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ta8903··on Elevated error rates on Opus 4.6
99.04% now
ta8903··on Elevated error rates on Opus 4.6
claude.ai uptime about to fall below 99% https://status.claude.com/
ta8903··on Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)
Something that should be mentioned is starting a command with a space doesn't add it to your history in most shells, really useful for one-off commands that you don't want cluttering your history.

Also, increase your `$HISTSIZE` to more than you think you would need, there have been cases where it helped me find some obscure command I ran like 3 years before.

ta8903··on Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)
Speaking of readline, I recently found out PowerShell has a readline mode (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/psreadli...) and it works great.

As someone who works mostly in WSL and has to use PS occasionally, it really reduces the overhead of the context switch.

ta8903··on Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg
mpv has plugins for this like https://github.com/serenae-fansubs/mpv-webm
ta8903··on How people woke up before alarm clocks
"Indian" is the commonly used term for the people from India as far as I know. You don't very often see that cohort referred to by some other term.
ta8903··on US missile hit military base near Iran school, video analysis shows
Hey. Out of curiosity, why did Iranian diaspora stop celebrating the conflict in the streets over the past week? It would be difficult for the US and Israel to justify starting the war this way, I hope you continue the celebrations.
ta8903··on /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem
I used to not use one either, and used Aurora Store for certain apps. But at some point, my bank's app stopped working if I installed it from Aurora Store, and would only work from the play store. Since then I've seen a lot more apps that work this way.
ta8903··on MacBook Neo
Aren't classrooms usually well lit?
ta8903··on MacBook Neo
Yeah, it's funny how it's better than the other MacBooks in a way.
ta8903··on /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem
>I don't get what's so user-hostile about Android.

How about the fact that you can't install applications without having a google account. Right from the get go, it isn't a serious OS.

ta8903··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
Terrorists already have nuclear weapons. Of course no country having nukes is ideal, but in absence of that possibility everyone having them is better, unless your reasoning is "I hope my side has them and the other side doesn't."
ta8903··on Git's Magic Files
>global ignore file at ~/.config/git/ignore or wherever core.excludesFile points

Most mentions I see of `core.excludesFile` refer to it as a global, but it could also be a local file. I use it as a local file since for some projects I'm working on I end up having a set of scripts/logs/anything specific to the repository that I don't want to be in the `.gitignore`.

ta8903··on Instagram boss says 16 hours of daily use is 'problematic' not addiction
I don't think it's okay to breathe for 16 hours a day.
ta8903··on Audio is the one area small labs are winning
Not very concerning because that post is obviously LLM generated.
ta8903··on OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
Would you be less mad if he used the word android instead, or is that also etymologically problematic?
ta8903··on Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV
You mean like a bus?
ta8903··on Things Unix can do atomically (2010)
Thanks, I didn't find this when I was looking for a solution for my problem. This is pretty much the exact solution for my usecase, though for some reason inotify feels more complicated than some kind of filesystem mount solution for me.
ta8903··on Things Unix can do atomically (2010)
I know this is trivial to do programmatically, but I was looking for a way this will be handled by the filesystem. For instance, if I have some processes generating log files, and I have a script that converts them to html, I wanted the script to be called every time a log file is updated, without having a daemon running in the background to monitor the directory, just some filesystem mount. This would have made some deployments easier.
ta8903··on Things Unix can do atomically (2010)
Not technically related to atomicity, but I was looking for a way to do arbitrary filesystem operations based on some condition (like adding a file to a directory, and having some operation be performed on it). The usual recommendation for this is to use inotify/watchman, but something about it seems clunky to me. I want to write a virtual filesystem, where you pass it a trigger condition and a function, and it applies the function to all files based on the trigger condition. Does something like this exist?
ta8903··on I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
https://linux-hardware.org/ is useful for this.
ta8903··on Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023)
Bind it yourself?

Also I'm pretty sure default Gnome and KDE include emojis in their "start" menu search, which is its own kind of annoying.

ta8903··on 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence
During the Euros they replace the British flag with flags for England, Scotland and Wales on the sports board.
ta8903··on Updating Desktop Rust
What do you suggest as an alternative? Some kind of app store that periodically updates everything? The biggest thing package managers resolve is having everything be updated in the background, I'm tired of taking 5 minutes apart to update Wireshark everytime I use it.
ta8903··on Control shopping cart wheels with your phone (2021)
They believe the moon is a flat circle (not a sphere).
ta8903··on What does Palantir actually do?
This makes no sense. Israel calls everyone killed a Hamas operative. If GP's 10:1 ratio were true, it would be within the 20,000 Israel said they've killed.
ta8903··on Show HN: Stasher – Burn-after-read secrets from the CLI, no server, no trust
Is this a bit?
ta8903··on Using drone imagery and AI to rapidly assess damage after hurricanes and floods
The tech will be useful both for wars as well as for the disaster recovery efforts after your federal funding is cut down for boycotting the wars.
ta8903··on Terminal app can now run full graphical Linux apps in the latest Android Canary
>Linux needs a killer app, not just equivalent-app or "linux flavored" app that does the same thing, a DAW, a font editor, a GIS app, something.

Those examples aren't killer apps because they could be ran in Windows/Linux through these compatibility layers. Linux's 'killer app', if it had one, would be things like better window management that doesn't get in your way, faster file I/O, being able to do more with your hardware.

ta8903··on The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million
As a kid I always thought "few" was ~5 and "several" was ~7.
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