banjomonster (u/banjomonster)

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

wwarner · a month ago

This is great, and I need it and will use it, but what I need even more is some kind of integration with org mode (or just note taking generally). I found out the hard way that github/copilot deletes conversations after 30 days! So much for building a knowledge base with an AI assistant! I really need something a bit like Goog's `notebookllm` for capturing research, except I'd like to control it locally.

banjomonster · a month ago

Try gptel-mode - your chats are in org buffers, and you can save/restore sessions easily. Also plays nicely with mcp.el for more tooling access.

banjomonster commented on Liquid Bewitchment: Gin Drinking in England, 1700–1850 publicdomainreview.org/es... · Posted by u/pepys

bertil · 2 years ago

Does anyone here remember an article comparing the Industrial Revolution to the internet, and the Gin craze to social media, and, incidentally, Wikipedia–wasted resources because those had become suddenly worth less: adult workforce in the 18th, intellectual in 20th?

I remember it was written in mid 2000s, by one of the public digital intellectuals, one who liked to talk about open innovation: Cory Doctorow, maybe Larry Lessig. I can’t find it, but I swear I’ve read it.

banjomonster · 2 years ago

Maybe this from Clay Shirkey: https://livinginliminality.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/gin.p...

banjomonster commented on The KLF: Chaos, magic and the band who burned £1M johnhiggs.com/books/the-k... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi

ilamont · 3 years ago

I used to work for Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond's record label. This book looks interesting ... but I really wish the focus was on the art and the music, and not the "the guys who burnt 1 million quid" incident.

One thing that the media have a tough time recognizing is the fact that Bill and Jimmy are legit experimental artists, and still love making art of all kinds. And they also happened to have some amazing musical talent and experience (Jimmy: The Orb; Bill: Big In Japan and early manager of Echo and the Bunnymen).

So, they decided to take their talents into areas where few experimental artists had ever gone before, taking over the pop charts ... and then proceeded to do what experimental artists are wont to do in such a situation.

They gave a huge middle finger to the industry, by barnstorming the big UK music industry award ceremony (the '92 Brit Awards), playing a death metal version of one of their dance hits while Bill fired blanks from a machine gun over the heads of the crowd. Later in the evening they dumped a dead sheep outside one of the after-parties, and shortly afterwards deleted their entire back catalogue.

They proceeded to do lots of other experimental stuff, ranging from writing some excellent books (I recommend Bill's "45") to activities such as Jimmy's model English village a few years back.

And the music, 30+ years later, is still fantastic! Not just the pop hits. Listen to The White Room. Dig up the club singles and experiments like the Abba and Whitney projects and It's Grim Up North.

Yet after all that, what does the media remember them for? More often than not, it's the one-off act of Burning a Million Quid in 1994. Their ground-breaking music, the books, the anti-establishment statements and art ... it's almost an afterthought.

It's like releasing an otherwise interesting book about Ozzy Osbourne - a seminal figure in the history of heavy metal with an unusual groundbreaking role in reality TV - and positioning it around a single sensational incident from 1982, "Crazy Train: Ozzy Osbourne, the Man Who Bit The Head Off A Bat"

banjomonster · 3 years ago

I’d be interested to hear your opinion after reading the book, he covered a lot of what you mention. The burning is covered, but then it goes back and goes over everything leading up to that to frame it and put the act in context, and IIRC talks a bit about things after.

banjomonster commented on Bundle Phobia: find the cost of adding an npm package to your bundle bundlephobia.com/?source=... · Posted by u/orf

quantummkv · 8 years ago

The real problem with npm and JavaScript is not the package manager, it is the lack of a standard library bundled with the runtime that has such basic functions. To someone coming to JavaScript from a Java/C# world, the fact that a package like isArray actually exists, nevermind the ridiculous number of downloads it has, is mind boggling. Using a dependency like this on a Java project will get you crucified in any sane team.

If you want to get out of this dependency hell, bundle these small, essential functions into the runtime.

banjomonster · 8 years ago

Array.isArray is available in the runtime, but it was a later addition so folks may be downloading it for compatibility. There is a LOT of that in the javascript ecosystem.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

banjomonster commented on Ending the open office epidemic wildbit.com/blog/2015/03/... · Posted by u/efedorenko

elithrar · 11 years ago

> "As a rule of thumb, you should only use MP3 devices at levels up to 60% of maximum volume for a total of 60 minutes a day" (http://www.osteopathic.org/osteopathic-health/about-your-hea...).

Out of curiosity, is there a peer-reviewed study on this? Moderation sounds good, but I'd like to understand at what intensity (dB) for what period could potentially constitute hearing loss.

The 60% cited in that link seems to be based on a 120dB max (so: 72dB), which is a fair bit higher than most consumer devices (with consumer headphone impedance levels). Some cursory research shows that it's a bit closer to 103 - 109dB for an iPhone (and similar devices), which puts it around 63dB.

For context, I use canalphones for the isolation, and so I can keep the output down. I also understand that these aren't viable and/or comfortable for everyone.

TL;DR: How long can someone sustain ~63dB without potential hearing damage?

banjomonster · 11 years ago

85-90dB seems to be the where the concerns for hearing damage start, if sustained for 8+ hours.

Some useful (official) tables and charts: https://www.osha.gov/dts/osta/otm/noise/standards_more.html https://www.osha.gov/dts/osta/otm/new_noise/images/fig3.gif

And this has a nice listing of levels/safe listening times: http://www.dangerousdecibels.org/education/information-cente...

banjomonster commented on Master Emacs in one year github.com/redguardtoo/ma... · Posted by u/dgellow

alex_duf · 11 years ago

Out of curiosity, and this is a real question not a troll :

What can emacs and vi do that a regular IDE can't ?

banjomonster · 11 years ago

vi: runs everywhere, installed by default on most linux distributions.

emacs: incredibly customizable, you can re-write the way your editor works. Some features that I find important: editing files remotely over SSH, running a shell inside the editor (so the same editing commands work in the shell), easy to write custom file finding functions for searching different parts of a codebase, git integration (a semi-GUI interface to git), and if another editor has a feature, someone has probably created a package that adds that functionality to emacs. Also has tetris and pong.

banjomonster commented on Show HN: Free, anonymous coding interview practice interviewing.io... · Posted by u/leeny

smm2000 · 11 years ago

Better analogy is that classical musician is given sheet music to pop song and is told to play it on his favorite instrument. If he is good musician, he should be able to play it reasonably well even without practicing. There are musician who play extremely well but only after practicing one song for a long time - this type of interview sucks for them but they are minority. Most musicians suck with or without practicing so this type of interview is a good filter. Not ideal but no one came up with better one that scales up to thousands of applicants.

banjomonster · 11 years ago

In an audition, musicians are usually asked to play a mix of prepared and sight-read pieces (though sometimes the sight reading is from standard repertoire, so they may have encountered before). Both are helpful in discerning how qualified the musician is. And sight-reading is incredibly important for most jobs musicians get hired for - in most freelance situations, they'd get a 3 hour rehearsal, or essentially a guided run through of the performance, then they play the gig. So that may not be an accurate analogy, given that writing on the fly isn't part of the programming repertoire - most programmers are allowed to think before they write anything down. Also musician's don't write - performing is very different than writing- so perhaps a composer would be a better analogy.

Maybe it would be a more accurate measure of ability to ask software engineering applicants to read code and explain what it does, or to judge them as you'd judge a composer, by their portfolio.

banjomonster commented on Comcast turns 50,000 paying customer homes into public hotspots extremetech.com/computing... · Posted by u/jrochkind1

brudgers · 11 years ago

IANAL

Generally in the US, the Owner of the property will own any improvements which the cable company makes to the property unless their was an encumbrance on the land title (or deed) - in which case their remedy for not allowing their use of the improvement would be foreclosure but would be in line behind all previously recorded encumbrances such as mortgages and covenants. This would historically include anything buried or running through the walls. Overhead wires also would likely fall in this category. Real property is funny that way.

Contrary to the article's implication, the cable company could retain ownership of the wire between the box and the wall socket. It's just equipment, like the box itself. But the improvements to the land convey with the land...if your neighbor builds his fence on your side of the property line, it's not his fence it's yours. That's why the cable company cannot insist you share your infrastructure.

banjomonster · 11 years ago

IANAL either, but easements[1] may apply here, depending on how broadband cable is classified.

And I'm not remembering the terms for this, but I've heard there are situations where your neighbor building his fence on your land and you not taking action within a certain amount of time would cede that part of your land to your neighbor.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easement

banjomonster commented on Ask HN: Which chair do you code in? · Posted by u/gamegoblin

ShaneCurran · 11 years ago

Personally I'm using the IKEA Markus Chair. It's an excellent chair for the money and I'd definitely recommend it.

Link: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00103102/

banjomonster · 11 years ago

I use that chair too (at home). Just about everyone who's visited and tried it said it was one of the most comfortable chairs they've used. Only disadvantage (for me at least) is that the arm rests aren't adjustable, but they are removable.