dmortin

Keybindings are the least interesting part of emacs. I modify the default keybindings heavily, because I find them uncomfortable.

Emacs's strength is being a portable programming platform which once you learned it allows you to very quickly create mini applications which help with everyday tasks.

Programming a VS Code extension is pretty cumbersome compared to creating a quick Emacs extension.

> I just want write some scripts and SSH to a Unix box I don't want to maintain kernels, web servers, or SSL certificates.

That's my use case too. I don't want to maintain a VPS, just have some server available. Something fast and cheap which is maintained by someone else.

> I don't trust Google reviews anymore, Maps or otherwise.

What do you use as alternative?

> I saw some shady third-party tool that scrapes the data, but it's against the Terms of Service and I don't want to worry about being banned from my entire Google ecosystem.

I'm pretty sure Google Terms prohibits using data from its Maps API otherwise than in connection with displaying/using a Google Maps service, but maybe they won't go after this, because it's not much data.

How does he have time for that beside CEO-ing several companies and hacking the government?

I wonder how long vim and emacs can stay vibrant. I've used emacs in the last 20 years, so I stick with it, but new generations who are trained on vscode and such are less likely to use such "old fashioned" tools.

Surely, there will still be emacs and vim users 50 years from now, but the user numbers and the community power will diminish as the graybeards gradually leave this plane.

> How can I stop black people from shoplifting from my drugstore in Chicago?

The question is why you are asking about black people? Is there a different method of preventing shoplifting by blacks vs. non-blacks?

Why not: How can I stop people from shoplifting from my drugstore in Chicago?

> A good designers is not going to be replaced by Dall-e/Midjourney, becuase the essence of design is to understand the true meaning/purpose of something and be able to express it graphically, not align pixels with the correct HEX colour combination one next to the other.

Yes, but Dall-e, etc. output will be good enough for most people and small companies if it's cheap or free even.

Big companies with deep pockets will still employ talented designers, because they can afford it and for prestige, but in general many average designer jobs are going to disappear and get replaced with AI output instead, because it's good enough for the less demanding customers.

Will they make the Chinese ship company pay for the reparations and big fine on top of that for cutting cable? Because if not then it will happen again and again.

Maybe the main actors, the stars of the movies are safe for now. But background actors who just sit in the background or have some small extra role will be decimated, because those roles can be replaced with AI.

Since many actors start with small roles or background work, it will have an effect on the industry if entry jobs are eliminated.

In the long run even the main stars can get into trouble, because it may be true that AI won't be able to reproduce what they do, creating a new, creative scene, but most movies are trash even today, so if AI can make an average, good enough movie in the future which is cheap to generate, but people still watch it then the bottom of the industry will fall out, lots of people who work on movies will lose their jobs which can have a huge impact on the industry.

Didn't you tell to old coworker what happened? He would have probably looked into it.

Making requests is one thing, because Apple can deny the request, while using Pegasus simply hacks the phone without oversight.

It feels like talking to a reluctant employee who does his job halfheartedly and requires elaborate explanations to do an acceptable job.

Discord has been locked down for years. Well before the AI training stuff occurred.

> I don't know what they (Discord) did right to get communities to lock up all of their community and data into such a hard-to-index walled garden.

I wonder why they not let google index their content. It would only drive extra traffic to them from google search, wouldn't it?

> It's something that's not well automated, and thus requires an enormous amount of labor (ie capital) This is why those who have tried have turned into racist pornography filled shit holes. Want to start a billion dollar startup? Figure out how to automate this problem.

Can't modern AI help with that? I'd guess GPT is pretty good at determining sentiment like racism.

Try it with ChatGpt, ask it determine if a sentence you give it is racist or not.

Of course, AI can't be the only moderator, but it may help to filter out most of the obvious cases.

Try making a comment to see if it shows up.

Even a natural language search needs revenue. Bing has ads, a natlang search will also have them embedded in the response.

Do I have to give my phone number to OpenAI to use this? I don't see why they require it. I wanted to give it a try, but no thanks.

What was eye opening about it? What is that mentality? Could you tell us some examples of these new insights?

Because it's not an easy job and people would have to devote significant free time to it.

> I fully expect Helix to replace Vim, Neovim, and Kakoune for most users in the long run.

Is there anything preventing other editors from integrating LSP and making it work out of the box without any configuration other than adding a language server?

There were news in the past about laws which compel web companies to make their sites accessible for screen readers for the blind. Aren't FB's obfuscation techniques against the law, because they prevent screen readers from reading/identifying sponsored posts as such?

Did the scan find the process if they changed the variable names, for example? Or is that considered a differing snippet then?

How do scrapers deal with randomized classes in web pages which is more and more common these days?

Relying on the page structure only is not a robust alternative.

That's why there are starter kits and configurators like the posted link.

New users should not be recommended to use barebones emacs, because it's too alien. They should use a nicely preconfigured system instead.

Interesting, but you know what might even be better? If it could be done directly from emacs.

E.g. if you start with a brand new emacs then you could paste a line into scratch, eval it, and then these question would come up, you give answers and then an emacs file is generated, written, evalled and you get your configured emacs instantly.

But of course a web interface also has its advantages, it's prettier than barebones emacs,so it's more appealing to config there.

I counted my google searches for yesterday from my browser history. 100/day may just be enough for me if I make sure I don't run the same search twice, because there are dups in the list.

What if one uses an extension which blocks cookie banners? Does that mean not agreeing to any tracking?

Since the extension hides the cookie banner it's effectively the same as ignoring it, not pushing any buttons (nor accept, nor reject), so it means the site is not allowed to track me, because I did not agree to anything, right?

I like that if I'm on the move I can take my laptop and I have my complete work environment with me, I can continue my work wherever I'am, etc.

How one could replicate this with a desktop + laptop combo? Setting up a work environment which syncs between the two constantly?