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O_H_E··on Be Less Technical
I'm sorry for your loss, and I am glad that you had a fulfilling relationship with your dad.

It sounds like you are steadily strolling the road of healthy grieving, I'm sure he would be proud.

Keep your head above the water my friend.

O_H_E··on New(ish) command line tools
fd has been a life saver on windows dealing with tons of csv file lately.
O_H_E··on Restic 0.13.0
When talking about backups for nerds, https://www.rsync.net/ always deserves a mention.
O_H_E··on Fish 3.4.0
Yup, right here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0UnS3jHhAA

I remember that I was able to replicate this last year, not 100% sure why I'm not using it daily tho. :D

One thing to note, the limited waitinglist he talks about in the video is done, and now you can sign up and "pay" for ~NLP~...ahem CLP tokens as OpenAI calls them

O_H_E··on How to write better scientific code in Python?
Insightful writeup!

I am just not sure what did you mean to discourage in part A.

> A) If you're writing high-performance code DON'T you _will_ hit bottlenecks which are non-trivial to the language unless you're a guru.

DON'T do what? don't try to hyper-optimize your code? don't use all types of "fancy" constructs like how the post shows?

O_H_E··on An example of why RSS is useful and important
I would definitely be happy to alpha/beta test a "different" RSS reader.

Disclaimer: I have used RSS consistently yet, but I have installed a few readers and tried them over the years. Just never broke the old habits. But I should know the gist of it.

feel free to be annoying and email me at the address in my profile if you ever want to (for feedback, brainstorming... etc).

O_H_E··on 2021 at OCamlPro
> The first Rust compiler was written in Rust

I think you meant "was written in OCaml"

O_H_E··on The first day of HN frontpage
Loool wow that is hilariously ironic
O_H_E··on Ask HN: Tell about your work from home setup
Yup, same here. The difference in quality is staggering
O_H_E··on Georgia teacher read the fine print and won $13K (2019)
Lmao, sounds like it went viral with a certain demographic
O_H_E··on Asahi Linux for M1 Macs Progress October-November 2021
> Even if the overall 'macro' bench marks are the same, it almost certainly won't beat the Macbook in day to day 'micro benchmarks' I care about like time to open a new terminal, time to run npm install, time to wake when I open the lid, time from login to watching Netflix, time to search the hard drive for file etc. etc.

Yeah! I feel like I have been needing a word for that for sometime.

Never had a mac, but surprisingly I have the same exact experience with my IT_managed_Dell+Windows+Antivirus vs my 6yo thinkpad with linux (even months of uptime)

even plain process spawning from powershell is slow, that AV is just hell.

O_H_E··on Exa - A Modern Replacement for ls
one-liners you copy and paste!

no seriously, when you properly alias something in your .bashrc, they only take effect in an interactive shell.

ie: an `alias ll='ls -halF' in your bashrc does not work if you do `bash -c 'll' nor `./fileThatContainsll`

O_H_E··on Exa - A Modern Replacement for ls
I'll just drop these here as they might be useful to you

https://github.com/xxh/xxh https://github.com/intoli/exodus

O_H_E··on Professional maintainers: a wake-up call
Hey @mbrodersen, this is really not appreciated here on HN. This pasting of what is essentially the same reply on every top-level comment is borderline spam.
O_H_E··on Symbolic Mathematics with Julia Language
You just reminded me of this link/series I found yesterday through HN Blogs newsletter[1]: https://mlajtos.mu/posts/new-kind-of-paper-4

[1] https://hnblogs.substack.com/p/hn-blogs-211121-bae

O_H_E··on Lark 1.0 released – a parsing toolkit that is friendly, production-ready, and C
I can really vouch for Lark. As a early-on self-taught guy who proud myself in just being able to patch things together. Lark's intros and Online "IDE" were the only thing able to finally get me to try parsing for real instead of regex and string manipulation. It is really great.
O_H_E··on How to build a second brain as a software developer
+1 for a metaphor that made me laugh
O_H_E··on How to build a second brain as a software developer
> Not worrying about how and where to put your thoughts down is very very important. Thoughts get lost in the process otherwise.

Yes, strong agree

O_H_E··on I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
nmtui is a life saver tbh
O_H_E··on Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time
That sounds like a responsible way to divide focus. Kudos

I forget the word or the link, but I think there was a "rule of thumb" thing that circulated HN about having a limited budget for taking-risks/being-bleeding-edge, and focus in spending that on differentiating properties of your projects, while the rest should stay "old and boring"

O_H_E··on Scattered thoughts on why I waste my own time
Man Wow! I did not get a chance to read the whole thing carefully (read the first bit properly and skimmed the rest) but man that is exactly the " "blog" post I've wanted to write since so long.

It pains me to not be able to send advice with a straight face.

Three of the rare things that have been kinda helpful and consistent (ie. not in a motivational bursts way) has been: seeing a social worker and getting diagnosed with ADHD (not gonna claim that I conquered my productivity yet, but having a deeper understanding of ones self, and having the words to describe my self-observations is really valuable), doing things with people/close friends, and religion.

Not claiming that I am satisfied with myself or anything, but these are things that I have found made a small consistent deltas in my life, unlike the bursts I get when I understand a new programming paradigm or watch a Rich Hickey talk.

I with to write more and edit better, but it's in the AMs here and I have a meeting early morning.

Bey for now, fellow earthling

O_H_E··on I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own
Wow, that is such a well written quote.

I hope to one day remember and shamelessly cite it around.

O_H_E··on Signal for Help
@shagie posted a few examples in a sibling comment
O_H_E··on Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score
> M1 uses TSMC high-density rather than high-performance.

Is that an actual product differentiation from TSMC? Or just observational + the fact that it's 5nm.

I'm actually curious from a chip manufacturing standpoint.

O_H_E··on AutoEQ: Automatic headphone equalization from frequency responses
> i cannot not hear their pulse, breathing, and other biological proceedings

Oh WOW, that is ...... wild and interesting

O_H_E··on Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt
That's a really nice a distinction! Thanks
O_H_E··on Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt
> can add features in a way that I just can't in VS Code

I have no knowledge about VSCode's JS nor NVim's Lua APIs beyond that one can write extensions in these langs. Would you be able to expand on what can you do with Lua in Nvim that can't be done in VSCode? That could really be a tipping point for me.

O_H_E··on Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt
> menu bar with some operations for which I can't be bothered to remember the key combination.

now, that's a good one.

O_H_E··on Online Trolls Just Assholes All the Time, Study Finds
Wow, I had no idea troll carried a similar connotation problem as hacker
O_H_E··on Iced: A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
Oh wow, did not expect an answer form Ralph himself. Great fan of your work on Xi.

Thanks for the detailed answer. As an aching Linux user, I appreciate your focus on infrastructure and accessibility.

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