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I'd observe that there are professional gamblers, and there are amateur gamblers.

If you know what you're doing, know how to spec a problem space, and can manage the tool competently enough to churn out good results, then everything's fine, and you're maybe being productive or increasing your productivity by some degree. (Professional "Gambler")

If you DON'T know what you're doing, and you're just vibe-coding, then I would argue that it is at least a form of gambling (Amateur "Gambler")

Both of these conditions can also be applied to "hiring people to do a job" however there we can also observe things like reputation, credentials and so on.

"It's just paying to get stuff done..." is, with respect, superflous.

It's annoying that they class themselves as "Involuntary" Celibates, because as far as I can tell the "in" part of "Involuntary" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Volcels is way more accurate.

I do (also sometimes) use Emacs on Windows, but I must admit I have little experience of the issues surrounding Japanese textual input (I've not checked but I would have automaticaly assumed "there's an Emacs mode for that", but perhaps not) - without that additional requirement just a plain old basic Emacs would have worked out of the box, no?

But anyway, good luck in your travels in scratching that itch! :)

Pretty much yes. Emacs is basically a Lisp execution environment with a customisable text-editor included.

With respect, you should learn Lisp - it will allow you to turn Emacs into whatever you want. In my opinion just keeping the Emacs keybindings but dropping all the other advantages of Emacs is missing the point entirely, and using Electron instead is just - as the saying goes - "adding insult to injury".

I've got to admit to being somewhat disappointed that the "wolf" in question wasn't the character from the film 'Pulp Fiction', because - at least in my mind - it's an apt example for Rand's original article.

I've not had time to explore fully, but I just cracked open emacs on this windwoes machine, and tried it, and it auto-added a comma to the beginning of a nested #+BEGIN_SRC...

#+BEGIN_SRC lolcode

blah

#+END_SRC

org-mode to the rescue ;p

Actually I saw this last night (but have yet to try it): https://usebottles.com/app/#abletonlive

usual disclaimers apply! :)

I'm not a Linux noob, but I do have better things to do than admin/fix in the evenings too.

right - same here WRT windows partition. Not always using Live, but it gets used when it's necessary. I'm slightly disappointed that they haven't done the decent thing and released a Linux version, but .. ah well, what can ya do hey?

Thanks! I wasn't aware of the JUCE newer version issue.. I'll have to (sometime) dig into that a bit deeper. Me I don't mind the idea of the smaller-scale alternatives, but having to occasionally work withothers that aren't linux based could be.. problematic.

thanks!

I have been 'enjoying' this with Debian on a PC with a 1080Ti nvidia card, which is no longer supported by the nvidia v590 + drivers. I've had to pin to v580, but the whole "oops, I updated, rebooted and 'look ma, no high-resolution anymore'" got tired really quickly. You have my sympathies.

EndeavourOS is apparently Arch-based so I've got no useful suggestions for fixing there, sorry.

Yeah, these days the Scarletts are fine (as is the aging Firewire connected Edirol FA-101 I've got attached). Non-DAW things such as Supercollider work fine, but I focus less on that sort of environment (which isn't a dis - SC is great!).

Gaming is all well and good, but I'd be interested to hear of experiences with moving and using Audio apps (Ableton Live, Cubase and other Steinberg apps, plus many VSTs) from Windows to Linux.

I see Wine, YABridge and LinVST mentioned in searches, but while I've got plenty of Linux experience, I'm time-poor and would prefer to make computers make noises rather than spend my time making things work. I have Reaper which is cross-platform but again, getting the VSTs working would be great (at a bare minimum).

A Mac is not an option here. Any pointers gratefully received!

Unless you're red/green colour-blind, of course ;)

Emacs user here, and the whole "electric-mode" stuff (for matching parens or other balanced pairs of things) I find really quite useful. And closing a pair is usually something like shift+enter, which is quite simple (but also - at least in Emacs - generally completely configurable). I think the benefits outweigh the pitfalls, personally.

Can't speak to other editors though.. I don't want to sound like I'm trolling, but they generally feel quite clunky, compared to Emacs (ducks, runs ;p )

It does, you are right. Apparently I am going blind :(

Last update to this site appears to be circa 2019 :/

During Covid, my son (who is deaf and attends a deaf school) has issued masks with transparent windows at the front, especially for assisting with lip-reading for deaf users. This is in Switzerland though - I don't know if this innovation reached across the Atlantic ;)

Being late to the party is the story of my life, but fwiw, I was aware that FORTH was used a lot in this kind of use-case ;)

I think it was, actually, yes. Thanks for the reminder!

An understandable reaction, and one I can claim to feel myself in similar salesdroid situations, however they have an explanatory sheet which reiterates the claim: https://www.greenarraychips.com/home/documents/greg/PB002-10...

They honestly do sound quite interesting, and if I could fork myself off a few times to look at fun & interesting things, this GreenArray stuff would be in the list ;)

I 'learned' Forth decades ago (on a Sinclair ZX81, so essentially a quite horrible experience), and tripped over it again recently.. ending up ploughing through the books "Thinking Forth" and (currently) "Starting Forth" both of which are extremely interesting and so very very different to what we use these days. It very much fits into that saying "A language that doesn't change how your think about programming, isn't worth knowing". I realise now just how shallow an understanding of Forth I had as a teen, back in the day ;)

But I think the win here - these days - for Forth is in things like "running on small embedded devices".. I'm looking with interest at some of the activity around say Arduinos and am thinking that Forth is a rather nice fit for that sort of system. Have bought a kit, and am looking forwards to some non-work quality time to play further :)

(The Books I meantion can be found online very easily, but you'll forgive them for being written back in a time when systems were _simpler_ to grok ;) )

They could adopt the Swiss Direct-Democracy model. But, they wouldn't.

I also live in Switzerland, and it is perfectly possible to survive 48 hours or so here without needing one, unless of course every single transaction you engage in requires 2FA, which.. here, you generally do not.

I mean, I feel for the guy moving to a new country - been there, done that - but, with respect he's hyperventilating just a little bit.

ok, let me clarify my comment.. storage should occur once the fuel has been reprocessed and re-used enough times to have been exhausted, and then stored.

The "use once and store" attitude that results in needing safe places for highly radioactive material for 100's of thousands of years is insane, when you can just use the stuff until it's "worn out" and the resulting lower level waste only needs caring for for some small handful of decades.

And we need more fast-breeder reactors, too, FWIW.

One should not store the nuclear waste, one should reprocess it.

If one looks at France, for example, one can see that they have been doing this quite successfully for 30+ years.

It's not a know-how problem, it's a political problem.