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I am sure you have tried all these, but just listing them if you havent:-

1. lib-gccjit native compilation

2. GCMH

3. explain-pause-mode

4. Buy a new PC

5. Compiling emacs with -O3 for your own hardware

6. --with-x-toolkit=lucid

Please dont abandon emacs in haste. It was home for 10 years for good reasons.

Would somebody please explain to me how 'casouri/vundo' compares to the semi-abandoned 'emacsmirror/undo-tree'?

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Are you refering to the "view" or the "controller"; "django view" or "rails controller" :-)

If we were to coin a new name, say "Zeitgeist" to refer to the notion of a thing that does 'controller things' and more, are we compounding the problem further, or are we simplifying the problem?

https://xkcd.com/927/

Incumbents dilemma right?

Shouldnt it be possible to "Rip off the band-aid" when releasing, say Django-6.0 and rename things the way most people not already familiar with Django name things.

> names are rarely changed later

So refactoring APIs is really hard, especially when those are being consumed outside the organization... Shouldnt be an impossible task. After all, API versioning happen all the time internally...

Are you refering to CGI?

> I’d be afraid a young dev would have no idea

/s But then, I want to reinvent the wheel, it will be square and better.

> treating data as data in the abstract

Now you are really sounding like Sussman from SICP :-)

> “controller” is the balance-of-system

In Django, they call this as a View!

Was there a legacy reason why they are trapped with MTV naming scheme?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAVnOz7i-JA

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Very interesting approach. Would you please share a small gist showing the custom primitives you are exploring?

Your experience mirrors mine in using Doom, Spacemacs etc. Esp, regarding unnecessary fancy features, with no explaination why they are there.

Do it! dont wait. A change of location will reboot your brain. Trekking, Swimming, Sunburn will give you some much needed break.

Its easier to aquaint with new people when you are traveling. I am sure you know of all these things already. I just wanted to confirm that your idea of travelling is the right medicine.

I love the literate way you have explained your thought process in the readme.

Would you kindly share how it influenced you. I am really interested in the intersection of human languages and programming languages.

Have you explored Sanscrit, with a similar lens as a programmer?

PG tweeted:-

    You can't replace reading with other sources of information like videos, 
    because you need to read in order to write well, and 
    you need to write in order to think well.

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orgmode file --> export to pdf (aka weave)

orgmode file --> org babel tangle

Would you please help me understand your workflow for > jumping to the chunk which the code came from in the tangled source code on the pretty printed PDF

Do the codeblocks in your pdfs contain hyperlinks back to the org file where they came from?

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