Today I learned: If you don't add (require 'server) before calling (daemonp), your Emacs daemon will silently hang.

The thing I don't actually want to learn at all, ever.

It took 3 hours to debug, I found solution completely accidentially: just forgot to remove it, when was playing with (server-running-p).

#til #emacs #cursedtech

Wikipedia on disadvantages of sparse files:
"Loading executables on 32 bit Windows (exe or dll) which are sparse takes a much longer time since the file cannot be memory mapped in the limited 4 GB address space, and are not cached as there is no codepath for caching 32 bit sparse executables"

Who thought "I will make a dll that's full of 0 bytes, and let the filesystem handle it as a sparse file" could possibly be a solution to their problem?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file

#CursedTech

https://github.com/lexbailey/terminal.docm

A terminal emulator implemented using Microsoft Word macros

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