Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay)

Post by skeezyjefferson » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 1:44 PM UTC

iLemming wrote: post #116

skeezyjefferson wrote: post #115

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> I can start a fresh new instance of plain, vanilla, clean-slate instance of Emacs; then open a scratch buffer and piece-by-piece rebuild my entire configuration, consisting of a dozen thousand lines of customizations; install third-party packages that bring hundreds of thousands of their own code; we're here to edit text though, I thought? It sounds clever but it might be clever for clevers sake sometimes.

> we're here to edit text though, I thought? It seems you're missing the point - that example is 'reductio ad absurdum' - a showcase of the logical extreme of capabilities, not an illustration of concrete practicality. You seem to be blinded by your sunk cost, social proof, tribal identity, status quo, and other biases, so you rather reject novel ideas than accept their practical superiority in certain scenarios. Ema…

Post by skeezyjefferson » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 1:48 PM UTC

eadmund wrote: post #108

skeezyjefferson wrote: post #88

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I have never once thought Visual Studio needs some way to edit its own source code on the fly... whats the actual use case?

> I have never once thought Visual Studio needs some way to edit its own source code on the fly... whats [sic] the actual use case? Writing Visual Studio, for example. Debugging Visual Studio. Extending Visual Studio in more than the ways it has already provided. It means not being constrained to do only those things someone else had seen fit to permit you to do. It means freedom.

Post by jibal » Sat, Nov 01, 2025, 11:26 PM UTC

iLemming wrote: post #124

skeezyjefferson wrote: post #122

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> Go seek some professional help maybe, it really hurts to see someone being so miserable. theres a bit of the pot calling the kettle black there

Yes I lost my cool for a moment, we have a history with that HNemer. He made it his full-time job to troll, to the point that it makes me want to stay away from engaging any conversations on this site. I apologize for dragging you into it.