iLemming

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by iLemming 3d ago
I'm still so conflicted about Fable. Sometimes you throw at it seemingly impossible problem to solve and it might come back with some brilliant suggestions. Sometimes you give it a straightforward task with explicit instructions and it
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by iLemming 4d ago
Yes, we need transparency. And it needs to be brutal. We need a new conventional, agreed and respected model for all OSS contributions. Any creator of anything shared publicly must adhere to agreed standards - they should explain the vision
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by iLemming 4d ago
I honestly don't get software engineers who don't know basic vim motions and don't even care to learn them. Seriously? They plan never to use `less` and `more`, they won't be reading manpages, they are okay with not know
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by iLemming 4d ago
vim is not a single concrete editor - it's rather an abstract idea, and ideas do port (if done properly). But some substrates have poor foundation for porting, some have much more flexible base. Every vim plugin for major editors - VSC
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by iLemming 4d ago
Emacs is not an editor, it's a text-based orchestrator - a live Lisp image that happens to ship an editor, where every function is introspectable, redefinable at runtime, and written in the same language. Any external tool becomes some
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by iLemming 5d ago
Buddy, I did. I did. And I can rant for a quite a while for why the opinions there have jack squat of sound reasoning. On [almost] every single point there. What I love about Vim and Emacs is that they taught me humility. I am grateful to m
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by iLemming 5d ago
> I'm really happy that we live in a world in which people who don't know how to use the tools It's not a happy world. It's dystopian. I really don't like how unskilled people get confidence for creating novelty
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by iLemming 5d ago
> We need something like Emacs, but a well designed Emacs. Wow. This is brilliant. Nobody ever. Not once. Not even theoretically. Nobody in 50 years of Emacs' existence ever tried that. Not a single programmer ever said this or atte
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by iLemming 5d ago
You can exit Emacs by clicking a button, by making a mouse gesture, by telling it via voice command, by key-press, by modal key-chord sequence, by writing into a file, by selecting a menu item, by directly evaling (kill-emacs) command, by c
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by iLemming 5d ago
> Can this be done out-of-the-box now? Yes, with built-in packages there are at least two different ways - speedbar, or Dired in a side window. And what even "out-of-the-box" means? In Emacs-land packages are not like extension
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by iLemming 5d ago
We get it, guys - you don't like reading news about AI, but can you just stop spamming submissions with this crap - "HN with no AI, built with AI", wtf is that? I feel like building: "HN for non-haters of AI", where
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by iLemming 6d ago
Borland was huuuge. The name was so prominent, my college-mate one day (without a hint of irony) said: "All this time I thought the first name of Pascal - the mathematician, was Borland and that's how the company got the name. I j
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by iLemming 6d ago
For anyone got angered by my tone, allow me to explain. The OC clearly has no idea what this post is about, it has nothing to do with "freezing" or whatever, and remarks like that are simply disingenuous, ignorant and presuming. S
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by iLemming 7d ago
whisper.cpp is awesome but even it just can't process a three-hour vid in seconds. What do you suggest should I'd be doing? Clench my butt-cheeks and stare intently into its work log, hoping it would finish faster? Ah, I know, you
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by iLemming 7d ago
> I notice it on macOS So, on Mac there are two main problems - displaying and fork/exec. Rendering on Mac is slower because NS port display backend just sucks. Emacs's redisplay emits many small drawing operations per frame -
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by iLemming 7d ago
Oh, you're so funny. What you've been "editing" buddy, your gramma's cookie recipes? Just the other day I transcribed a three-hour long video of a meetup, picking the model, setting parameters, running the process;
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by iLemming 8d ago
You just don't know it yet. Emacs vims better. Source: I'm a die-hard vimmer.
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by iLemming 8d ago
What? Noooo. Emacs is not a text editor at all. It's a thing-to-hate when you don't know it, and a thing to use for everything but text-editing when you love it. That's why...
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September 2026 Emacs meetup recap [video](youtube.com)
18 points by iLemming 9d ago|1 comments
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by iLemming 9d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1w4jiiv/emacs_atx_me... Good discussions. Various topics. We went over three hours, so I had to make a shorter recap video. - We've talked some good amount of
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by iLemming 9d ago
I'm not a musician, I suppose I should have picked a better analogy. Now I'm listening to Mahler and trying to find enlightenment. Thankfully, my desk audio setup is better than my car's.
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by iLemming 9d 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 10d 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 10d 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 10d 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 10d 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 12d ago|1 comments
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by iLemming 12d 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 12d 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 12d 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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