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louis

@louis@emacs.ch

Software developer #Go #CommonLisp #JS #SQL. #LispWorks user. Soft spots for #Emacs #SmallWeb. Recently becoming #OpenBSD enthusiast. #LinuxMint as a daily driver. Recovering Apple addict.

Author of the Tuner app for Linux.

Other hobbies: #Running #FireFighter #StarTrek

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louis, to emacs
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Today marks the 555th day of uninterrupted uptime of our Emacs.ch instance. 🥳

That's also 555 days of admin work and a spending of roughly $1200 for IaaS. Donations of our users make that much more sustainable.

With consistently well over 400 monthly active users, we established a friendly and supportive Fediverse community in the Fediverse united in a passion for the world's most humane "text editor". And you helped to make that happen. 🎈

Emacs is not just a program, it is the incarnation of freedom, self-development, respect, tolerance and companionship in the software world. It will never go away and will never turn against its users.

Let's continue to grow and strengthen our community! If you'd like to contribute, please visit our donation page: https://liberapay.com/emacs-ch

Together, we can keep the spirit of Emacs alive and thriving for years to come. Thank you for being a part of this incredible journey! 🙏

xgqt, to random

chat is this real

louis,
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@xgqt you made my day!

louis, to random
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Feeling completely dis-connected at the moment.

duncan_bayne, to random
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Sorry kids, no eggs for breakfast tomorrow unless she moves first.

louis,
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@duncan_bayne OMG, is that real? My arachnophophia is kicking in, heart rate elevated already 🕷️

zyd, to Lisp
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Big time Lisper on the fediverse spotted 👀 @8arrow

louis,
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@screwtape @zyd @crmsnbleyd @8arrow @cxxxr @kickingvegas cxxxr gave me the permission to share his amazing ELS talk about Lem In The Cloud and the upcoming "Rooms" project (Instant Lem in the browser) with you:

https://faq.emacs.ch/ELS-LemInTheCloud.mp4

louis, to emacs
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Does anyone know what happened to restclient.el? The repo was archived a month ago and I couldn't find any other reference:

https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el

louis,
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@Lucius_Chen That project is just a wrapper around restclient.el 🙂

louis,
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@ankit I dropped the maintainer an email, will update when I have a response.

mms, to random
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My site gets an A+ on co2 emission!

https://www.websitecarbon.com/

The only negative is @OpenBSDAms not being sustainable powdered :-(

louis,
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@mms Didn't know about this, just checked my companies site and it got a D. Clearly, some work to do next week.

louis, to linux
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I accidentally setup my laptop distro with LVM (without a real need). Is there a big performance hit with LVM or just forget about it?

louis, to random
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TIL: Function designators in Common Lisp:
(funcall 'foo 0)
(funcall #'foo 0)

Both work, however, if there is a function named FOO in the lexical environment (i.e. via FLET/LABELS), #' (= FUNCTION) will use that while ' (= QUOTE) will always ignore the lexical environment.

#commonlisp

louis,
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@spnw @zyd Yes, I realized that when I did iterative work on a web project. To generalize: use ' as a default when not explicitly referring to lexical definition OR where performance matters. Does that sound right?

louis,
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@zyd @spnw Nice code btw! :-)

louis, (edited ) to stackoverflow
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Because I deleted (not edited) some of my answers on Stack Overflow (7 in total) during the last two days, my account is now locked because I "defaced" the community.

They seem to be really desperate. But with their decision to sell their data to OpenAI, they sealed their own fate.

louis,
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@galdor So this is what I got in response from the volunteer Stack Moderators after a quick exchange:

// QUOTE

Moderators are volunteering for the community, not the company. Specifically, people who don't want to use AI and want to have a reputable source of information written by humans.

Regardless of what company does, currently there is no way to prevent AI companies to scrape or use data dumps to train their models anyway.

Content you are destroying has been scraped a long time ago, behind company back. If you don't want your posts to be used for training AI you just don't have to post anything new.

Regards,
Stack Overflow Moderation Team

// END QUOTE

Can't quite get it why anyone would still volunteer their time as a moderator to this company, err, "community".

Anyway, I only contributed in 2022 during the course of a few days to see how quickly one can ramp up their reputation score. So there are no real ground for me to engage with them further. It's just yet another sad example of .. you know.

al3x, to emacs
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What am I doing wrong in my attempt to configure the font?

I have the following lines in my init.el:

(set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "Input Mono Compressed" :height 150)  
(set-frame-font "Input Mono Compressed-15" nil t)

If I execute them, I get what I want.
But when part of the init.el they seem to get reset.
If I include them towards the top of the init.el,
I can notice the larger font and then it "disappears".

Please send doctors :-D.

louis,
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@al3x Since I had a similar issue, look at the end of your init.el, where you have your (custom-set-variables ...) (which is created by the customize facility). It is very likely that you once changed your font interactively with customize and have this configuration still in your init.el.

louis, to random
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See you next year in Zurich, you crazy #Lisp nerds 🙂

#els2024

zyd, to Lisp
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I have to ask: why are all the Lispers European

#lisp #commonlisp

louis,
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@mir @zyd On a more serious note: on ELS I observed that most non-European attendees (i.e. there were many from Japan) still only promoted their X accounts on their slides. So, mir is right, the Fedi is strongly biased by European users.

louis,
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@zyd @cxxxr @mir Clearly, we need to make an effort to bring all of them to emacs.ch.

louis, to random
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Exciting news for SBCL users. A coroutine proof-of-concept was created during ELS after-hours in a pub :-) I for once hope, what happened in Vienna, doesn't stay in Vienna.

#sbcl #els2024 #commonlisp

louis,
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@galdor From what I understood, they took the green thread machinery from CCL and just removed the preemptive scheduler. Does that sound plausible? 🙂

louis, to random
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The #els2024 is already over, I met many interesting folks there. Thanks to all and the organizers for this great event. I'm looking forward to attend ELS 2025 in Zurich next year!

louis, to random
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Too bad there is no equivalent of "Kopfkino" in English. 🎥 😜

louis, to random
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"Rooms" is a new project (currently in alpha) which aims to move the #Lem editor into the cloud, giving everyone with a browser immediate access to a turn-key Common Lisp IDE running on EC2.

Today I was so lucky to see a demonstration by @cxxxr at #els2024.

https://github.com/lem-cloud/rooms

#els2024 #commonlisp #lem

zyd, to random
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meaningless words

  • simple
  • minimal
  • powerful
  • expressive
  • modern

What am I missing?

louis,
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@zyd - written-in-rust

(technically not a word but still meaningless)

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