mbork_pl

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by mbork_pl 5d ago
Actually, lisp and basic - logo is a dialect of lisp.
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by mbork_pl 27d ago
Yes. Kind of ironic, no?
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by mbork_pl 3mo ago
It's love to have an interface where I could have several conversations with an LLM, with common context, but each separate and anchored to a different place in the code
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by mbork_pl 7mo ago
Are you Saruman by any chance?
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Git-Link, an Emacs package to create links to Git objects(github.com)
1 points by mbork_pl 8mo ago|1 comments
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by mbork_pl 8mo ago
This is a really cool Emacs package (not mine) I found recently. Its purpose is to create links to objects (files and commits) on sites like GitLab, Savannah, Bitbucket, GitHub etc. (I wrote a blog post about it, too, with a little extensio
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by mbork_pl 8mo ago
I've been working with a codebase for a very specific domain where hardly anyone even knew the English terms for the domain-specific things (and some of them probably didn't even exist - highly localized customs etc.). No point in
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by mbork_pl 8mo ago
Thanks, that looks very neat! I love apps like this, situated software created to scratch someone's itch.
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by mbork_pl 8mo ago
I'm not (yet) in my 50s (though close). I used to have a C64 back in the day. I wrote write a few things in its horrible BASIC dialect. Probably the most advanced was a database (not relational, just one table, but kept separately fro
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by mbork_pl 8mo ago
My guess would be that the broadcaster had one geek who pushed for that. Fellow geeks had software over the radio, the broadcaster had an opinion of a modern one, keeping up with the newest tech. Win-win.
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by mbork_pl 9mo ago
My wife is non-technical and doesn't know anything about bookkeeping. Every-ish day I ask her for receipts and enter them into our ledger-cli file. She mostly uses her debit card, so it's usually easy not to miss too much. (I use
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by mbork_pl 9mo ago
Are you me, by any chance? I had been doing exactly this for years. Finally, my income rose enough that I stopped to care - I just pay from my current account and move on. But what astonishes me is that hardly anyone seems to do that, espe
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by mbork_pl 9mo ago
I suppose one problem with this is that accounting needs legal responsibility in case of mistakes. Software usually (if not always) does not guarantee anything (in the legal sense) and its seller/producer does not assume any responsibi
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by mbork_pl 9mo ago
Besides being a mathematician and a programmer, I have a degree in finance and banking, so I learned double-entry accounting pretty early. As a mathematician, I appreciate the beauty of this very clever, very general and very abstract syst
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by mbork_pl 10mo ago
JarJarScript.
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by mbork_pl 10mo ago
I did my share of coding on a Commodore 64 (have you seen that keyboard?) with a cassette tape as the only external storage, no debugger (just a very poor BASIC variant) and (of course) a mono CRT tv set as a monitor. No internet, of cours
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by mbork_pl 10mo ago
Not to criticize you - I also use eglot and it's great - but let me mention that people have been doing pretty meaningful software development for several decades now, and LSPs are, I don't know, 5 years old? There's a saying
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by mbork_pl 10mo ago
> Or, I could use some actually well designed software and save myself some printer ink :-) Or, you could use some well-designed and self-documenting software. Too bad there's not much of that besides Emacs - on the other hand, Em
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by mbork_pl 10mo ago
> How much do you pay annually out of pocket for health insurance premiums and other healthcare expenses? Very rough estimation: $9000. I'm not sure how much my wife pays - this is paid by the employer and she usually doesn't b
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by mbork_pl 10mo ago
FWIW, I get on the order of $40/hour as a senior with almost 10 years experience, and it allows me not to worry too much about spending (with a wife earning about a third of my salary and two kids). I think I could easily earn at least
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by mbork_pl 11mo ago
How is that specific to FOSS?
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by mbork_pl 11mo ago
Staging is immensely useful in more than one case. Case one: WiP on a branch, code is pretty stable, but I want to do some experiments which will likely be deleted. I stage everything and then make (unstaged) changes which I can then undo w
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by mbork_pl 1y ago
The Fibonacci sequence might have been more appropriate.
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Show HN: I made a simple ASCII-art analog clock in Emacs(gitlab.com)
28 points by mbork_pl 1y ago|0 comments
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by mbork_pl 1y ago
If I'd go that route, why not include that (encrypted) file on the drives themselves? > Avoid clouds, cloud accounts, any system you do not control as they can be hacked, go out of business, lose your data, etc... Yes, that is obvio
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by mbork_pl 1y ago
Thanks, that's an interesting option! It requires trust in the bank (of course), but I'm not that paranoid. However, I have a feeling that it's a bit expensive - it can be cheap (say, ~$10 per month, which is not as cheap
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Ask HN: Suggestions for a document with passwords etc. in case sth happens to me
2 points by mbork_pl 1y ago|6 comments
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by mbork_pl 1y ago
Allons-y!
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by mbork_pl 1y ago
I would guess quit a few malware authors would also love such a feature.
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by mbork_pl 1y ago
Not the GP, but here is my N=1 (N=3, actually, as you'll see). I have a Master's in Economics. After 3 years of economics, I started a Master's program in maths (back then the Master's degree was the standard thing you

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