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by jackhalford 2y ago
Mullvad
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by jackhalford 2y ago
Sharing this because I haven’t seen it on HN yet. Some ways in which it’s better than « why not just start a webdav server »: - usage is uniform on all platforms through the tailscale cli or platform specific integration (iOS taildrive show
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Taildrive: Persistenly Share Folders over Tailscale(tailscale.com)
5 points by jackhalford 2y ago|2 comments
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by jackhalford 2y ago
I’ve had a lot of success with Taildrive (still alpha) to share directories between devices in sync. e.g my keepassxc database lives on my homeserver, all devices access it through taildrive, this is impossible with iCloud drive because the
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by jackhalford 2y ago
I just put dotfiles directly where they are and majr a .git directory in my $HOME. .gitignore everything and git add -f files when I need to. no symlinking or anything.
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by jackhalford 2y ago
I’m currently in using sway on fedora, I’m considering moving to macOS because of tighter integration of icloud (everything is on my iphone) and generally better polish of the OS. This is another reason to switch
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by jackhalford 2y ago
I had issues with voidlinux+musl for using rust but that was a couple years back. Thankfully you can easily reinstall void with glibc
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by jackhalford 3y ago
The Hamiltonian formulation of classical mechanics is such a beautiful way of describing classical motion compared to the Newtonian formulation. See Laundau & Lifschitz book 1! All the Hamilton-Jacobi equations are derived from observin
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by jackhalford 3y ago
I’m sure cap n proto understands that infinity doesn’t exist in the real world
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by jackhalford 3y ago
No need to be snarky, clearly monitoring end user connections is a must. But the general idea of using RSS for monitoring is new to me, thanks for sharing!
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by jackhalford 3y ago
Looks great. I remember using bpftrace at work to debug a nasty performance issue, I went down the rabbit hole only to find a certain syscall was being called much too often. We managed to trace it back inside the sourcecode to a sleep(1 se
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Cap'n'Proto: infinitely faster than Protobuf(capnproto.org)
35 points by jackhalford 3y ago|14 comments
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by jackhalford 3y ago
Firstly; the round « robust » connector started to malfunction, the cord would slowly drop out of the barrel. Secondly; My phone is usb c, I only carry around a single cable type now, I feel like I have adcended and reached cable heaven.
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by jackhalford 3y ago
Love this, been using it for years to write markdown as a base and then transform to html or pdf using latex for maths.
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by jackhalford 3y ago
Funny I just replaced the power port on my 2011 thinkpad with a usb c port ( https://www.tindie.com/products/mikepdiy/lenovo-charging-por... ). I guess as long as fundamentally the charging standards don’t change we
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by jackhalford 3y ago
I just touched two fingers behind my head with eyes closed (although does that really matter, hands being out of sight?). So I still don’t get the point about proprioception
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by jackhalford 3y ago
That’s because the box isn’t a closed system, you’ve interacted with in and you have spent energy sorting the bricks. It’s the same story with humans on earth, things get sorted because of the energy inout from the Sun.
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by jackhalford 3y ago
Are you ok man?
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by jackhalford 3y ago
Are sourcing bash scripts in a fish shell? If you can either run bash ./xyz or add the shebang #!/bin/bash to run scripts with the intended interpreter
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The Opera Game(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by jackhalford 3y ago|0 comments
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by jackhalford 3y ago
Amazing article, it hits a lot of nails in the head of ideas I’d never been able to verbalize
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Grant Cardone Doesn't Have a Wikipedia Page(medium.com)
1 points by jackhalford 3y ago|0 comments
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by jackhalford 3y ago
I didn’t know about him, I couldn’t find a wikipedia page for him but I found this: https://medium.com/@grantcardone/wikipedia-has-alternative-f... Seems an awful lot like he’s trying to give himself a better image by
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by jackhalford 3y ago
I recently reinstalled my personal laptop to distro hop. the only two files I migrated over were my pgp key and .bash_history, the bash history is around 8000 lines I don’t want to loose. sometimes I ‘sort | uniq’ the bash history to filter
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by jackhalford 3y ago
It does depend on the shell here, bun is reimplementing basic commands to make them cross platform, like rm -rf is not running the rm binary because that doesn’t work on windows
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Libre Space Foundation(libre.space)
6 points by jackhalford 3y ago|0 comments
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by jackhalford 3y ago
A nice thing about PWAs is you don’t notice it, you probably don’t know a lot of websites you browse are PWAs
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by jackhalford 3y ago
It’s actually just a manifest to publish and voila, you don’t need to use all apis to get all the pwa goodness
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by jackhalford 3y ago
I noticed each time i click the HN button on my phone it opens a new tab in safari… pwas run in a separate browser/app/container
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Ask HN: Why is HN not PWA yet?
8 points by jackhalford 3y ago|13 comments

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