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Re:Obsidian Introduces Obsidian CLI on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @01:50PM (#46964897)
You couldn’t use Obsidian sync headless though.
That’s a bit ridiculous, no one is forcing you to interact with his work. I find his articles to be informative source on the practical aspects of LLMs. And clearly other people agree. This is a very meaningless resentment to harbor.
Re:Left-Pad (2024) on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @09:04AM (#44247171)
Why does it make him sound like a wanker? That’s a very uncharitable reading for no particular reason.
One of those points is not like the other, Marimo’s feature to deploy a notebook as WASM is a very nice feature imo.
Re:Set Up a $4/Mo Hetzner VM to Skip the Serverless Tax on Sunday September 01, 2024 @02:33PM (#41419126)
Who are comparable providers in your opinion? Hetzner has KYC and needs ID for you to use their services, I’d rather go with a service that didn’t. Any recommendations?
Curious, what was your process debugging/diagnosing this? How did you reach the conclusion that it was packet congestion?
Re:DuckDB in Action on Monday March 18, 2024 @03:19PM (#39748732)
How do you decide when to reach for Polars vs DuckDB?
Re:Google's SRE Book on Sunday March 03, 2024 @11:56AM (#39582056)
Can any SREs tell us how applicable this book is today? Is it still a useful read?
Re:Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @07:35AM (#39369115)
The age-old question, do I strive to learn new tools that are better designed (Xonsh, Nushell, Fish)? Or old tools that are omnipresent (Bash/Posix)?

I like Xonsh, it’s pretty nice to work with, but it makes going back to Bash, when I have to, even more painful.

Ask HN: How do you deal with LLM as a source of indecision?

I’ve been having trouble deciding what to delegate to LLMs and what to do myself.For example, recently I’ve been reading the Bash manual trying to learn how to use it more effectively, but occasionally I’ll ask ChatGPT to generate the script for me and it usually works fine. So I start to think maybe my time is better spent learning something else.Or when I’m developing a new component in...

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Quickemu gives me the ability to instantly spin up a full blown VM without fiddling with QEMU configurations, just by telling it what OS I want.

This might be less useful for those who are quite familiar with QEMU, but it’s great for someone like me who isn’t. So this saves me a whole lot more than 2 minutes. And that’s generally what I want from a wrapper: improved UX.

Re:Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015) on Sunday January 21, 2024 @09:27AM (#39078706)
I find NNN and Ranger a lot more ergonomic as a UX, but MC’s virtual file system is so good, the ability browse folders seamlessly whether local, remote, zip, tar, jar in the same interface etc is really useful.
Re:Why would you still want to use strace in 2023? [video] on Monday January 08, 2024 @01:39PM (#38916166)
That makes sense.

I guess we’re accustomed to thinking that absence of a file is not “exception-worthy” because it is expected under normal circumstances. But the cases you raised make sense.

Re:Why would you still want to use strace in 2023? [video] on Monday January 08, 2024 @10:41AM (#38913543)
Okay..what is the alternative?
Re:Pocketbase: Open-source back end in one file on Sunday January 07, 2024 @11:17AM (#38902411)
I’m curious how you’re integrating it with Sveltekit? Are you using Sveltekit just as a static generator?
Re:Monaspace on Friday November 10, 2023 @07:19AM (#38217970)
I use kitty and neovim too, would you mind sharing how you got this to work?
Re:Abusing GDB Features for Data Ingress and Egress on Monday October 23, 2023 @02:44PM (#37989853)
I’m confused, why would the debugging information file be an executable? These are just debugging symbols, no?
Butane/ignition is the configuration to set up CoreOS (similar to configuration.nix in NixOS) it has nothing to do with Quadlets.
Re:Running Arch Linux on the Framework Laptop 13 on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @07:21AM (#36954692)
i wish there was a way to do this declaratively, like:

“here is the partition structure i want, here is the filesystem, the users, the packages i need installed and the services i need running”

Setting up machines and customizing installations would be a breeze.

This is literally all I can think about these days. I’m getting paranoid and I want to start my OS from a clean slate and use sandboxing for every project. I spend so much time auditing random scripts and libraries because I run them on my laptop.

But sandboxing options aren’t that great right now. Docker doesn’t cut it because it isn’t a security sandbox, and full blown VMs with vagrant have too much friction and needs lots of resources.

I think this is something where Firecracker (Amazon’s lightweight VM) can really shine. But it needs a better a DevEx to act as a disposable/reusable environment that’s easy to start up, easy to specify dependencies. Maybe something uniting firecracker and nix would be the sweet spot for both isolation and reproducibility.

I’m rambling but it feels like this should be a solved problem, maybe it is and I don’t know where to look.

I’m confused, why would a kernel need to be signed if you don’t actually care about secureboot? If you have a signed GRUB, then UEFI with SB will run it, after which you can use GRUB to launch any kernel, signed or not, right?

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