jasonm23

That'll teach me not to scan the article before posting.

again.

Really should include Emacs lisp, as it's a something many in academia happen upon for LaTeX or some other side use.

While Emacs Lisp is confined to the editor, it also shows that the Editor is not that, and much has been said of it as an OS, an Application Platform, and so on.

Since about 1992, I've used it as platform for many things as well as a general purpose text editor I couldn't initially figure out how to quit.

I'm sure many here are more fervent about Emacs, living in the terminal switched to living in Emacs for a lot of folks... that's really a testament to the usability gravity of an integrated computing platform with Lisp as it's only scripting language.

ymmv of course

Still I for one am grateful for any STT transcription models.

For anyone who is analytical and not driven by polemic.

Please take a look at Nirimod (unaffiliated, but it's awesome.)

Many advances have their slop version, look at any trend which began as broadly positive and became infested with a tacky parade of bandwagon pretenders.

AI is just the next example, and the internet is particularly troublesome at filtering up the most tacky.

Always remember the broadly positive aspects remain, they're simply obscured by dusty clouds from the bandwagon.

Use tools to expand your capability.

There's a lot of evidence to suggest FDR set up Truman, it's well documented he kept Truman in the dark until he died.

Hey, at least it lowers expectations enough that Linux Desktop is good enough with the latest KDE Plasma and to a some extent Gnome.

Apple lost it's broken but incessant leader, and Tim Cook is lets' face it a chair warmer in comparison.

Say what you want, but the disillusionment is sat there, in your view, or you simply never knew Apple when it was "good".

Hey, maybe people will actually understand why proprietary software is, if not immoral, it's the on-ramp for mass control and manipulation that makes the TV central broadcast propaganda soup era, nothing at all in comparison to the manipulation of people by software.

That would be really impressive levels of psychopathy.

tl'dr later models generally improve on earlier ones. (although "you can't please all the people all the time" applies)

I think you nailed the drive behind my ~3 decades of Emacs use: "I can get at all the text" (possibly above the customization/automation benefits despite this being the "advanced" pov above "it's just a text editor isn't it?"

I remember a 2019 "initiative" at a fairly large international insurance corporation:

"Everyone should code"

This led to a flood of projects trying to get pitched to software, and it also crashed headlong into COVID / furloughs.

That entire C-suite team have been churned, that's how good that idea was.

a torrent of slow claps for Mitt "Say it when it's too late to help" Romney... that's the hallmark of this guy's political contribution.

Some of the older heads here are 100% with you, the notes and comments in this thread should be clear enough indication of that.

But you're right, tools that make short work of ridiculous incantations, 100% good.

We don't sit around trying to re-write arithmetic, but apparently not knowing how to do git pull --rebase is a crime to these smart folks, who don't seem to realize they know very little about getting sh!t done.

United Gangsters of America it seems ... since the people have no say, just a moron with too much luck, too much power, not enough consequences.

They'll come? and the fact that's a question shows American Justice has been absent for quite some time.

use uv ... convince everyone to use uv, convince all docs in projects you use, to use uv.

Reject EVERYTHING ELSE for running / building py pip, poetry, conda ... etc.

If you self host and also write some of your own services, the same requirements are as they always were.

minimal ~ < $100 hardware (Dell, Acer etc mini or ssf pc)

install your linux distro, use your preferred containers, or just run as services on the os.

There's no ads, no ai, no layer of shite, it can't be "enshittified" unless you're doing the shittifying.

more than we already are?!

Well, you know, unless you're a better class of person, then every single thing you post is a backhanded personal attack on the reader.

Stop worrying about the use of words, none of this ridiculous exchange will change who does what.

No one says it's Normal... they say it works.

Nothing is Normal when it comes down to it, reality is what you can get away with.

If that makes you uncomfortable, then buckle up because reality is what THEY can get away with.

I made ocomacs for this purpose, it's designed as a minimal config layer which is more of a pattern to follow than a "does everything for you" framework.

https://github.com/ocodo/ocomacs

There's a threshold, of both user ability and scale of 'problem'

I mostly agree with you dfabulich - the repeated efforts to create node/pipeline tools "visual programming languages" are not built for us, and feel redundant.

But I took issue with "where you don't need it" as this is very much dependent on who "you" is.

"Need" is a bad word ... and ymmv

Thank you for making this and open sourcing it, the ecosystem for interactive editing of mermaid / diagrams is all the better thanks to your efforts.

It's runable as a standalone https://github.com/maio/smagit

there's a faithful conversion as edamagit for vs-code.

It's way more casual than having to know Emacs.

edamagit for vs-code is a faithful rendition of Magit as a .vsix

I thought anyone with awareness of what the AI landscape is at the moment, sees those two statements as the same.

Or a brainfart.

The cult of Tempest says some people are obsessed with that aesthetic.