jr_isidore

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by jr_isidore 3mo ago
I'd recommend looks or rizz maxxing. I hear there's too many wieners and not enough buns in your country.
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by jr_isidore 3mo ago
All the time. Sometimes they do an absolutely bang-up job.
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by jr_isidore 3mo ago
porn
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by jr_isidore 3mo ago
When you join a new company, is it faster to fix a bug rewriting everything from scratch or to modify what's there? Seriously, get your head out of your ass.
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by jr_isidore 3mo ago
In a town like SF, there's only so much hanging out dudes can do before it starts getting gay.
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by jr_isidore 3mo ago
Well, then you didn't do it right. The TV show is garbage, the books were sublime (although like LoTR, their pacing was backloaded, so you had to suffer though the first half of each book. The third book is more uniformly paced).
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by jr_isidore 3mo ago
Children of Time is nothing like Anathem, but both are so, so bad. CoT was good for about a hundred pages, and then I just got sick of spiders berating each other. Quit around the midpoint.
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by jr_isidore 3mo ago
GGP's claim is emacs is better learned as a lisp machine than a text editor, which is akin to saying a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors. GGP's critique is typical of poor exposition. Read the first chapter
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by jr_isidore 3mo ago
GGP's claim is emacs is better learned as a lisp machine than a text editor, which is akin to saying a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors. In other words, it does a neophyte no good to see the matrix without having
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by jr_isidore 3mo ago
No one, including yourself, approached emacs from a Lisp perspective.
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by jr_isidore 3mo ago
He means GGP saved GP the chore of reading by pegging the article as a typical Elon hit piece. You know how HN articles can be so longwinded.
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by jr_isidore 3mo ago
"Flibbertigibbeting" and "Beboppin" are the new i'm waiting for it to compile, but while the binary outcome of compilation (either it compiles or it doesn't) keeps your head in the game, the open-endedness of a
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by jr_isidore 3mo ago
Get over a million users. Then sell ads, or sell their data.
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by jr_isidore 3mo ago
You misunderstand. Every mailing list has their healthy share of drive-by contributions, but emacs.devel contains a handful of dudes for whom *all they do* is emacs. We're talking nights, weekends, holidays. If they were indeed work
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by jr_isidore 3mo ago
Half of the obscure features mentioned required the author's massaging to make useful to himself. The history of these "solutions looking for a problem" is common, some guy reveling in a rabbit hole of his own creation, the
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by jr_isidore 3mo ago
Try asking it a coding question, one that doesn't diminish your self-worth.
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by jr_isidore 3mo ago
Bro, the FSF is an unchecked post office box somewhere in Kendall Square, and besides, do you really think $10 per month makes a difference? I don't know what these guys feed off of, but it's not food or anything else that money
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by jr_isidore 3mo ago
appears to receive stable funding from the FSF No, about ten underemployed or semi-retired graybeards on the emacs.devel mailing list burn most of their waking hours futzing with emacs. That's not an exaggeration. They receive no r
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by jr_isidore 3mo ago
He means time passing, aka bitrot. Emacs is designed for quick hacks which often rely on filesystem and shell behaviors outside itself to remain constant.
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by jr_isidore 4mo ago
Good question. I was told in 2024 to get an RTX 3090 (24 GB VRAM), so I did, and nothing on HuggingFace was usable.
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by jr_isidore 4mo ago
Maths is hard and taught as an abstract, seemingly useless series of rules with nothing to show for their correct application. The only kids who get excited about it are the 1% who naturally take to olympiad style problems. He's 10 y
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by jr_isidore 4mo ago
Hi Wasim, do you like websites?
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by jr_isidore 4mo ago
Given their vastly higher supply of willing participants, the gays definitely have it pretty good, but I'd never trade that feeling I get seeing a beautiful woman online or in print.
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by jr_isidore 4mo ago
Bro expects me to have friend, much less friends plural?
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by jr_isidore 4mo ago
People will say that the idea came from AI That's presumably because you said AI helped you with the idea. These same people will disparage AI's abilities Where's the contradiction? Ask an AI to rephrase your question so
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by jr_isidore 5mo ago
Tarver's piece was new to me, and fun, and spot on. Yes, LLMs bring the emacs cruft heap to the masses. A throwaway culture on disk is a lot less worrisome than one on soil.
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by jr_isidore 5mo ago
Are we reading the same article? OP is saying LLMs let normies tweak their personal workflows in the same way we emacs nerds had been doing for decades. Contrary to the old saw about it being an OS, Emacs is really just a shell but with l
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by jr_isidore 5mo ago
OP is trying to say Home Depot let normies do their own small repairs, and you're protesting saying "No, no, that's not how we pros do it."
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by jr_isidore 5mo ago
Well taken, but for MANY years, I copied and pasted elisp snippets off stackoverflow without understanding any of it. And to this day, there as many xkcd-style "space heaters" as there are emacs users. OP's point stands tha
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by jr_isidore 5mo ago
Yes, I agree. Amazing twist of fate.

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