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Live from my old college dorm room, with a dozen funny T-shirt slogans and an avatar with better hair.


"Yes, Emacs! Strange visitor from another subculture with powers and abilities far beyond those of plain-text code editors!"


there's still emacs.


vim has even had a command called “:set noai” for decades, which turns off messing with your code!


What’s incredible is even plain vanilla vi has it as well!


Emacs is practically a product of AI research.

Even if it didn't, it's distributed with a psychotherapist mode, hippie-expand (which I use almost every day) and dabbrev.


"Don't be evil" comes to mind. I wonder if any company -- or for that matter, any software development organization, whether paid or volunteer -- can really avoid bad decisions when they get big?


early teaser!


(kebab-use-elisp)


hmm. company mode has been doing part of this job for a long time now.


suboptimization; learned about this in engineering school 40 years ago: don't optimize the most visible parameter by itself, or you'll likely end up crashing. why do we have to freaking rename everything?


looks like a trojan horse attack to me.


org-mode helps:

  6:50......TODO wake up
  7:00......TODO brb
  7:02......TODO catfood
  7:04......TODO fasting glucose
  7:05......TODO ketones
  7:06......TODO weight
  7:07......TODO hydrate
  7:08......TODO am meds
  7:10......TODO shower
  7:20......TODO hair
  7:22......TODO shave
  7:25......TODO teeth
  7:27......TODO deo
  7:28......TODO morning netty
  7:28......TODO wash netty
  7:33......TODO chg jeans (+3d)
  7:33......TODO dress
  7:38......TODO pockets
  7:42......TODO litter
  7:45......TODO bkfst/coffee
  8:00......TODO journal
  NB: this is a good time to
  apply the quiet art of attn
  (see my other HN post) and do
  your best to like or dislike
  current thought patterns
  8:15......TODO email
  8:30......TODO chats
  8:40......TODO calendar
  8:45......TODO planning
  9:00......TODO login/execute
 12:00......TODO lunch/nap
 18:00......TODO logoff
 18:10......TODO text friends
it's not just morning that matters. and don't let the jerks and trolls get to you: it's your time and your life.


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