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New comment by lycopodiopsida in "Things to know when you get cancer"

lycopodiopsida — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:25:20 +0000

My wife was diagnosed with breast cancer last year, got a therapy, an OP... Difficult time, but manageable. A lot of scheduling this and that. Unfortunately, there was an MRT scan last week, and a CT scan yesterday and it looks like we may be facing also a lung cancer now. But, those 5 months between the end of treatment and the new phase of doom and gloom were nice and almost normal. Unfortunately, one has to accept that there is no proper healing from a cancer in many cases, one is just living on borrowed time. We knew it, just hoped it would last longer.

Stay healthy and have best luck possible!

New comment by lycopodiopsida in "Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06"

lycopodiopsida — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:30:50 +0000

They do, but this interplay between preamp and saturated poweramp is basically unachievable in home setup due to how loud it is. Then next suggestion is then to use an attenuator or a power soak, but they also color the sound. And all this besides the cab speakers behaving differently on low volume levels anyway.

The premps I am talking about is something like Tone King Imperial preamp pedal - it is a real preamp, is compact and sounds good with any output source. Tubes in those are not expensive and hold for 10k hours, compared to tubes in poweramp sections, which also often have to be biased.

I have my small digital modeler for travel, but that is all of the use cases I have for them. They are "Ok" - that is most praise I can give to them. "Bland and uninspiring" would be a more realistic description. I have not tried expensive modellers on the level of QC, but I try to build more of my life away from screens and IT, so I am not really interested.

New comment by lycopodiopsida in "Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06"

lycopodiopsida — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:05:15 +0000

I think you can have it both ways these days: have an actual amplifier and not bother with an oversized power amp which has to be saturated or attenuated. There are a lot of good preamp tube pedals, which can be then fed into headphones, mac/pc, speakers with cab simulation or a simpler solid-state poweramp into guitar cab. For me personally, this tech is much cooler than all the flawed modellers. I still have real knobs and a real amp reacting.

New comment by lycopodiopsida in "Changes to Sourcehut's terms of service regarding LLMs"

lycopodiopsida — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:51:43 +0000

For a simple reason - I may one-shoot an emacs function (or several) I need for my config with claude. So, it is technically slope. I am also against self-hosting - I don’t have time and patience for it. IT is not a valuable hobby for me anymore, with LLM or without.

I guess, back to github :)

New comment by lycopodiopsida in "Changes to Sourcehut's terms of service regarding LLMs"

lycopodiopsida — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:08:35 +0000

As I already said: not interested in radicals and/or personalities — they are doomed to fail. I only pay for services provided. Sourcehut was a minimalistic service fitting to my minimalistic personal needs. Not anymore. Good riddance, sourcehut!

New comment by lycopodiopsida in "Changes to Sourcehut's terms of service regarding LLMs"

lycopodiopsida — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:20:34 +0000

Good luck. Just be prepared to deal with other “great” ideas down the line, because when I subscribed such bullsh*t was not in terms. Fortunately, my renewal was due on 28.08 (I am not making it up) so I was able to cancel. I pay for services, not performance artistry.

New comment by lycopodiopsida in "Changes to Sourcehut's terms of service regarding LLMs"

lycopodiopsida — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:14:46 +0000

Nah - all my repos are private, they mostly contain my configs and I am not paying money to read these insanities about tools I use.

As much as I like paying to escape a capitalistic monstrosity such as github, they still seem to be more … mentally stable, for the lack of a better term. At least you are not at a whim of some BDFL or an aggressive minority of radicals. It is quite sad, that we have a choice of enshittifaction and radicalization only, with nothing in between just providing good service to paying customers.

New comment by lycopodiopsida in "Changes to Sourcehut's terms of service regarding LLMs"

lycopodiopsida — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:39:04 +0000

I am a paying supporter and I am considering to stop paying. This policy is a) dumb b) unenforceable. I pay them for infrastructure and service, not for some pseudo-moral ideas about how I should write my code. My code is as little of their concern, as things happening in my own house.

New comment by lycopodiopsida in "My favorite keyboards"

lycopodiopsida — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:06:53 +0000

3 went off so far... maybe I should try a proper glue for them? It is not like I have any reason to access the screw behind, and if, I can always cut the rubber away somehow.

This said, it is nothing exotic, the M3 m9448A is the number for rubber feets. It just difficult to buy it a non-industrial amount.

New comment by lycopodiopsida in "My favorite keyboards"

lycopodiopsida — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:53:00 +0000

Glove80 for me (even have 2 of them) with Kinesis Advantage 2 being a close second.

New comment by lycopodiopsida in "The last Romans are still around"

lycopodiopsida — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:23:20 +0000

Rome was not at the spear tip of sciences and arts (it also the reason why roman elites liked greek arts so much - they had time and money for such activities) - but otherwise the impact of roman empire is huge and long-lasting. Law, engineering, political system were incredible. In fact, reading about political struggles in ancient Greece requires a good amount of explanation of the political system, but it is shocking how modern political struggles in Rome feel.

New comment by lycopodiopsida in "Even more batteries included with Emacs"

lycopodiopsida — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:30:28 +0000

I think a big difference is that in the end emacs often makes a call and adopts one of the very popular packages to the core - eglot, modus-themes, use-package - there are certainly more, and more will come. It may not make everyone happy, but is sets the baseline - e.g., I am using eglot as package manager, but I wrap it into use-package commands for compatibility reasons.

No such thing exist in neovim (or at least in times when I was using it), so that churn never ends. Also I find, that neovim ecosystem is concentrated on one (very productive) developer in an unhealthy manner - folke often takes time off and half the packages one uses stands still.

But in the end, while I like neovim, I also find that emacs ecosystem has better ideas - which-key, embark do not stop to amuse me (I will not comment on whether it is a good thing for a text editor). I also do not like lua and actively dislike the experience of debugging and configuring neovim with it (maybe less of an issue with LLM these days).

In my experience, running in a terminal absolutely adds a bunch of rendering/performance issues and all kind of surprising failures with hotkeys.

New comment by lycopodiopsida in "Even more batteries included with Emacs"

lycopodiopsida — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:28:45 +0000

There is no "problem" in emacs (there are big technical problems, but not this one) and no need to get "most people" on emacs - the ecosystem is healthy by all means and only increasing.

The "out of the box" experience could be better - but for emacs users. Those, who expect VS Code, should just install it and live happy.

Everything in C is undefined behavior

lycopodiopsida — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:07:22 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.habets.se/2026/05/Everything-in-C-is-undefined-behavior.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48203698

Points: 505

# Comments: 718

New comment by lycopodiopsida in "Show HN: Rust but Lisp"

lycopodiopsida — Sun, 10 May 2026 09:53:24 +0000

It is absolutely not true, I've vibecoded an app for myself in CL and opus/sonnet had 0 problems with parens and types. Add to it an MCP to work with REPL and it is much more smooth than Go in my experience.

New comment by lycopodiopsida in "Zed Editor Theme-Builder"

lycopodiopsida — Sun, 10 May 2026 09:29:36 +0000

It may feel even more shallow, but what keeps me on emacs are modus-themes. With luck, you can find a passable theme in your editor/ide of choice, but to find a good, high-contrast light theme is almost impossible.

New comment by lycopodiopsida in "Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

lycopodiopsida — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:52:39 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world

New comment by lycopodiopsida in "Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

lycopodiopsida — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:41:03 +0000

Why talk about “western” then, not about “US”? Because clickbait?

New comment by lycopodiopsida in "Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language""

lycopodiopsida — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:59:04 +0000

As long as I’ve written the system, any language is fine. Otherwise, hand it down to someone else!

/s but also true

New comment by lycopodiopsida in "Underrated reasons to be thankful V"

lycopodiopsida — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:47:35 +0000

> a strong faith

laughing in Marx

> Large families, festivals and feast days, homes full of music.

You may want to visit an open museum about a peasant life. It was all but a festival with homes "full of music".