Hacker News: sexyman48

New comment by sexyman48 in "Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay)"

sexyman48 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:36:23 +0000

If I could get you access to a spacecraft a million miles away, would you stay there and never come back?

New comment by sexyman48 in "Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay)"

sexyman48 — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 11:51:23 +0000

You're overcomplicating this. If RMS and his lackeys were so hellbent on ridding prop OS's from the world, they could move marginally closer to that goal by simply deleting w32* ns* and android* from GNU Emacs. That they instead collectively spend several man-months per year stressing about their upkeep means they care more about expanding their userbase than any bullshit notion of "freedom."

New comment by sexyman48 in "Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay)"

sexyman48 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:19:47 +0000

Your litany of butthurt actually bolsters my opinion of the bozos at emacs-devel, who I've long criticized for hypocritically advancing emacs on proprietary os's despite their ostensible mission to destroy them.

New comment by sexyman48 in "Ask HN: Good Books on the History of Mankind?"

sexyman48 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:58:23 +0000

I wish I could. I'm also rather curious how "cave men" lived.

New comment by sexyman48 in "Ask HN: Am I the only one not using AI?"

sexyman48 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:12:40 +0000

I’ll drop them as a client

Not unless they drop you first.

New comment by sexyman48 in "Ask HN: Good Books on the History of Mankind?"

sexyman48 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:49:20 +0000

Sapiens is a bait-and-switch. It starts out great promising at least a hypothetical account of early man, then begs off saying 30,000 years is too long ago, and burns 300 pages on essentially wokeism.

Bryson's book is great, but it's wide-ranging pop sci, not specifically about early man.

New comment by sexyman48 in "Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay)"

sexyman48 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:46:05 +0000

employment is apparently the highest achievement a person can aspire to

Your words, not mine. But gene propagation is up there, and steady wages is a sufficient if not necessary condition for that to happen.

New comment by sexyman48 in "Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay)"

sexyman48 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:51:31 +0000

That he burned 11,000 words on his text editor tells you why emacs users are unemployable.

New comment by sexyman48 in "Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died"

sexyman48 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:37:14 +0000

I'd say the opposite. Every time a guy crushes me, I flip the board over and call him a fuckwit.

New comment by sexyman48 in "Just Use Curl"

sexyman48 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:30:58 +0000

I do, dipshit.

New comment by sexyman48 in "Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died"

sexyman48 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:17:02 +0000

I think all chess fans can recall Ivanchuk's recent mortifying defeat at Naroditsky's lightning-quick hands at World Blitz. Just goes to show no matter how devastating the loss, someone, perhaps even your vanquisher, is having an even harder time.

New comment by sexyman48 in "Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died"

sexyman48 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:21:18 +0000

If life could be measured in potential moves considered, he lived several lifetimes. Sad to see such a force of nature expire so soon. Condolences to the Russian chick and their kid.

New comment by sexyman48 in "IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)"

sexyman48 — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 01:47:35 +0000

You say a lot of dumb ____ (but to be fair, I said a lot more when I was your age), but your disdain for transient is on the money. I'm a satisfied magit user, but transient is a blatant UX error and a confounded implementation. Some guy spends his 20% time hawking an entire suite around transient. No one cares.

New comment by sexyman48 in "IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)"

sexyman48 — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 01:41:29 +0000

Dayum, given Transient's prickliness (I always feel like I'm walking on eggshells when I'm in it) I've never dared to C-s. But I tried this, and yeah, the transient reverts to a plain text buffer, and you're left in the lurch.

New comment by sexyman48 in "Free software hasn't won"

sexyman48 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 01:51:47 +0000

It's 2025. Code is worthless and becoming more so. The distinction of free versus open-source is moot.

New comment by sexyman48 in "Ask HN: How do you maintain a state of flow when "vibe engineering"?"

sexyman48 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:21:51 +0000

In a given day, you're getting as much work done while also putting in solid YouTube and HN time. I'd say AI is making good on its promise.

New comment by sexyman48 in "Ask HN: Does AI understand your ideas better than humans?"

sexyman48 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 20:30:45 +0000

Yes, a thousand times yes. In stackoverflow, both questioner and answerer spends a few paragraphs on their life story before getting to the point. AI will not only happily listen to your life story, it will almost certainly link some part of its answer to it, thus validating your existence.

New comment by sexyman48 in "Cursor 1.7"

sexyman48 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 20:11:06 +0000

As in chess, stock trading, and combat aviation, people at first believed humans ought to curate computer-generated strategies. Then it become obvious the humans were unnecessary.

New comment by sexyman48 in "Cursor 1.7"

sexyman48 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:26:22 +0000

Maximalists who find value in "deep IDE integration" and go on about it also enjoy meetings.

New comment by sexyman48 in "Ask HN: Tomorrow is my first hackathon, any advice?"

sexyman48 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 21:46:29 +0000

Wear a condom.