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phaedrix

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phaedrix··on Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
They're providing beautifully made ebooks for free...

The only thing they are is truly, truly wonderful.

phaedrix··on OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
Because is all the current generation of devs know unfortunately.
phaedrix··on Acetaminophen and Autism
Please don't spread more FUD.

It's only hepatoxic at high doses. Taking 1 or 2 Tylenol a day is not going to cause any problems.

phaedrix··on I ditched Docker for Podman
You are off by a factor of 12.

It's $9 per month not year.

phaedrix··on Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal
Aider has built in support for lm studio endpoints.

https://aider.chat/docs/llms/lm-studio.html

phaedrix··on Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs
No, in general mlx versions are always faster, ice tested most of them.
phaedrix··on They're Close to My Body: A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and Robin Finck (2020)
It's not you, they unfortunately slid into self indulgence.
phaedrix··on Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit
Unfortunately those are both 10-15x the cost of deepseek direct.

Deepinfra is pretty cheap though as a deepseek provider.

phaedrix··on The DevOps Engineer's Handbook
IIRC they went fully open source because they couldn't make it as a for profit company.
phaedrix··on A terminal-based Bluetooth manager for Linux
I used to use Bluetooth to, but the TUI nature of Bluetooth makes it so much easier.
phaedrix··on Open source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' exits beta to challenge Visual Studio Code
I've been using vim and neovim for over 15 years with many 10s of plugins and I can probably count on one or two hands when an update has caused problems.

Also use Arch for about as long.

It's so odd to me when someone says that updates break their vim or Arch frequently.

phaedrix··on ViHN: Vim for Hacker News
You haven't used Tridactyl then. https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl
phaedrix··on Testing if a port can be reached, using built-in tools other than ol' telnet
`brew install nmap`
phaedrix··on Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
That sounds really cool. I'm always trying to get juniors more into the CLI. Link?
phaedrix··on Mounting a Trackpad on a Kinesis Advantage Keyboard
I did something similar, but just used 2 strips of velcro.
phaedrix··on Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
If you have multiple awa accounts it's a godsend.
phaedrix··on Small SaaS banned by Cloudflare after 4 years of being paying customer
Cloudflare support is complete garbage.

We upgraded to Enterprise, and had some issues because CF's documentation was not clear (literally a blog post), and their support took many days to even respond and then their response made it clear they hadn't even read the ticket.

I'd move everything into AWS in a second if moving DNS wasn't such a pain.

Also am forced to use the global api token because constantly get rate limited using permission-scoped api tokens -- this is from a simple Terraform plan (first thing in the morning) and after them increasing my rate limit to the max.

phaedrix··on CS quotes found while browsing Notepad++'s code
...And Bruce Lee is paraphrasing from the Tao Te Ching; chapter 8 on water.

https://www.taoistic.com/taoteching-laotzu/taoteching-08.htm

There's also a really good and short Ted Talk on it: https://www.ted.com/talks/raymond_tang_be_humble_and_other_l...

phaedrix··on How to build software like an SRE
As with most good guidelines, it's useful as a general guideline, just dont get strcit about it.
phaedrix··on Carmack: “There’s a bunch that I’m grumpy about” in virtual reality
Kentucky Route Zero
phaedrix··on Rapid nasal saline irrigation to reduce severity in high-risk Covid+ outpatients
Just make sure to use distilled water. Brain parasites are no fun.
phaedrix··on HHS purchases $290M worth of drugs for nuclear emergencies
Drugs in pill form don't really expire, they just lose efficacy. And if stored well it takes a long time. I cant find it right now but someone found some pills that had been stored like 50 years in sealed containers and testing for the activr ingredient showed they were still like 80% or more good.
phaedrix··on First-time fathers show longitudinal gray matter cortical volume reductions
same. super fair.
phaedrix··on First-time fathers show longitudinal gray matter cortical volume reductions
Why does thinking dad jokes are lame get a comment that seems to imply some kind of mental illness?
phaedrix··on Building the Future of the Command Line
I'm guessing you simple don't live in the CLI, i.e. where you're constantly opening new e.g. tmux windows.

Shell startup time _absolutely_ matters.

E.g. slow startup interrupts flow for one thing.

phaedrix··on Ask HN: What exactly is a mindfulness meditation?
Read this: https://www.shinzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WhatIsMin...
phaedrix··on Why didn't our ancient ancestors get cavities?
Also can't tell if you're trolling bec a use just...what?

I'd better go do some research on how to eat that salad or apple...really?

Just pkease go read the book How Not To Die.

phaedrix··on Ruby Together
It's not you, it's java.
phaedrix··on Ask HN: What do Russians on HN think about this war?
Thanks for posting this; I've had a lot of trouble trying to figure out how Putin is justifying what seems like obvious aggression against another sovereign nation.

The tl;dr I think is simply that - Putin does not consider ukraine a soveign nation -- he (and I guess many russians) consider it part of russia; e.g. a wayward child that needs to be brought back into the family.

Anyway, thanks. I don't agree, but I think it's extremely important to understand both sides, otherwise no conversation can ever happen.

phaedrix··on Mozilla Foundation places two-page advocacy ad in The New York Times (2004)
Use Tridactyl?
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