Oh, you're so funny. What you've been "editing" buddy, your gramma's cookie recipes? Just the other day I transcribed a three-hour long video of a meetup, picking the model, setting parameters, running the process; then scrolling through Reddit while waiting for it to get done; then I opened it in subtitle-editing mode that allowed me to "follow" the video - I would scroll through the subs and it would move the player pointer, I'd watch the part, pause, move back and forth, etc. I then sent a request to a model asking it to summarize it, extracted pieces for my notes. I explored URLs from the meeting by OCRing them automatically - I didn't have to manually type jackshit, I'd point to a frame, select the region on the screen, and voila - the url appears in the buffer. I then reverse-url-searched those links, I was curious of what people been talking about that stuff on HN. Then I grabbed the links shared in each thread - single key-press for me. All that without leaving Emacs - no context switching, no focus-wandering, no lollygagging. And that's just a regular Wednesday.
You "chose to use an editor", pfff... bro, my key-switches are dying of laughing.
whisper.cpp is awesome but even it just can't process a three-hour vid in seconds. What do you suggest should I'd be doing? Clench my butt-cheeks and stare intently into its working log, hoping it would finish faster? Ah, I know, you'd be like: "messing with your Emacs config", right? Because of course, the tale of any Emacs user is that they have no free time, no pets, no family - it all is occupied by Emacs.
For anyone got angered by my tone, allow me to explain. The OC clearly has no idea what this post is about, it has nothing to do with "freezing" or whatever, and remarks like that are simply disingenuous, ignorant and presuming. Sure, Emacs has many shortcomings (just like any piece of software in the world), but thinking that people "choose to use it", is a sign of complete unawareness of what Emacs is about. There's simply no existing piece of software today that can replace Emacs for me, and I'm not alone. I wish there was a meaningful alternative for it, alas, for better or worse - it just doesn't fucking exist. Name any number of choices, and I will give you more than dozens of real, practical, honest reasons for why it is not a replacement.
I thought Emacs was terrible to use until I realized it was extremely fast on my home computer. All the pauses that EDR does combined with Emacs mostly single threadedness is a bummer. I still daily drive it now for my IDE at work because it's workflows work better for me than others, but it is such a bummer.
I've had good luck disabling the internet when I need my work computer to run faster. Those "security" checks are optional, and it'll let you work offline.
If just logging filesystem interactions and whatnot for future upload is also slow then you're hosed, but at one place I worked every application too an extra several seconds to start up for some sort of remote program inspection, which is fine till the application is git, grep, or cd.
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[ 0.21 ms ] story [ 4.6 ms ] threadYou can do it in the background with:
https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/emacs-keylogger.html
and periodically update the latency parameters to be just over your natural typing speed.
You "chose to use an editor", pfff... bro, my key-switches are dying of laughing.
> no focus-wandering, no lollygagging
Corporate EDR BS.
I thought Emacs was terrible to use until I realized it was extremely fast on my home computer. All the pauses that EDR does combined with Emacs mostly single threadedness is a bummer. I still daily drive it now for my IDE at work because it's workflows work better for me than others, but it is such a bummer.
It still pegs the CPU frequently. It is extremely irritating to open the Activity Monitor and see it at the top.
What good is it in a Mac anyway? This is a not a virus ridden OS like back in the day Windows.
If just logging filesystem interactions and whatnot for future upload is also slow then you're hosed, but at one place I worked every application too an extra several seconds to start up for some sort of remote program inspection, which is fine till the application is git, grep, or cd.