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by sinker 23d ago
It's no different from learning vim. Just stick with it until the shortcuts become cognitively automatic. It also helps to learn upfront the idiosyncratic terms and concepts like buffers, windows, frames, yanking, killing, etc. Most of
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by sinker 23d ago
Emacs is incredibly powerful with ai agents. Because everything is a function, and emacs is introspectable down to its atoms - agents can write, review, execute, and evaluate the results in a closed loop. The evaluation part is usually what
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by sinker 3mo ago
You're right. I want to say that openai is a viable alternative, but they're even less trustworthy. It might be time for me to start looking into Chinese models or purchasing hardware for local llms, even if the cost amounts to 5-
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by sinker 3mo ago
Cancelled. Anthropic can get bent if it wants to market itself as the ethical AI choice and at the same time lies in bed with those openly pushing for a surveillance state.
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by sinker 3mo ago
I've started experimenting with claude to run end-to-end tests for an emacs package I'm developing. It's incredible . The way it works: 1. You start emacs in daemon (server) mode. 2. You prompt claude to instantiate an emacs
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by sinker 4mo ago
Same here - with minor changes (mostly rebinding shortcuts), my extensively customized config works in terminal also.
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by sinker 4mo ago
Isn't this just a Bambu marketing point? I have a Prusa MK4S and a Centauri Carbon - they both print without any fuss and can be operated without any deep technical understanding.
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by sinker 6mo ago
Spreadsheets are better in theory but varsets work so much better in practice.
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by sinker 6mo ago
I'm not sure what went wrong exactly, but a common issue people run into with lofts is caused by the fact that FreeCAD tries to match vertices to vertices. If you use the split edge tool on your square to create 8 edges out of the exis
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by sinker 10mo ago
From the home page: Question: How do you make the illustrations? Answer: I get asked this more than anything else but honestly, I don't have a good answer. I make them by hand, in Figma. There's no secret - it's as complica
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by sinker 10mo ago
The entire website is incredible. I'm amazed all the illustrations were done in Figma.
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by sinker 10mo ago
I can't tell for sure without knowing exactly what's happening, but one reason is that if you create a sketch from the Sketcher workbench, it will not be added to the active body. If you create the sketch from the Part Design
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by sinker 10mo ago
As an opposing viewpoint, I also use FC extensively for designing moderately complex parts (fully parametrically constrained assemblies, dozens of parts per assembly, mechanical components involving motion). I've also extended the func
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by sinker 10mo ago
FreeCAD is still in active development and there was a major release (1.0) recently. There will be a feature freeze soon where the devs will focus primarily on stability and eliminating bugs. That said, I use FC as my main CAD driver and, n
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by sinker 10mo ago
Sorry about the bad experience. If you decide to give it another try, it's worth spending a few hours on some intro tutorials first. I recommend MangoJelly on youtube. FC is not a program you can just open and start using, especially i
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by sinker 10mo ago
Some of the basics aren't immediately obvious or even hinted at very well for new users, but the "problems" that come up are consistent with its own editing model. > complaining that the sketch doesn't belong to any o
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by sinker 10mo ago
Productive FreeCAD user chiming in here. I understand the frustration. It has a moderate learning curve, but the editing model forms an intuitive picture once you learn the basics and start using it. Also second the MangoJelly tutorials. Yo
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by sinker 11mo ago
I recommend starting with vanilla Emacs and just adding things as you find the need for them. Emacs comes with a lot of things OOTB. After a decade, my only essential package addon-ons are magit and yasnippet. I have other packages installe
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by sinker 1y ago
Okay, but that is a complete misrepresentation of Prusa machines. You can buy a Prusa today and it'll spit out prints like any other modern printer. And this has been the case for a long time now. Only a small minority of people actual
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by sinker 1y ago
Are you confusing Prusa with older Enders? If you buy assembled, they just work like any other modern printer. In fact they're known for long-term reliability. If there's any detraction, it's on the basis of printing speed, p
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by sinker 2y ago
Sounds like the classic Joe Rogan "I know a guy." rumor peddling.
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by sinker 2y ago
It's not a lot of work, but it takes a little bit of existing Elisp knowledge. You can still evaluate plain SQL code in a buffer (sql-mode) and get most of the benefits I described, you just won't get the convenience of evaluating
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by sinker 2y ago
I've started using Emacs as a database explorer. So, Emacs has a built-in interactive SQL mode (M-x sql-mysql / postgres / sqlite). This mode opens a SQL shell similar to what you would see in a terminal. From there, you can
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by sinker 2y ago
Kernel version 6.8 broke suspend ($ systemctl suspend) for me. I run two machines with near identical setups. I upgrade my "preview" machine first before updating my primary machine to test for defects. If I boot from kernel versi
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by sinker 2y ago
Lisp languages seem well-suited for building games. The ability to evaluate code interactively without recompilation is a huge deal for feature building, incremental development, and bug-fixing. Retaining application state between code chan
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by sinker 4y ago
It's freely available on Wikipedia, UFCstats, sherdog, and tapology. You have to scrape it, but you can also find large collections of structured data if you look around.
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by sinker 4y ago
I'm far from a data scientist. I'm just someone that has an interest in building UIs and saw a potential to look at data in a way I hadn't seen before. I'm not actively working on this right now, but if you'd like t
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by sinker 4y ago
Thanks I really appreciate that. MMA (UFC specifically) is still wide open to advantage betting because lines are often highly narrative-based. Data itself WRT to MMA is often misleading though for so many reasons (e.g., low quality of oppo
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by sinker 4y ago
https://mmabetsharp.com A website to help make informed bets on the UFC. It presents a lot of relevant data if you're serious about MMA sports betting. I made this during the pandemic and tried to promote it through Reddit
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by sinker 4y ago
I was a really interested in BV's work for a while, but some of the major roadblocks you quickly run into once you start thinking about how to implement his ideas are that: 1. Whenever you zoom out of the code-level, you lose granulari

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