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yablak commented on The cost of interrupted work (2023)   blog.oberien.de/2023/11/0... · Posted by u/_vaporwave_
mettamage · 13 hours ago
How can you find a startup with a pair programming culture?
yablak · 12 hours ago
Join a startup. If they don't do pair programming, quit.
yablak commented on Happy 100000th birthday, Debian   lists.debian.org/debian-d... · Posted by u/pabs3
andyferris · 3 days ago
I am definitely having a birthday party when I turn 1,000,000. :)
yablak · a day ago
Ingrid Daubechies threw a big party on her 64th birthday and invited all her old students and collaborators; we even had a conference around it.
yablak 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.

yablak · 18 days ago
Share your dotemacs/gptel config? I'm not in love with emacs eider integration. Wondering how to put direct editing/control to the model. Still very cludgy with gptel though I've been using it for months
yablak commented on Denver rent is back to 2022 prices after 20k new units hit the market   denverite.com/2025/07/25/... · Posted by u/matthest
adgjlsfhk1 · 24 days ago
we also could just stop having the federal government limit the number of residency slots so we could have enough doctors trained in the US.
yablak · 24 days ago
And by not limit you mean fund. And I agree.
yablak commented on Emacs: The macOS Bug   xlii.space/eng/emacs-the-... · Posted by u/xlii
robenkleene · 25 days ago
Some Emacs bindings don't work in the terminal, a big example is `C-M-%` , `query-replace-regexp` https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71302860/emacs-terminal-... to do a regex find and replace.
yablak · 25 days ago
Works fine for me. Is it your terminal configuration that needs tweaking?
yablak commented on Hulk Hogan Has Died   tmz.com/2025/07/24/hulk-h... · Posted by u/TerribleTurnout
yablak · a month ago
This is the guy Thiel used as a vehicle to kill Gawker. What a jerk.

https://www.vox.com/2016/5/25/11779910/peter-thiel-gawker-hu...

yablak commented on Killing the Mauna Loa observatory over irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2   theregister.com/2025/07/2... · Posted by u/rntn
crystal_revenge · a month ago
The fact that roughly half the comments here are some sort of weakly veiled climate denialism tells me it won't matter how much data we have anyway.

If members of a reasonably technical community can't accept what's happening, then there's no reasonable hope that people will ever be able to reason about our situation correctly. We are surrounded by evidence of all varieties in every direction that we are heading down a path of catastrophic climate change, and yet people contort their logic to find ways not to see it.

yablak · a month ago
You underestimate Russia's spambots.
yablak commented on We have made the decision to not continue paying for BBB accreditation   mycherrytree.com/blogs/ne... · Posted by u/LorenDB
niij · a month ago
> Anecdotally, I’ve heard that the process to get it through AAA seems quicker and easier than from the DMV.

You heard right, but that's because you won't get one at all from the any state DMV. The AAA is the only authorized entity allowed to issue IDPs in the USA. I wish I was making it up, because I'd rather go to my (excellent) DMV office than across town.

"The American Automobile Association (AAA) is the official organization authorized by the U.S. Department of State to issue IDPs" from https://www.usa.gov/international-drivers-license

yablak · a month ago
No, you can get an IDP online. Linked from the state department:

https://www.aataidp.com/

It's easier than going to an AAA office. Slightly more expensive but worth it. They mail it to you quite quickly.

yablak commented on OpenICE: Open-Source US Immigration Detention Dashboard   openice.org/... · Posted by u/supermaxman
yablak · a month ago
I'd like to see this breakdown of ICE employees themselves. If they're "public servants", is this data also public?

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