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by pkal 2y ago
Since this is basically just publicity for his book, see also https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsThirtyHighlights , especially if want to skip over low-quality non-comments like "Info mode is Emacs’s implementati
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by pkal 2y ago
If you really have to "mutool draw -F txt somefile.pdf" will extract the text contents, that you can then pipe to a LLM.
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by pkal 2y ago
Perhaps, but I still think it is lazy. A very nice counter example of someone with high commit standards can be seen in this repository: https://github.com/rmyorston/pdpmake/commits/master/
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by pkal 2y ago
I have a hunch this might be about the difference between "programming" and "coding". Web stuff, Hardware, and other things that don't get to just communicate with other programmers or programmers have a tendency o
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Emacs 30 Highlights(emacswiki.org)
12 points by pkal 2y ago|3 comments
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by pkal 2y ago
I am not sure what the rationale was (probably security), but this was a concious upstream change: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1764223
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by pkal 2y ago
I didn't know that that was the definition of "polyamorous"? To me this was always a meaningless word, a label for a labels sake, but I didn't realise that it was also a euphemism.
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by pkal 2y ago
yes!
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by pkal 2y ago
I don't get the impression that anyone is going into the "Maxwell's equations" part of the analogy. I didn't understand/think about it either until watching Sussman's "Programming is (should be) fun!
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Meditations on a (Lisp-2) Macro(amodernist.com)
3 points by pkal 2y ago|1 comments
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by pkal 2y ago
This seems to come very close to recognising that if someone without permissions pushes something to a repository, it should be convered into a PR. > If you've ever used the email workflow I don't think I need to explain why it