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New comment by cjohansson in "Emacs 29.1"

cjohansson — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 11:46:16 +0000

GNU Emacs is now dependent on TreeSitter which is a MIT-licensed project and LSP which is a Microsoft project. Also built-in support for non-gnu packages to install. Soon it will be a non-gnu project entirely. I think it's a bit sad that the ideological basis is beginning to be abandoned but I think there is not enough believers in the ideology anymore.

I would say most modern editors (Helix, Neovim) do TreeSitter and LSP better than Emacs today and probably for many years to come

Spotify Dropped Support for Linux

cjohansson — Sun, 21 May 2023 14:36:52 +0000

Article URL: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Linux/Starting-today-17-may-2023-I-can-t-login-in-the-app-it-says-quot/td-p/5582238

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36021315

Points: 11

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New comment by cjohansson in "The Philosophy of Computer Science"

cjohansson — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 20:43:44 +0000

Google Translate got a lot worse after the AI version was introduced, maybe not for english-centric translations but all other. The previous deductive translator was be much better. Same with Siri and Google Assistant, they are really bad at other languages except English

New comment by cjohansson in "I used GPT to build a search tool for my second brain note-taking system"

cjohansson — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 06:03:21 +0000

Yes but humans are required (as runners or drivers) to make it interesting to watch. Humans are human-centered by nature (of course)

New comment by cjohansson in "72-year-old Congressman pursues a Master's in AI"

cjohansson — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 08:57:54 +0000

This is not true, it varies by personality, some personalities have high neuropasticity even when they get older. It depends on individual differences in the dopaminergic system

New comment by cjohansson in "Emacs: Feature/tree-sitter merged into master"

cjohansson — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 20:29:02 +0000

tree-sitter is a bit better than regexp but it is not an actual parser of grammars, a fast actual parser of all languages for syntax coloring is the future I think, tree-sitter is a pragmatic middle-ground while we wait for the prime solution

New comment by cjohansson in "The German School of Lisp (2011)"

cjohansson — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 20:50:19 +0000

Is there a Lisp that supports references and pointers, perhaps pointer aritmethics too?

New comment by cjohansson in "iPhones and action discoverability"

cjohansson — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 19:30:33 +0000

I would say most people don't know 90% of how to use the iOS interface but ppl are in general not interested in learning it and wouldn't read a manual if the box included one or even watch videos of it. People just what Apple to read their minds, to get their stuff done in as little effort as possible and people are willing to pay a lot of money for that experience

New comment by cjohansson in "Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring"

cjohansson — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 19:21:19 +0000

I will never buy a Apple laptop again because Apple stops supporting it after a while and you can't install new version of the OS on it and new software. This is a deal breaker for me, completely a waste of perfectly fine hardware. Installing Ununtu on it solved all problems fortunately. Same thing with Apple AirPort TimeCapsule, such a waste to buy it when Apple stops supporting it after a couple of years. You might as well buy products from Apple and get the delivered directly to the garbage dump

New comment by cjohansson in "An Intuition for Lisp Syntax (2020)"

cjohansson — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 21:55:53 +0000

Lisp is inspiring at first glance, but when you need to solve complex problems like references, pointers, macros, byte-compilation and native compilation it just is not expressive enough like C, C++, or Rust. Neither is Javascript. Lisp could not replace all other languages

New comment by cjohansson in "Advice for the next dozen Rust GUIs"

cjohansson — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 06:57:15 +0000

Thank you for the context, this also explains why most UIs gets broken / stuck at times. Like spinners that never stops or buttons that stay disabled even though they should be enabled. Those kinds of issues happens every day even in Apple, Google and Meta products (a lot of economical power) so there must be a deeper structural cause for this and I think it boils down to that the UI frameworks used are inherently fragile and has built-in edge case issues because of this

New comment by cjohansson in "Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same"

cjohansson — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 09:59:12 +0000

I think that Copilot is independent of license since it auguments/manipulates the source but the idea of Copilot is independent of GitHub and that idea needs to be explored

New comment by cjohansson in "The brain has a ‘low-power mode’ that blunts our senses"

cjohansson — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 17:42:16 +0000

Even if you eat healthy food you still need willpower to prevent yourself from eating too much. But it's a easier problem

New comment by cjohansson in "The brain has a ‘low-power mode’ that blunts our senses"

cjohansson — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 17:40:14 +0000

Very good points, I'm saving that text in my library

New comment by cjohansson in "Show HN: A Full-Stack Web Framework for Go"

cjohansson — Sat, 14 May 2022 07:16:08 +0000

I'm experimenting with something similar as well, I'm curious - how do you solve HTTPS support since it's a built-in web-server?

New comment by cjohansson in "Using LSP in Emacs and Debian"

cjohansson — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 19:39:19 +0000

Ideally all language-servers should be integrated, managing LSP-servers if you work with a lot of different languages at different versions takes more time than it is worth, regardless of the editor/IDE

New comment by cjohansson in "GNU Nano 6.3"

cjohansson — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 19:26:02 +0000

Nano is great, when I did not know how to use vi, vim or emacs I used nano. Nowdays for quick edits in terminal on unexplored servers I use vi. emacs and vim are not always installed

New comment by cjohansson in "The case for LineageOS and the PinePhone"

cjohansson — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 05:40:23 +0000

Very good points, we have access to very powerful hardware in modern-day smartphones but the software is seriously limiting what can be done with it. My Nokia E71 from 10 years ago had a lot of nice features that I don't have in my iPhone á 2022

New comment by cjohansson in "Difftastic: A diff that understands syntax"

cjohansson — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 12:21:39 +0000

If you have consistent code style and formatting this tool is unnecessary. I think that solution is better, you get a more consistent code base that is easier to read for humans. (Also diffs will be faster to compute)

New comment by cjohansson in "When an M1 Mac mini is faster than an M1 Pro: contention and core allocation"

cjohansson — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 19:42:57 +0000

I upgraded my 2012 MacBook Air to Ubuntu Linux and it increased it's performance and stability by at least 3 times. Just want to throw that out here - if you consider buying a M1 Apple when you have a Intel Apple, instead consider upgrading to Linux, it's better for the environment as well to avoid producing new stuff when the old one is perfectly usable with a more proper OS