ar_lan

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by ar_lan 4y ago
It's sort of the same envy I feel when I see student loan forgiveness. I worked a ton (30+ hrs weekly) in college, and 40+ hrs during summer/winter break, to ensure I graduated college with no loans taken. And now to see loan forg
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by ar_lan 4y ago
For junior developers reading this: frameworks introduce additional complexity (especially ones with obscure dependency injection), learn how to use different tools properly and analyze when they should/should not be used. Learning you
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by ar_lan 4y ago
Yes-ish. Not FTX, but Celsius (very similar situation on a smaller scale). I was aware of Mt. Gox, and I do see the irony. I invested 25% of my crypto portfolio with Celsius. The rest was, and is, in an offline wallet (though after Celsius
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by ar_lan 4y ago
I think the same thing. The concept of retiring early has never made sense to me - but I enjoy writing software, and building things, and learning things, etc. Financial independence does make sense to me, but only in-so-much that I want
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by ar_lan 4y ago
> For many folks, a watch is jewelry. It’s funny you say this. I view this of watches, but I wear a Whoop band which gives me utility. My brother-in-law wears a watch, but has multiple times wondered why I wear a bracelet. His claim is “
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by ar_lan 4y ago
Their 2FA is awfully annoying. I’ve seen they basically require you to have YouTube installed as well in order to verify it’s you (why would I need that if I already have you password + code)?
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by ar_lan 4y ago
I hope this doesn't come off critical - but what does this offer over a flakes-based `devShell` with `nix develop`? The two things that stand out that maybe look slightly easier are the processes section, and the pre-commit hooks secti
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by ar_lan 4y ago
Why not use Nix in production, then? Hermetic evaluation of all dependencies allows a deterministic dev/prod set of environments. I, at the very least, completely disagree with you on this specific point as this tool is using Nix.
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by ar_lan 4y ago
Can you elaborate on what about it is clunky? I've used it as my daily driver for the past year so maybe I can help elaborate too.
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by ar_lan 4y ago
Sorry, I wasn't clear - I wasn't implying there should be a central team to manage it. One of the beauties of Nix is providing declarative dev environments in repositories, which means to fully embrace it each individual team sho
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by ar_lan 4y ago
It sounds like your issues with Nix stem from its steep adoption curve, rather than any technical concern. This _is_ a concern for a team that needs to manage it - I agree. I'm quite diehard in terms of personal Nix/NixOS use, but
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by ar_lan 4y ago
I think Nix could be leveraged to resolve this. If the dependencies aren't perfectly matched it downloads the _different_ dependencies, but can use any locally downloaded instances already. So infra concerns are identical. Remove any s
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by ar_lan 4y ago
I've long wanted to get a Memento Mori tattoo.
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by ar_lan 4y ago
I've honestly thought about recording my work sessions to do the same thing. RescueTime works _somewhat_ to track when I get distracted on something, but moreso I'm interested in identifying when I do something suboptimally and pl
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by ar_lan 4y ago
I don’t think you’ll find one. Most of these operate on the source code and its declared dependencies.
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by ar_lan 4y ago
Oh, completely agree!
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by ar_lan 4y ago
So far paper and pen is still effectively the most malleable productivity environment that conforms to all my needs.
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by ar_lan 4y ago
Well, actually, the movie is based on a book, which is much more than a single paragraph.
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by ar_lan 4y ago
> I still think it must be beneficial, but the question is are you able to keep up with the effort required if you don't have this end goal of publishing your writings? I'm not sure I do. This is the exact conclusion I came to.
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by ar_lan 4y ago
I just can't really believe this at all, unless these companies entirely crumble. It's just not feasible for the majority of folks to live comfortably in the Bay Area with a family at less than $200k TC. I make ~$300k/yr and
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by ar_lan 4y ago
I wouldn’t say that - it’s been effective for some of my designs, and I’ve referred to notes for small hacks I’ve acquired, but it’s inefficient IMHO.
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by ar_lan 4y ago
I’ve tried Zettelkasten for about a year now - it’s a massive time sink, and I’m not sure I’ve seen enough fruits to be worth it, to be honest. But I also don’t publish writing so maybe that’s my fault!
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by ar_lan 4y ago
I wonder how I’m making my Chemex every morning…
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by ar_lan 4y ago
Is lua considered an esoteric language?
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by ar_lan 4y ago
> I really like helix. So much that I’ve switched from jetbrains to neovim. This is a very confusing statement. Helix caused you to drop JetBrains IDEs for another editor (that is not Helix) entirely?
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by ar_lan 4y ago
I’ve found an ultrawide, 32” monitor addresses this just as well.
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by ar_lan 4y ago
You definitely hit the nail on the head. If someone points out a specific action I did that can/should be improved upon (and especially if they can tell me why it was "bad" in the first place), I'm far more likely to acc
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by ar_lan 4y ago
Jeez. This is an incredible severance package.
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by ar_lan 4y ago
A Nix package can do this easily!
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by ar_lan 4y ago
eg

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