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by sivers 4d ago
.. and even then there are other solutions like "GoT" - https://gameoftrees.org/ - which is interoperable with Git but written in that lovely OpenBSD C.
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by sivers 3mo ago
Yes! FUTO keyboard, then go into VOICE INPUT → MODELS → Explore Voice Input Models → English-244: “Best for the most accurate results, but more demanding.” The voice recognition is built on Whisper, and is amazing. You can speak conversatio
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by sivers 3mo ago
Ha! Me too! Exact same. Bought a Pixel 10. Intended to do the default Android for a while. But it was filled with ads for “Wicked” which had me looking at my phone with a sneer on my face I couldn't erase - as if someone had smeared fe
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by sivers 4mo ago
I started cdbaby.com in my bedroom, just me, fulfilling orders myself. It got an immediate great reception from a few people, very thankful, happy to pay for the service, and telling all their friends. So that's how I knew it was wort
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by sivers 6mo ago
Here's a newer post from a German who previously was a fan of the Estonian e-business, saying things changed for the worse in 2025: https://denationalize.me/emigrate/goodbye-estonia-how-a-popu...
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by sivers 7mo ago
Thanks for this very important point. It often gets lost in the discussion. The big idea with Linux/BSD/fully-open-source is that you can fix whatever you don't like. That was the breaking point for me with Tahoe. I never
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by sivers 7mo ago
None. Way easier than expected. Even GrapheneOS on an Android phone, which I’d heard was hard to install, was dead easy and so worth it. For Mac to Linux, you can just rsync your /Users/{me} to /home/{me} and enjoy updat
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by sivers 7mo ago
No, the difference is trajectory and trust. We all predict the future, consciously or not. We invest our time and effort into a system that we think has a good future. Tahoe made me lose trust in Apple's software, and see its trajecto
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by sivers 7mo ago
“I don't feel like we own them.” ← Well-put! I was 100% Apple: Mac Mini on the desktop, Macbook Air laptop, iPhone, and two iPads. Then came Tahoe. I hated it so badly and it wouldn't let me change the things I hated. I noticed a
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by sivers 7mo ago
OFFPUNK sounds like a good name for a punk-like movement to rebel against the entire internet and live offline.
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by sivers 8mo ago
Yeah my first thought on seeing the headline was “Uh-oh. Time to replace Anki.” But finding out there are no VCs, no investors, I’ll stay with Anki for now. But still, these HN comments - after an announcement like this - are usually a good
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by sivers 9mo ago
And don't miss the Qweremin: https://linusakesson.net/qweremin/ Brilliant.
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by sivers 10mo ago
Yes HUGE props to Void Linux. https://voidlinux.org/ Wonderfully under-rated. Robust as anything and SO FAST. It was my sole desktop OS for years, and while I’m dabbling with Debian right now, I miss Void the most. So l
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by sivers 11mo ago
This post describes the problem. Also see the follow-up that describes a solution: https://jsteuernagel.de/posts/using-freebsd-to-make-self-hos...
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by sivers 11mo ago
Ah, sorry. I misunderstood. The parser for Mustache templates - https://mustache.github.io/ - is in the PostgreSQL functions. See it in practice here in the unit tests: https://github.com/sivers/sivers&
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by sivers 11mo ago
Thanks! Robert Kaye - founder of MusicBrainz : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz He is a friend and much smarter than me. He told me to switch from MySQL to PostgreSQL. I'm so glad he did.
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by sivers 11mo ago
I edit my HTML templates in the templates/ directory. Then I use this little Ruby script to sync them into the database, which is where they're actually used: https://github.com/sivers/sivers/blob/ma
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by sivers 11mo ago
Thanks! I do often get "YOU IDIOT!" type comments from people that did too many Oracle stored procedures in the 90s, and were burned by it. But PostgreSQL is not Oracle and doing things this way has been working wonderfully for me
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by sivers 11mo ago
Thanks! And yeah the other inspiration is that in the last 27 years of making web apps, I've gone from PHP to Ruby to JavaScript back to Ruby, considered switching to Go or Elixir, but my PostgreSQL database was at the center of it al
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by sivers 11mo ago
Whoa. How weird to see this on the HN front page. It's so not ready yet. I'll write up more about it some day soon. For the big idea, see https://sive.rs/pg I really took Rich Hickey's "Simplicity Matter
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by sivers 1y ago
I had my Parker Fly with me at a gig in NYC, when back stage I met Les Paul. He had never seen one, and he admired its radical choices. So we found a nice big permanent sharpie, and Les Paul signed my Parker Fly.
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by sivers 1y ago
It's also a wonderful metaphor for how the opposite can also be true. Japanese addresses that name the blocks, not the streets: https://sive.rs/jadr West African music that uses the "1" as the end of the phra
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by sivers 1y ago
I love Sinatra, but wanted to see if simple Scheme compiled to C could do the same thing in an equally eloquent way. I thought the answer was no, but this Schematra looks great, so maybe.
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by sivers 1y ago
Wow. Last year I hired Peter Bex - a lead Chicken Scheme dev - to help me do the same thing! (Sinatra in Chicken Scheme.) It passed the tests but I didn't put it on my Github because I realized I wasn't going to continue using it.
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by sivers 1y ago
to save you a lookup: The Arabic text "رجمة نانسي قنقر" translates to English as: "Nancy Qanqar's translation" or "Translation by Nancy Qanqar" "رجمة" means "translation" and "نانس
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by sivers 1y ago
If you don't mind audiobooks, here's one way (well, two ways) to listen to Ulysses: https://sive.rs/ulysses
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by sivers 1y ago
I’d always wanted to go to Korea. I was so excited. I set out to explore and forgot my phone in the hotel. I walked around Seoul for twelve hours that day and experienced so many wonderful things. I remember them all vividly now, years late
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by sivers 1y ago
Just the rats. Mice can't help themselves. To keep them in your pocket, you'd want to keep a little towel in your pocket, and a couple little alcohol wipes handy for when they pee on someone's hand.
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by sivers 1y ago
Consider two pet mice instead. They're more portable. Kess could carry them in her pocket when going out to the playground and the mice are happy to stay in there. Get two girls because girl mice smell better and don't fight. My b
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by sivers 1y ago
My pet rats are here next to me as I type this. I used to live in a basement apartment, next to the trash room. Rats were often blocking my door, and I could hear them walking in the ceiling right above me as I slept. I hated them so much t

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