abathur

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by abathur 1y ago
Sure! Something date-based is a simple way to handle perpetual storage while keeping the active history set from over-growing. I did anything at all because the default shell profiles in macOS can cause history loss, and I'd found my l
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by abathur 1y ago
Are you sure it's loading history in there? My .zsh_history isn't completely empty, and when I run the same with 'history' swapped for 'exit' it doesn't print anything. (But this might have something to do
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by abathur 1y ago
I think it's a byproduct of how macOS itself saves and restores window state, but the macOS Terminal.app has options to control restoring scrollback on reopen. History is good, but it's really great to be able to scroll back and
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by abathur 1y ago
How long does it seem to take to open a new terminal and reach a working shell? Your hardware might be fast enough that it's negligible, but several years ago (maybe 2018-19ish?) I noticed my shell startup was getting sluggish and trac
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by abathur 1y ago
This is an incorrect generalization from average life expectancies that include incredibly high infant/childhood mortality. The life expectancy cited by Wikipedia for the paleolithic is around 39 additional years for those surviving
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by abathur 2y ago
Great note, thanks--that one now makes sense.
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by abathur 2y ago
You're just making me wish we had a phonetic glob :)
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by abathur 2y ago
I recognize that people use this shorthand often and am not really trying to hold _you_ responsible, but it has never made any sense to me. We generally mean an asterisk as a glob wildcard, and *nix definitely doesn't match Linux. Ther
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by abathur 2y ago
There should (hopefully) be an ~official-nix version of the detsys installer in the ~near future. (That said, one slice of the reasons this has taken a while is that the upstream Nix variant is obliged to stick to official features for now.
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by abathur 2y ago
(It feels like you are talking like you're gotcha-ing me, but I don't feel like I am trying to address any of these problem at the level you are focused on.) I wouldn't say surplus held to be invested, even for many years to
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by abathur 2y ago
I'm a little unsure how to take you here, because I avoided dragging the efficacy of an investment into frame on purpose. Maybe you just mean to tack on the idea that we could benefit from having better language to separate shrewd and
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by abathur 2y ago
I agree (and I think the ~point is that weighing and being thoughtful about how tradeoffs affect a given project is part of the process).
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by abathur 2y ago
Not trying to neg how you phrased it, but I wonder if the whole damn system would be a smidge better if we had strong well-worn widely-used terms to discriminate between profit-taken and surplus-reinvested (and maybe to further discriminate
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by abathur 2y ago
Can you unpack why you think there'll be defensible moats at the application layer? (I thought you had this exactly right when I read it, but I kept noodling it while I brushed my teeth and now I'm not so sure llms won't just
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by abathur 2y ago
Someone who knows a lot of history is a history buff. A historian works with (and may even seek out in musty rooms) primary and secondary sources to produce novel research and interpretation. An AI is at best limited to ~reading sources tha
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by abathur 2y ago
Accessibility. https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/nasa-moves-swiftly-to-... This article has some context, but note that the heads of several agencies were all compelled to send the same thing out.
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by abathur 2y ago
If your shell scripts/libraries are a little more complex, resholve can also help package them a little more reliably. (I'd say it's overkill for your example here, but it blocks on missing dependencies and can support tricky
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by abathur 2y ago
I'll stop short of asserting you don't, but I'm having a hard time convincing myself your reply does reflect that you get GP's point. If I were to reframe GP's point, it would be: having to figure out how to answer
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by abathur 2y ago
> then the feature will actually exist in a way that the average shell coder cares about I think it's worth picking at this a bit. At least IME, a fairly small fraction of the Shell I write needs to run literally (any|every)where. I
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by abathur 2y ago
> is that fair to your employer who wants more, faster? I think it's ~dangerous to center this question because "more, faster" (and cheaper...) is something employers will always covet to some degree (even at the expense o
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by abathur 2y ago
I think GP means they stop at this point to ensure that they are giving all of the resumes a pretty fair shake by being fresh. Afaik, any kind of slush-pile reading (including grading, which is probably the best researched) tends to get les
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by abathur 2y ago
Terminal.app on macOS can do this with Command + up-arrow. (IIRC this is technically just a hotkey for navigating marks or bookmarks or something, and it (book)marks each command.
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by abathur 2y ago
I'm not sure this is quite what GP is fishing for. While I haven't taken a modern SAT test, I'm pretty sure the ~verbal score covers a fair amount of comprehension and ~usage that isn't as easy to cram/prep. Since t
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by abathur 2y ago
I've always felt like the API enabled us to make Twitter a ~success, back before it had critical mass. I built a small literary journal on early Twitter, and knowing we had a simple way to archive what we were publishing and do stuff l
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by abathur 2y ago
> We are currently in the process of moving away from tree-sitter and instead using the parsers provided by the languages themselves where possible. I imagine this means you're trying to abstract over those parsers somehow? How well
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by abathur 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41893994
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by abathur 2y ago
button "pornify" with prompt "rephrase this text as if it were in a 1970s erotic pulp novel" turned: You can define your own "macros" - instructions for an LLM (like "summarize this text", "fix t
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by abathur 2y ago
What counts? The current head NASA admin (a political appointee) did it a few hours ago and it's retweeted on the official @NASA account. (not linking as peer comment already did)
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by abathur 2y ago
It is, though I suspect this is more of a difference between discussion about pretty much any big natural disaster that reaches us at a distance mostly through media reports? Large direct hits to populated areas by natural disasters produce
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by abathur 2y ago
Python 95 :)

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