notnmeyer

> The over or under toilet paper debate raged (politely) for two and a half weeks.

i found this particularly confusing because we all know that “over” is the only sane choice.

i assume when people are talking about k8s complexity, it’s either more complicated scenarios, or they’re not talking about managed k8s.

even then though, it’s more that complex needs are complex and not so much that k8s is the thing driving the complexity.

if your primary complexity is k8s you either are doing it wrong or chose the wrong tool.

Pretty sure it’s racist (or at least pejorative) in origin referring to the asian car customization / import scene.

“grok, how do i land this plane?”

you can not have a dockerfile in your project at all, push your code to them, and they’d build an image for it with nixpacks. you’d see nix stuff in your build logs, but it’s behind the scenes for the most part.

i don’t buy it. what if i’m using a tablet and drawing in photoshop? computer art isn’t just code and ai…

whether it’s a physical or digital medium the artist is expressing their creativity and manipulating the tools to realize that vision.

shameless plug, but if you’re looking for a daily note taking thing, take a look at https://github.com/notnmeyer/daylog-cli. it’s a cli tool for daily task tracking. edits in $EDITOR (i use helix) and renders markdown in the terminal.

i use it to take notes during the day at work and then use the notes for our standup.

yuck. sounds like a nightmare.

you’re better off using a separate task runner like make or task.

neat. anything you can share? code, blogs, etc?

probably too far for me, but very interesting to follow someone on this journey

like a lot of folks i found nektos lacking. instead, i focused on keeping the gha workflows really light and putting any complexity in Task (taskfile.dev)—that way the meat of the workflows can be run locally, and the gha syntax is just the glue.

it works out very well.

surely this boils down to cost. if you prioritize low cost you will probably sacrifice aesthetics. maybe it doesn’t have to be that way, but it seems like it often is for better or worse.

would i rather pay more in taxes for a nicer looking freeway or have it be utilitarian? ehhhhhhh, im unsure.

That is… insane. In what world is this expected or acceptable behavior?

absolutely agree

i took a look at the prs and issues they linked. i didn’t realize most of this was 6 years old. additionally, the folks submitting the prs seemed ill equipped to make a convincing case for why anyone should be among the first to adopt a nob-standard standard.

even then, one maintainer makes an excellent suggestion: give folks a list of the specific vars to set for various tools, and the pr author shoots it down as too much work.

the approach to this reasonably good idea feels flawed and effectively dead.

6 years and about 6 prs and most went nowhere.

zed is veerrrry good. i really appreciate the clean ui compared to vscode and its ilk. don’t love the pricing they just announced though. i don’t mind paying for my tools, but it not being unlimited scares me off slightly.

i really like this idea but feel conflicted. the privacy conscious side of me loves this… but having worked for early dev-tools startups, without telemetry we’d have had no idea how folks were using our tools or how some experiments played out.

without question everything should provide opt-out (or even better, opt-in) for telemetry.

is there middle ground for standardized opt-out vars without it being all or nothing?

maybe DO_NOT_TRACK_<identifier>?

i appreciate the honesty—but thank heavens for pi-hole and ad-blockers.

helix is so excellent.

ios? same thing on safari, and probably every ios browser

yeah, that sounds good! but really, i meant it in a light-hearted show of support for speaking the truth.

i’d vote for seth rogen

cursor got there first, but it’s just not that good. stuff not built on top of vscode feels much more promising. i’ve been enjoying zed.

all i know is that nextjs is the absolute worst

can confirm. nix + home-manager has been the configuration and dotfiles solution i’d been searching for.

it’s not flawless, but its strengths outweigh the weaknesses.

i still need homebrew for casks, but that’s fine.

fun game, but annoying to read the cards on mobile. would be nice to have an option to have them laid out without being fanned and overlapping

my first thought too. on a mac at least it’s a little crusty, but it really does make it convenient to have a project completely and accurately describe its environment.

good points here. appreciate it!

maybe i dont get it, but can we conclusively say that the gorilla wasn’t “seen” vs. deemed to be irrelevant to the questions being asked?

“look at the scatter plot again” is anthropomorphizing the llm and expecting it to infer a fairly odd intent.

would queries like, “does the scatter plot visualization look like any real world objects?” may have produced a result the author was fishing for.

if it were the opposite situation and you were trying to answer “real” questions and the llm was suggesting, “the data is visualized looks like notorious big” we’d all be here laughing at a different post about the dumb llm.

oh man, i had no idea stuff like this (or pushd/popd existed). i’ve been writing so much ugly bash to do this myself… whoops