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ctrlmeta
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- ctrlmeta parentThe website has been made by AI. May be it has learned from its training that this kind of confirm box is cheeky humor for humans?
- > How much of this navel-gazing junk do we need? See also, from the same author:
Seriously! I'll admit the first post was mighty fun. But now this is turning into an AI-spam-fest! I objected in the 2nd thread but got downvoted. Apparently the community here thinks this kind of low effort Reddit-style humor is now on-topic for this place!
Not to mention the systematic downvoting of every comment that is critical of these spam posts!
- It is and I said as much. I'm sure these experiments are fun for the creator. From the downvotes I'm getting, I'm sure it's fun for the community too. It was fun for me too the first time. It's not fun if this type of experiments are on the front page every week. There's already a good home for these posts at /show. Pages can reach /show without reaching front page. This could have been one of them. But anyway others here disagree with me. So I'll go take a break now.
- Of course it is boring and silly for me. That's why I commented. The downvotes show the community agrees with you and disagrees with me. That's fine. I'm here to speak my opinion. I'm not here to speak your opinion.
I know about lucky 10000. It's the XKCD joke that is increasingly being used as an excuse to support every low-effort banal post. It's like modus operandus now. Party A makes a low-effort banal post. Party B questions why a banal post deserves to be on the front page. Party C says 'lucky 10000'.
There may be lucky 10000 but it's boring and silly for me. Good for the lucky 10000, but it's distracting to me when this kind of AI spam hits the front page every week. Show HN posts already gets special appearance at /show which I think is enough for this kind of stuff.
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- Totally unreadable with the all caps. I guess that's the point.
This kind of thing is fun once. And it was fun when the AI-generated fake HN was posted last week.
But there's no need to upvote this kind of stuff to front page every week. The novelty wears off. It gets boring and silly pretty quickly.
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- > How many do you know in real life?
2 emacs users and they do everything in emacs.
> I suspect a lot of this is selection bias
Exactly and that's why I want to know more from those who don't do everything in Emacs and how they decide when to use Emacs and when to use another editor and how mixing both editors in your life works out for you.
- > I know I'm a bit of an emacs user, but for this I've been using visual studio code because of one extension in particular: Cursorless.
Honestly want to know how many people here use Emacs like this? I thought Emacs users live their lives in Emacs. I know people who move more and more of their workflows into Emacs with packages like vterm, EAT, lsp-mode, pdf-tools, etc.
Are there seriously Emacs users who only a "bit of an emacs user". What is your workflow like? How do you decide when to use Emacs and when to use other tools? VSCode and Emacs have a lot of overlap in their purpose. How does this switching in and out of tools that overlap in their purpose feel?
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- > A few months ago I started a new job at a company that uses Elixir
> In fact, I might go as far as saying that Elixir gives you a fun language (like Ruby) while leaving out the stateful footguns OOP languages give you.
I don't mean to discount the author's experiences and opinion in this post. It's a nice post with a lot of good food for thought. Likewise I want to share only my own experience here. Two months into any new programming language, it feels like a fun language. Eventually the novelty factor wears off. And then it becomes a boring language. And I say "boring" in a positive sense.
The daily driver languages should be boring. Should present no surprises. Get the job done and get out of my way. When we transistion from the fun phase to that boring phase, what matters more is how good the language is fundamentally designed. As an example in Elixir the pattern matching abilities are great but I don't know if I could justify choosing a language without compile-time type safety in this day and age!
- Emacs being Emacs it is possible to change how Emacs behaves for every key you type. Evil mode is a fantastic example of how you can emulate most of Vi within Emacs! But it's not the only game in town.
If you don't want to buy into the whole Vi and modal editing thing there are plethora of packages to have better key bindings. To name a few: god-mode, devil-mode, meow, hydra, general, spacemacs. Pick any from this and you don't have to worry about key chording anymore.
- Yes, sooner or later this is going to become the future of GPT in applications. The models are going to be embedded directly within the applications.
I'm hoping for more progress in the performance of vectorized computing so that both model training and usage can become cheaper. If that happens, I am hopeful we are going to see a lot of open source models that can embedded into the applications.
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