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This is so beautiful. Keep it up, please.
Re:Hello Worg, the Org-Mode Community on Sunday February 22, 2026 @05:57PM (#47115710)
Yes, there are some parsers around in languages other than elisp. This one seemed to work well when I tried it some time ago: https://github.com/rasendubi/uniorg
Re:Claude's New Constitution on Friday January 23, 2026 @12:52PM (#46735468)
What does 'do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law' mean in your understanding?
Re:Claude's New Constitution on Thursday January 22, 2026 @12:05PM (#46721962)
Perhaps we are employing a different definition of 'moral claim'?

I take it that a moral claim tells you that something is good/bad, just/unjust, permissible/impermissible, or what should/shouldn't do, etc.

Re:Claude's New Constitution on Thursday January 22, 2026 @09:20AM (#46719566)
It is not a moral claim. It is a meta-moral claim, that is, a claim about moral claims.
Re:How I am deeply integrating Emacs on Friday November 07, 2025 @09:58AM (#45847076)
I think I agree that best tooling is not a sufficient condition for success.

But I don't see where the author is committed to such a thesis in the quote you provide.

As far as as I can see, they are not even committed to best tooling being a necessary condition for success.

Re:Using Logic in Writing on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @12:13PM (#44108337)
I can recommend E.J. Lemmon's Beginning Logic as a first book. It also contains an appendix with a list of important logic books and brief description of them. I'm curious to know whether a more recent, equally well-done, list exists.
Re:EmacsConf 2024 Notes on Sunday December 29, 2024 @02:33PM (#42542310)
Could you elaborate on those flows? Sounds useful. Is it vanilla Emacs?
Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals on Thursday December 05, 2024 @09:33AM (#42328569)
Agreed, but under a charitable interpretation.

Under a less charitable one, RcouF1uZ4gsC was discrediting the message by using the messenger's ``ethos''.

My understanding agrees with namaria's. I'm inclined to think that, in the passage you provide, `imperative' means `pertaining to processes' (where processes are those things described by procedures; or, perhaps better put, the meanings of procedures).
Perhaps that's not the question you should ask. You might want to ask "what is your advice based on?" instead. If you do so, you evaluate the conclusion by focusing on the quality of the argument, not features of the argumentator. You would agree, I suppose, that good medical advice could be given by non-doctors, and bad medical advice by doctors.
Related: E.J. Lemmon, in his book Beginning Logic, lists some important logic books and says that Chapter 0 of Church's Introduction to Mathematical logic ``deserves to be read several times by /all/ philosophers''.
Re:Google Scholar PDF Reader on Thursday March 21, 2024 @10:33AM (#39778948)
Re:SumatraPDF Reader on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @10:55AM (#38000046)
Pdf-tools in Emacs is also great.