iLemming

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by iLemming 19d ago
> easier to experience their writings in English I suppose, it may feel easier, because English can be dense, it can feel more compact. Of course, it has this chameleonic ability to implode into scholarly dry, sophisticated and complex l
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by iLemming 19d ago
Yes! The opening line of Pride and Prejudice alone is already immediately captivating. And then makes you re-read it again, after you finish the book and it suddenly shines differently. I feel enormously fortunate for being fluent in Russia
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by iLemming 19d ago
> Java interop being idiomatic is the worst part of Clojure But Clojure today is not only on JVM - I use nbb, and sometimes Squint; I fooled around Clojure-Dart; You can even wrap some Elisp into Clojure today, although I have yet to fin
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by iLemming 19d ago
You really need to grok C and understand Lisp. Learning just these two well, will give you most of the foundation you're ever gonna need. Nearly every other PL is a bunch of accretions on top of one of these; sometimes those accretions
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by iLemming 20d ago
> why are some people moving away from it? Good developers been moving away from it for a long time, and for a bunch of good reasons. OOP-paradigm promised "easy abstractions" at the time when majority of programmers were autod
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My message to my fellow humans: Emacs is good(reddit.com)
24 points by iLemming 21d ago|1 comments
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by iLemming 21d ago
Interesting how nobody said: "you're welcome" [yet]. It's almost like we all feel like that's how it should be - this is normal. We like to talk about Emacs - no need to thank for it. I can, of course, only speak fo
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by iLemming 21d ago
> why people have an issue with VS Code Indeed. Why people had any beef with: - Borland Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, Turbo C++, Turbo Assembler, Borland JBuilder - Visual Basic IDE, Visual SourceSafe, FrontPage - Dreamweaver, Brackets, TextMat
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by iLemming 21d ago
> I'm mostly reading/searching/navigating I think you need someone sufficiently experienced to give you the tour of what's possible in Emacs. Search is what sold it to me and I have never seen anything close to that i
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by iLemming 21d ago
> But I don’t think it is meaningfully slower in practice It's all relative and perceptional, no? It really irks me that when you grab a freshly installed VSCode and install just a single extension for vim-support, there comes a pal
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by iLemming 21d ago
Because Emacs is not a text editor, it's rather a text orchestrator. And Emacs Lisp is specifically text-oriented, unlike most other Lisps that are data-oriented. It fits incredibly well for LLM-flows. I'm surprised how it remains
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by iLemming 21d ago
> Text editing is a solved problem Text manipulation isn't just about creating content - it's also about how you consume and interact with it. Just because text appears in a different app, with a different format, or different
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by iLemming 21d ago
> Because very few people actually care about the things that emacs has to offer. Most people are simply unaware of "what Emacs has to offer". Even long-time users sometimes don't realize what Emacs actually is. They treat
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by iLemming 23d ago
Regardless of how you do it, I can't recommend enough that parents do this one thing that I did with my kids. Do force them to write something. Every. Single. Day. It doesn't really matter what about, just ask them to do it and sh
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by iLemming 25d ago
I wonder how Janet compares to Jolt and when should you choose one vs another.
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by iLemming 26d ago
Yup. Watching so many of my peers struggle with some basic tasks like grabbing a url and inserting it into a chat buffer. I mean, come on. How many times a day you do this? And you just settled with always: - going back to the browser - cli
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by iLemming 26d ago
I'm not moaning and not accusing anyone, but you. You, specifically you, making the living unsustainable. Who the hell taught you the letters and how to type? Check on them, I think they just died out of shame. Honestly, I think the wo
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by iLemming 26d ago
Almost irrelevant to the story itself, but here's what it feels like to use Emacs these days. The story talks about monospace fonts and how unappealing they could be for reading prose. It is a fascinating post on itself, but here'
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by iLemming 27d ago
> everyone wants the problem to go away And we do feel hopeless and helpless. And the only thing we can do is to promote and advocate for science. It was a scientist who made us stop adding lead to gasoline. It was because of scientists
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by iLemming 27d ago
It is alarming, but what's truly insane is that every single year something huge now burns on the West Coast: 2018 Mendocino, 2020 August Complex and Creek Fire, 2021 Dixie Fire and Bootleg Fire, there are countless more - Domino, Dulc
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by iLemming 27d ago
Ignore it. You have written a nice, pocket-size post - easily consumable within a minute. OC is just being a jerk, perhaps they are dyslexic or have problems with focus and concentration. Good post, interesting easter egg, thanks for going
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by iLemming 27d ago
Can we collectively just stop doing this? This is never helping anyone, it just adds noise and increases frustration. After all, most technical posts are not prose, I can't ever imagine anyone reading them and honestly complaining that
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by iLemming 27d ago
> Aren’t you the problem? I am. We all are. We are an invasive, parasitic species, and regardless of where we live or our lifestyle, we still are a great threat to the environment. I'm sorry that my mere existence is a huge inconven
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by iLemming 27d ago
Yes, that's why I mentioned all that - the parity and it not being the same amount. But I stand corrected - my initial claim of "US gas is not cheap" was incorrect. I just needed to look up "How US gas prices compare to
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by iLemming 27d ago
I'm not trying to deceive anyone - no matter how anyone could twist it, it is true - the heat is real, the water shortages are the new reality, and I am in fact spending more on water than gas. And it's not because I don't ha
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by iLemming 27d ago
A few years ago (before wildfires forced us to move), we were in the East Bay of San Francisco. East Bay gets unusually hot - the mountain range prevents cool winds from the ocean passing over. Summer was extreme, the AC couldn't keep
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by iLemming 27d ago
Haha. I guess you imagined "Deep Dive Dubai" or something? My pool is basically an oversized bathtub. We would've called it exactly that if it was installed inside the house.
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by iLemming 27d ago
I can explain. I work from home - no commute. Yes, I don't have to drive as much as the average person has to in my area. This summer has been extremely hot, hotter than any previous - seems that's becoming a new normal. Past coup
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by iLemming 27d ago
I feel like you have not watched any videos of what's going on there right now. People lining up to buy any gas, and those lines are miles long, sometimes they have to wait for 8-10 hours. The crisis now causing shortages in neighborin
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by iLemming 27d ago
Thank you captain. I'm sure this would greatly reduce the climate change effects. Doing it posthaste - the world needs saving.

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