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lvass··on Improving my Emacs experience with completion
That does sound great, but to be fair most of the time, the helm equivalent is to type one or a few more characters of the one file name you want and press enter. Avy is a great tool, but in my experience using C-s actually requires fewers strokes than Avy over 90% of the time. Being limited to whatever is on screen tends to get very annoying, as is the mental load of pressing random characters instead of completing a word you already know. For me Avy shines for things like avy-copy-line that can prevent you from moving back and forth.
lvass··on Improving my Emacs experience with completion
LSP servers are such an important part of my workflow that it just makes more sense to manage their installation myself, makes it simpler to track their configurations and version. LSP-mode does ship an ad-hoc package manager if you want that.
lvass··on Improving my Emacs experience with completion
IIRC helm doesn't provide complete-at-point so Corfu would be in a different category. Otherwise no, helm is really featureful and works pretty nice out-of-the-box, those packages are far more lean and probably easier to hack on.
lvass··on Improving my Emacs experience with completion
Modern IDEs don't match 10% of Emacs 29's out-of-the box capabilities.
lvass··on "If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"
For me it's the abysmal SNR no matter where I look, except if it absolutely needs to be real-time. Even considering just the "content" and ignoring the unfathomable interface that we're left with now.
lvass··on 25% of US/Canada trade depends on a single privately owned bridge
This bridge is far from a natural monopoly, as the border is considerably long. The justice system however, which allowed the bridge owner to maintain his unnatural monopoly, is publicly owned.
lvass··on A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)
This has been the standard uninformed take on Emacs since dawn of the web, and unfortunately seems to be getting more popular. In reality Emacs is great out of the box, you don't really spend time setting up things, you spend time understanding how it works, and become more capable as you do. If you use Emacs for three weeks in your life it's obviously not worth it and you tend to get opinions like yours.

The sane take as in most or all things is listen to people with the most experience.

lvass··on 23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users
Like North Korea which by far has the most state sponsored cyber thugs per capita.
lvass··on EmacsConf Live Now
https://magit.vc/manual/magit/Microsoft-Windows-Performance....
lvass··on Male tech conference founder is behind popular woman coding influencer account
>What a shit bag

I'm torn on this one. On one hand, actually selling conference tickets is incredibly shitty and fraud-y. But sloppily reposting your own tech influencer crap posing as some beautiful AI-generated girl and gaining orders of magnitude more attention is brilliant, and probably not even a TOS violation as social media seems to accept avatars.

lvass··on 37, the median value for the second prime factor of an integer
Sure. I'm wondering what people would respond to blanket asking what is the second prime factor of 12, because I would say 2, not 3. So 37 being the median here was a bit jarring specially since "non-repeating" wasn't even mentioned in the article.
lvass··on 37, the median value for the second prime factor of an integer
>0.000000000000000 of numbers have 2 as their second prime

Is the article title correct without explicitly mentioning "non-repeating"?

lvass··on Eltanin Antenna
That's just the area formed by the grid of underground cables.
lvass··on Thiel's Unicorn Success Is Awkward for Colleges
Enabling firefox reader mode as soon as page loads fixes this one, as well as the vast majority of paywalled articles posted here.
lvass··on YouTube Is Monetizing Human Suffering at an Open Air Drug Market
Title manages to vilify this without conveying any meaningful information, after all, you could make the same point for doctors, nurses, unicef workers and many more. I think it is great this stuff is being shown and praise the article for pointing me to it.
lvass··on Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Performance Preview: A First Look at What's to Come
AFAICT, you still can't boot linux on snapdragon 7c gen2 laptops which released over 2 years ago. Using windows on them really sucks too.
lvass··on Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Performance Preview: A First Look at What's to Come
I'm hoping this one and many more get stuck in legal hell for ages so we finally move away from proprietary ISAs.
lvass··on 'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps
Choice of Emacs or vi.
lvass··on 'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps
You don't have to glorify effort in order to vilify taking bad shortcuts or being lazy. Humans do have the tendency to do things the easier way even if it's an overall worse decision, that's the issue here.
lvass··on 'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps
I don't think this has much to do with dating apps, AFAIK among the best analysis on this topic is still DOI: 10.1207/s15327957pspr0804_2 from 2004.
lvass··on The Future of How We Work Together at Roblox
>They're not profitable

How is that possible? They don't even have to bother making the "games" they immensely monetize on.

lvass··on A Raspberry Pi 5 is better than two Pi 4S
Factor in a proper PSU, storage, case and cooling, amd64 boxes are cheaper than Pis now. Going to replace a pi 3 server with one of those, not having to deal with ARM is a huge plus.
lvass··on Python 3.12
PL research and reverse engineering or just fixing compatibility. Say you want a program from 3.6 era but the 107 year old interpreter doesn't quite suit you and the newest one broke something, and you bisect interpreter versions to find 3.11 to 3.12 broke it.
lvass··on Python 3.12
I dislike it because it's kinda hard to understand (can't really say I did) specially without any context, and programming language release notes are something people should read even a hundred years afterwards.
lvass··on Who lusts for certainty lusts for lies
Surely you meant to write agnostics.
lvass··on Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community
AFAIK most horror stories are from people who move between countries, particularly from one with "cheaper" prices like Argentina to one with more expensive ones. Not sure if the account itself gets banned but the games previously bought do get locked out.
lvass··on Linux is a nightmare – only 0.8% of sales – over 50% of reported tech issues (2019)
This game is an edge case as it's been handed out together with simultaneously released AMD graphics cards for whose drivers I think Ubuntu LTS doesn't vendor a fully supported version yet. Bethesda is also notorious for making incredibly buggy games on all platforms, though this one doesn't seem interesting enough to bother trying even though I have an activation key.
lvass··on Linux is a nightmare – only 0.8% of sales – over 50% of reported tech issues (2019)
Not really, as Steam packs a full runtime or you could use something like AppImage.
lvass··on Human embryo models grown from stem cells
From some ethical standpoint, it's absolutely fine to engineer some creature for slavery, as long as you make it ugly and forbid anyone from discovering how many chromosomes it has, and life can be much better than it is now. (Reference work of fiction omitted to prevent spoilers)
lvass··on Elixir – Why the dot when calling anonymous functions?
It's a nightmare, not a dream, if the language is mutable. Mutability is the worst and least fixable issue with almost every popular language today.
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