[-] oantolin@discuss.online 10 points 23 hours ago

One interesting feature in this paper is that the programmers who used LLMs thought they were faster, they estimated it was saving about 20% of the time it would have taken without LLMs. I think that's a clear sign that you shouldn't trust your gut about how much time LLMs save you, you should definitely try to measure it.

[-] oantolin@discuss.online 86 points 6 days ago

Normally people use ChatGPT to vibe code, this is the first instance I'm aware of of ChatGPT using people to vibe code!

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I explain what I dislike about which-key and what I think people should use instead.

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I explain what I dislike about which-key and what I think people should use instead.

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Take two: Eshell (yummymelon.com)
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Charles Choi (of Casual fame) explains how he came around to appreciate Eshell.

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Take Two: Eshell (yummymelon.com)

Charles Choi (of Casual fame) explains how he came around to appreciate Eshell.

[-] oantolin@discuss.online 3 points 1 month ago

Zero. We didn't get engagement rings, not later wedding bands. The first few years of our marriage we used to get asked about the wedding bands a lot, but people eventually got used to us not having any. I think it's probably been about 15 years since we last got asked about them.

[-] oantolin@discuss.online 2 points 1 month ago

That wouldn't be so useful for academic papers, which is the use case described here: I've never heard of a an academic journal that accepts Typst source, but I know of hundreds, probably thousands, that accept LaTeX.

[-] oantolin@discuss.online 2 points 2 months ago

Pocket Casts is fantastic.

[-] oantolin@discuss.online 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What advantage does the Wikipedia app have compared to the mobile website?

Agree on Voyager, that's what I'm using to post this comment!

[-] oantolin@discuss.online 3 points 2 months ago

My wife and I watched a classic noir film: Double Indemnity (1944). As expected, it was great.

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I'm looking for opinions on org-roam from people that used plain old org for notes extensively before trying org-roam. I've trying to figure out if I'm missing anything by not trying org-roam and it's hard because when I ask org-roam users what they get out of it they tend to reply with stuff that I already know how to do in org: daily notes, capture notes quickly and unobtrusively, searching for notes, linking to other notes. Often it turns out these org-roam users did not use org before org-roam. The exceptions to functionality being available in org that I see mentioned are automatic backlinks and a graphical representation of the link structure.

I have no interest in the seeing the link graph, but I'm not sure about automatic backlinks. In what ways do people find them useful?

It could also happen that the org-roam features I feel I already have in org (daily notes, capturing, searching and linking) are somehow better in org-roam than in plain org. Fair enough, for example I wasn't completely happy with searching and linking in org by itself, so I now use the excellent org-ql package for those tasks. Could someone who has done these things both in plain org and org-roam describe if and how they are improved in org-roam? Particularly, is capturing in org-roam somehow better than org-capture? Are org-roam dailies better than a datetree?

[-] oantolin@discuss.online 6 points 3 months ago

Look at the first letters of cycle, use, new and think.

[-] oantolin@discuss.online 7 points 4 months ago

One small thing I liked in the new version is the grep-use-headings user option, if you set it to t, then grep buffer lists the search results with headings, one per file, instead of repeating the filename every single time.

[-] oantolin@discuss.online 7 points 2 years ago

Acme doesn't stand for some generic editor! It's the famous acme text editor by Rob Pike. It's an interesting editor, very different from Emacs or Vim, and yes, very mousey. In this video Russ Cox gives a great overview: https://youtu.be/dP1xVpMPn8M

[-] oantolin@discuss.online 3 points 2 years ago

I looked at the macro expansion of the form you wrote and it looks like gibberish, so I don't think the :hook keyword allows expressions to be used as hooks, you need to define a function and use the function name:

(use-package pascal ; presumably
  :init
  (defun remove-pascal-completions ()
    (remove-hook 'completion-at-point-functions
                 'pascal-completions-at-point t))
  :hook (pascal-mode . remove-pascal-completions))

Also, the weird single quote character you used probably doesn't work in Emacs (but maybe you have normal single quotes in your file and it's just lemmy's markdown messing things up).

[-] oantolin@discuss.online 6 points 2 years ago

Blatant advertising for one of my packages: Embark has convenient key bindings for all of the commands discussed in this article. If point is on active region and you call embark-act, the s prefix has all of the sort commands there, reverse-region is on r, and delete-duplicate-lines is on d. I tend to forget all the sort commands, so I often call embark-act on a region, press s, and then C-h to get a list of them.

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