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jas39··on Before Squid Game, there was Battle Royale
Yes.
jas39··on Finland's zero homeless strategy (2021)
This is extremely relevant. Finland is basically Sweden without mass migration. The cracks in our society that the multi-culti ideology has opened up is difficult for an American to comprehend, because you never experienced the benefits of a true monoculture.
jas39··on Before Squid Game, there was Battle Royale
Great movie. I noticed the character Gogo Yubari in Kill Bill was actually stolen from Battle Royale.
jas39··on Show HN: Wut – a CLI that explains the output of your last command with an LLM
Very useful tool. The tmux/screen requirement is a design flaw though.
jas39··on Home Manager: Dotfiles Management
I've concluded that a selective backup of the homedir is a better strategy than having dotfiles under version control and such. Keeping track of every little file is just too taxing. The movie collection belongs in the ignore file though.
jas39··on The CD Pipeline Manifesto
Maybe none, but at some point you may want to do other things at buildtime, such as generating an sqlite db or generate code stubs for protobuf. Having a universal, and highly refined, tool like Make will help developers without domain knowledge. It also does not exclude the use of other tool like Just and Docker. A Makefile is also an easy jump-off point for a build pipeline.
jas39··on The CD Pipeline Manifesto
I'm thinking before we build a CI/CI pipeline, make sure there is a Makefile. Why have they gone out of style?
jas39··on Major leap for nuclear clock paves way for ultraprecise timekeeping
This should be excellent for prospecting.
jas39··on Sora is here
So they released it in Afghanistan but not in Sweden? Is this an EU ban?
jas39··on Voyagers Ready to Go Dark
I'm thinking if the metric system was invented today, distance would be based on a light second somehow.
jas39··on Voyagers Ready to Go Dark
Would be interesting to see if any of the probes survive 50 years in space. More impressive if V1 continues to transmit beyond 1 light day. That would be June 2028.
jas39··on /usr/bin/env -S uv run
I have been doing this for a while. Voila:

#!/usr/bin/env -S uv run -q --no-project --python ">=3.12" --with "openai"

jas39··on A mental model for Linux file, hard and soft links
I would recommend relative symlinks (ln -rs). Makes it easier to rename the homedir for example.

On a copy-on-write filesystem, linking may not have much utility vs. copying.

jas39··on Should JavaScript be split into two languages?
That is a misconception; there is a cost of abstraction, although this cost may disappear if AI gets really smart.
jas39··on Should JavaScript be split into two languages?
It's a good idea, but a better idea would be to make the browser a virtual machine running wasm. HTML, SVG and everything else could be implemented in wasm, and loaded from the cloud as needed.
jas39··on Why I Never Buy Cutting-Edge Smartphones or PCs
I have a thing for old worn stuff. Like to reuse my old trainers for walking some extra distance and such. With Linux, computers don't slow down with every update. I use an old Nettop as a Debian server. Unlike Raspberry it comes with an UPS of sorts.
jas39··on Show HN: lscat – ls for directories, cat for files
Great idea! It can be a package, but it should be a shellscript, I think.
jas39··on BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSH
Too late Borg! I specifically chose Restic for the Rclone support. Can't change backup strategy now. It also save me once.

Pcloud lifetime + Restic, all in one repo, to benefit from dedup.

jas39··on Sweden to pay immigrants $34,000 for voluntary return home
Swede here. Talked to an Arab immigrant about this. He brought it up, and he thought it was a great idea. Will pay itself back many times over.
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