Post-Candide

After the garden...

Besoin et Fonction

A saying I remember from conversations with my uncle forty-odd years ago, and I’ve never found it in print, so take the wording as …

There are close English equivalents but they lack the elegance and weight of the French one in my opinion. “critical thinking” remains the …

A bad argument for a claim is evidence against the claim. That sounds like a license to dismiss anything poorly argued, and it mostly isn’t …

Watching the sincere libertarians work through the Anthropic/Fable situation, which has been building for a while. They’re strung out along …

A French idiom that lack a concise equivalent in English. procès d’intention “you are judging me not for what I said or did but for the …

yasnippet-snippets short keys can expand unexpectedly when completing identifiers with separators. A single yas-buffer-local-condition check …

I wanted something simple: a tmux server running at login, with a pre-configured session ready the moment I open iTerm2: just attach and go. …

As supply chain attacks are now a weekly occurrence on widely distributed packages, and we can have these installed as transitive …

It would be very useful to: be able to bury a conversation from the recent list (e.g.: conversation is closed, keep it away from active …

While developing an emacs package, I do that from within the straight/repos folder. If the changes only concern one file, it’s easy to just …

This is a quick critique of Why Japan thinks China’s growing cultural clout is something it needs to counter. The headline and intro focus …

I actually used to own of these Sony camera with Nightlock. As I remembered this, I asked Claude to review what was the evolution of IR …

How to keep running 64 year old planes

My daughter was preparing a debate in which she was arguing for a more fair handling of future pandemic crisis. As she asked me to review …

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This post details my troubleshooting process for a specific issue I encountered while setting emacs-eat. For those unfamiliar, emacs-eat is …