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Is there any way to upload images? People will appreciate my setup a lot more of they can see what it looks like

Definitely!

Gen Z & A value uniqueness and authenticity. I think the customization options will resonate a lot with them.

It’s not the same service. Google’s vision OCR is pure text extraction, not layout. Pretty sure Google’s doc AI services that can identify headers vs body text is $10 per 1k pages.

It’s already built in! C-h n view-emacs-news

Don’t think stuff like borg is necessary now that Emacs has built in support for installing packages from git repos (use-package :vc)

Hitting limits is more related to how many tokens it’s generating, not necessarily how complex the changes are.

Hit the weekly limit on my 20x plan last week trying to do a full front end rewrite of a giant enterprise web app, 600+ html templates, plus validating every single one with playwright.

I agree. Someone can totally have this mindset while being an inexperienced developer.

In my mind, a senior engineer knows what needs extra attention and where it’s ok to cut corners.

ASDF (Another System Definition Facility) is my all time favorite name for a piece of software. Descriptive, funny, and easy to type!

Emacs takes a lifetime to learn. The sooner you start the longer it takes!

Are you using gptel exclusively, or also things like aider/claude code?

I’d love to hear more about your workflow if you have time to share!

What kind of stuff have you been building?

I buy disposable vapes because I convince myself it’s my last one. Once it runs out I’ll quit.

Buying a rig is accepting defeat.

Except this vape ran out faster than I expected. I have a big week at work coming up and I can’t afford the dip in energy level and productivity that comes with withdrawal. I’ll buy one more just this once and then I’ll quit for sure.

Amazing the hoops my mind jumps through for an addictive molecule.

> I’ll invite an acquaintance to get a coffee or beer with me a few times but never have this acquaintance seemingly think of me if I’m not directly asking them to hang.

This is a great start! You’re already doing what most people find the hardest: making the first move.

Grabbing coffee, and even going out to dinner, aren’t good activities for making deep connections. They’re too short and too routine. They can work, it’ll just take longer, and you will have to work harder to make sure conversation is meaningful.

I think the best way to make real friendships is to go on a weekend trip somewhere together. First of all, you’re spending days together instead of hours, but more importantly, you’ll have a shared experience to remember. You get to see what someone is like not only during activities and meals, but also during downtime.

Weekend trips could be awkward if it’s just one on one though, so if you don’t have a group, the next best thing is doing an activity together. Figure out a shared interest, then invite your new friend to do something you’d both enjoy. Maybe it’s a concert, talk, hike, whatever. Do that a few times and your new friend will associate you with that activity. Next time they’re going to a concert/talk/hike or whatever, they’ll invite you to tag along.

Btrfs snapshots are the closest thing I can think of. It doesn’t have the concept of branches specifically, but you can take snapshots of the entire file system and view specific files from those snapshots without having to roll back the whole system.

Manual saving files with different version names is the easiest solution that would probably work for most use cases. That’s what I do for music production. Every time I start a session I save my project with a new minor version, e.g. Epic Banger v0.4, in case I need to revisit older versions. I wish there was a way to include change log messages though.

Can’t you do that with a normal escrow service? People do it every day when they buy houses and other expensive items.

Why bother with blockchain?