gknoy

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by gknoy 6mo ago
> We "log in" by running a Python script that pops a root shell. I'm surprised that when you do this, you can't then set the root password. (Also, holy cow. What a durable machine.)
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by gknoy 7mo ago
I find that fascinating, because interacting with the tests in our codebase (both Python and JS) answers a _lot_ about "how is this meant to work", or "why do we have this". I won't say I do test-driven development
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by gknoy 1y ago
> My dotfiles are private for now cause I need to clean some commits I had to do similar. I ended up deleting the git history and just recreating it before pushing. The best thing was to add a dependency on `~/.secrets` or other sim
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by gknoy 1y ago
You weren't kidding. I was amused by the humor in the first few minutes, but then I got to its showcase of what you can do, and am just even more blown away. They weren't kidding about doing _just about everything_ pretty well.
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by gknoy 1y ago
> every time it's like I'm reading it for the first time. I can only remember thew "mood" so to speak, I am like this with a lot of books. I'll remember a very high level overview ("The Historian is about a
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by gknoy 1y ago
I appreciate you laying it out like that. I've seen these NVME NAS things mentioned and had been thinking that the reliability of SSDs was so much worse than HDDs.
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by gknoy 1y ago
Training AI models uses a large amount of energy (according to what I've read / headlines I've seen /etc), and increases water usage. [0] I don't have a lot to offer as proof, merely that this is an idea that I hav
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by gknoy 1y ago
Wow. This is amazing. I really like the way you use color and do footnote-like explanations.
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by gknoy 1y ago
Thank you for painting it that way. As someone who has normally done back end stuff in Django, having the ORM magic is so deeply ingrained for me. I was about to ask what one should use for an ORM, but looking at the Hono examples is prett
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by gknoy 2y ago
The intention of "minimum wage" in the US is not merely subsistence level. FDR said, "by living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living." [0] The "iron law of wages"
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by gknoy 2y ago
I really like that your page talks about _why_ a Hilbert curve is good. I don't remember ever learning about those before, and now hopefully if I'm ever trying to visualize 1D data, I might remember that :)
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by gknoy 2y ago
This seems like it would be solved completely by printing the error message ("option b unknown"), and then also printing the "--help" stuff. You can see the error inthe first line(s), so `head` will make that easy to see
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by gknoy 2y ago
This is somewhat off-topic, but I am blown away by your use of uncommon characters like "①". They stand out so much that they (for me at least) make referencing parts of the code snippet so much easier to follow. I see these _near
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by gknoy 2y ago
I believe they mean a cover as in a case that has a folding cover, not as in the external layer of the phone itself. So you effectively turn that otterbox-ish thing into a faraday cage that will enclose your phone. I am not sure how I foll
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by gknoy 2y ago
> show their QR code to vendors who scan it to charge their account. That sounds _brilliant_ -- being able to show a physical QR code card rather than dig out the phone sounds like it would help a lot with preventing damage/loss of
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by gknoy 2y ago
You jest, but I've noticed that the conventions of "newest on top" vs "newest on bottom" is _seriously confusing_ for some people that I help navigate tech stuff. I don't know how to describe the heuristic for
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by gknoy 2y ago
For anyone else that followed the "buy a device" link on the docs page, and found yourself on the (ended) Kickstarter page, editing the URL to https://usetrmnl.com/ works :) (This is fantastic. Thank you for shari
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by gknoy 2y ago
I sincerely hope more games allow virtual interactions with culturally significant art. Hell, I'd love a virtual tour of major art institutions! It's not Rodin, but the game Horizon: Forbidden West has a segment where you get to
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by gknoy 2y ago
I don't know why, but I could NOT get into it. I read what felt like 2/3 or 3/4 of the first book, and still felt like I had no clue what was going on, and it felt like a difficult slog (for reasons I don't understand),
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by gknoy 2y ago
Good grief, Gwern is a treasure. Every time I stumble across a link to something they've written, it's chock-full of side quest links to things that are _absolutely amazing_. I happened to leave my mouse briefly over one of the d
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by gknoy 2y ago
I have a shell alias that I use sometimes when running long-running test suites locally, or doing some long task that is blocking my work (building Docker images, installing libraries). It echoes something for the shell, shows a success&#x
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by gknoy 2y ago
Thanks for linking this! I also learned that support for `\p{}` syntax isn't supported in the Python `re` library, and they recommend the api-compatible `regex` library, which does have support for that.
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by gknoy 2y ago
2.5 million users : 24 support staff 1 billion users : 9600 support staff If it scales linearly, that's about 10k support per billion users. I was going to say that a 10,000 person department for handling customer suppo
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by gknoy 2y ago
This is only tangentially related, but have you played the video game "Control"? That and Alan Wake (both from Remedy) seem to relate very well with the SCP genre.
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by gknoy 2y ago
Will I forget holding my first child? Will I have forgotten cuddling up in my mom’s lap? Will I miss having forgotten these things? If I can still remember all those moments ... will I still be human in any sense? I
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by gknoy 2y ago
My LG refrigerator had similarly priced replacement parts for the removable shelves in the doors, several of which cracked. It was bonkers. Is this partly because the demand for these specific parts is relatively low?
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by gknoy 2y ago
It looks like a layer of plastics, so I would expect not well. Though, the part you'd hit would be above the ground, so it might still protect pretty decently for all the below ground stuff. You might consider putting a small set of st
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by gknoy 2y ago
alright, let’s shred this ... to pieces. the layout—goddamn, where’s the flow? it's a cluster- I am amazed that the LLM uses language like this. Is it mainly because of the tone of the prompt? I'm both surpris
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by gknoy 2y ago
I really like this article's suggestion to leverage plugins instead of custom code, and to look carefully at what _modern versions_ of your software (editor, shell, etc) have feature parity with. This mirrors something I noticed recent
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by gknoy 2y ago
> Does the US have regulations around this? I would be _very surprised_ if we did not have regulations about this, similar to seat belt laws. But the problem is probably enforcement. Nothing stops people from having a life vest on in po

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