thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: btdu, a sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs
Clever. I like it. I've given up trying to understand where my btrfs disk usage is, and I think this will help.
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thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: Compare sentence length distributions of famous authors
What does "valid comparison" mean?
If the intent is to help potential readers to estimate the difficulty of the book, then that's useful.
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: Packaging Kubernetes for Debian
I prefer to use Debian packages because it conforms to conventions that make managing systems easier: predictable naming, integration with service management, logging, docs, manages.
(I use NixOS for personal use.)
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: Mailing lists are resistant to censorship
The author isn't saying that isn't important. The author is just tackling one aspect of censorship resistance.
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: On Abandoning the X Server
What is your usecase for network transparency? Remote desktop? Is that not supported in a Wayland world?
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: NixOS 20.09 Released
Yes, a classic Linux distro feels like a REPL or writing in assembly/m4. NixOS turns a machine into a compiled program.
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: NixOS 20.09 Released
My comment was meant to demonstrate the effectiveness of the NixOS model. Debian relies on the blood, sweat and tears of maintainers, with weak steps towards automation: ( https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-03-10-debian-windin... https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/on_leaving/
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: NixOS 20.09 Released
See also that there are comparatively few maintainers, despite having a large amount of up to date packages.
This is the result of treating a distro as a software problem, versus the manual processes used in Debian, for example.
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: NixOS 20.09 Released
I've been using NixOS on all my devices for 2 years now, and it's great to have easy reproducible systems.
NixOS design gives it a robustness that is missing from taking a mutable distro and applying mutations (via Puppet/Ansible/Chef) to it.
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: Twitter preconnects to the wrong domains
+1. I figured it was anti-abuse.
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: Org Mode's new site
I meant modal as in "if you hold down backspace, the item's text will be removed, but the item heading will remain", i.e. the headers are read-only while editing an item. evil-org-mode won't stop me pressing backspace too many times and screwing up.
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: Org Mode's new site
Yeah, I think it could do with a modal interface: normal mode would perform tree-like operations and allow entering text. Insert mode would treat the entire file as plain text.
... there must be a mode that does this already?
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: Org Mode's new site
I don't trust myself to remember to commit changes, so rely on regular btrfs-based snapshots via http://snapper.io/ .
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: Org Mode's new site
I think the landing page would be more effective/descriptive if it emphasised it's role as a TODO/extensible structured document.
I use it as a personal planner for career and life stuff. Nothing too fancy, just TODOs with tags.
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: Putting Raspberry Pi Online with Caddy and SSH Tunnel
OP's solution sound good enough for their needs.
Solutions can always be improved, but it's not always worth doing that.
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: Putting Raspberry Pi Online with Caddy and SSH Tunnel
I do a similar thing so I don't have to store sensitive data on a VPS. The sensitive data is used to compute non-sensitive results that I'm happy to go via a VPS.
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Go programming language is over ten years old. What do you think of it?
After disliking it for 6-7 years, because it doesn't offer the amount of abstraction that others languages offer (Scala, Haskell, Java), Go has grown on me.
I got too caught up in designing elaborate abstractions in those languages. I couldn't avoid it either, since other libraries would also use elaborate abstractions.
With Go, I just write plain dull code, against a suite of good dull libraries. Ultimately I spend less time writing programs (typically internet services) in Go than other languages.
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: Climate Scientists Fly more than other Researchers
Does this reflect the global nature of tackling climate change?
Tackling climate change requires structural changes, not heroics.
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: /.bashrc VS –/.profile VS –/.bash_profile
> It's simple enough.
> (Oh and ...)
+1 to just dumping it all in ~/.bashrc
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: Gitlab was down
gitlab.com is down, but are public/private instances are not. Separate failure domains is an advantage of self-hosted.
Github is great, but when it's down, it impacts developers in many places.
When we spread our eggs across many baskets, we are more resilient.
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