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tagfowufe··on Neomacs: GPU rendered Rust hard fork of Emacs
Clearly LLM-assisted. However, it's extremely enticing... A much needed update. The Neo Editor (Flame) Wars could rekindle again!
tagfowufe··on Ask HN: Ads on WhatsApp?
The moment there's Meta AI in a supposedly E2E messaging platform, it's crystal-clear over.

There's no wall to leave a writing on.

tagfowufe··on Keep Android Open
Kind and firm reminder. I absolutely repudiate this, and the ripple effects are devastating, be it for commerce, innovation, trust or freedom.

Also at https://keepandroidopen.org/

tagfowufe··on The seven programming ur-languages (2022)
I would refer to the world _cognate_[0]. 'Fundamental programming cognates' sounds cool as a uni course.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cognate

tagfowufe··on Show HN: µJS, a 5KB alternative to Htmx and Turbo with zero dependencies
Sneaking in real quick to thank you for your contributions and positive attitude you bring to the space.
tagfowufe··on MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0
While I understand where the author is coming from, and I get his sentiment(s), I don't think what he proposes is actually possible: his vision relies on faux open tools and protocols and having access to walled gardens. The means of computation for these kinds of things are owned by a tiny minority. Nearly everything is a SaaS or is based, one way or the other, on rent extraction. We're essentially subject to the whims of someone who is letting us do something for as long as we play nice.

>There is a chance, though, that younger developers, and those who weren't around to build back during that last era a generation ago, are going to get inspired by MCP to push for the web to go back towards its natural architecture. It was never meant to be proprietary.

Alas, the reason APIs started closing and being metered is because, after all, there's someone owning and paying for the hardware upon which you are making calls and requests.

As long as there's no way to agree upon how to have a bunch of servers providing computation for anyone and at the same time ensuring their upkeep without the need for a central authority, I don't think such vision is sustainable long term. The current state of the Internet is proof of it.

tagfowufe··on Extend Extra Extreme: keyboard extend layer mappings
Colemak is great, I recommend it.

The Extend Layer is layout agnostic, and a total game changer.

Give it a try, and enjoy enhanced, comfortable and fluid text editing and navigation at your fingertips.

tagfowufe··on Keymapper: A cross-platform context-aware key remapper
May I suggest the absolutely awesome Extend Layer [0] instead?

Arrow keys, advanced cursor movement and modifiers chording, and more, without leaving the home row!

[0] https://dreymar.colemak.org/layers-extend.html

tagfowufe··on Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out?
ACE 4

High IQ (top 4%), with extremely high verbal skills (top 0.1%).

Late twenties, veering on thirties. Depression, anxiety, dissociation, numbness, trying to regain vitality.

Parents separated when I was 7. I was bullied and almost completely alone at school. As a teenager I changed schools and that got considerably better; lost the only friend I made there when we both were 14. Escaped my father's house at 17. Almost commited suicide at 19, which led me to therapy, and some years later, medication. Got out of both after 3 and 5 years, respectively. After that I met my now ex girlfriend, who -I dare say- I allowed to cheat on me. I moved out of my mother's house upon finding a somewhat decent paying job -but not enough in and by itself- and with the compromise of both my parents to financially support me. That changed over time on my father's side, when he noticed that it was not going to give him my affection as a token of appreciation, and I believe I am trapped of sorts: I live by myself in a little flat in the city center, paying a rent that takes 50% of my take-home pay (yet is _way_ cheaper than current average). The whole ordeal (breaking up, moving out, new job), got me on the verge of suicide for a second time. Got back into therapy and medication. Got out of medication; still in therapy.

The main problem I can voice is/was my father. Mentally ill but functional. Gone through his fair share of bad things -lived under a dictatorial regime in which his family was not part of the 'good' side; was sexually abused; had no running water or electricity until he was 16; possibly autistic as well as high IQ-. He used me as his therapist, his close friend, his personal confessor, his fan, his shadow, his emotional companion. He would constantly talk trash about my mother and stepfather, and leave me to my own devices in order to work on his thesis, which took him like 15 years to complete as an adult.

I was bullied at school, so I had no friends nor social life to speak of. I was barely out of the house... As a teen, I had few acquaintances and lived in considerabe isolation too. I left uni halfway through because I panicked, since I didn't pass clean the second year and I felt guilty for it. Summer jobs helped immensely with social skills, so I was able to mask my depression and general negativity way more effectively.

Ended up with two associate degrees, one in Marketing and one in Web Development. Currently working in the government, doing nothing (well, I'm self-studying _How To Design Programs_, by Felleisen et al., in the ample time I have at my disposal), but I'm mediocre as a coder. Considering going into a role of Functional Analyst or Technical Sales because of my verbal and logical skills, and raw processing power, as well as an analytical and obssesive personality.

I can't shake off the feeling that I'm worthless, utter trash, irrelevant, insignificant, with no real world skills, late to the party in terms of love and job prospects. Sometimes I get so out of center that I put myself to bed through sheer catastrophizing.

Now, good things and findings.

My mother is fully supportive, even helps economically (that's so much luck) and we love each other. I love my little brother. Albeit I feel like a free floating particle socially speaking, that I don't belong anywhere, I can have quite meaningful relationships with my friends. I'm attractive, and it shows. I'm fit. I'm disciplined, and stick to a very virtuous -if surely isolating- daily routine. I take care of myself by going to therapy, training powerlifting, eating and sleep well, trying to level up my coding skills, reading and learning. I live in a beautiful city, full of services, and everything is at walking distance. No addictions.

Learning about trauma and complex PTSD has been a discrete improvement in both my vocabulary and my ability to relate to my past and current lived experience. I'm going to try an underground MDMA assisted therapy session -that I will have to pay with part of my emergency funds-, to see if I can get back in touch with my body and my emotions. I've gone from 0 to 1 in this sense (I went from feeling nothing to feeling something as my general way of living), I can tear up but can't really cry cathartically. I can explain what has been done to me, but I don't feel it out of deep seated, ancient, shame and fear.

I can recommend:

- Complex PTSD, Pete Walker

- The Tao of Fully Feeling, Pete Walker

- Trauma and Recovery, Judith Herman

- The Drama of the Gifted Child, Alice Miller

tagfowufe··on The Psychopolitics of Trauma
I'm definitely not educated enough to answer with nuance and certainty to some of the questions you posit. Nevertheless, I'd be interested, actually, in your opinion of what constitutes 1) evidence and 2) consensus. I, personally, have an intuition for it, but it's not very reasoned out. I'd love to develop it more in the future.

You argue that consensus is not really required in "hard science judgements". While I haven't studied proper philosophy of science, I'd say "measure things or do an experiment and be done with it" is, precisely, among the best ways to produce/allow consensus; or rather, the capacity of 'hard' science(s) to reason about a series of phenomena in such a way that consensus is 'easy'. One could argue that precisely the phenomena that 'hard' science inspects lends itself more to be inspected under a strict scientific method, too.

I'd say that any 'fact' is dependent on consciousness and intersubjectivity; yet at the same time, some things are more factual than others. Gravity as a phenomenon is more factual than, say, the Stendhal Effect. One can be more and better reproduced under more stringent conditions, thus having more predicting power and being more likely to be 'true' regardless of who interacts with the phenomenon, or reasons about it and its implications.

tagfowufe··on KamilaLisp – A functional, flexible and concise Lisp
No, that you are supposed to have a basic level of autonomy and attempt at understanding before using a forum as your own personal search engine
tagfowufe··on KamilaLisp – A functional, flexible and concise Lisp
I cannot, that's why I use search engines. You're on HN, and as such, you will get lectured about the culture if need be.

https://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

tagfowufe··on KamilaLisp – A functional, flexible and concise Lisp
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=open+source+licenses&ia=web

The FIRST result: https://opensource.org/licenses

You're on HN, act like it

tagfowufe··on Spinneret: A modern Common Lisp HTML generator
Hey, thanks for contributing to Racket. I'm about to finish the first third of 'How To Design Programs' [0], and am slowly becoming a fan.

Always love to see Racket being mentioned!

[0] htdp.org

tagfowufe··on What's new in Emacs 29.1
It's incredibly useful to me. I love it. I find it nicely curated and true to the word 'starter' (kit). If I knew more about Emacs, this is definitely what I would have created, and in a similar manner.

It's that lil' layer of configuration that's missing that makes the first clash with emacs sane. I like the structure. I also like the fact that there's a 'researcher' mixin. Would absolutely love to see your opinionated inclusion of org-roam, and general.el.

I recently dabbled into System Crafters' 'Emacs from Sratch' series [0], which is incredibly well thought-out. After 5 hours of following it, you kinda get feature parity between his config and this; but in Berock's case it's done more natively which is really, really neat. I only miss some basic config with general.el.

I feel super lucky to have started in Emacs when they finally added LSP and Treesitter support, and with System Crafters' help and yours!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74zOY-vgkyw&list=PLEoMzSkcN8...

tagfowufe··on Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator
Hi, I've been skimming over your book. There might be a typo under [1], where you write: "An HTTP response to this htmx-driven request might look something like this", but then the next figure's header is "JSON"

Also, I love your username!

[1] https://hypermedia.systems/hypermedia-reintroduction/#_hyper...

tagfowufe··on Ask HN: What websites (other than HN) do you visit to read the comments?
I can't wait to see other hackers' responses! Aside from HN, I have curated multireddits (yeah, I'll be pretty mainstream in this thread). In order to create them according to my needs, I browsed r/DepthHub; investigated the most popular and the least ones; subscribed to the ones I found the most interesting (either because of topic, or how the topic is framed) and then trimmed these copied multis to keep only the the subs that I liked.
tagfowufe··on Ask HN: What huge mistake did you make early in your career?
What a bunch of scumbags. There a are so many things wrong with the company and its workers under the light of this story...
tagfowufe··on Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its footing?
My first comment ever here is for thanking you for posting these words. I find them truly educational and eerily reassuring.

I'm starting my career in this whole world after two years at a really innovative community college, and I've always resonated with your attitude, albeit I don't see it verbalized often enough on the Net.

tagfowufe··on The Art of Reading More Effectively and Efficiently
This is just an unashamed ripoff of "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren. Seriously, he didn't even get "syntopical" right.