discovered/invented for the purpose of AI research. Of course, modern neural nets and transformers is a big departure from McCarthy's vision of AI - logical, interpretable, symbolic. However, if the
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by iLemming 6mo ago
Hmm... it's hard to imagine that fishing with dynamite ever caused species extinction; trawling industry definitely did. I don't think it's a fitting analogy, but I get what you're trying to say. I'm not arguing abo
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by iLemming 6mo ago
Ah come on, guys, let's talk pragmatically. "Malleable editor as an OS layer" has benefits beyond subjective reasoning. Emacs has had M-x shell-command and arbitrary elisp eval forever. A metacircular MCP isn't some new
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by iLemming 6mo ago
> I don’t see a particularly clear winner between them Because deep down they are incomparable categorically. Separate the tools from the foundational ideas and you see the very different value. Vim-model of text navigation is fantastic,
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by iLemming 6mo ago
> Tons of companies are still fixing the losses from vibe coding. Well, you have to separate "future of" from "ensuing damage". This is similar to the fishing industry. Fishermen in the past used spears, rods, small n
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by iLemming 6mo ago
So? My terminal has the same full system access. If I didn't use Emacs, I'd be using Claude code in it. It's contained locally on my computer, I don't see any problem here. I use Emacs like my OS-layer. Why would I compl
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by iLemming 6mo ago
> I don't think a lot of people understand what they're missing Very true. There's an enormous tacit knowledge gap. Check this out: I have to use Mac for work. My WM is Yabai, which is controlled via Hammerspoon (great too
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by iLemming 6mo ago
Of course. I've tried different AI packages and currently gptel and ECA remain the main ingredients. This is a quickly changing landscape, and things may change, but for now it feels very good. I like gptel because it's enormously
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by iLemming 6mo ago
Care to explain? Why is it? You think it's dangerous or some other reasons?
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That's a quote. You may want to ask Sheikh Mohammed (current ruler of Dubai) for why his dad was mocking him for his choice of a car. I just posted the quote - felt relevant.
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by iLemming 6mo ago
"My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, and my grandson is going to ride a camel". Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, the former Emir of Dubai.
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by iLemming 6mo ago
Spacemacs "is not batteries-included" version of Emacs. You say that and people may get confused. It's not a "different version" of Emacs, it's not Emacs at all - it's an Emacs config you can configure - a
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by iLemming 6mo ago
First GitHub, now NPM? Oh no... That is happening, guys. Rise of the machines. I hope Jira is next and Slack follows.
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by iLemming 6mo ago
Yup, whenever someone asks "how many people work on your team?", I usually answer: "about one third..."

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