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New comment by quibono in "I almost got hit by a car"

quibono — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:33:03 +0000

For a fun game each time you go for a drive tally up how many Uber drivers are wearing AirPods (or the equivalent) while driving.

New comment by quibono in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

quibono — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:55:24 +0000

Don't get me wrong, I'm loving Doom and have used it full time for a few years now. But over time I've started being uncomfortable with the fact that I don't fully understand the editor, don't fully appreciate the difference between what comes in as part of vanilla Emacs and as a Doom feature, and I feel like I am depending on a huge bunch of code and configuration I might not really even need.

Selfishly I wasn't willing to spend the time to master Emacs proper back then, but with the LLM craze now I find it much easier to hack on my configs.

New comment by quibono in "Emacs 31 Is Around the Corner: The Changes I'm Daily Driving"

quibono — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:50:38 +0000

treesitter (with easily installable grammars - a big pain point) / LSP integration OOTB / themability

Plus now agent integration (aka GPTEL)

New comment by quibono in "Emacs 31 Is Around the Corner: The Changes I'm Daily Driving"

quibono — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:43:52 +0000

Indeed. I myself am on Doom Emacs but I've increasingly been thinking of moving over to vanilla Emacs. I'm a bit worried about the transition period due to all the keybind differences but I'm sure it's not too bad.

New comment by quibono in "Iroh 1.0"

quibono — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:06:37 +0000

> C means worrying about potential vulnerabilities and core dumps

Rust guarantees no vulnerabilities?

New comment by quibono in "AskHN:How do you handle skill atrophy from using coding agents?"

quibono — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:00:11 +0000

One hopes

New comment by quibono in "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"

quibono — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:43:39 +0000

I think a big part of this whole discussion (and why it's always such a divisive topic) is that there are so many factors to consider that there is no one single golden bullet. An industry standard just makes this issue go away; also it makes the decision making easier since you're not taking risks going for "VM-with-systemd" or "plain docker" or "bare metal" over $STANDARD.

> I would not advise asking the majority of CTOs these questions either. Many got to that position by saying what people want to hear, which is the "average" safe answer.

Agree; this is the same as asking people why they're not having kids: they either a) don't know or b) don't want to / are not willing to say the truth.

New comment by quibono in "An O(x)Caml book that runs"

quibono — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:24:05 +0000

> The single biggest obstacle a beginner hits with any language is not the conceptual understanding. It is the install.

Is that _really_ the case? I find it very unlikely (not just in an OCaml context).

New comment by quibono in "Maxproof"

quibono — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:48:15 +0000

I was under the impression that IMO is conducted in an official "exam" capacity, on site and in a very formal setting. So I find it hard to believe _direct_ LLM usage would be a factor Then again - it very well could be a factor in the training and preparation? I imagine "Write me a prep document for the IMO" will surface all kinds of interesting things from the training set.

New comment by quibono in "Reviving Papers with Code"

quibono — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:23:44 +0000

Yes, exactly this! Thank you!

New comment by quibono in "Reviving Papers with Code"

quibono — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:56:13 +0000

This is a bit off-topic (though tangentially related) - does anyone remember a similar blog where the author would do something like a "5 minute paper" review, i.e. they'd discuss findings and try to communicate the main point? It was usually a paper per week, mostly CompSci / maths papers IIRC

New comment by quibono in "Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight"

quibono — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:13:17 +0000

This is a bizarre reply? IIRC there was a law suit involved

New comment by quibono in "The Lone Lisp Heap"

quibono — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:52:42 +0000

If I'm not mistaken there's also the author of Starlette / FastAPI

New comment by quibono in "Don't Build Your Own Lisp"

quibono — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:49:22 +0000

Well there's Make a Lisp [0]. And Lispy [1] and Lispy2 and Lisp.py [3].

[0] https://github.com/kanaka/mal [1] https://norvig.com/lispy.html [2] https://norvig.com/lispy2.html [3] https://khamidou.com/compilers/lisp.py

New comment by quibono in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

quibono — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:52:42 +0000

That’s interesting… have you tried MSFS2024? That’s my main driver for now; god it would be amazing if I could run it on Linux. I’ll definitely need to try DCS on Arch! By the way - what module would you recommend (apart from F-18)?

New comment by quibono in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

quibono — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:36:06 +0000

The only reason I have a dual-boot Windows setup now is for MSFS2024 and DCS. They will probably be the last to ever get full-Linux support (if ever).

New comment by quibono in "Coursera and Udemy are now one company"

quibono — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:02:03 +0000

I'll have to look at the Scala course, thanks!

New comment by quibono in "Coursera and Udemy are now one company"

quibono — Tue, 12 May 2026 11:36:16 +0000

It's been a while since I took a Coursera course but I LOVED it at the beginning. Between Machine Learning, the (numerical) optimisation courses and NAND-To-Tetris (even for the platform alone) it had so many great courses to pick from.

New comment by quibono in "Coursera and Udemy are now one company"

quibono — Tue, 12 May 2026 11:18:07 +0000

Any courses you would particularly recommend? I always found that Udemy's vast catalogue made it hard to actually pick a course.

New comment by quibono in "Knitting bullshit"

quibono — Wed, 06 May 2026 09:26:06 +0000

Am I to believe that those 700K+ downloads are organic traffic? Who's listening to all this stuff?