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by spudlyo 1y ago
My project is an ongoing one of self improvement. I've spent most of my adult life working on technical stuff, and it's taken a bit of a toll on me. I quit working about ~20 months ago, started a low-carb time restricted eating re
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by spudlyo 1y ago
I keep seeing new projects that implement things that Emacs and Org mode already do incredibly well. I guess it's a testament to how steep the Emacs learning curve is, or perhaps how ugly the defaults look. You have ox-beamer, which le
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by spudlyo 1y ago
Remember “push technology”?
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by spudlyo 2y ago
Thanks for the shout-out! I think org-babel is really well suited for this task, and can make some really great documentation. You can check out the video[0] from the talk and a git repo[1] with a more advanced demonstration. [0]: https:&#
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by spudlyo 2y ago
That's why this article got flagged. The system works.
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by spudlyo 2y ago
I find protein and fat to be an excellent combo of macro nutrients for controlling my hunger, and one of my favorite natural groupings is eggs. Eggs are nutritionally such a good deal. For the cost of about 77 calories you get 6.3 grams of
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by spudlyo 2y ago
Handling SIGCHLD and doing the right thing is table-stakes for a functioning init, IMHO. This isn't that.
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by spudlyo 2y ago
Pfft, I'll be impressed when Emacs runs as pid 1, has an inittab.el, mounts filesystems, sets up swap, starts daemons, launches X, reaps zombines, and deals with shutdown. I'm sort of surprised nobody's done that yet.
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by spudlyo 2y ago
One reasons Prot himself was able to become a bonafide Emacs Guru in just a few years is because he's the kind of person who reads manuals. He speaks highly of the included docs, and often credits them for his knowledge.
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by spudlyo 2y ago
Very cool! I remember using debug.exe to write directly to 0xB0000 which was mapped my Hercules Monochrome card's video buffer. Rocking dual monitors in the late 80s was pretty cool. Later running the CodeView debugger TUI in your exte
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by spudlyo 2y ago
I really like picking up arcane UNIX/Linux knowledge. In the 90s, I was asked in an interview by a wizened old UNIX greybeard what the brk system call did, and what I would think if I saw it pop up frequently in the strace output of a
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by spudlyo 2y ago
Sadly not. That mostly just covers your body and emotional well-being. You have to nurture your mind as well, which is beyond the scope of my pithy aphorisms.
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by spudlyo 2y ago
Low blood sugar and dehydration can lead to all kinds of unpleasant side effects. When I tried to fast for the first time, I was an idiot and didn't supplement with water or electrolytes and I suffered crippling cramps.
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by spudlyo 2y ago
This is a long essay, and here is my pitch as to why you should read the whole thing if you have any interest in subjects like C programming, binary formats, kernel modules, or assembler. Breadbox, the author, wants to make smaller binary e
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by spudlyo 2y ago
If you found this article interesting, you might also enjoy "My Own Private Binary: An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Linux Kernel Modules"[0] and the previous discussion[1] of it on HN. [0]: https://www.muppetlabs.com&#
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My Own Private Binary: An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Linux Kernel Modules(muppetlabs.com)
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by spudlyo 2y ago
Do all these things, cultivate meaningful relationships, avoid anxiety and drug abuse and you’ll be well on your way to becoming an optimal version of yourself.
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by spudlyo 2y ago
Advanced voice mode does not do text to speech, one of 4o’s modes is speech, it’s multi-modal. This is how it can understand the emotional content of your speech.
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by spudlyo 2y ago
Or you could occasionally fast for 5-7 days to dramatically ramp up the intensity of autophagy/mitophagy in order to have your body do this for you. No robots needed. You may also discover that you like the way your brain and body oper
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by spudlyo 2y ago
Rhetoric is part of the part of the Trivium[0] and was taught to elite American kids getting a Classical education starting around the age of 15. By this time they would have already studied Latin grammar and a bit of logic and dialectic. I
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by spudlyo 2y ago
There is a rumor that they're preparing a voice version of Claude. I assume it's a voice modality rather than simply tts.
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by spudlyo 2y ago
If they had something better than OpenAI's Advanced Voice Mode and it came with unlimited access I'd consider it. If Advanced Voice Mode was just 15% better than it is now, I'd find $200 a month to give to OpenAI for unlimite
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by spudlyo 2y ago
I find it weird that most of my younger colleagues totally do not understand job control, and generally use just a subset of shell features in their day to day development work. I would wager they also don’t value man pages. I remember the
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by spudlyo 2y ago
More like as in the Golden Age of Google search, where the product optimized for returning the best, most relevant, most reputable results. As in, pre enshitification.
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by spudlyo 2y ago
Soon sadly, there will be a huge demand for un-monetized LLMs. Enshitification is coming.
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by spudlyo 2y ago
I've been doing a thought experiment on what it would take to refuse to ingest any non public domain or creative commons licensed content. If one wanted to opt out of commercial entertainment, how hard would that be? This gets complica
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by spudlyo 2y ago
Jira is already almost like "productivity theater" where engineers chart the work for the benefit of managers, and managers of managers only. Many programmers already really resent having to deal with it. Soon it will be a total f
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by spudlyo 2y ago
Emacs yak shaving can lead to high dopaminergic stimulation, while it may help you mange TODO items, it's also a great way to do something fun that's tangentially related to your actual work. For a big payoff you can combine Emacs
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by spudlyo 2y ago
GPTel is a very powerful interface for working with LLMs in Emacs. It took me a while to understand that its real value isn't what you get with M-x gptel, which creates a dedicated chat session and buffer, but rather the ability to sli
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by spudlyo 2y ago
I didn't try toshy, I had a bad experience when I tried kinto.sh a couple of years back, and I had a pretty clear idea of how I could get what I wanted out of a fully featured keyboard remapping tool under Linux. I initially started wi

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