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The interesting thing about SMS is this isn't always usable while traveling. For example my phone provider has really overpriced international fees ($10 / day) so instead I use an …

I updated a ~3k line Python project with this the other day. I was using v0.15.x beforehand. It didn't take too long and the new rules do improve code quality. It caught quite a fe…

I go with a simple pg_dumpall approach running on a cron job. It has worked well for over a decade on all sorts of different systems. Here's a complete walkthrough on how I backup …

It is picky, but picky is good. It's explicit which creates uniformity. For example with niri, if you forget quotes on a string value, you get this error. $ niri validate Error: × …

> With Ghostty my only option is to maintain different config files per machine. This turns out to be a benefit IMO. Ghostty supports include files. You can have all of your shared…

It's neat that Hyprland lets you define layouts in its config but I like niri's approach. It uses KDL (an established document / config language) and slightly extends it to add use…

My main desktop machine with assorted components is from 2014, also with an SSD and HDD. Each component has lasted all this time somehow. The total uptime of each drive is 11.5 yea…

I like how efficient Arch is, in the sense that you have nothing and now you get to pick and choose what you want. My main desktop I use for full time software development and vide…

Back when selling online tech courses was viable (pre-AI), about 30% of transactions in the US were from folks using PayPal on the platform I used. There's a huge of people who use…

I'm not sure I like this idea. Braintree is a legit competitor to Stripe. I'm guessing they have some informal agreement to keep transaction fees about the same but if they become …

Carmack always seemed to have a really strong idea on what was important for him to work on. How much of that is mental toughness vs having a believable purpose? Believable is impo…

Nope, but Debian does use systemd by default so it's there. I'm running Arch Linux and /etc/machine-id is present. There's also an optional /etc/machine-info file that could exist.…

> I don’t have a dog in this fight but it seems you’re not accounting for iteration and feedback You can provide AI official sources to look at and dozens of prompts. I've lost tra…

> Some devs just 'get it' and thrive, leading a team really well and building a great culture. I don't think it's this because the outcome you get from AI isn't controllable. You c…

I'm really sad to see this happen to another fellow course creator. I'm not sharing this to steal any thunder, but more to relate: I've been making video programming courses since …

I'm in the US / NY, with a normal personal account. I think the issue with localizing it to a specific state is oftentimes contracts or working agreements have jurisdiction locatio…

> If you need the original email for legal/evidence purposes, you can back it up first, either through Gmail or Unattach. Yes, that was covered in the other thread. Presenting a ba…

Oh nice, if everything they say is true, this seems like a good match but it seems like it has 1 big potential downside. THE GOOD: Their FAQ says it uses OAuth to connect to your G…

I'd love to somehow do the opposite of this but I don't think it's possible? It would be deleting attachments from emails without deleting the email thread. For example I'm always …

I remember reading somewhere that one of many long life markers is if you can go from sitting on your butt straight into standing without your hands or knees touching the floor.

SMART stats shows it's at 54% health remaining, all tests passed without errors. The drive might be too old to report back TBW. It's a Crucial 256 GB SATA 3.1 SSD. It has LBAs writ…

Yes, so are the hardware components. Current machine has been running since 2014. SMART stats on the SSD shows 100,586 powered on hours which is 4,191 days.

I've been keeping my desktop machines running 24/7 for ~25 years. I only reboot when necessary. I remember having around 280 days of uptime on Windows 7 when it went end of life. H…

If anyone is looking for a niri based opinionated set of configuration on top of CachyOS (or vanilla Arch) I put together: https://github.com/nickjj/dotfriedrice The goal is after …