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New comment by metaketra in "Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp"

metaketra — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:48:14 +0000

I don't think Emacs is that hard to get used to, as long as you don't expect to replicate your IDE experience right away. Like if you use Jetbrains products, expect to switch to Emacs and get the same approach right away you will just have a very very bad time.

I started using Emacs recently for Orgmode as an alternative to Obsidian, first I just thought I'd try using for about a month, and if I don't like it I'd quit. But I kept using it month after month, eventually switching it completely. It's been over a year since then.

Then I also figured I'd try some lisp since that's what it's used for, and installing SBCL and Sly was super easy. And then the actual experience of writing Lisp was easy too.

This is on Windows 10 too. You can install and update Emacs and SBCL for Common Lisp very easily with Scoop. It might not be the optimal way to do it, but it works perfectly fine. For comparison I tried installing Lem on Windows and I couldn't get it to work.

New comment by metaketra in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

metaketra — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:57:36 +0000

I think it could work if it was designed for it from the ground up. Google's experiment's lasted months, and was, what seems like a whim of the owners, where as a lot of the workers probably expected a traditional company.

Valve the "game" company, has a relatively flat structure from what I've heard, and it's working pretty well for them, but they've also had it for a long time.

So if you have a company, that works like that from the start, that people know it works like that, that it has support for it. You could make it work.

I agree that forcing this structure everywhere wouldn't work, some people can work like this, others can't.

New comment by metaketra in "Eat Real Food"

metaketra — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:33:31 +0000

There's bread making techniques that allow you to make bread multiple times a week relatively easily and quickly, even without kneading.

Cold fermentation allows you the bread to rise overnight, so you can take 20 min to make the dough the night before, and then let it ferment overnight. Then the next day shape it, wait for it to proof and bake it.

Some breads also can last days, even up to weeks, even for homebaked breads without any additives.

Like for example, there's recipes where you make the dough the night before, put it in the oven after you wake up, and it's ready by the time you go to work.

Chainbaker on youtube has lots of guides for all kinds of breads.

New comment by metaketra in "Children and young people's reading in 2025"

metaketra — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:08:23 +0000

I would recommend the website Royalroad https://www.royalroad.com/home. It has a ton of stories by amateur authors. They're not enriching, deep, or social commentary. It's a modern version of pulp magazines, in the vein of Conan the Barbarian with worse writing, but in the end those were published in a paid magazine, while this is a free website accessible to all.

While they're not high quality, with a couple of exceptions, they're very fun to read, and in my opinion, while you can spend your time reading only high quality books, it's nice to just have what is essentially the fast food of fiction as well. Reading is a habit, and creating it by focusing on something like this, can still allow you to read something with depth and quality later on.

There's a big market for this for girls and for women in any book store, but for the most part, you can't find the same for men.

If you want specific recommendations you can check around /r/rational on reddit, since they tend to cover some of the better stories from that site.