aquariusDue (u/aquariusDue)

aquariusDue commented on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-ar... · Posted by u/articsputnik

wongogue · a day ago

This workflow is even easier on a Tiling WM.

These days I use niri which at its core, is just Alt-Tab blown up as your actual desktop.

aquariusDue · a day ago

Seconding Niri, it's easier to configure compared to other Tiling WMs and has good out of the box defaults.

Though you'll have to fiddle a bit with stuff like waybar, fuzzel and xwayland-satellite. But once you've configured that stuff you won't have to fiddle with it non-stop.

I'm currently running it on Fedora, to be clear.

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pqs · 6 days ago

Now I'm using Emacs Howm for task management. It is based on text files and it is great. Org-mode is also great.

aquariusDue · 5 days ago

Also for anyone interested in trying Howm the guide for it was recently updated.

https://github.com/Emacs101/howm-manual

The cool thing about Howm is that it's note-taking and task management for lazy people. It predates org-mode (but it also works with it nowadays) and has a distinct way of linking notes by way of go-to and come-from links, think saved search and automatic backlink respectively. Also the way tasks are displayed and surfaced is pretty neat too, the guide/manual goes more in-depth but if you find stuff like org-agenda too complex you'll appreciate Howm's way of tracking and managing tasks.

aquariusDue commented on Left to Right Programming graic.net/p/left-to-right... · Posted by u/graic

xelxebar · 6 days ago

It's not so much a matter of exhaustively listing pros and cons, but more a matter of appropriateness to the desired goal or goals IME. I seriously doubt that a comprehensive pro/con list can even be coherent. Is dynamic typing a pro or a con? Depends on to whom and even in what decade you ask. List comprehensions? Interpreted language? First class OOP? Any cost-benefit anaylsis will be highly context-dependent.

> I'm not here to defend tiresome strawmen.

I won't point out that you already tried to (contradiction intended). Perhaps a more interesting discussion would result if we defaulted to a more collaborative[0] stance here?

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle

aquariusDue · 5 days ago

I don't have anything useful to add per se but I'd like to thank you for validating my intuition that pros and cons lists not only don't generalize as to be useful universally but also that the more "rigorous" you get with it the whole things evolves into an exercise of ridiculousness.

An example I like to give is the wood chipper. Pros it can do a lot of useful things around the yard (that you can list individually), cons it can chop your arm off. How many pros do you need to overcome that con? Though I'll admit there's a difference between "can" and "will", the latter hinging on improper use.

tl;dr I'm a bit tired with people glorifying a semi-useful cognitive device.

aquariusDue commented on Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs github.com/manzaltu/claud... · Posted by u/kgwgk

benreesman · 18 days ago

Sorry, I saw another commenter ask about the dots but for some reason didn't see this one, all the key files are linked as gists here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44817968

Let me know if you have any questions (or suggestions for that matter, it's rough in places).

aquariusDue · 14 days ago

Thanks for sharing!

aquariusDue commented on Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs github.com/manzaltu/claud... · Posted by u/kgwgk

mikece · 18 days ago

I apologize for my ignorance in asking this question but is Emacs considered an IDE? I thought that was a term reserved for large, graphical editors like IntelliJ, Eclipse, or Visual Studio.

aquariusDue · 18 days ago

Well, I'd rather call it a PDE (Personal Development Environment)[0]. A term coined in the Neovim community that is pretty apt for Emacs too. Emacs can be pretty minimalist or maximalist depending on your preference, and it can be configured to have IDE-like features, though presented in a different way sometimes.

Honestly, the big barrier to entry for Emacs is finding the time to configure it to your liking. The best way is to use it along with your IDE and existing tooling, slowly integrating Emacs into your workflow piece by piece and tinkering with it when you have a bit of time but always with a goal in mind i.e. window (pane in modern vernacular) management, showing symbol documentation in a hoverbox, adding spell checking to comments or inline git blame.

And sure, there are lots of bits that you need to get used to at first, how copy and paste works out of the box without CUA-mode for one, but they're that big of a deal after a short while as some people make them out to be.

I'll say this though, Emacs is like tiling window management, you either love it and extol its virtues everywhere or you look at its proponents like aliens from another galaxy.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMVIJhC9Veg

aquariusDue commented on Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs github.com/manzaltu/claud... · Posted by u/kgwgk

benreesman · 18 days ago

Sure. I'm experimenting like everyone else, but I mostly use gptel as the primary interaction surface and Claude Code for a range of refactorings and other "more than mechanical, less than creative" edits. Both of these are very (!!!) well complimented by magit, which is so good at AI supervision it seems designed for it, by a genius.

For Claude Code I'm rapidly switching anything I want "vibe coded" into Hadkell for code, Dhall for config, and check-heavy Nix for deploy. Between that and some property tests that I seed and then have Opus elaborate on, you can put Claude Code so restrictive that it just hits the compiler in a loop until useful code comes out. Its trapped: I hoist CLAUDE.md in from the Nix store so it physically can't edit out the brutal prompts around mocks and lies, and -Wall -Werror in GHC gives it nowhere to hide, all it can do is burn tokens and desperately Web Search tool until it gets it perfect ish or I cut off its money because this requires a real LLM minimum and likely a real programmer. If there's a property test welded into the type system it can't even fail to use a parameter: that's an error Claude.

I have a bunch of elisp in // hypermodern // emacs for things like OpenRouter integration and tool use, but frankly, stock gptel is so strong I always wonder if I'm getting my money's worth trying to tune it into the asymptote.

Happy to answer any more questions.

aquariusDue · 18 days ago

Sounds wild! What have you built this way?

Also as another Emacs user I'm wondering what lesser known packages or elisp snippets do you use? gptel, magit, tramp and org-mode are the usually touted killer features, but what else do you use in the Emacs ecosystem?

aquariusDue commented on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai... · Posted by u/robtherobber

econnors · 20 days ago

"Can you clarify what you mean by interface?" is the right answer

aquariusDue · 20 days ago

I love how yours is the sane answer and the replies to your comment basically hinge on the interviewer playing mind games. Seems like nobody cares anymore about communication skills and how it's supposed to be a two way street. Though on one of the comments I might've missed the sarcasm considering the suggestion of ending the answer with a classic LLM trope.

Now if a terse question deserves a terse answer that's to be judged on a case by case basis, I suppose.

aquariusDue commented on I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English class lithub.com/what-happened-... · Posted by u/lapcat

thaumasiotes · 20 days ago

More traditionally you'd study "rhetoric", the art of making your arguments appealing. It doesn't really matter whether the things you say are true or false.

Rhetoric is valuable in any writing endeavor; clarity is only valuable sometimes.

aquariusDue · 20 days ago

For a funny take on the whole "rhetoric" is the use and abuse of logic some people might enjoy How to Win Every Argument by Madsen Pirie which also happens to be where I plucked the tagline regarding rhetoric from. It's a pretty easy book to go through in toilet break sized increments, the author goes through different fallacies and how they're employed one by one along with various rhetorical devices.

Though a few years ago when I searched for a book on rhetoric and making convincing arguments Office Of Assertion by Scott Crider also popped up, but it's aimed more at written rhetoric instead of what most people have in mind.

aquariusDue commented on I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English class lithub.com/what-happened-... · Posted by u/lapcat

aquariusDue · 20 days ago

I agree that it's a good distinction to make. Personally I haven't thought about it till I read On Writing Well by William Zinsser. In the book he specifically teaches writing nonfiction and even shares an anecdote where he was a guest on a radio show promoting a writing conference and was annoyed with the host because he conflated writing with literary works.

So yeah, I recommend the book to people interested in writing.