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wegwerff··on The Emacs Window Management Almanac
Similarly. I do have

     (global-set-key (kbd "M-o") #'other-window)
since C-x o is a bit much, but I don't feel any need for all these extra packages.

But it's nice to have such an in-depth reference, Karthik's articles are always very educational and interesting.

wegwerff··on Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager
Typo for "execrate" meaning "invoke a curse on". If you find the right spell to cast in your terminal, it will reveal its contents to you.
wegwerff··on Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices
never a good sign https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/world/europe/russia-media...
wegwerff··on The File Filesystem (2021)
also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formatted_File_System

and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_file_system

and kind of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Fast_File_System

Four file systems named ffs; ffs is popular for file systems

wegwerff··on GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS?
Yes, of the languages I know, all the LLM's get consistently "stupider" as the languages get "smaller" (in terms of available data on the net). Even if the LLM can translate fairly well into the language and speak in the language, the reasoning skills are simply not as good as in English, and progressively worse as languages get smaller, and frequency of hallucinations increases substantially.
wegwerff··on Ask HN: What are your best Emacs tips?
Uncommonly useful: I have a file with two functions that I want to not just see side-by-side, but with a diff.

`C-x 4 c' runs the command clone-indirect-buffer-other-window Now you can narrow both buffers to the two different functions (mark and C-x n n) and do M-x ediff-buffers to get a diff

See also https://karthinks.com/software/batteries-included-with-emacs...

Also, rectangles: https://karthinks.com/software/more-batteries-included-with-...

wegwerff··on Emacs with concurrent garbage collection (MPs)
Are you using this yourself? It's possible to just switch branches and use it?