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It could be even simpler.

Self care is _hard_ for ADHD people. (diet, exercise, hygiene etc..). All these combined together could grind you down into an early grave.

Re:SpeedCrunch 1.1 on Sunday October 25, 2026 @11:36AM (#50232707)
>pattern of many consumer applications degrading in UI functionality and coherence after a certain point?

Sadly they think they are making it better. Most of the time chasing fads.

Sometimes introducing dark patterns, for reasons.

I mean, Apple (and MS) had been dumbing down their OS in the name of usability and security for a while now.

Re:Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua on Monday October 19, 2026 @02:01PM (#50155685)
Very interesting. I took a brief look.

What would be the effective use cases for this? - Obviously, for start up scripts (like lua was used with C/C++ traditionally)

I am interested in the the potential of a REPL running in my app which could dynamically execute Lua code. Like nrepl for clojure and Swank/Slime for common lisp.

Is that on the cards here?

Re:Personal software factories are a waste of time on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:27PM (#50154378)
I guess people have different working styles.

If you commit early and often, yes this could turn annoying really fast. May be GP works with local-changes/git-index for a bit and commits when somewhat satisfied.

Ok. What can I do with an M4 MBP, with 48G memory?
Re:Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop on Thursday September 24, 2026 @09:55PM (#49839338)
Yes! I do pretty much the same in Mac.

Multiple desktops(spaces) each with one window of browser (Zen) and one window of cmux and an Emacs frame. One desktop for one task.

CMux has good native AI Agent notifications. So it works well in that capacity too.

Sometimes I wish there is some automatic tiling, but there is nothing good in Mac for that (I tried a couple of 3rd party software, but didn't work out)

Re:An Empirical Study of Harness Design for Coding Agents on Friday September 18, 2026 @05:12PM (#49760325)
I am still wondering about the effectiveness of using grep/awk (and ad-hoc python scripts) in code bases, as opposed to more sophisticated LSP and the like?
Re:Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus on Thursday September 17, 2026 @03:11PM (#49745193)
This is very interesting.

I am new to Rust and also new to formal verification.

Can someone ELI5 this for me?

(Also, when does the proof happen? During compilation or by running extra tests during unit testing?)

Re:Anecdotally, Programmers Dislike "Reduce" on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @07:15PM (#49734335)
There is a big difference in there I think.

'for' loop is mutating.

Using 'reduce', you can do the same functionally. In some (somewhat) purely functional languages, there is no choice.

Re:Anecdotally, Programmers Dislike "Reduce" on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @07:08PM (#49734276)
Talking about un-guessable, misleading function names,

C++ std::remove.

I would never have guessed what it does exactly. (It moves elements that match the filter to the front, and moves the end-marker forward. Leaves all the elements in the collection. You need to erase them yourself. )

Re:macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica Review on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @06:36PM (#49733990)
Have you tried other 3rd party terminal applications? (Iterm, ghostel, CMux)

They have many quality of life improvements over the basic terminal.

Re:Small Programming Tricks on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @02:20PM (#49730922)
I do that too. I am trying to use Mise. (Getting interested in Maak. Haven't done anything with it yet. My Scheme is pretty rusty)

Still, Zsh history with fzf fuzzy searching is fantastic. I have years of history I can recall commands with a few keystrokes.

Truly a second-brain.

Re:How to write an effective software design document on Monday September 14, 2026 @06:55PM (#49705388)
This does not always work.

Often, the group members presented to, do not have the required knowledge to critique the design document.

I have seen people proposing (demanding even) changes based on vague feelings and their need to be seen as contributing.

Once they say something, it is out there, now it is the poor presenter who has to refute it or accept modifications to the design.

Re:Schemy Lisp En DOS on Friday September 11, 2026 @04:29PM (#49664900)
So long ago, I don't even recall the name.

They had a C++ GUI library, much better than MFC that came later and eclipsed it.

EDIT: Found it. It was called OWL

Re:Working with Git Worktrees in Magit on Friday September 11, 2026 @04:25PM (#49664841)
Thanks for the WorkTrunk recommendation!

I just installed it and loving it so far.

Yes. But it is locked down in our corporate Macs. Still, one named folder is excluded and we shove _everything_ into that folder.

It still pegs the CPU frequently. It is extremely irritating to open the Activity Monitor and see it at the top.

What good is it in a Mac anyway? This is a not a virus ridden OS like back in the day Windows.

Re:Stockfish 19 on Thursday September 10, 2026 @03:57PM (#49649399)
Unfortunately Chess (unlike Go) doesn't have a good handicap system. When playing without a piece (or two) it is not chess anymore OR it doesn't really matter.. During how many games does Queen's rook come into play during early middle game?

Go, on the other hand has a nice handicap system (which doesn't change the nature of the game too much). One can have a fighting chance against a much stronger player with enough handicap (Upto 9 stones). In Chess terms, an IM can have a _decent_ game against a GM. Probably lose. But the GM has to work for it.

Re:Schemy Lisp En DOS on Thursday September 10, 2026 @03:46PM (#49649260)
DOS? Like in MSDOS?

There is something I haven't heard in a long while. Turbo C was the shit back in the day. Until MS came in and pushed Borland out of the way.

MS Defender. I will dump it in a landfill if I could.
Single Rust binary you say?
Re:New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @02:52PM (#49438774)
Is there no hibernation option ?
Re:I'm Becoming AI-Blind on Monday August 24, 2026 @04:04PM (#49425142)
I am wondering what AI's will 'think' of it when they ingest this thread ..
Re:The Amazon Tax on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @07:03PM (#49354056)
This predates the 'Apps' by a good margin. Safeway used to do this a decade (or more?) ago. All the prices in shelves are artificially jacked up. Only if you use their 'card' you got real prices at checkout.

I refused to get their card and stopped shopping there.

When I could, I try to get AI to write a script to do certain things and use the script from then onwards.

Makes it deterministic as well as saves cost.

Re:DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses' on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @06:35PM (#49090895)
I would love a pair of ordinary looking glasses that work just as displays. I go for long walks (for health reasons) and it would be really good to watch youtube videos or shows that gets projected in front of my face, but still keep overall vision outside.

I definetely don't want a camera in there.

Not sure if such a beast exists. But due to Meta/Google screwing up with cameras, I may never get my display glasses.

Re:Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7 on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @06:15PM (#49090696)
Not sexps, but better.

Quite a while back I have read about a system based on Scheme , called termite (I don't remember which scheme that was) that can actually sling live running code/closures across network and execute them remotely..

Boggles my mind even today.

Re:Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7 on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @06:12PM (#49090660)
Not In production yes?

Also not sure what is SDE.

Unless you have x-forwarding (and an X server running locally) or VNC you can't really use a graphical browser remotely yes?

This lets you use it from plain SSH connection?

I do want shell history with folders.

I tried a few (Atuin? McFly?) but the performance wasn't good with my massive zsh history (going back several years).

Zsh+fzf does a buttery smooth job (no folders though, unfortunately). Other tools start to stutter at scale.

Re:Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode on Monday July 20, 2026 @04:55PM (#48984773)
Yeah. That is a sore point.

It has overridden a 4000 year old strategy board game played by millions (mostly Asians).

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