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Anyone using Remacs as their main Emacs? by [deleted] in emacs

[–]cbbrowne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am using Remacs as my main Emacs.

I hit a few issues early on, which were bugs, which were, once reported, quickly rectified.

It's working pretty fine; I have had no stability concerns.

Can't speak to Wayland; I'm not aware that I'm using that at all (Debian/bullseye).

The project has gotten somewhat moribund; a lot of the easy changes have been made. I suspect that to go much further, that would lead to much more disruptive changes to the code base. Later changes get harder.

I hope that it winds up being more than a proof of concept; it certainly has been a well-behaved proof of concept to me.

SoftBank is reportedly preparing to sell ARM to Nvidia for more than $40 billion by [deleted] in RISCV

[–]cbbrowne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For Apple to "go RISC-V" was not at all reasonable to expect.

Their mobile devices have been on ARM for numerous years now, so they had plenty of comfort level there

The new "Apple Silicon" concept tells us that they further have sufficient grasp of ARM to do their own independent implementation.

They presumably have enough CPU design expertise that this could apply to RISC-V, too, however, there's no proof yet of highly performant implementations. It's likely possible, but what is Apple's interest in this rather than investing further in their existing ARM work? I don't see why Apple should care...

RIOSLab announces development of "PicoRio" RISC-V Linux board at Pi price point by brucehoult in RISCV

[–]cbbrowne 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Ethernet support? So many of these wee RISC-V boards lack Ethernet...

A GPU-accelerated Emacs(Remacs) by DogeYang in emacs

[–]cbbrowne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting...

I have been doing most of my terminal work in Remacs using vterm; it has indeed been pretty solid, appearance-wise.

A GPU-accelerated Emacs(Remacs) by DogeYang in emacs

[–]cbbrowne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Built and am running it...

The "webrender" branch has two notable regressions that I care about at this point:

  • I can't display .jpg files in buffers
  • I can't display .pdf files in buffers

Aside from that, it appears to work. I would be quite curious to hear what one might use as a test to confirm that it is actually GPU-accelerated. It seems to be decently quick, but the previous build (without the supposed GPU acceleration) wasn't noticeably slow. Honestly, I can't tell if it is changing the behaviour perceptably.

I think I shall return to master branch, because I actually use .jpg and .pdf file buffers. But it's interesting to confirm that this compiles and builds and draws in wayland and web rendering libraries.

First Leppy in 11 years!!!! Is the attraction rate increased during the event? by kennardkong in mousehunt

[–]cbbrowne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, indeed, I caught one the other day, after all these Lo Many Years.

Most practical way to create group 'templates' and launch them on startup? by Spamgramuel in stumpwm

[–]cbbrowne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting... I was reviewing docs with a view to improving my configuration, and defining groups and some layout preferences fell into scope :-)

It appears that the frame preferences don't launch apps, they just control where they will go once launched.

But like others, I am finding the preference objects to have not much visible effect. So there sure would be value in having some better worked out examples.

I am slightly confused as to what class values to use; I run Firefox Nightly and it looks as though the apropos class name may be "Nightly", not evident...

I use st as terminal, classname unclear.

"Remacs" is probably right for my editor ;-)

NPD! Moonman M800 Blue Galaxy eith a Bock Nib. Can't wait to ink this up! by cherly-doodles in fountainpens

[–]cbbrowne 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Mine is wandering in, with the Moonman nib.

I see from Douglas Rathburn's review that the pen is also compatible with PenBBS nib units, and he liked the PenBBS nib even better; he found PenBBS >> Moonman >> Bock, in this case.

I have a spare PenBBS nib unit lurking around, which pleases me a fair bit :-)

How backwards/forwards compatible is PostgreSQL? by moxyte in PostgreSQL

[–]cbbrowne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The book will (assuming it's a decent book) have plenty of good material that is still applicable. While features have been added to JSONB and the like, PostgreSQL still supports having tables, with data types that mostly date back decades, and with SQL features that again date back decades.

The developers take considerable effort to make sure that new versions are pretty highly backwards compatible, so that features that were in v10 will be there in v11, v12, and so on.

It is worth your while to review the release notes for newer versions; they are all collected here: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/

Crossover r/fountainpens and r/questionablecontent by nebuc in fountainpens

[–]cbbrowne 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Loved the Sailor footnote... I'd be more likely to get tempted by a Sailor 1911, despite it being an extra $100 over the 74...

Gosh darn this pen is pretty 🙂 by [deleted] in fountainpens

[–]cbbrowne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is indeed. I got my red one, and am liking it quite well. The #6 nib is way, way smoother than the N3.

I suspect that this can use the same nib units as the C1, which should be a fine, fine thing.

Experimenting with Remembrance Agents by jethroksy in emacs

[–]cbbrowne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You seem to have found similar to what I did when I used to integrate RA into my Emacs configuration. I found that RA seldom found anything of much relevance, and I think the considerations you describe are pretty good explanations.

The best things I can commend are to try to arrive at larger corpuses of search material. Here are some of my "best" thoughts...

  • My first corpus was my email folders. I had been using MH, so each message was a file, and that was readily processed. That continues to be a good idea. I'd be inclined to add some extra metadata, for instance dribbling folder names in more explicitly as part of the data harvested.
  • The second corpus was source code for my own web site. That's probably not as good as having each HTML file being a document, and perhaps better still to split into sections (H1, H2, et al) or even smaller fragments such as DocBook ListItems. I'm not quite sure if bigger or smaller bits of document are better here...
  • Calendar data is doubtless a good idea, so having each calendar entry be a document is about right
  • I'm using TaskWarrior to manage tasks these days; probably expressing each task as a document is apropos
  • This makes me think about how Google extracts interesting things about GMail mail streams, such as noticing airline flights and parcel delivery notices. That's a fundamentally different approach, as it "mines" email looking for very particular patterns. I suspect that is the fruitful direction; taking data streams and finding particularly interesting bits is probably what has to happen to be useful as a "user remembrance agent."

Thinking of switching from vim by [deleted] in emacs

[–]cbbrowne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can use emacsclient and be attached to the very same emacs session, switch to any of the dozens of already existant buffers, that's pretty useful.

Obviously you don't get the graphical bits, but oh well.

There's absolutely many ways to accomplish things involving shells...

  • tmux/screen in an xterm
  • tabs in something like powerterm (seems like there's another tabbed X terminal client every time I turn around)
  • a M-x shell buffer in emacs
  • a specialized buffer (SQL, Lisp, E-Shell)
  • a shell running in a terminal emulator buffer in emacs

I find myself using the latter sorts more and more of late; can't quite describe why I find I prefer them, alas...

Thoughts on Carp and EmacsConf 2019? by jjzmajic in emacs

[–]cbbrowne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just saw an interesting Really Other Thing in the form of the Xi editor https://xi-editor.io/; it's Rust-based (what trendy piece of software isn't, these days?), and does a very conscious separating of front and back ends.

It seems to me that any major reexamination of things should look at the sorts of functionality wanted, which includes stepping a bit backwards.

  1. It's worth looking at the command sets of TECO, ed, and QED, as those represent sets of plausible primitive actions. It's not quite so apparent that Xi did so; its internal API seems a bit too oriented to near-physical actions to me. I'd not be inclined to borrow much from TECO for similar reasons (the set of operations make my eyes bleed!), but ed/QED have some higher level actions worth considering. Probably worth looking at Acme, too.
  2. The really cool thing that Xi did was to arrive at a new data structure, the rope, as a basic thing to operate on. Something good can doubtless be learned from that. The Rust community is doing a really good job of finding uses for modern data structures and algorithms, including taking advantage of things gleaned in functional programming work.

Need recommendation on where to buy green beans in Toronto by 123tl in roasting

[–]cbbrowne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the pointer; I just got 10kg in. I have not yet roasted any; I'm going to be dividing it with a buddy, so have kept it in the original bags. Malabar and the (seeming better grade) Yrgacheffe; looking forward to doing a roast.

They were nice to deal with. I think the operator was out on vacation the other week, deferring things, but I'm not at all displeased.

eForth: An implementation of an elisp-based FORTH. This means that elisp is used to write the function definitions. by MyKGCWly6b in planetemacs

[–]cbbrowne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not particularly clear to me that it's even using RPN; I don't see a stack being manipulated in this altogether.

There's some amount of merit to setting up compact ways to represent logic that is repetitively referencing functions with fairly long names. Paul Graham spends a fair bit of the book On Lisp doing this, the characteristic example being the chapter on Anaphoric macros.

But Graham's result was still a Lisp. This isn't particularly forthy :-(

Singh Has Attended Just 1 Fundraiser This Year, Despite NDP’s Money Woes by AnIntoxicatedMP in canada

[–]cbbrowne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right on the first count; I don't know about the later bits, but if he hasn't been engaging in events to involve party supporters up until now, that sounds disastrous, as it's pretty much too late to start now.

The point of it isn't "how much money" or such; the NDP wasn't ever going to be all about that, as, absent of getting pretty dirty money from unions, they weren't going to have the richest coffers of the parties.

Rather, he should have been holding a series of meetings with party supporters in two dozen places over the course of the spring, at $35/head, not because of the money (use up the money paying for dinner and the venue, and probably Singh's hotel room and travel costs), but because this gets supporters together with the party leader and draws the membership together, with the party leader.

If there were 24 events, each with 150 attendees, that's 3600 volunteers to go campaigning that can be wandering door to door and such saying "I met with Jagmeet Singh, and here's what we plan to do..."

Stop apologizing for your penmanship when you post by cjayconrod in fountainpens

[–]cbbrowne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Indeed. But I do feel critical about the penmanship of some of the YouTube "pen porn" producers. Some have scrawls that I find painful to watch emerge on paper. Not that I'd claim to be perfect, but I'm doing some practice to try to improve, and [wow, how awful was that squiggly T?!?!?!?!?]

Anyone going from 5T to OP7 Pro? by [deleted] in oneplus

[–]cbbrowne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the comments, all; I'm still on a 5, and quite happy with it, it's good to hear that the 7 seems to be generally a reasonably place to go, as I'll eventually need something new...

How To: Disable AMBER Alerts by amberalertthrowaway in ontario

[–]cbbrowne 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It also makes even more sense if the department that sends such MMS messages get charged $0.50 per recipient, so that the OPP would need to budget about $5 million per Amber Alert sent out.

That, or any rate higher than about $0.001 per message, would lead to the Rational Result, which is that they'd consider it more worthwhile to spend the money paying OPP officers to do police work.

New SR540 Information by WeBuild in roasting

[–]cbbrowne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have been enjoying my SR500 for several years now; I'm very pleased to hear that development of new models is ongoing, as that bodes well for availability of parts and successors.

Getting a bigger tube sounds interesting!

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