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GNU Emacs is now dependent on TreeSitter which is a MIT-licensed project and LSP which is a Microsoft project. Also built-in support for non-gnu packages to install. Soon it will b…

Google Translate got a lot worse after the AI version was introduced, maybe not for english-centric translations but all other. The previous deductive translator was be much better…

Yes but humans are required (as runners or drivers) to make it interesting to watch. Humans are human-centered by nature (of course)

This is not true, it varies by personality, some personalities have high neuropasticity even when they get older. It depends on individual differences in the dopaminergic system

tree-sitter is a bit better than regexp but it is not an actual parser of grammars, a fast actual parser of all languages for syntax coloring is the future I think, tree-sitter is …

Is there a Lisp that supports references and pointers, perhaps pointer aritmethics too?

I would say most people don't know 90% of how to use the iOS interface but ppl are in general not interested in learning it and wouldn't read a manual if the box included one or ev…

I will never buy a Apple laptop again because Apple stops supporting it after a while and you can't install new version of the OS on it and new software. This is a deal breaker for…

Lisp is inspiring at first glance, but when you need to solve complex problems like references, pointers, macros, byte-compilation and native compilation it just is not expressive …

Thank you for the context, this also explains why most UIs gets broken / stuck at times. Like spinners that never stops or buttons that stay disabled even though they should be ena…

I think that Copilot is independent of license since it auguments/manipulates the source but the idea of Copilot is independent of GitHub and that idea needs to be explored

Even if you eat healthy food you still need willpower to prevent yourself from eating too much. But it's a easier problem

Very good points, I'm saving that text in my library

I'm experimenting with something similar as well, I'm curious - how do you solve HTTPS support since it's a built-in web-server?

Ideally all language-servers should be integrated, managing LSP-servers if you work with a lot of different languages at different versions takes more time than it is worth, regard…

Nano is great, when I did not know how to use vi, vim or emacs I used nano. Nowdays for quick edits in terminal on unexplored servers I use vi. emacs and vim are not always install…

Very good points, we have access to very powerful hardware in modern-day smartphones but the software is seriously limiting what can be done with it. My Nokia E71 from 10 years ago…

If you have consistent code style and formatting this tool is unnecessary. I think that solution is better, you get a more consistent code base that is easier to read for humans. (…

I upgraded my 2012 MacBook Air to Ubuntu Linux and it increased it's performance and stability by at least 3 times. Just want to throw that out here - if you consider buying a M1 A…

Thanks for doing this, it's a great response to the current trend in providing endless of css and js just to display basic sites

Do you have a peer reviewed study to support your opinion about Hacker News comments?

I think the "Negative" part is really what made the article get to the front page. Rust is popular so anything negative about it causes salience

Well it says "to scale" not "to realistic scale" so it could be a made-up scale

Yes Google is following Facebook and YouTube business model of building echo chambers. You only get stuff that confirm your opinion so it's useless if you want the truth about any …