xedrac's comments

On: CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story

[xedrac]

You say it hasn't saved you any time because you're doing more work now - e.g. documentation. I would say that's being pedantic, but I guess the expectations shift with it, so in practice, you can't just maintain your old output level and reclaim the saved time.

[avidiax → xedrac]

I haven't seen our roadmap accelerate because of AI. I'm sure, given time, having the P2s like documentation and prototyping in place will yield dividends. But I still can't imagine even doubling our rate of progress.

I am in an area that is bottlenecked on many things besides writing the code. Testing requires physical devices and realtime execution. So having the code 10x faster is little difference when the other processes take most of the time.

On: California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years

[xedrac]

Yeah, I want another 950" of snow at Alta Ski Resort again. That year - 2023 I think, was unreal!

On: Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?

[xedrac]

Having a family solves this issue nicely. I have a wife and five kids, and none of us are lonely because we have each other. It's one of the choices I made in life that I am most grateful for.

[bakioka → xedrac]

Way to completely miss the point there bub. Most crass answer here.

[publicdebates → bakioka]

There's also a 50% chance he will not have that company at some point in his life, and will become part of the loneliness epidemic, which for some reason he's not taking into account.

On: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

[xedrac]

> The current Linux desktop didn't get us there, but we believe that what was made, can be unmade.

This is a strange thing for them to say when they are pretty much a clone of Fedora Silverblue, with a few minor tweaks.

If Bluefin works for you, great. But I find their marketing rather pretentious.

On: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

[xedrac]

I would argue that hardware support in Linux is superior to any other operating system on the planet.

On: Eat Real Food

[xedrac]

One thing I would add to this site is to avoid seed oils like the plague. PUFA is in almost everything that is processed, and it absolutely wrecks havoc on your metabolism.

[CurrentB → xedrac]

There is no scientific evidence for this

[xedrac → CurrentB]

There certainly is: https://www.researchwiki.org/read?id=2

On: Extensibility: The "100% Lisp" Fallacy

[xedrac]

I tried the latest nightly release AppImage on Fedora 43 and got a nice undefined symbol error:

    /usr/lib64/gio/modules/libdconfsettings.so: undefined symbol: g_assertion_message_cmpint
    Failed to load module: /usr/lib64/gio/modules/libdconfsettings.so
    /usr/lib64/gvfs/libgvfscommon.so: undefined symbol: g_task_set_static_name
    Failed to load module: /usr/lib64/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so

So I tried out the container version with podman and that worked. I am familiar with Emacs, so some things were natural to me. I like Lem quite a bit. But to really drive with it, I need:

    - Solid LSP support
    - Project scoped buffer switching/searching
    - Great vim keybinding support (this seems to have improved since last I tried lem years ago)
    - Tree-sitter support for the languages I care about.

According to the website, LSP support is still a WIP. I didn't want to go through the hassle of testing it out in the docker container. From what I can tell, there is no project scoping for buffers, but I might be wrong.

All in all, a big improvement from a few years ago when I last tried it!

[vindarel → xedrac]

Hello, yes there's project scoping: https://lem-project.github.io/usage/usage/#project-commands (added by yours truly, which was easy thanks to Lem's quality code base). I find the vim layer excellent, you can open an issue if you find obvious things missing.

On: Toll roads are spreading in America

[xedrac]

I'll take my sprawling suburb with a big yard to grow ample food any day over a densely populated and carefully planned cityscape. With the advent of cheaper solar panels and electric vehicles, it's not a big issue.

[array_key_first → xedrac]

Are you actually growing your own food though? Or is your yard a grass monoculture that serves more of a vanity project than anything useful?

And maybe you are, which, good on you! But I don't think most Americans are.

[xedrac → array_key_first]

Yes! I love growing my own food. I have 1/4 acre with 10 fruit trees, 12 grape vines, and a 20×60' vegetable patch.

[potato3732842 → xedrac]

I don't even give a shit about the yard. Frankly it's a pain in the ass.

It's about getting away from "the wrong kind"[1] of people.

[1]calm down that's not who I'm talking about.

On: Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

[xedrac]

Any privacy benefits of blocking ads are incidental compared to the usability improvements it brings. I have near zero tolerance for ads.

On: Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

[xedrac]

I would go as far to say that ad blockers are the primary value proposition of Firefox at this point. If they lose that, I have little reason to use it on my phone or my workstations.