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Re:Steam Frame starts at $1059 on Monday September 14, 2026 @04:35PM (#49703564)
I played it with a Quest 1 and VirtualDesktop to steam it from my PC. It worked well enough to blow my mind. Of course a Quest 3 would be much better than that nowadays. That's probably the cheapest good experience.
Re:git's –end-of-options Flag on Thursday July 23, 2026 @12:31AM (#49016954)
So I should name my next branch ‘--‘ is what I'm hearing :)
Re:Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus on Thursday June 25, 2026 @07:38PM (#48680610)
I think incus can be a frontend for qemu, but it's primary mode of operating is to run containers. It's a fork of LXD.
Re:Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus on Thursday June 25, 2026 @07:37PM (#48680602)
It sounds like all his containers are Linux, so that's why Incus is such a good fit for him. For your use case, yeah, proxmox is likely a better fit.
Re:Apple is dropping AFP/TimeCapsule support in macOS 27 on Monday April 27, 2026 @12:30PM (#47923762)
I found something fun last week--- Apparently if you use Adobe tools, there is a sync plugin they install for finder that can cause big issues with SMB shares. Might help you if you have that!
Re:Don't YOLO your file system on Saturday March 28, 2026 @05:03AM (#47552869)
It is a bit better than you're saying. When you fire it up, you can see that it does have a list of common credential areas that it hides from the jail. It seems to hide:

    .aws  .azure  .bash_history .config  .docker  .git-credentials  .gnupg  .jai  .local  .mozilla  .netrc  .password-store  .ssh  .zsh_history
It's a humorous attempt in a sense, but better than nothing for sure!
Re:Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline on Monday March 23, 2026 @12:55AM (#47485617)
Not required. It's recommended by the church leadership though to have a garden and to have a years supply of food storage if you can. I'm not a Mormon but appreciate it as a good idea.
Re:Avoiding Trigonometry (2013) on Thursday March 12, 2026 @03:49PM (#47356132)
When I get out of the subway, I always occident myself.
I'm with you-- civ 1 is by far the best! I adore the wonky graphics. None of the new ones hit the same.
Just `git pull` and `go build` should work!
Re:23,746 Patients Died on Waitlists in Past Year on Thursday December 11, 2025 @05:29PM (#46238182)
Also, how many of those patients who died on a waitlist would have died anyways?
Re:Zed Is Our Office on Friday November 14, 2025 @02:32PM (#45931067)
The topic of "expectation" is really interesting and worth discussing more. I refuse to accept the expectation of slack meaning I am literally always available to message, and also that I must read and keep track of everything in there. If somebody asks me about something and I suspect it might be in slack, I might do search for it to catch up on that topic if I am inclined. But obviously so many people feel the pressure you're describing (to know about everything said in slack)--- which sounds terrible!
Re:Zed Is Our Office on Thursday November 13, 2025 @05:34PM (#45921579)
I agree about the bad side of slack culture, except when compared to how things were before slack: Horrible email threads, in-person meetings, phone calls, and people walking over to your desk to ask you stupid things they could have looked up themselves.

Slack revolutionized this for me because I can turn it off anytime I want. When I want focus, I close it and it cannot reach me for some time. Then I pull it up and read all the threads while taking a poop.

Having it in zed is the same: You can just log out of collab anytime you want! You would only use it if you _want_ to use it. When you do want to use it, it's incredible. Someone can just join your channel and work on a tricky problem with you and you don't even need to screen share. It's like the best of discord and slack available at the touch of a button. It's much lighter weight than slack. Slack huddles are super annoying to me. I want it to behave more like discord, and that's what zed does!

Re:Zed Is Our Office on Thursday November 13, 2025 @02:09PM (#45919135)
My experience has been so different. Zed seems to always do the right thing for me when I concurrently edit files with other tools. Not doubting your experience or anything, but you must have a very different environment than me. Zed has been absolutely rock solid for the past year on my computer.
Re:Breaking "Provably Correct" Leftpad on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @07:28PM (#45599589)
I think to get it right, leftpad will have to link to libghostty :)
Re:I almost got hacked by a 'job interview' on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @07:22PM (#45599540)
If you're on a Mac, you probably want OrbStack nowadays. It's fabulous!
Re:Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @12:46PM (#45117918)
It will come! Linux support is only recently getting good. They'll get there.
Re:Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @12:45PM (#45117908)
Zed has easy to use extensions, but also Go support is built in. (syntax highlighting, gofmt on save, and language server support)
Re:Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @03:15PM (#44965254)
Zed is a really really nice editor. I consider the AI features secondary but they have been useful here and there. (I usually have them off.) You can use it like cursor if you want to.

Where I think it gets really interesting is they are adding features in it to compete with slack. Imagine a tight integration between slack huddles and VS code's collaborative editing. Since it's from scratch it's much nicer than both. I'm really excited about it.

Re:We Designed TigerBeetle's Docs from Scratch on Thursday April 10, 2025 @06:40PM (#43648675)
I think that's a bit disingenuous. How is his brand built on chaos and controversy? I've watched some of his videos and he honestly seems like a really reasonable guy.
Re:Even the worst mass extinction had its oases on Friday March 21, 2025 @11:56AM (#43437177)
Yeah it reminds me of POV-Ray, in a fun way!
Re:Why Does Everyone Run Ancient Postgres Versions? on Friday October 18, 2024 @03:36AM (#41877142)
Our problem isn't the inheritance feature itself-- it's the removal of the config knob `sql_inheritance` which lets you change whether inherited tables are included in queries by default or not (behavior controlled manually by the * notation). It's a goofy behavior nobody liked, but we have a mountain of SQL that depends on that knob. It's fixable... Just a pain :)
Re:Why Does Everyone Run Ancient Postgres Versions? on Thursday October 17, 2024 @09:08PM (#41875471)
I have a large production deployment that is still on 9.6 because the software depends on table inheritance. (Oh man!)
I bet this is not because alcohol is good for you in any way, but because being intelligent is related to being eager to try new things.
Re:Don't use 7-segment displays [pdf] on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @03:11PM (#40919727)
Yes but a cracked LCD is much more obvious than a single LED segment burning out. Also usually physical damage is required to crack an LCD, where as LEDs can burn out (albeit rarely)
I tried to add a new SQL function to CockroachDB. I had never seen the source before, but since it was such nice Go code, it only took me a few hours to have a working build, with tests.
Re:My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore on Saturday June 22, 2024 @12:08AM (#40756193)
The ecosystem has settled on NetworkManager for desktops/laptops. The systemd ones are great for servers or VMs.
Re:D-Day, as told by paratroopers on Friday June 07, 2024 @05:52PM (#40613356)
Amen. I used to be a pacifist before the Ukraine war. Now I feel like a completely different person.
Re:Why do electronic components have such odd values? (2021) on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @05:40AM (#40583064)
Think about tethering a zeppelin with a curved body shape, where you need to attach in multiple places. Combine that with needing to tether at different elevations and it will get out of hand pretty quick.
Looks great! You just need https://status.statusnook.com/ to demo monitoring yourself :D

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