Viewing profile — paholg

When I worked at Amazon, I had to run a special Amazon Linux. But I could just install whatever I wanted. I used emacs with whatever plugins I wanted. Big tech can be suprisingly n…

Some of us would like our expensive hardware to work without hacked third party dongles.

So we can also fly? Sign me up!

You can build docker images with nix, in which case you can have every dependency be its own layer. That is clearly not what these people are doing, though.

Futurelock is not about cancellation safety (cancellation is actually one solution to futurelock), though the related issues that are linked in that post are.

At an early stage startup, shipping a feature should not require "many meetings across product, legal, and engineering". Especially not one that can be mostly built in a day.

Ethernet doesn't support 240 W. I am very happy that I can charge my phone and laptop from the same charger, and don't ever have to worry about whether the cable I'm using will be …

I think the real issue here is that two Android phones take photos with incompatible naming schemes. I am sure that at some point someone thought the milliseconds should or should …

zoxide stores a rank for each directory based on how often you visit it, but you can manually adjust the scores. Run `zoxide query -ls thing` to see the scores, and `zoxide add thi…

I found myself needing to make the same request repeatedly in different environments, and could not find a good tool to switch between them and (importantly) to make it easy to see…

I don't think that's true. I have seen R4L folks reiterate time and again that C changes are allowed to break Rust code, and they will be the ones to fix it.

I think they were saying they want a format instead of PDF where the reader can change those things.

As you said, it's not static. You can update the content of pages. You can also reorganize things and keep old links as 302s. At a minimum, you should be aware of when you're break…

Awesome! You and Carol rock!

Ah, good to know! Is that tooling public anywhere, or was it pretty tailor-made just for the Rust book?

That's what I meant by instructions on automated deployments. MdBook generates HTML, so you don't need anything fancy to host it. This example shows a fairly short GitHub action to…

Okay? I don't know what point you're making.

The difference is mostly a matter of perspective, isn't it? In Rust, if I have ``` enum Foo { A(u32), B(u32), C(u32), } ``` Then the number of representable states is deduced my an…

What you see as annoying, I see as a strength. You shouldn't break links; they don't only exist in your site. People will have them bookmarked or shared on the web. There's nothing…

Have you looked into mdBook? I haven't used it myself, but I've enjoyed the documentation of many projects that do and it seems really nice once you get past the point where a sing…

I think a good example is all of the wonderful documentation that's been created with mdBook. Heck, the Rust book was written with it, and they also made a print edition, so maybe …

Huh, interesting. I did primarily use FOSS and CLI applications. It's been a couple years, so I don't remember what exactly I used it for. I probably installed Docker Desktop via w…

When I've had to use a Mac, I've used nix to good success. I'm actually surprised how well it worked; I was able to basically just use the same config I use on Linux, removing just…

You can avoid the kvm with a cheap USB switch and software. https://github.com/haimgel/display-switch

In emacs, there's robe mode which I found to work very well. It keeps a Ruby process running with your code loaded in it. I wonder why no one's written a Ruby LSP with this approac…