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dbdoskey··on Show HN: Leaves – A text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer
There is also dua-cli or mcdu, if someone prefers a ncdu-style disk usage visualizer.
dbdoskey··on Most arguments are about ego, not ideas
Isn't that just point #2 from above? He rationally decided that his friends and family, and the values he is a part of, are more important to him, then being in geology, and some deep truth that it would supposed show him. Maybe he just didn't care enough about _this_ truth, compared to being part of the world he is in.
dbdoskey··on Show HN: ProofShot – Give AI coding agents eyes to verify the UI they build
This is really cool. Have you thought of maybe accessing the screen through accessibility APIs? For Android mobile devices I have a skill I created that accesses the screen xml dump as part of feature development and it seems to work much better than screenshots / videos. Is this scalable to other OS's?
dbdoskey··on Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32
Actually they do change the native API quite a bit. Not in minor releases so much but in major releases
dbdoskey··on LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio"
Thank you for sharing, this was very insightful.

Do you have another example of something like this that your team had to deal with that was not as easy, but "looked easier" for the users?

dbdoskey··on Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system
This article is about an Israeli developed system, so no US tax payer money was used. It is an off topic discussion to discuss your hatred for Israel. Maybe submit a different article about that, but it is off topic for this one.
dbdoskey··on Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system
None. The US money Israel receives is purely used for buying from US defense contractors. This is developed by purely Israeli defense contractors. The US leverages significant discounts on these Israeli developed systems compared to other countries.

Also, the amount Israel gets is in the same ballpark as Egypt and Lebanon, but interesting that that is never mentioned?

dbdoskey··on AI is forcing us to write good code
In theory, that is the benefit of having an agent that is limited to only doing the tests, and an agent that only does the coding, and have them run separately, that way to fix a test, you don't change the test, etc...
dbdoskey··on The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles
OpenAI is not profitable because it is spending resources into moving forward and training new models and creating new tools.
dbdoskey··on Mozilla shuts down even more Firefox services
There is nothing to defend there. They could have easily: * Made the donations go directly to funding the browser development. Right now I don't know if it even possible to donate purely just to browser development * They could have easily opened a services/consultancy arm, similar to igalia. A great and easy way to fund browser development. (How igalia has funded servo development in the past) * Create a for-pay enterprise support. In the past a lot of government organizations wouldn't use Chrome due to how the Chrome updates worked. They could have made a killing in government contracts just around that

And these are just a few simple income directions that are pretty common in other OSS projects. Instead they did braindead ideas like being a VPN reseller, giving away Pocket, and other things no one wanted or asked for.

dbdoskey··on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
If the WSL 1 ended up working, it would have been one of the best historical coincidences in MS's history. A long forgotten feature in the NT kernel, unique to pretty much any other OS out there, used to push it's dominance in the 90's, is revived almost 30 years later, to fight for relevance with Unix based OS, once again. To quote Gorge Lucas, It's like poetry, it rhymes.
dbdoskey··on Show HN: A web browser agent in your Chrome side panel
That sidebar doesn't have the ability to do any actions on the browser tab, or have the data form the browser as a context in any way. It is just a simple iframe.
dbdoskey··on Show HN: A web browser agent in your Chrome side panel
Thanks! Will track your project for the future. Looks very promising
dbdoskey··on Show HN: A web browser agent in your Chrome side panel
Looks amazing. Would love something like this in Firefox or Zen. Mozilla released Orbit, but it was never something that ended up really being useful.
dbdoskey··on Multiple security issues in GNU Screen
A similar process is happening with zellij and tmux. Since I switched over I feel that tmux is obsolete.
dbdoskey··on Leaving Google
Not exactly true, big tech did exist it was just different players. Sun was a strong player, as they were pushing Java, that was very popular in the enterprise world. Intel was considered a place that did a lot of interesting innovation. IBM/Oracle style players.

I think the big difference was that big tech was mostly on enterprise. The big shift to consumer focused big tech made a lot of the big tech more intersting place to work

dbdoskey··on Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining
This is IMHO where the interesting direction will be. How do we architecture code so that it is optimized around chatbot development? In the past areas of separation were determined by api stability, deployment concerns, or even just internal team politics. In the future a rep might be separated from a monolith repo to be an area of responsibility that a chatbot can reason about, and not get lost in the complexity.
dbdoskey··on xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
That seems completely sane and fair
dbdoskey··on Effective Rust (2024)
(not OP) I love rust, bu I just think that using ' for lifetime was a huge mistake, and using <> for templates (rather than something like []) was a medium mistake.

There is something about how the brain is wired, that using ' for lifetime, just triggers the wrong immediate response to it.

Something like this would look so much nicer IMHO [$_], compared to this <'_>.

dbdoskey··on Andreessen Horowitz stands by decision to hire Daniel Penny
You are comparing a cold blooded killer, to someone who acted in self defense and was acquitted by a jury?

Are you pro rehabilitation to criminals who served their time? And yet you are against rehabilitation to people who have been judged online, and been acquitted by court, just because they fall on the wrong side of your political identity?

dbdoskey··on Goose: An open-source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions
You should try cline. I found it with Anthropic to be invaluable.
dbdoskey··on Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers
Completely false and simplifying a complicated history to present a very one sided view. The most fertile lands are in the west bank. They were under Jordanian control and could have been turned into an independent Palestinian state, but weren't. Israel "accidentally" got them in the 6 days war, and were happy to give them to Jordan back to "take care" of the Palestinian problem, but they refused. The places that Israel have the majority of the population in Petah Tiqwah, Tel Aviv and the region were swamp lands, filled with mosquitos, that were dried over many years and many deaths by Jewish farmers.
dbdoskey··on I deleted all of my email filters
That was very helpful, and I didn't know about the xml filter import. Thank you
dbdoskey··on Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era
It has been used a few times by people who had a Google Play app banned, that sometimes the personal account would get banned as well.

https://www.xda-developers.com/google-developer-account-ban-...

dbdoskey··on Airlines are running out of 4-digit flight numbers
Reminds me of the line that network engineers love implementing IPv6 so much they have been doing it for years
dbdoskey··on ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes
Israel existed for decades without US support. No Jews will agree to live under a Muslim majority one state solution, it will inevitably decay into something similar to Lebanon, Syria, or Egypt.
dbdoskey··on Discussion: Job seekers can't find a job and Employers can't find an employees
This is definitely it. The problem is that the job market has positioned it that coming with "gumption" and no real world skills (in past positions) there is a low chance that the company will take a risk on you. So doing these shifts are extremely hard.
dbdoskey··on Show HN: Lumos, a local LLM Chrome extension
I have really been looking for something that summarizes all the websites I visit, and then pushes that into a vector database, to allow me to easily search through the contents of my history in an easy and fast way.
dbdoskey··on Show HN: A smarter Unix shell and scripting environment
Fair enough. Though the difference between your netstat examples and the podman examples and the nushell examples are minimal at best. Even if I understand the difference of the implementation (between "coloring" the output, and parsing it).
dbdoskey··on Show HN: A smarter Unix shell and scripting environment
As long as the command supports some structured output, such as json, it is very easy to get back the magic.

I have written a bunch of scripts that basically manages my whole home server using podman by leveraging `podman --output=json`. Most new tools support json output that make it easy, and by adding an alias that adds the `--output=json | from json` (or the equivalent for each command) it works pretty much the way you would expect.

For others that don't, you just need to add a little parsing to kick it off. Here are some examples on their github[0]. Once you have what works, just add it as an internal command, and it's a "fixed" problem.

I personally prefer nushell's method, as it allowed me to add tools that do some more advanced stuff pretty quickly.

[0] https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/2029

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