kleinishere (u/kleinishere)

kleinishere commented on My other email client is a daemon feyor.sh/blog/my-other-em... · Posted by u/aebtebeten

herewulf · 11 days ago

Best way to get into it is to pick one use case and stick with that for a while. Before you know it, you will want more.

For me it was org mode (with evil mode because I was coming from 15+ years of Vim). Then..

"Oh, I can manage files and edit a directory like a file buffer.."

"Oh, I can SSH into systems and edit files but it doesn't even feel like SSH.."

"Oh, this makes a great, distraction free IDE.."

I recommend a batteries included distro like Doom Emacs or Space Emacs.

kleinishere · 10 days ago

Have you stuck with Doom/Space and evil key bindings or been pulled over to a more vanilla setup?

kleinishere commented on Kodak says it might have to cease operations [updated] cnn.com/2025/08/12/busine... · Posted by u/mastry

jspann · 19 days ago

Maybe I'm reading the headlines wrong, but it doesn't seem like a lot of people read the actual press release and earnings report from the August 11th, 2025[1]:

1) The "Going Concern Assessment" that they put out was a regulatory requirement because they didn't have full control of the sale of parts of the pension. They say in the release that they're going to have the sale finalized on December 15th, with details on August 15th

2) They not only mention opening a new business segment, but built a lab AND got FDA approval for that segment (Advanced Materials & Chemicals)

3) The sale of the pension is going to have so much of a surplus they're going to pay down parts of the long debt that they have.

I'd love to be corrected if I'm misreading this, but the reports of Kodak's death seem greatly exaggerated

[1]: https://investor.kodak.com/news-releases/news-release-detail...

kleinishere · 19 days ago

Correct. And confirmed by Kodak on their Facebook page. The “going concern” disclosure is an accounting requirement. However, the company claims to have line of sight toward addressing it.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19UdGkBYwr/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Also discussed on Reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AnalogCommunity/s/XTwZHnUHnc

kleinishere commented on Positron – A next-generation data science IDE positron.posit.co/... · Posted by u/amai

throwaway328 · a month ago

I am not a scientist, and was primarily having a laugh with my comment.

That said, I do know that the type of person who likes configuring things very in-depth can set up intricate and powerful workflows in Emacs. I don't know what kind of data science IDE specifically you're interested in putting together, but here's a general article:

https://michaelneuper.com/posts/replace-jupyter-notebook-wit...

There's also this MOOC on reproducible research in French and English from Inria, where you're encouraged to follow the course in one of three ways: Jupyter, RStudio, or in Emacs' Org-Mode. I'd love to do it, but can't really justify spending the time at the minute.

https://www.fun-mooc.fr/en/courses/reproducible-research-met...

Creator of org-mode is Carsten Dominik, who is an astronomer by trade, so, it's a scientist's tool. A few of his talks are listed on this page, if you're interested in going straight to the source:

https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/

kleinishere · a month ago

This is great - thank you! Hadn't seen the blog post or the MOOC. Appreciate the resources.

kleinishere commented on Positron – A next-generation data science IDE positron.posit.co/... · Posted by u/amai

throwaway328 · a month ago

Emacs is the only truly next-generation data science IDE, and the last-generation one too.

(Hiding behind my couch after writing that)

kleinishere · a month ago

What packages and workflow specifically do you use? I haven’t come across many gentle introductions so looking for clues on what’s a reasonable first step that’s well maintained with good docs.

kleinishere commented on Org tutorials orgmode.org/worg/org-tuto... · Posted by u/dargscisyhp

silcoon · a month ago

I wish there's something like Obsidian with the same support for org-mode that Emacs has. A few pros:

- Organize notes in org-mode is much quicker - The best support for lists (and I do list most of the times) - Tags and properties - Perfect integration with agenda - Great TODOs support - Code blocks with highlights, execution and results

kleinishere · a month ago

What specific features / functions are most compelling for lists? Of course moving a tree around with different header levels. But anything specifically great with lists?

kleinishere commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) · Posted by u/david927

peterm4 · 2 months ago

Where I am, BPA receipts are banned, fortunately. Also making sure to buy BPA free alternatives.

kleinishere · 2 months ago

Are there any keywords that help with identifying the most clean/neutral paper? Went down the rabbit hole briefly and had a tough time feeling confident in what was credibly Bpa free (at least on Amazon).

kleinishere commented on Show HN: Journelly for iOS: like tweeting but for your eyes only (in plain text) xenodium.com/journelly-li... · Posted by u/xenodium

kleinishere · 4 months ago

Nice to see this on HN from the app creator. Intrigued to try it (vs BeOrg) after seeing coverage at irreal, one of my usual emacs oriented blogs.

https://irreal.org/blog/?p=12894

kleinishere commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) · Posted by u/david927

FlyingSnake · 4 months ago

I hacked my old kindle and turned it into a eink dashboard for my daughter’s school! Now planning to enahace it a bit further and make it easy to customise.

Here’s a a detailed write up of the process: https://samkhawase.com/blog/hacking-kindle/

kleinishere · 4 months ago

Love these Kindle dashboards and thank you for the excellent write up. If you did anything notable with refresh rates and cron tab for battery life management (or if that’s simply unnecessary), that may be useful to note in the blog post. Given you’re monitoring frequent bus times, I suspect it may have come up.

kleinishere commented on Reading RSS content is a skilled activity doliver.org/articles/rss-... · Posted by u/d0liver

sdsd · 4 months ago

I just filter my RSS subs through a locally running LLM trained on my journal to judge my interests, it then decides what to curate for me based on a prompt (sometimes something totally left field, this stuff always, etc)

kleinishere · 4 months ago

Was considering the same. Any GitHub link? If not, what LLM and what kind of pipeline? (If you can share!)

kleinishere commented on The dark side of the Moomins newstatesman.com/culture/... · Posted by u/SebaSeba

philips · 5 months ago

I love the books, I have read them all to my kids, and I agree that I think the article takes its thesis too far.

The books are strange tales. They have dark undertones. And sometimes the adults take actions that only someone with life experience would really understand (e.g. Moominpappa wanting to suddenly upend everything in the families life and move to an isolated island). But, my kids mostly pick up on the adventure and the friendships.

I feel that the Moomins are like most media that is enjoyable by both children and parents in this way (e.g. Bluey, Pixar films, etc.).

kleinishere · 5 months ago

Based on your experience, what age do you think is ideal for introducing the books to kids?