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Re:Life is too short for a slow terminal on Monday June 08, 2026 @04:39PM (#48451636)
Re:Mise: Monorepo Tasks on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @08:39AM (#45502370)
glad to hear! I got more flak than praise when I launched tasks 2 years ago since people didn't want mise to get too complex but I'm glad I stuck with my guns and pushed it anyways. I thought bringing tasks and tools together made a lot of sense and I'm glad you're seeing the value of it
Re:Mise: Monorepo Tasks on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @05:39AM (#45501132)
this is why we have mise file tasks: https://mise.jdx.dev/tasks/file-tasks.html

they're literally just bash scripts so you don't need mise to run them. I've heard several users have setups where they have people with and without mise running them.

Re:Git: The Stupid Password Store on Sunday August 04, 2024 @08:38AM (#41153141)
does it? I've used both quite a bit and ssh certainly "feels" faster to me (with multiplexing)
Re:120ms to 30ms: Python to Rust on Thursday June 27, 2024 @10:30PM (#40817205)
I enjoy both languages quite a bit, but a 4x improvement is more of a testament to python than it is to rust imo!
Re:Serotonin Affects Behavior and Motivation on Sunday May 26, 2024 @01:10PM (#40483710)
it reads like the HN clickbait editor removed the "How" from it but in this case it's actually that the actual article is missing it.

The very first line contains a much better title:

> how activating the brain’s serotonin center affects behavior and motivation

Re:A leadership crisis in the Nix community on Monday April 29, 2024 @12:17PM (#40200318)
What's the issue people have with Anduril? Is it just that they make defense equipment?

My (possibly wrong) interpretation is that people feel we shouldn't make weapons. That we should just stop fighting entirely. This is clearly an extremist position, I don't think many people in the west think that we should (for example), completely blockade Ukraine from even buying weapons.

Even if you believe we should stop manufacturing weapons, don't you think this isn't likely to be a popular opinion? That it's unreasonable to expect people to share it?

Re:Mise: a polyglot tool version manager on Monday April 29, 2024 @08:11AM (#40197286)
> read the docs and see five similar commands

most of the aliases are not documented for this reason

you can use shims with mise
The NTSB after Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 since the pilots forgot to pull the circuit breaker:

> The cockpit voice recorder (CVR) was overwritten after the accident. The CVR on the aircraft records a two-hour loop, and the circuit breaker in the cockpit was not pulled to stop the recording after the aircraft landed.[20] NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy subsequently called for extending capacity to 25 hours, rather than the currently mandated two hours, on all new and existing aircraft. If implemented, the new rule will align with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and European Union Aviation Safety Agency's (EASA) current regulations.[42]

Re:It's Time to Give Up on Email on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @07:38AM (#39602529)
Generalizing people into "techies" doesn't necessarily mean individuals have inconsistent opinions.
Re:Capital One Is Buying Discover Financial on Monday February 19, 2024 @10:23PM (#39437710)
99% isn't nearly good enough to not carry a backup card
When Instagram was acquired they had 30m MAU, no monetization, and were being crushed with scaling problems that were too much for the small team to bear. Whatever the number is, it's a lot higher than 13.
Re:He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price on Saturday December 09, 2023 @10:49PM (#38588871)
watched it based on this suggestion, really enjoyed it!
like, for example: car seats
What on earth are you talking about? Who wants a stinky car they need to pick parts off the car wash when they fall off?
I took it in 4 times for this issue. And tried to follow a bunch of guides. Nothing worked for more than a few months.
That was not my experience in owning one. Ours regularly had issues. The seat belt broke. It always smelled bad due to some ventilation design issue they could never fix. The rear taillight went out multiple times. The spoiler fell off in a car wash.

"Better every few months"—yeah right.

Re:Relative shell script includes with realpath on FreeBSD on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @07:41AM (#38530018)
perhaps someone wants to put a script in their icloud directory on macOS: ~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs
I suspect the real reason is pressure from local governments missing out on tax revenue.
The article is literally about Berghain.
it is, but I suppose it points to not being premeditated
BlandDuck said the pilot needs to be allowed to be in the cockpit, not that the pilot needed to be in the cockpit
Re:Meta Plans to Grow Threads by Ramming Its Posts to Facebook on Thursday October 19, 2023 @02:05PM (#37946302)
agreed, no way am I going to bother reading something so clearly biased.
Re:Bitcoin stolen from FTX being converted to cash via "mixer" on Saturday October 14, 2023 @01:56PM (#37882643)
Mixers exchange coins without using the blockchain so you can't trace them.

As a simple example of how this is possible: imagine you and I both have 0.1 BTC. We could simply swap wallets which would exchange tokens but that wouldn't be represented on the blockchain at all.

Re:Bookworm – the new version of Raspberry Pi OS on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @03:29PM (#37849173)
Isn’t Volta only for JS?

I always recommend rtx.

can't beat homebrew imo
Re:fish-shell: the user-friendly command-line shell on Sunday August 27, 2023 @12:35AM (#37279457)
I've never needed it, but there is bass for this use-case: https://github.com/edc/bass
Re:fish-shell: the user-friendly command-line shell on Saturday August 26, 2023 @10:53AM (#37273435)
OK so if you're new to fish you should understand universal variables since it's a concept that bash/zsh does not have and it's actually pretty great.

When people first try out fish they want to add their global env vars and PATH configuration to ~/.config/fish/config.fish. You can absolutely do this similar to how you do it in ~/.bashrc. However, it's not idiomatic and once you get used to universal variables, you'll see that it's a lot of yak shaving you really just don't need editing config.fish.

Instead, if you want to permanently set an env var across the current session and all new sessions, run: `set -Ux MY_ENV_VAR 1` (set a universal variable, and export it to subprocesses)

That will put it into a machine-readable file ~/.config/fish/fish_variables. You can open it if you want but this way you don't need to source your rc files, open a new shell, or even open your editor.

For PATH, just run: `fish_add_path ~/my-new-bin`. It uses universal variables by default.

For some reason I avoided universal variables as much as possible for years using fish and now I think that was really silly.

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