Hacker News: rasur

New comment by rasur in "Pentagon Adopts Incel-Speak"

rasur — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:57:12 +0000

It's annoying that they class themselves as "Involuntary" Celibates, because as far as I can tell the "in" part of "Involuntary" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Volcels is way more accurate.

New comment by rasur in "Show HN: Elecxzy – A lightweight, Lisp-free Emacs-like editor in Electron"

rasur — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:11:28 +0000

I do (also sometimes) use Emacs on Windows, but I must admit I have little experience of the issues surrounding Japanese textual input (I've not checked but I would have automaticaly assumed "there's an Emacs mode for that", but perhaps not) - without that additional requirement just a plain old basic Emacs would have worked out of the box, no?

But anyway, good luck in your travels in scratching that itch! :)

New comment by rasur in "Show HN: Elecxzy – A lightweight, Lisp-free Emacs-like editor in Electron"

rasur — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:46:37 +0000

Pretty much yes. Emacs is basically a Lisp execution environment with a customisable text-editor included.

New comment by rasur in "Show HN: Elecxzy – A lightweight, Lisp-free Emacs-like editor in Electron"

rasur — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 11:33:14 +0000

With respect, you should learn Lisp - it will allow you to turn Emacs into whatever you want. In my opinion just keeping the Emacs keybindings but dropping all the other advantages of Emacs is missing the point entirely, and using Electron instead is just - as the saying goes - "adding insult to injury".

New comment by rasur in "Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way"

rasur — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:48:52 +0000

I've got to admit to being somewhat disappointed that the "wolf" in question wasn't the character from the film 'Pulp Fiction', because - at least in my mind - it's an apt example for Rand's original article.

New comment by rasur in "Nested code fences in Markdown"

rasur — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 09:32:08 +0000

I've not had time to explore fully, but I just cracked open emacs on this windwoes machine, and tried it, and it auto-added a comma to the beginning of a nested #+BEGIN_SRC...

New comment by rasur in "Nested code fences in Markdown"

rasur — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:25:33 +0000

#+BEGIN_SRC lolcode

blah

#+END_SRC

org-mode to the rescue ;p

New comment by rasur in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

rasur — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:03:43 +0000

Actually I saw this last night (but have yet to try it): https://usebottles.com/app/#abletonlive

usual disclaimers apply! :)

New comment by rasur in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

rasur — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:43:54 +0000

I'm not a Linux noob, but I do have better things to do than admin/fix in the evenings too.

New comment by rasur in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

rasur — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:39:23 +0000

right - same here WRT windows partition. Not always using Live, but it gets used when it's necessary. I'm slightly disappointed that they haven't done the decent thing and released a Linux version, but .. ah well, what can ya do hey?

New comment by rasur in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

rasur — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:36:00 +0000

Thanks! I wasn't aware of the JUCE newer version issue.. I'll have to (sometime) dig into that a bit deeper. Me I don't mind the idea of the smaller-scale alternatives, but having to occasionally work withothers that aren't linux based could be.. problematic.

New comment by rasur in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

rasur — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 15:09:05 +0000

thanks!

New comment by rasur in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

rasur — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:55:27 +0000

I have been 'enjoying' this with Debian on a PC with a 1080Ti nvidia card, which is no longer supported by the nvidia v590 + drivers. I've had to pin to v580, but the whole "oops, I updated, rebooted and 'look ma, no high-resolution anymore'" got tired really quickly. You have my sympathies.

EndeavourOS is apparently Arch-based so I've got no useful suggestions for fixing there, sorry.

New comment by rasur in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

rasur — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:26:26 +0000

Yeah, these days the Scarletts are fine (as is the aging Firewire connected Edirol FA-101 I've got attached). Non-DAW things such as Supercollider work fine, but I focus less on that sort of environment (which isn't a dis - SC is great!).

New comment by rasur in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

rasur — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:10:18 +0000

Gaming is all well and good, but I'd be interested to hear of experiences with moving and using Audio apps (Ableton Live, Cubase and other Steinberg apps, plus many VSTs) from Windows to Linux.

I see Wine, YABridge and LinVST mentioned in searches, but while I've got plenty of Linux experience, I'm time-poor and would prefer to make computers make noises rather than spend my time making things work. I have Reaper which is cross-platform but again, getting the VSTs working would be great (at a bare minimum).

A Mac is not an option here. Any pointers gratefully received!

New comment by rasur in "Hidden interface controls that affect usability"

rasur — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 07:19:55 +0000

Unless you're red/green colour-blind, of course ;)

New comment by rasur in "The Rise of Whatever"

rasur — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:18:29 +0000

Emacs user here, and the whole "electric-mode" stuff (for matching parens or other balanced pairs of things) I find really quite useful. And closing a pair is usually something like shift+enter, which is quite simple (but also - at least in Emacs - generally completely configurable). I think the benefits outweigh the pitfalls, personally.

Can't speak to other editors though.. I don't want to sound like I'm trolling, but they generally feel quite clunky, compared to Emacs (ducks, runs ;p )

New comment by rasur in "Attempting to Use GNU Guix (2019)"

rasur — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 07:26:56 +0000

It does, you are right. Apparently I am going blind :(

New comment by rasur in "Attempting to Use GNU Guix (2019)"

rasur — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 07:16:28 +0000

Last update to this site appears to be circa 2019 :/

New comment by rasur in "Weak supervision to isolate sign language communicators in crowded news videos"

rasur — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 08:23:24 +0000

During Covid, my son (who is deaf and attends a deaf school) has issued masks with transparent windows at the front, especially for assisting with lip-reading for deaf users. This is in Switzerland though - I don't know if this innovation reached across the Atlantic ;)