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bwhaley··on Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)
Once you start using CTRL+r, you may find that you never reach for up arrow again.
bwhaley··on Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
I really want to look at your art but it’s on twitter so I can’t!
bwhaley··on Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now?
This is the answer. I'd wager that almost every distributed system that runs at scale uses message queues in some capacity.
bwhaley··on Pulsar, the best code editor since Atom
Also, as a vim user, modes are completely fine and I do not believe that modes slow me down. I’m not sure why the author is so insistent on this point.
bwhaley··on Men should abstain from drinking at least three months prior to conceiving
3-4 beers after work several days per week seems like a drinking problem imho.
bwhaley··on The mysticism of Alan Watts (2018)
Try the Waking Up app for a complete, organized collection of Watts’s work. I don’t take all of it at face value - some of it certainly hasn’t aged well - but I’ve derived a lot of wisdom from his work. If you’re interested in looking at the world a little differently then the typical western way, it’s worth your time to give his talks a listen.
bwhaley··on Are hospitals overtreating patients nearing the end?
> Notexisting is worse than pain and suffering.

That’s a stretch.

Far more important to come to terms with mortality than extend life indefinitely.

Is it even still living to have a heartbeat but with motor control, limited or no ability to speak, and no memory? Is “living” in this way best for the next of kin?

I found a recent episode of the Making Sense podcast in this topic to be thought provoking. You might give it a listen.

https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/297...

bwhaley··on Ask HN: Examples of Microkernels?
That white paper is an incredible piece of technical documentation. Accessible to anyone with a basic background in computing and operating systems. I love hidden gems like this.
bwhaley··on Ask HN: Where are all the cool architecture diagrams?
Perhaps you’d like the Gruntwork reference architecture diagram made with CloudCraft:

https://gruntwork.io/reference-architecture/

bwhaley··on Stripe Atlas
And the annual tax is if you're doing business in CA, even if you filed articles of organization in another state. Once you clear $250k it goes up to $1700!