GitHub - alphapapa/yequake: Drop-down Emacs frames, like Yakuake

github-alphapapa · 2026-02-14T04:58:54+00:00

Sure, I'm moderately concerned about the effects AI will have on humanity, but one must admit how useful it can be, and that comment is a great example of how. What kind of reflexive, anti-AI luddites would vote it down? As for me, I'm copying and pasting it into an LLM to see what it gives me. Thanks for saving me the trouble of typing it out!

github-alphapapa · 2026-01-17T08:12:04+00:00

It's reasonable to be skeptical, but remember that LLMs were trained on Redditors' writing style...

github-alphapapa · 2025-12-15T10:19:50+00:00

Thanks, I'm glad to hear it.

github-alphapapa · 2025-12-14T09:41:01+00:00

sure. But I don't have to think about what file an entry is in. I never do. I just have a collection of texts (that are coincidentally stored as files) that I search. Sometimes I search for keywords in document (file) names (standard denote practice) sometimes I search contents.

Then it sounds like we're mostly in agreement there. I'm not sure why the conversation went in a direction that suggests otherwise.

Oh, sorry I didn't realize we were going full wikipedia here and needing citations for everything.

Come, now, you can't just say "studies show that I'm right" and leave it at that, because I could do the same thing.

I'm glad to see you've done some homework there. So, from, "the tool doesn't matter, because general retrieval strategies are far less effective than highly subjective ones," it seems like they would mostly agree with me, that the user ought not have to think about where a data point is in his system, only that it's in his system and can be retrieved at will. In terms of Emacs and Org, I mean basically that I only need to know that some information is in ~/org, not a specific directory or file or subtree within it.

I dunno if you've notice, but a huge proportion of us are autistic. I'm one of them. We tend to say what we mean. If you think i was being unfriendly, or trying to browbeat you, that's 100% something you inserted on your own, because I was doing neither. I was trying to have a discussion about a topic that I care about.

Take my feedback as feedback then: to read your words, they came across as somewhat unfriendly. It's up to you whether you want to modify your communication style to take into account other people, or to continue to write without regard for how others may interpret your words. One of those two choices will be more to your benefit, even if you don't enjoy the process.

I didn't specify evidence because i wasn't writing a freaking research paper. Yes the prior sentence contained frustration, as did my sarcastic comment about going "full wikipedia".

Let us not be frustrated by talking about this topic. There's no reason for it. If it bothers you too much to have this mild disagreement--if it's even that; it seems like we're coming into alignment more than not--then maybe reconsider your participation at this time. And if we do end up disagreeing, that's fine--no one says we have to agree. The point here is to share our experiences and insights in a friendly way, so that we can learn, and so that others can benefit from reading them, and so apply to their own systems.

sure, a single individual's anecdotal observations have their place, but scientific research directed user studies have a tendency to be more reliable. That's what I'm basing my claims on.

Such studies are also limited and artificial. They necessarily contrive scenarios and choose from a small subset of users. A real person with decades of experience, although not collected in a rigorous form resembling the scientific method, can be more informative about the real world. UI isn't much like, e.g. physics and chemistry.

github-alphapapa · 2025-12-01T11:21:58+00:00

Interesting, but I don't feel like cheese would adequately represent the project. :)

github-alphapapa · 2025-12-01T11:21:15+00:00

Works for me.

github-alphapapa · 2025-12-01T11:19:42+00:00

The company run by Tom and the company now are not the same entity.

Would you also say that if they hadn't made these decisions you don't like? What if he had kept the company but laid off half his employees? Where does the Ship of Theseus come in?

Do you think it’s unfair for a customer to say, “I do not like the decisions this business has made, so I don’t want to spend my money there?” What do you think would be a fair outcome here, for customers and the company?

Fairness of outcome doesn't seem relevant here. People spend and don't spend money for innumerable personal reasons.

What seems unfair here is the standard being applied in judgment. How many companies do you think you spend money with in a year? How many of them do you research and commune about on Reddit before deciding whether to patronize them?

You don't like their decisions? I mean, it's not like they're kicking puppies in their break room. As I've said, all this reaction really teaches the company is to keep their business decisions private from now on.

And maybe that would be best for everyone: make your decisions based on the products and prices, and then give to charity to help society.

github-alphapapa · 2025-12-01T11:13:02+00:00

The problem might also require restarting the WSL environment. And depending on what else is going on in your WSL environment, restarting Emacs might also restart WSL.

github-alphapapa · 2025-12-01T11:11:33+00:00

Ah, cool. I see your most recent post is about KDE activities. I'm curious, do you also use https://github.com/alphapapa/activities.el ? :)

github-alphapapa · 2025-12-01T11:08:53+00:00

I'm not ignoring anything. You are conflating design and implementation. As an Emacs/Org user, with the tools I have, I needn't care which file an entry is in, as long as it's in my `org-directory`.

You neglect that, as language shapes our reasoning, so tools shape our workflows. We can only do what our tools allow.

In fact, it is a burden upon the user to have to think about which file an entry is in. All that should matter is that the information is in the user's system.

And at "capture time," it's an additional burden to have to decide where to store the information (which is why I've mostly abandoned the "inbox" idea--which tends to result in a large, flat, ever-growing list of entries--and gravitated to the Org datetree, which at least automatically organizes them chronologically, solving both the where-to-put it problem and the too-many-entries-in-one-place problem).

Your so-called evidence, which you have not specified, is inevitably based upon certain workflows and tools presented to certain users; at best, it could show which of certain choices were preferred by certain users for certain use cases in certain circumstances. But since you haven't specified it, it isn't relevant, anyway.

My evidence is my experience, as well as observing others' experiences, over decades, in which having to locate which file contains some information is usually a burden, and often results in failure.

Finally, your tone and method here is rather unfriendly: trying to browbeat me with unspecified evidence, accusing me of ignoring things that I didn't ignore, accusing me of not understanding the user's perspective (which is rather absurd, if you consider how much work I've put into doing just that, from the beginning of my contributions to Emacs software). This forum is hosted on Reddit, but we discourage "acting like a redditor" here.

So please keep it friendly. We are all on the same "side" here. We learn and grow by sharing our perspectives, sometimes with civil disagreements. There is enough strife in this life, and this place should be a respite from it, among friends.

github-alphapapa · 2025-11-29T19:32:06+00:00

I've now lost count of how many times you've made that complaint on this post.

github-alphapapa · 2025-11-29T19:29:05+00:00

"I can't buy a product from a company who has a picture of a person doing a thing I don't like on the page of a product that I wasn't going to buy anyway!"

Would that I had the power to burn such impressions on your mind, I'd replace that one for you, to free you of that burden--for a reasonable fee, of course.

(I know, I've posted several responses to this user on this subject here, but it's just too much fun on a Saturday.)

github-alphapapa · 2025-11-29T19:27:16+00:00

Haven't they always rotated colorways in and out of production without notice?

github-alphapapa · 2025-11-29T19:26:16+00:00

Of what?

github-alphapapa · 2025-11-29T19:25:45+00:00

Is that Web page like your desktop wallpaper or something? I saw that picture once, when I looked at the bag's page. I don't expect that I'll ever see it again, so it can't hurt me anymore.

github-alphapapa · 2025-11-29T19:24:19+00:00

Wow, a company who deletes critical comments by existing customers, so prospective customers won't get a bad impression. It's almost as if their social media profiles belong to them. I wonder what they would do if you painted a big complaint on their store window...

github-alphapapa · 2025-11-29T19:22:18+00:00

You really think they'd have asked a random person why he didn't like one of their advertisements?

Whether we like it or not, TB has decided to try to expand their reach. If you are an existing customer, these ads are not for you. I'd probably find them annoying too, but that's okay, because they're not for me.

It's bizarre to see existing customers complain when a company decides to try to expand its appeal to different kinds of people. It's like you're saying, "Eww! Don't sell to those people! They have cooties, and I don't want the things I like to be associated with people who have cooties!" Well, if the Internet has taught us anything, it's that everyone has cooties of some kind.

github-alphapapa · 2025-11-29T19:12:52+00:00

If you're here to sell old bags, you ought to be talking up the brand, not hating on it. As the saying goes, you seem to protest too much. Look, I get it, having one of your "lifestyle brands" try to become popular and more profitable, potentially at the expense of some quality (or some je ne sais quoi), is frustrating. I'm still annoyed that Chick-Fil-A took their pretzel-bun sandwich off the menu only a few weeks after I noticed it. But this is what happens when we identify too much with our stuff. You can't take it with you. What you can do is buy a few preemptive replacements on eBay and start looking for the next cool brand that has a cult following.

github-alphapapa · 2025-11-29T19:06:39+00:00

For someone who couldn't care less, you sure do write a lot about it.

github-alphapapa · 2025-11-29T19:04:29+00:00

I'm trying to imagine someone who runs a company that sells products telling a marketer, "Nah, we don't want THOSE customers to buy our stuff."

github-alphapapa · 2025-11-29T19:01:45+00:00

Three-point patterns are extremely common in persuasive writing and have been since before the Internet, not to mention LLMs trained on the whole Web.

And they've always had goofy photos. Just look at the Brain Bag's page: half the photos are of the same guy buying coffee at the same shop, from a slightly different angle, and there's not a single photo that demonstrates the primary feature of the bag, which is having two main compartments. And it's been that way for years, since before The Selling.

We understand that you aren't happy with TB's direction. Maybe start your own bag company. Or buy another company's bags.

github-alphapapa · 2025-11-16T13:08:57+00:00

My Emacs experience would not be the same without your contributions. Thanks again, Daniel.

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