mickeyp

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by mickeyp 3d ago
Meh. The challenge is 4k+ at high display frequency that doesn't cost the same as a small boat. There are gazillions of KVM switches that do 1080. That's easy.
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by mickeyp 8d ago
It's not like a lot of these small-time outfits used their own photography to begin with. They'd pick a kebab from a menu of professionally made kebab pictures the printer has in stock. Or worse, they'd take pics of their own
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by mickeyp 12d ago
You don't have to apologise for anything. Your blog post, post-mortem, and detailed walked through is fantastic. This is a great use for AI. I miss my Amiga 500 and all those days spent playing wonderful games so much. Thank you for th
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by mickeyp 16d ago
You're probably right. But they most likely know more about functional programming, logic programming (if they studied CS), and have some awareness of advanced concepts that generally weren't widely known when we were young. I thi
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by mickeyp 16d ago
But functional programming and OOP are intrinsically the same, but expressed using different primitives. The thing that empowers first-class functions and closures (lexical binding) is the exact same method by which encapsulation works, eve
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by mickeyp 16d ago
Oh, I agree. But there's value in people who set out to do things a certain way, even if that approach ends up not working well in the long term. We're collectively shaking a lot of trees when we build frameworks, languages and to
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by mickeyp 16d ago
OOP is fine. Not using OOP is fine too if your architecture / design demands it. What people forget -- much like the design patterns in the gang of four book -- is that languages and frameworks evolve. A decorator pattern was a niche b
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by mickeyp 22d ago
Happy to supply you with a beta key; give me a ping via email.
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by mickeyp 22d ago
I'll happily hook you up with a key for you to play around with - feel free to drop me an e-mail.
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by mickeyp 22d ago
Yeah I'll be working on it. Been busy on another product (see bio) which has taken up a year-plus of my time. Hence the lack of regular postings!
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by mickeyp 22d ago
You typically won't see it installed at all because it's considered an intermediate artefact. You'll have to compile Emacs yourself from source to get it.
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by mickeyp 22d ago
Thank you so much for the kind words :) I'm glad I could help you switch!
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by mickeyp 22d ago
I recommend the tutorial (Help -> Tutorial) from the menu bar inside Emacs to get you started. Don't listen to people telling you to disable this or that. Use your mouse and arrow keys to get started. Don't worry about what oth
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by mickeyp 22d ago
My Combobulate page has suggested package versions but note I have not yet confirmed 100% compatibility with every single Emacs 31.1 major mode yet, though all tests for Combobulate do pass in 31 github.com/mickeynp/combobulate
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by mickeyp 22d ago
AI is very good at Emacs Lisp - esp GPT. So you'll have an easier time around today!
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by mickeyp 22d ago
But I do test things out, by virtue of often running the tip of master branch and submitting bug reports. But I cannot test every mention in the NEWS, so on that part you are right. Deprecating :vc + :load-path without expressing why is a c
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by mickeyp 23d ago
Writing, supervising and training LLMs are now the purview of... even larger LLMs. Optimising CUDA kernels; hand-writing SIMD assembly to speed up data loading; tinkering with your particular brand of DRAM to see if there's anything to
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by mickeyp 29d ago
MUDs are such a wonderful way to introduce kids to "slow gaming", if one can call it that. I grew up with MUDs; they are a cherished memory of mine. There's a lot of fun "lego-style" creativity to be had in designin
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by mickeyp 29d ago
Meier's about as connected to most of these things as Tony the tiger is to the actual production of cornflakes.
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by mickeyp 29d ago
Or maybe, just maybe, these guys made great games because they were surrounded by great people. That QA guy who gave key insights into how tedious certain game mechanics were; the "bad executive" they all hated who reined in their
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by mickeyp 1mo ago
I always loved that purple/slate blue colour of WindowMaker/GNUStep/NeXTSTEP.
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by mickeyp 1mo ago
Model benchmarks are useful, to a point, but it is the long tail of things you do with the model that determines if it's good at a wide range of activities. Ant/OAI, to their credit, build their models -- even the small ones -- so
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by mickeyp 1mo ago
There's no pretension. It's mine.
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by mickeyp 1mo ago
I'm glad they're doing this also and that more people are adopting it. Event sourcing [0] is the right way to represent informaiton like tool calls, user interactions, etc. --- it makes it easy to fork conversations and maintain a
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by mickeyp 1mo ago
That is precisely how the dreamcoder [0] ai agent I built also works. It has an event sourced architecture in SQLite and it resolves queries using recursive CTEs (and sneaky projections to speed things up) to deliver exactly that. Identical
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by mickeyp 1mo ago
This is one of the things Combobulate [0] tries to solve by using the output of tree-sitter. Simple breadcrumbs are easy enough to do (your cursor has a clear parental lineage) but much harder to do if you want to retain semantic things, or
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by mickeyp 2mo ago
I love RSS but what I love more than RSS are people who blog about stuff: high concept stuff, day-to-day stuff and just what they did yesterday. I wish people would blog more like in the old days.
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by mickeyp 2mo ago
I think it should look like this: https://www.dreamcoder.ai/ A smart, tiling window manager with workspaces and a great tool harness. An everything app, if you may; bring the terminals, code reviews, etc. into the tool itse
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by mickeyp 2mo ago
Yeah but my idea was more about mobiles handing out quests or answering simple questions maybe about what they do. the dungeon gpt thing was a bit more organic.
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by mickeyp 2mo ago
I miss MUDs. My old MUD went through a rename, a fork, and what have you --- but it's limping on, though with few playing it. The cost of hosting these things are so cheap today that you can just let it sit and mind its own business. B

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