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RMPR··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
This post does highlight the biggest difference between the Internet before and now (or reality for that matter). Given enough effort there is virtually no difference between a human and a non-human. Before you would join a community to feel a sense of belonging or learn or whatever. Now how do you even know you are not a minority (humans that is) in a given subreddit?
RMPR··on Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
> By mid-August, the median researcher was integrating agents daily into their work, using more than $600 per day of inference at API prices.

There is a lot of talk about AI replacing humans, but how is this sustainable?

RMPR··on A note on subscription prices from LWN
> The LWN site has been improved in a number of ways, with features like articles in EPUB format,

This is the single biggest feature that makes me keep my subscription going. The convenience to read longer form offline on my ebook reader makes me wish all other long form content websites would have the same.

RMPR··on Hy4 Preview
At first I thought it was this Hy[1], oh well one can dream.

> Hy4 preview came out slightly ahead of both GLM 5.3 (2.99 vs. 2.92 average, 46.8% wins / 12.8% ties / 40.4% losses) and Kimi K3 (2.99 vs. 2.94, 51.2% wins / 7.9% ties / 40.9% losses).

This is extremely impressive if true that they are able to beat both K3 and HLM 5.3 however an someone who doesn't know anything about this space. How much better is 2.99 compared to 2.94 or 2.92? This difference to me seems very marginal. Or is only meant to say that they are in the same "category"?

1: https://hylang.org/

RMPR··on My Business Is Dying
> My friends tell me the job is basically managing AI agents and reading Pull Requests. That sounds like hell, and I’ll try to avoid it for as long as possible.

It really is not that bad when you are in a company with a good culture. Leadership is gonna be AI piled everywhere, but imho that's how you learn where to use (and not to use) the technology.

RMPR··on A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy
If you really want to be lazy, use a terminal file manager (I prefer lf[0]) it helps avoiding the cd && ls dance. That way, your history only contains commands you actually would want to rerun.

0: https://github.com/gokcehan/lf

RMPR··on Editing changes in patch format with Jujutsu
jj looks very interesting and the hipster in me wants to adopt it, but my muscle memory is wired to Magit, I am not even an Emacs user, but I reach to it just for doing git stuff. So far none of the frontends for jj comes close.
RMPR··on Undo in Vi and Its Successors
If you are using vim in the terminal pressing alt send an escape sequence when followed by another key press. So to go out of insert mode I usually press alt+ one of h/j/k/l
RMPR··on The dank case for scrolling window managers
I wish the author had spent more time explaining what's better about SWM compared to TWM.

The only thing he said:

> It was the best of both worlds—easy to navigate, while remaining mousable.

Is not really convincing as Cosmic desktop for example is tiling while remaining mousable.

I have been vaguely aware of PaperWM and Niri but never saw the appeal productivity-wise.

RMPR··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://rmpr.xyz

My personal website sporadically maintained these days but I hope I can get back to it soon enough.

RMPR··on Oh My Zsh adds bloat
> For Vim users, I also suggest enabling Vim mode in Zsh. It makes editing commands much faster.

I am also an avid Vim user but I disagree. The default readline is perfectly fine for single line commands (you do have to know your way around some basic commands though C-a/u/k/l/w...). To edit long commands in $EDITOR you can always do C-x C-e in bash/zsh (M-v in Fish). As a matter of fact everytime I pair program with my colleague I always think he is editing those short commands slower than I would have because he has to change modes all the time.

RMPR··on How I use every Claude Code feature
Jiratui[0] has some support for basic automation. That's probably what OP is using as it is the most poppular Jira cli tool out there.

0: https://github.com/whyisdifficult/jiratui

RMPR··on Rust cross-platform GPUI components
Iirc Cosmic Desktop uses Iced
RMPR··on ReMarkable Paper Pro Move
It mostly depends on your needs, the Note Air series is good if you are on the go while the bigger models like the Note Air Max are fit for a more stationary use.
RMPR··on ReMarkable Paper Pro Move
> It also has a full Android system, which comes with advantages for sure but invites distractions and leads to very disappointing battery life.

While some models have a disappointing battery life, it's most definitely because of BSR[0] not because of them running Android. I had a Note Air 3 and that thing got easily 2 weeks of battery life with heavy use while the BSR version (Note Air 3C) barely survived 2 days.

0: https://shop.boox.com/blogs/news/boox-super-refresh-bsr-tech...

RMPR··on Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?
OP mentioned he took over an existing project. He would then have to track all the people who contributed in order to be able to relicense to AGPL. Even then, Anthropic would probably then write their own.
RMPR··on I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
https://x.com/tiangolo/status/1281946592459853830?lang=en
RMPR··on I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
Implementing the features they would want to prioritize. Just like most companies hiring OSS maintainers.
RMPR··on I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
Iirc the homebrew guy did at least get an interview
RMPR··on Multiple security issues in GNU Screen
Nice write-up.

> Screen offers a multi-user mode which allows to attach to Screen sessions owned by other users in the system (given the proper credentials). These multi-user features are only available when Screen is installed with the setuid-root bit set. This configuration of Screen results in highly increased attack surface, because of the complex Screen code that runs with root privileges in this case

I wasn't aware of such a feature but I guess it's what makes stuff like tmate possible. Speaking of which, I wonder if tmux is affected by the same kind of vulnerability.

RMPR··on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
> In windows, I can just shut the lid and not worry about it, because it will sleep first, and eventually hibernate. Ubuntu would just sleep until the battery dies.

It's really funny because this is one of the things I absolutely do not like about Windows. I absolutely hate it that I put the computer to sleep and when I come back the next day it has hibernated. That said, I agree that hibernation has always been finicky on Linux, however, I would say Ubuntu is not the best distro for this use case. I have been using Fedora and they even publish official guides for it[0] that's how seriously they take it.

0: https://fedoramagazine.org/update-on-hibernation-in-fedora-w...

RMPR··on Sniffnet – monitor your Internet traffic
My only gripe with Netguard is that it screws up roaming. With that enabled I couldn't access apps like my bank and various others when I was out of the country. Other than that, amazing piece of software.
RMPR··on Fogus: Things and Stuff of 2024
You are talking about the Boox Tab X? How is the battery life?
RMPR··on Fogus: Things and Stuff of 2024
> * I am a bit unhappy with the battery life; I hope I will tune it at some point.

> * the screen is a little dark, so the "frontlight" needs to be on more often than a black and white e-ink device

This is why I ultimately decided to go for a Boox Note Air 3 (sad they discontinued the B&W line). Apart from the lack of support for Boox firmware version 4, all the upsides apply without any of the downsides.

RMPR··on Silver amulet is the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps
> but rather the fact that the bible makes errors in his history likely to cover up well known facts about him at the time.

Out of curiosity what errors are you referring to?

RMPR··on Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals
> Everywhere is filled with homeless people would be more accurate.

Except Finland and Danemark[0]

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_Finland

RMPR··on Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang (2022)
> I’d argue (much) fewer software projects have been shipped in Rust. Firefox is still 95%+ C++.

It's funny but this comment reminded me of this tweet[0] from 2022 (!). I don't have a horse in this race as I am happily using Python and C++ at $DAYJOB. I'd argue that even if much less software has been written in Rust (source?), it still qualifies as "lots of software has been written and shipped" with it. Not to mention all the investments by $BIGCORPS in the language.

0: https://x.com/m_ou_se/status/1599173341117435905

RMPR··on Notes on Guyana
Not OP but converting the page to PDF in reading mode (with Firefox) then using Amazon's sendtokindle[0] feature yielded decent results. Now I just use an e-reader that can read PDFs natively.

0: https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle/

RMPR··on Trump wins presidency for second time
One data point is the debt crisis France found itself in.

https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/10/11/frances-emergen...

RMPR··on Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality than sleep duration (2023)
> For people failing for a long time at fixed wake-up schedules or still feeling like shit after months of doing it: giving up is fine, and it frees you to explore what works for you.

Another piece of anecdata from someone who used to be like this for years. I first noticed that regular alarm sounds annoyed me and eventually I would get used to turning it off and going back to sleep (that is until I HAVE to wake up). I then figured that if I set up an alarm with a song that I like, it would make waking up more enjoyable. Which I eventually did. The first few weeks, I enjoy waking up and in a sense look forward to it, but after a certain amount of time not only I get used to it and the cycle continue, but I also can't stand that song anymore (RIP rolling in the deep, chainsmoking, ...). I randomly stumbled upon the app sleep for Android that has a feature I didn't know I needed, putting a playlist as an alarm sound (I shuffle it of course). Now every morning, waking up is an adventure, and more often than not I end up singing along. Now months in, I haven't failed to wake up even once. And I don't have any alarms on Sunday, yet I still wake up without it.

That is with the caveat that I know I need between 7:30 and 8h of sleep, and I stop all screens by 10 (night time feature of Android is very helpful in this regard). Except my ebook reader than I use without backlight.

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