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Interesting improvement. My biggest issue with Emacs and the reason that I left it was because it was not multi-threaded. I wonder if is/can be multi-threaded now.
I'm honestly curious, what kind of multi-threading you use, in whatever you're using now instead of Emacs? Can you share some practical example(s)? I'm not trying to trick you, I'm just curious for what kind of complex tasks possible there and where Emacs comes short.
The post is AI generated as well, right?
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I have perf issues with emacs-pgtk on a 4k screen on Wayland with Niri in both Emacs as a client and not. The issues appear with typing or scolling, the delay and lag become noticeable. For me the issue is only unbearable when running fractional scaling, for some reason. I'm going to try the branch mentioned in the sibling comment, though.
I have almost the exact same setup as you and even have strange behavior with fractional scrolling. I'm on NixOS so the setup is even inspectable: https://codeberg.org/arik/dotfiles After resetting the scale from 1.2 to 1.0 through 'niri msg output HDMI-A-2 scale 1' I actually noticed a performance increase! I will have to troubleshoot this, although you may have stumbled on a great lead toward the root cause.
At home I'm driving an Ultrawide (3440x1440@75Hz) at scale 1.1.
At work I'm driving two 4k screens at scale 1.2.
I might be less sensitive to latency but it could also be a graphics driver issue or something similar. I'm using Arch with emacs-wayland (pgtk) with a strix halo (all AMD) laptop.
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People clearly can, though, because they did.
I'm inclined to believe the author, given that they were honest about the machine assist on the engineering? Why would they lie about the post and not the artifact? More broadly, I'm just getting tired of the low effort snark on this. If someone is going to cite a passage, or examples of a theme, do some serious analysis by all means. I'm not trying to tone police high effort comments. But this drive by "that's LLM o…
Perhaps the opening post was ill-phrased, but I think the second post clarifies it a bit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48677597 - and I was certainly getting some vague LLM vibes from the writing, so I was curious about this too.
So, whatever it is in the LLM output that is detectable, it's clearly detectable, even with the latest LLMs, and even when it's present possibly only in trace quantities.
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If you've reached that conclusion, I'm truly proud of my writing technique. I'm sorry to say, though, that your instincts are failing you this time. I write my articles by hand over several days, although it's true that I do consult AI to improve my style, expressions, find synonyms, create tables, and correct spelling mistakes. Thank you for your comment!
FWIW no one can tell anymore. Claude stopped doing all the LLM ticks like 6 months ago. There's a whole industry of people trying to detect LLM writing and they're getting stomped, this can be and is extremely well studied in the literature. The criticism is that you did something wildly ambitious and pulled it off. The blog is just well written.
Oh God, if only. You’re right that it moved on from the classics, but it has new ones, and they’re just as identifiable.
I tried to look for the thread on the emacs-devel archive, and couldn't find it. Is it not archived for some reason?
Interesting improvement. My biggest issue with Emacs and the reason that I left it was because it was not multi-threaded. I wonder if is/can be multi-threaded now.
> because it was not multi-threaded I'm honestly curious, what kind of multi-threading you use, in whatever you're using now instead of Emacs? Can you share some practical example(s)? I'm not trying to trick you, I'm just curious for what kind of complex tasks possible there and where Emacs comes short.
This is outstanding, if I have time I'll be switching over today. This is the kind of thing that could drive a truly free fork of emacs forward, it's enough better on realistic desktop displays to rally around and as the parent discovered "Free Software" at this point has very little to do with the freedom to do what I want on my computer in a low friction way: an ideological position on "GPUs" as a category is bizar…
>an ideological position on "GPUs" as a category is bizarre even by Late Soviet FSF standards. The FSF and the GNU project are both paralyzed by their inability to move on from Stallman. He may have been a visionary 40 years ago but now he's an obsolete dinosaur who hasn't written a line of code in decades and has absolutely no idea how modern computers work. He can't update his own website. He evidently doesn't seem…
"obsolete dinosaur who hasn't written a line of code in decades"
The most recent code change in Emacs by RMS was on 2026-04-22 (0fb9d096e38), so ~3 months ago. He can write complex code (without AI), such as the `cond*` macro (707 LOC, all macro code), authored and pushed to Emacs on 2024-08-02 (18491f48d97).
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Very much this. I really dislike the somewhat corporate and characterless sounding tone of AI. I really liked the part where he tried to get it into upstream emacs, most of these type of projects never even get there. But yeah things like "bring honest numbers" sounds just weird.
Please, have some mercy, English is not my first language! Thanks for the advice, I'll keep it in mind.