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Re:Almost Went Back: One Month on NixOS on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @01:10AM (#49002117)
Not really touched on here, but one thing I found very useful in switching to nix is having your entire system defined in a single repo opens it up for very nice agentic setups. Claude code can now configure my whole system, debug my gpu issues, install software etc, and I can simply git diff to inspect the changes and apply if I agree. On arch sometimes Bluetooth not working or my fingerprint scanner not working becomes some hours of debugging, now I can solve these issues trivially, and if it doesn't work I can restore to an earlier point instead of trails of attempts left through my imperative system
In my experience, children who excersise a lot become adults who have a far better baseline and exercise comes easier. Children who never do anything become adults for whom excersise is much more difficult. This seems in line with what the article says about learning?

It slows aging, not reverses it. If the first time you learn 4 languages or get into exercise is when you are 70, you don't immediately have the mine and body of a 57 year old

Learning cursive won't automatically give you the dexterity of a dental surgeon, that's just a silly conclusion you have drawn from one example.

What is the downside of learning cursive?

On the settings page it appears that the index is disabled by default and not included in the ordering either. It's a bit confusing here!
P. I. N. E. from here on out then
Re:Framework Sponsors CachyOS on Friday December 05, 2025 @11:06PM (#46170591)
That's awesome
Re:The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero (2022) on Monday January 08, 2024 @10:07PM (#38921781)
The optimal amount of ....... is non zero
Uniswap V3 liquidity pools are managed as NFTs. Not your main point I know, but people often think of NFTs as simply buy and sell art on opensea. A liquidity pool has clear value.
Re:Cloudflare is experiencing elevated 5xx responses on Friday December 15, 2023 @10:04PM (#38661357)
Arweave then
Re:Ask HN: How do you keep going without burning out? on Sunday November 19, 2023 @02:36AM (#38330133)
All due respect, this isn't burn out. This is boredom or being uninspired. It can be a drudge, uninteresting, and procrastinated, but actual burnout is a very different beast.

I have mortgage, wife, kids also and continue to plug along, but know the difference.

Re:Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021) on Saturday November 18, 2023 @11:34PM (#38329004)
A C-to-A adapter came with my laptop dock, but I have never thought of this
Re:Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021) on Saturday November 18, 2023 @11:31PM (#38328990)
Same. Keyboard and mouse
Re:The Costs of Microservices on Monday October 30, 2023 @11:54AM (#38071120)
1. Isolation

With a well built monolith, a failure on a service won't fail the whole system.

For poorly built microservices, a failure on a service absolutely does being down the whole system.

Not sure I am convinced that by adopting microservices, your code automatically gets better isolation

Re:Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark on Friday June 09, 2023 @07:22AM (#36256185)
I didn't realize Reddit API development was "forced".

Whether they enjoy it or not is beside the point.

Moderators are providing value to Reddit. If all mods quit, and no one stepped up to take their place, what would happen? Now who deserves to take profit monetarily for that value?

As far as Reddit "development" they should have stopped a long time ago, the site is horrible to use and has been for a long time.

Re:Google Search Is Dying on Monday March 06, 2023 @07:08AM (#35040063)
Less content is fine when the issue is too much junk content. Content would then be created by enthusiasts instead of businesses
Re:ESP32 Buyer’s Guide: Different Chips, Firmware, Sensors on Saturday February 04, 2023 @03:48PM (#34658097)
I ordered from ali, but this is good to know, thanks
Re:ESP32 Buyer’s Guide: Different Chips, Firmware, Sensors on Saturday February 04, 2023 @10:41AM (#34655255)
Amazon is giving me prices of $25-$35 for all the esp32, including the hitletgo you mentioned. Ali is $1.5-$2. Amazon also says 2+weeks deliver for many, Ali says 3 weeks. I'm in Canada
Re:The Google search I made a minute ago on Sunday January 29, 2023 @02:36PM (#34571820)
I absolutely do not believe this. They are trying to maximize shareholder value, not maintain the status quo
Re:Bitwarden Acquires Passwordless.dev on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @02:00PM (#34431271)
I think they meant if they don't like the direction that the Android client takes, i.e. they stop allowing you to change the backend url for example in which case, yes you would need to fork or rewrite it
Re:Windows Update is now carbon aware on Sunday January 15, 2023 @10:51AM (#34390249)
This was the MacBook strategy
Why would they claim breach and source code stolen instead of simply and silently hanging over vaults then?
Re:Beaker Browser is now archived on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @10:10PM (#34157087)
What are you even talking about
Re:Twenty five thousand dollars of funny money on Saturday December 03, 2022 @01:10PM (#33845738)
If robot0 name is AAA and uid Is BBB, and robot 1 name is BBB and uid AAA, and you call the function checkRobot('AAA'), what sort of assert exactly could differentiate between a name and a uid?
I haven't
How about the steam deck then?
Re:Iroh: A New Implementation of IPFS in Rust on Saturday October 29, 2022 @12:08AM (#33380881)
What do you mean a real website? What difficulties do you see? Lots of sites are hosted on IPFS today
Re:Why I use Jellyfin for my home media library on Thursday October 27, 2022 @07:53PM (#33365663)
Lots of shows these days have awful audio mixing, going from extremely quiet to extremely loud, and mumbling actors. I use subtitles for these. I don't even notice them on, but if I miss a word I can glance down and see it
I think you missed the whole point. Celsius, centralized exchanges, etc, you don't actually own the crypto. You have an account on a site. If you want to own your crypto and also trade between currencies, your better off using something like Uniswap
Re:The Lost Art of Conversation (1899) on Sunday September 25, 2022 @11:19PM (#32978994)
I suppose the context of the conversation matters. I always check who left what emojis to get a feeling of the room, but I'm usually in smaller rooms where I know the people. In a larger discord for example with many strangers, I think your right in an individual level, but as the poster of a comment, it still helps gauge the general temperature of the audience, so too speak, regardless of who is on the hook for continued conversation. Not sure I would notice a head nod if I was speaking in a room to hundreds of people anyways though.

I'm not saying it's superior, but I appreciate the nuance's it can bring to online dialog where otherwise many misinterpretations are likely to happen

Re:The Lost Art of Conversation (1899) on Saturday September 17, 2022 @05:49PM (#32881928)
They are a replacement for non verbal communication such as a head nod, or hand wave, or a smile. Not a way to express a full thought in and of itself.

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