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South Island Kei Trucks(southislandkeitrucks.ca)
5 points by dleslie 2d ago|1 comments
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by dleslie 13d ago
If its purpose is to be the output of a hobby then it is art; if it is shared with the world, then it is performance art. Art has utility, of course; but we're discussing primary goals.
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by dleslie 16d ago
As I mentioned, projects that take a long time make for interesting artistic statements. But if the goal isn't performance art but is utility, then alacrity matters. Many other niche projects have enjoyed enough velocity to have meanin
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by dleslie 17d ago
Because it's the question that I'm interested in. I use Emacs still because it's astoundingly mediocre at all things that I use it for; but always mediocre and never terrible. I would like to know if there's something it
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by dleslie 17d ago
Velocity is important because we all eventually die. I've been following Haiku since it was announced. In that time a couple of personal friends have passed on, and a number of family members. In that time children have been born, gone
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by dleslie 19d ago
Emacs isn't the best code editor. It isn't the best note taker. It isn't the best document writer. It isn't even a good lisp. What is Emacs the best at these days?
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by dleslie 19d ago
The best tool is the one that makes completing tasks better: faster, easier, cheaper, or superior. It takes significant usage and training to overcome the overhead that Emacs imposes. There are other tools that are fast, free, and capable w
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by dleslie 20d ago
It launches with a scratch buffer, menu bar with populated menus, a functional mini buffer, and so on. All of this is opinionated defaults and configurable with elisp. And yes, much of Emacs is broken out of the box and it's been that
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by dleslie 20d ago
My experience with Emacs 30 is that Eglot will prompt and show nothing of meaningful assistance beyond a name. That leaves me to run a google search to find whatever binaries fit the description. They host binaries already; why not host all
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by dleslie 20d ago
Emacs makes many opinionated choices about defaults; if it didn't, it would launch to little more than an elisp REPL by default. What's important is that _you can change it_. Good defaults ensure that Emacs doesn't repel new
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by dleslie 20d ago
Well that's a nice change; I'm still on Emacs 30. But note that this is not the default. Users have to enable that behaviour, and know to enable it. That's a bad default.
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by dleslie 20d ago
Tree sitter support is half baked in the same way official LSP support is, only kind of worse. Eglot won't help you get your system ready for LSP work, it will only avail itself if what's there. It doesn't even auto detect an
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by dleslie 1mo ago
Firefox will continue to exist and be maintained by open source efforts. I often wonder if the current model has been driving away contributors, since it _feels like_ contributing effort to support someone else's paychecque.
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by dleslie 1mo ago
It has good emacs support with geiser-chicken. I wrote the initial support for chicken some 11 years ago; it wasn't _great_, but I see that Jao and others have worked on it some since then. Glad to see it's working well
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by dleslie 1mo ago
- Strings and symbols passed to foreign code are not copied, they are passed directly, any mutations done by external code will be visible on the Scheme side. - Complex numbers, C structs and unions can now be passed directl
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by dleslie 3mo ago
Cryptonomicon has the use of a highly custom version of Emacs called OrdoEmacs. https://dev.to/hyenast2/neal-stephenson-s-cryptonomicon-and-...
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by dleslie 4mo ago
This is true; and in time it's entirely possible that AI makes us an overall wealthier and more productive society. However, from the article: > “Most economists will acknowledge that technological progress can cause some adjustment
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by dleslie 4mo ago
> Won't super power AI tools allow companies to do more with the same number of people? Don't you think a smarter way to run a business is to capture more of the market if you have the resources to do so? It is possible to have
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by dleslie 4mo ago
For most nations, if they find themselves in need of a 5th generation aircraft for defence then they've already lost, or are better served to prepare for a grossly asymmetric battle.
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by dleslie 4mo ago
I have HDMI adapters which perform a similar function. It's awful. Earthworm Jim and Sonic 2 are both great examples of how the art suffers; and the why is in the video I linked. The waterfall in Sonic 2 was not meant to look like a fe
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by dleslie 4mo ago
True enough; but they want to make it about Canadian Dairy, Softwood Lumber, Steel, Aluminum and so on.
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by dleslie 4mo ago
All Genesis models were capable of RGB, but almost everyone used the component and/or RF adapter. I own three American genesis models and have yet to ever own a proper RGB adapter for one.
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by dleslie 4mo ago
It represents the trade deficit the USA has with Canada. To believe that this is a problem as a result of Canada's nefarious actions is to believe that Canada is preventing its citizens from purchasing American product. Which is a comm
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by dleslie 4mo ago
The trade deficit with Canada is because Americans are buying Canadian products. Enough Canadians (seriously, the vast majority) live close enough to the border that they could make a weekly trip to the USA and purchase American dairy and o
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by dleslie 4mo ago
Trump did not rise to power in isolation. He has not remained in isolation while in power. Voter support for Trump is still reasonably strong, and Trump and his supporters have ensured that the mechanisms of Government are packed with loyal
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by dleslie 4mo ago
And that was almost _never_ the case for 16-bit era gaming, outside of the Arcade. Certainly not for the Genesis.
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by dleslie 4mo ago
The video I linked is taken of a CRT and is not a screenshot of an LCD. This is an excellent deep dive on the issues I spoke of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC-8y2R6IxI
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by dleslie 4mo ago
There's a bunch on Youtube. The art has the typical issues of modern 16-bit and 8-bit games where the designers and artists are not targeting the full hardware stack of the era. Rather, they're targeting simulated machines (emulat
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by dleslie 4mo ago
Minimalist and consistent UX, incredibly responsive applications, simple and logical organizational structure, with _excellent_ documentation and developer tools for the era. You boot straight to a desktop, and there's no ads, alerts,
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by dleslie 4mo ago
Be made inroads in radio and sound production; though I don't think they knew it.[0] There was a market starved for a stable, high quality and responsive operating system that would run on the x86 hardware that was abundant everywhere.

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