Isn’t this just a normal part of aging? It happens more and more that you don’t like new media and don’t understand what those crazy kids are into?

I’m an Emacs users, so unsurprisingly I use magit, but perhaps surprisingly I use it sparingly, using Emacs’s VC most of the time.

This so dumb, but once on the AskReddit someone posted:

Your murderer says, “You get to choose one object. If I can’t kill you in 15 minutes with that object, you get to leave.” What do you choose?

I wrote:

A confetto (the singular of confetti).

And it received 4.5K up votes.

Someone should still rename it, even if that someone is not you. 😅

There’s is already a fantastic programming language called q, you should rename yours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(programming_language_from_Kx_Systems)

I think you meant “tactile”.

It depends on the type of facts, but sometimes it’s much easier to verify an answer than to get the answer in the first place. For example sometimes the LLM will mention a keyword that you didn’t know or didn’t remember and that makes googling much easier.

How could I forget to mention ctrl+f!

There are a couple of functions that web apps almost always have and that native apps tend to lack: (1) selecting and copying text from anywhere in the app to the clipboard; (2) bookmarking individual views within the app. Of course, natives apps in principle could be faster and use more of your hardware —in practice though, they tend to be horribly bloated electron crapps. 😅 So yeah, a decent native app can be better than a web app, but good luck finding one for your purpose.

One interesting feature in this paper is that the programmers who used LLMs thought they were faster, they estimated it was saving about 20% of the time it would have taken without LLMs. I think that’s a clear sign that you shouldn’t trust your gut about how much time LLMs save you, you should definitely try to measure it.

Normally people use ChatGPT to vibe code, this is the first instance I’m aware of of ChatGPT using people to vibe code!

Kris Jenkins is a top-notch interviewer! He lets the interviewee talk, really pays attention and asks good follow up questions. I know that sounds like standard things an interviewer should do but at least in tech podcasts few seem to.

I use it in all buffers whose major mode is derived from text-mode.

By default undo does work in the scratch buffer so it is something in your configuration that is keeping this from working. As a quick way to check, try running emacs -q, which skips loading your configuration, and see if you have undo in the scratch buffer there; if so, it’s definitely something you have in you configuration.

You can bisect your configuration to figure out how you are deactivating undo. You can do this manually or with the help of the bug-hunter package.

Acme doesn’t stand for some generic editor! It’s the famous acme text editor by Rob Pike. It’s an interesting editor, very different from Emacs or Vim, and yes, very mousey. In this video Russ Cox gives a great overview: https://youtu.be/dP1xVpMPn8M

I looked at the macro expansion of the form you wrote and it looks like gibberish, so I don’t think the :hook keyword allows expressions to be used as hooks, you need to define a function and use the function name:

(use-package pascal ; presumably
  :init
  (defun remove-pascal-completions ()
    (remove-hook 'completion-at-point-functions
                 'pascal-completions-at-point t))
  :hook (pascal-mode . remove-pascal-completions))

Also, the weird single quote character you used probably doesn’t work in Emacs (but maybe you have normal single quotes in your file and it’s just lemmy’s markdown messing things up).

Blatant advertising for one of my packages: Embark has convenient key bindings for all of the commands discussed in this article. If point is on active region and you call embark-act, the s prefix has all of the sort commands there, reverse-region is on r, and delete-duplicate-lines is on d. I tend to forget all the sort commands, so I often call embark-act on a region, press s, and then C-h to get a list of them.