My first boss at the uni would tease me about my Emacs usage, saying, “It’s an operating system with a text editor tacked on.” I just smiled and loaded up a game of snakes within my Emacs buffer and carried on hacking.

It IS an operating system and a pretty solid one at that, just one lacking a good text editor... Thankfully evil mode emulates a really good editor.

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He's not wrong though - Emacs was meant to replace the MIT lisp-machine/symbolics interface and it does a magnificent work of it.

The things that Emacs allows one to accomplish is quite insane, though, as with all lisp-projects, it also seems to suffer from the "Lisp curse" (which is fine IMO).

Emacs was meant to be an extensible text editor.

The standard "great OS, needs decent editor" quip is just that -- a quip. If you look at the actual history of Emacs, you will see that the it was originally a collection of TECO macros. The first Lisp version was written by Dick Greenblatt for Multics -- it was not intended to be an operating system in its own right. The Lisp machines had Emacs versions of their own -- called EINE, ZWEI, and Zmacs. So Emacs was well-established on multiple operating systems before GNU Emacs even came along. You could say that the GNU system as a whole is intended to be a successor to ITS and the Lisp machine OS, but Stallman deliberately chose Unix as a basis because he wanted GNU to be popular and Unix was already widespread in 1983-1984.

In fact, GNU Emacs didn't even get some of its more powerful UI features until the 90s, after Lucid Emacs/XEmacs was developed by Lucid Inc. as a component of their Energize IDE -- they found GNU Emacs at the time to be inadequate from a UI standpoint, so they forked it and added the bits they needed. Most of those were implemented back into GNU Emacs, despite that Stallman thought that, for the most part, they weren't needed.

So no, Emacs wasn't designed to be a software Lisp-machine workstation. It just sort of slowly morphed into one over time.

Correction: Multics Emacs was written by Bernie Greenberg, not Dick Greenblatt.

Moody’s isn’t taking a radical position. They’re adjusting to a consensus position rather than being an outlier.

It’s no secret the USA fiscal path is unsustainable, the Fed has said the same.

> It'll get a lot worse before it gets better.

If they're getting away with it, they'll do it again. The tariffs were paused for 90 days. The plan is to run the same playbook in 90 days.

Why do you trust that they will actually wait 90 days to run the same playbook? There’s nothing stopping Trump from reneging on his 90 day tariff pause.

He does all the above!

He owns his own social media stock (DJT), where he post this morning "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT" to his followers. Attracting more to his social media company.

He has a meme coin in cryptoland, and now via tariff manipulation, he can guide select people to place big bets on the largest derivatives market.

They're also creating a "crypto national reserve".

Grifter crypto scams aren't necessary when it's possible to fleece taxpayers directly.

Val Kilmer's playfulness shines as he departs on April Fool's day - a real genius move. Thanks for the good times Val!

I recently bought 4 lifepo4 12v 100ah ~1200 wh for $159 off Amazon as a retail customer. Battery storage is indeed cheap and accessible to the average person. Pair it with new 24% efficient solar panels and you can see why there's little to be gained by running expensive lines to distribute power when it can be sent everywhere wirelessly.

It's not too different to how developing counties rolled out wireless Internet and gained a huge benefit without much infrastructure investment.

Indeed, and that is current state; renewables and battery manufacturing continues to ramp, which will encourage further cost declines. This is objectively good, it democratizes low carbon, cheap energy.

It's been quite a show! Some nice CMEs, flares, comets and now a big alignment. I feel really blessed to be under clear skies to see these ancient celestial bodies dance across the night sky.

Yes and it can be quite absurd and right on the nose.

While Putin feeds humans to the dogs of war, he will at the same time chide his countryfolk that they are not having enough children.

There is a softer version in the west where elders and the wealthy are 'concerned about birthrates' while at the same time squeezing their young on living costs(shelter+food).

Ironically, you are already more advanced than you can imagine. In your human form, you set yourself apart from existence. Most humans don't identify as the the ground of reality, but you are as much as you are human, just as the rocks and trees are, and so on.

OMAM's "Numb Bears" track off their "My Head is an Animal" album is delightful. We are already there.

The most sensible thing to do here is found a religion and have your adherents ascribe a sacred quality to your writings and they'll then preserve it over millennia regardless of the format changes / translations required.