jdormit
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Comment · 12 days ago
I use zmx daily, it’s a great piece of software. Thanks for your work!
Comment · 3 months ago
Wow. I have never worked on any cryptocurrency projects and never intend to, but I will certainly be staying very far away from Codeberg because of this.
There are some levels of censorship that make sense for a code forge - “you can’t do crimes on our servers”, “you can’t host malware on our servers”, etc. But inflicting a subjective moral judgement on an entire category of software sends the message that this isn’t a safe place to host any of your repositories. If the moral landscape shifts in the future, how can you be sure your project won’t be next on the chopping block?
What a terrible precedent to set.
Comment · 3 months ago
> The junk at the top of the screen sounds like it could be https://github.com/dakra/ghostel/issues/495 and it should be fixed on later versions
Yes, that sounds like the same issue. I’ll update to the latest version and see if it’s resolved. And thanks for your work on this package, it’s been a real game-changer for me!
Comment · 3 months ago
I recently switched from vterm to ghostel, and it is generally much, much better - noticeably faster (e.g. fancy TUI apps that try to refresh the whole terminal every frame actually work), more reliable input handling, and a nicer ELisp API.
That being said, there are still some rough edges. Sometimes it fails to properly clear the terminal, leaving junk at the top of the buffer before the currrent prompt line. And on a couple of occasions it has totally frozen, with no fix other than killing the buffer and starting over.
Overall, it’s very promising and totally usable as a daily driver, but it needs a bit of polish and bug fixes before I would consider it mature.
Comment · 3 months ago
This would be much more interesting if it detailed how the prompt/skills were reverse-engineered. As it is it seems like this could just be the output from “hey Claude write me a system prompt that works like Claude Design”.
Comment · 5 years ago
Nothing stopping just installing linux on the preassembled one when you get I though, I assume. Although I guess you may have to pay for a Windows license in that case...
Comment · 5 years ago
Hi HN! I couldn't find a static site generator I liked for my website (I looked at Hugo, Jekyll, Gatsby.js, and the Pollen library for Racket). They were either too complicated for my needs or too difficult to extend via plugins. So I built one! Happy to answer any questions here.
Comment · 6 years ago
I got this on my second attempt on philospherai for the prompt in the article (https://philosopherai.com/philosopher/please-write-a-short-o...):
(Prompt)
Please write a short op-ed around 500 words. Keep the language
simple and concise. Focus on why humans have nothing to fear from
AI.
What is it that humans fear from AI? At a philosophical level, the
question comes down to: what are human beings afraid of losing as
machines take over more and more jobs previously performed by
humans. The first answer that may come to mind for many people would
be 'nothing', since they believe in the idea of technological
progress having no limits, which means that there is literally
nothing we can do to stop it.
If you look at history however, you'll find this attitude not
entirely justified. For instance when carriages were invented and
took away most of horse-drawn carriage business their owners
resisted vigorously against them claiming that they were unsafe and
unreliable just like now with self-driving cars or trucks.
So it appears that some human beings really fear the loss of jobs
caused by AI, and they are also afraid that machines might take over
other tasks like driving or even writing in case a new computer
system is invented.
What is it exactly that makes them so afraid? I think the answer
lies in a very deep level of human psychology, which those who are
afraid would probably not be ready to hear.
It isn't just about jobs and income for most people. It's about
identity and self-esteem when they no longer have something
important they are doing like driving or writing.
There is also the fear that new and better machines will make them
look inferior, even emasculated because they no longer have to do
anything. They are afraid of being made redundant by AI.
So what humans are afraid of losing is their jobs, income, identity
and self-esteem. This might seem like a very strange thing to fear
because it's happening with all technological progress.
But in the past it was a natural process based on evolution and
survival of the fittest. Now however humans are no longer driven by
those evolutionary drivers but mostly by things like social status,
self-esteem etc.
Comment · 6 years ago
Might as well dive all the way in: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm
Comment · 6 years ago
This is really well done. Does one thing, does it well, composes nicely with other tools - kudos to the author!
Comment · 6 years ago
What don't you like about Racket macros? AFAIK Racket has the most advanced macro hygiene system out of any of the other languages you mentioned - it guarantees that all macros are hygienic by default, as opposed to other Lisps which require you to manually call (gensym) or use special syntax in your macro to guarantee that macro symbols don't shadow existing bindings.
Comment · 6 years ago
Why not take a shot at it yourself? Both Emacs and Ronin are open source.