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by nickjj 2y ago
> Shaving a couple seconds off that will not provide any tangible benefit. It could be more than that. I switched from pip to uv today in a Dockerized project with 45 total dependencies (top level + sub-dependencies included). pip takes
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So it's been a week. I have not noticed any issues with Firefox. I didn't even adjust this setting. Everything is a lot smoother now than it was about 3-4 years when I last tried, even with the same hardware. Happily using Firefox
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> But Mozilla developed a way to uniquely track people without their consent or knowledge. Which setting is that, DNS over HTTPS? I switched back to Firefox the other day and this setting was enabled by default but it wasn't done si
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HARDWARE_VIDEO_DECODING does not exist but there's a bunch of rendering options. They are all set to default and available except for a few things like DIRECT2D is disabled and WEBGPU / REMOTE_CANVAS is blocked. gfx.webrender.all
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> Creative writing is tremendously different from coding, imo. I've had a different experience. IMO there's a huge overlap in skills when writing, coding, making videos and playing guitar. They all boil down to the idea of gett
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> He said he passed his chess peak already now at 34. He now knows more, but when he was younger he could win via brute mental power. The famous anti-case for this is J.R.R Tolkien started writing Lord of the Rings when he was about 45.
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Yep and losses are only losses when it's realized. A billionaire can just ride out the crash for 5, 10 or 15 years while investing more when the market is near the bottom. What they are investing in is buying the shares that the middle
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As far as I know the stock market has winners and losers. If you're not rich but invested whatever you could over the course of your life and now the market tanks to where you've lost half (or more) of what you had then someone el
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by nickjj 2y ago
My machine is 10 years old. With Firefox video playback on YouTube is choppy even at 1080p. With Chrome it's perfectly smooth. If Firefox performed better for me I would have switched to it long ago. This is on Windows 10 btw.
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I've been working on https://github.com/nickjj/plutus , it's a command line income and expense tracker. It's a zero dependency Python script that you can curl down. It generates reports to show you your n
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Processing Lines of Output in a Loop with Your Shell Can Be Slow(nickjanetakis.com)
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I really like turning legacy code into non-legacy code. It feels like getting to solve a mystery. For example, maybe there's really crazy hard to follow code and the person who wrote it left a decade ago and there's no tests so it
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Show HN: Plutus is a CLI tool for income and expense tracking(github.com)
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The timing of this is pretty convenient. I just open sourced a CLI tool for income and expense tracking yesterday at https://github.com/nickjj/plutus and I'd like to think I avoided destruction for each of those b
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I have a Google Pixel 4a and planned to use the phone until it physically no longer worked. I loved it, especially with its wired headphone jack and small size. It has worked for 3+ years and held a charge for 2-3 days easily until the othe
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Have you given consideration on using CSV files for the back-end? I ask because funny enough over the weekend I spent 4 hours writing a terminal based expense tracker with a sole focus on making it easy to see income vs expenses vs business
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> I was once rejected with "you don't have the technical depth needed". I appreciate that's what they honestly felt, but sending it back like that was just too honest. Do you think if they were more specific it could
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> Do you actually though? A lot of people say they would rather get an honest answer but don't react very well in reality. For me? Yes, in almost all cases, especially if we're talking about either getting no feedback vs. hones
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I would much rather get an honest answer in any scenario, no matter what it is. There are people out there who would take that feedback and reflect on it in a positive way. How else can you improve or be mindful of things in the future if y
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For #4 (divide and conquer), I've found `git bisect` helps a lot. If you have a known good commit and one of dozens or hundreds of commits after that is bad, this can help you identify the bad commit / code in a few steps. Here&#x
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It doesn't but if you're putting this into a script that's ok. You can set the script's shebang to bash so even if your user's shell is using zsh, the script will run with bash.
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One thing the article doesn't mention is how you can use indirect expansion to get a list of all keys. For example: `${!myvar[@]}` would list all of the keys. I've written about associative arrays in Bash a bit here: https:/
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Thanks. If I had to estimate, I'd say about 2/3rds of the episodes are solo developers putting up some type of site (SAAS app, selling a product, etc.).
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That reminds me of the toilet paper calculator during peak covid. He put up a site in about half an hour and it ended up getting coverage on TV which led to ~10 million visitors and it making $5,000 a day in ads for a while. The core logic
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by nickjj 2y ago
> Huh, I wonder why. I didn't start with 10 years of experience if that's what you mean. A basic Redis config inside of Docker Compose could be: services: redis: image: "redis:7.4.1-bookworm"
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One thing I don't get about the current Rails direction is pushing hard to use SQLite and removing external dependencies but at the same time also advocating to use Docker. Running Postgres and Redis in Docker is a matter of adding a f
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> Their manufacturers provide 5 years warranties Yep and it's possible to get much more out of it. I've been running a Crucial MX100 256 GB SSD for 10 years. It's at 63% health from a S.M.A.R.T. readout. It's been pow
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> Sliding doors in shops/trains/elevators have been around for ages and they include sensors for resistance Some of these are pretty crazy too. Here's a video from 14 years ago where a table saw stops fast enough that it
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Yep, I have an rsync script which I run from WSL to backup both my WSL home directory and a bunch of files on a separate Windows drive to an external hard drive. It takes something like 8 minutes for rsync to get the metadata about files be
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> Just like hospitals unable to or refuse to disclose prices. Yep or they give an estimate which explicitly says it can change based on the procedure's outcome and then your real bill is 3x the estimate even though you have signed p

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