Well, just by reading the abstract I can’t tell if the results are positive or not. But glad to see more research being done on this area.
Readit Newsireadmevs commented on DMT-induced shifts in criticality correlate with self-dissolution jneurosci.org/content/ear... · Posted by u/Anon84
With this hitting multiple communications media for me independently over the last few hours, it has me considering whether I can switch from Windows to Linux for my gaming PC again.
Last time I tried, I used Ubuntu, and I experienced problems with several games via Proton (e.g., The Finals, Fields of Mistria, and Civilization VII, among others). I checked ProtonDB, and it looks like those issues may be resolved.
However, I also wonder what people are using to replace iCloud/OneDrive/Dropbox/whatever on Linux. Or, if they don't use such a thing in the first place, how they handle off-site backups of files and images.
At work I use OneDriveGUI with no problems.
All of this is meant for 100% public data, right? Or is there a concept of visibility control? Can I create private communities, with data flowing just inside?
ireadmevs commented on A beginner's guide to extending Emacs blog.tjll.net/a-beginners... · Posted by u/ibobev
> My experience extending a core emacs function was an instructive and
> interesting exercise. I don't know what the future of emacs looks like in an
> increasingly LLM-crazed world, but I hope that future includes an open and
> powerful way to extend and customize the tools we use to write software.
I can add my `.emacs` to the Claude context to get more precise answers. If it falls over on some package I can `M-x find-library` to add that library's source to the context. If the code it wrote doesn't work, I add the `Messages` buffer and the `Backtrace` buffer for errors. I eval the snippet, reprompt, rinse and repeat.
With this fast feedback loop (no restarting Emacs, just live coding), I've added a ton of customizations that in my twenty years of using Emacs previously just never felt like I had the time or enthusiasm for given higher priorities:
* Boring stuff: managing where modes open buffers in which windows
* More ambitious stuff: standard org-remark behavior isn't that natural for highlighting and making notes so I made a nicer Transient based thing for it.
* Stuff for work: a fast logging minor mode that font locks incrementally, disables all the save prompting, and handles ASCII color codes. Later I intend to linkify stack traces, linkify data so that they open pretty printed in a different buffer, collect errors and show an unobtrusive notification in the active window, etc. etc.
In two weeks, I've learned more Emacs than I did the 10 years prior. Most of all, this is a usage of LLMs that I can say I honestly love - improving my own day-to-day tools. Because Emacs is a text-oriented live programming environment - LLM integration just feels like it's on a completely different level.
Claude (or any good LLM) + Emacs is a killer app.
I’m always surprised when they (GPT 4.1 in my case) manage to get all of the closing parentheses right! I’d have guessed that having such a sequence of same characters would be a challenge for the LLM to use the right amount
ireadmevs commented on The elegance of movement in Silksong theahura.substack.com/p/t... · Posted by u/theahura
Bullet hell shooters are deterministic. Mob behaviour in Silksong is random. It is entirely possible for a boss in Silksong to spawn several mobs that all do inconvenient attacks at once, boxing you in.
Some of the optional bosses in Silksong (e.g. Savage Beastfly, mentioned in the article) do have that issue: high damage + high health + spawning mobs with uncoordinated random movement. It makes for a prolonged sequence which is ultimately unlearnable but must still be performed perfectly.
It’s not that bad, you are still able to control your position and nudge the spawned enemies away, and force the boss to kill these enemies for you. And even if you get cornered here and there there’s plenty of time and space in this fight to heal back.
You can use pnpm, which forces you to approve the install scripts you want to run.
Do you approve on every update of the package? Do they offer a way to quickly review what’s going to run and what has changed since the last approval? Otherwise it’s just like another checkbox of “I confirm I read the terms and conditions”
Windows still has advantages for certain use cases, as much as I want to like Hyprland for everything.
For example, imagine this screencast recording set up:
- You have a 4k monitor
- You only want to record a 1920x1080 section of your screen (OBS can do this in both set ups)
- You only want certain windows to appear in that 1920x1080 zone
- You want other adhoc windows (notepad, etc.) floating around that recording zone
- You want to easily be able to pick and flip between the apps in that 1920x1080 zone
With Hyprland this isn't as easy to pull off. A maintainer mentioned to me that I'd likely have to write a Hyprland plugin which would be C++. I'm not a C++ developer though.
I guess you could probably make a workable but not as good solution by hyprctl dispatching commands in a shell script to position specific windows into the zone and then have a notepad like app dedicated to always floating, but when you record hundreds of videos you want an optimized solution to the highest degree.
In Hyprland's defense I've only been using it for a few days but I saw nothing in their docs or the internet that would indicate there's features built into the tool to make this less painful.
If I could find a solution for this, I'd install it on my main machine.
I haven’t the tried Hyprland, but I use i3, which I assume it should be similar. I do this sort of thing quite often when presenting on zoom at work. Suppose I want to present only the top-left section of my screen, then I split vertically first and the left side I split horizontally. This other 2 zones I use to put other supporting windows and to search stuff out of screen. When I need to present more apps, i3 also allow you to stack windows in a specific zone. It’s quite easy to switch between all the windows and have full control of the layout.
ireadmevs commented on I run a full Linux desktop in Docker just because I can howtogeek.com/i-run-a-ful... · Posted by u/redbell
You know, it's funny—I always hear people say they want to keep their Windows-only applications and run Linux alongside it, but I made the switch almost a decade ago and honestly can't say I'm worse off for it. And frankly, there's never been a better time to make that leap; the Linux desktop has finally hit its stride and become genuinely mature, with the polish and features one would expect from a modern operating system.
Apart from a handful of games, I haven't actually needed Windows for anything. So I'm curious—what Windows-only software is keeping you on it, OP?
Not OP, but for me is the music plugin industry that almost never provides a linux VST. Some will work with wine, some won’t.
But for everything else I’m on linux as well.
[0]: https://tangled.org/