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by nickjj 2mo ago
If anyone wants to go down a rabbit hole, go search for topics around fructose corn syrup, visceral fat and artery plaque. It can play a substantial role in vascular health. I'm not a doctor but there's a bunch of studies posted o
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by nickjj 2mo ago
The interesting thing about SMS is this isn't always usable while traveling. For example my phone provider has really overpriced international fees ($10 / day) so instead I use an eSIM which usually only comes with data. That mean
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by nickjj 3mo ago
I updated a ~3k line Python project with this the other day. I was using v0.15.x beforehand. It didn't take too long and the new rules do improve code quality. It caught quite a few things previous versions didn't. Here's a f
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by nickjj 3mo ago
I go with a simple pg_dumpall approach running on a cron job. It has worked well for over a decade on all sorts of different systems. Here's a complete walkthrough on how I backup and restore: https://nickjanetakis.com/
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How to Back Up PostgreSQL in Docker (Local, S3, and Plakar)(nickjanetakis.com)
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by nickjj 3mo ago
It is picky, but picky is good. It's explicit which creates uniformity. For example with niri, if you forget quotes on a string value, you get this error. $ niri validate Error: × error loading config ├─▶ error parsin
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by nickjj 3mo ago
> With Ghostty my only option is to maintain different config files per machine. This turns out to be a benefit IMO. Ghostty supports include files. You can have all of your shared config in 1 main config and then have small files that a
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by nickjj 3mo ago
It's neat that Hyprland lets you define layouts in its config but I like niri's approach. It uses KDL (an established document / config language) and slightly extends it to add useful things like being able to include files.
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by nickjj 3mo ago
My main desktop machine with assorted components is from 2014, also with an SSD and HDD. Each component has lasted all this time somehow. The total uptime of each drive is 11.5 years (101,023 hours) with 159 power cycles. The SSD is 256 GB
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by nickjj 3mo ago
I like how efficient Arch is, in the sense that you have nothing and now you get to pick and choose what you want. My main desktop I use for full time software development and video editing is from 2014. I've run Windows on it forever.
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by nickjj 3mo ago
Back when selling online tech courses was viable (pre-AI), about 30% of transactions in the US were from folks using PayPal on the platform I used. There's a huge of people who use PayPal, it's even more outside of the US.
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by nickjj 3mo ago
I'm not sure I like this idea. Braintree is a legit competitor to Stripe. I'm guessing they have some informal agreement to keep transaction fees about the same but if they become 1 company, what's to stop Stripe from raising
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by nickjj 3mo ago
Carmack always seemed to have a really strong idea on what was important for him to work on. How much of that is mental toughness vs having a believable purpose? Believable is important because you have to internally 100% without a doubt be
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by nickjj 3mo ago
Nope, but Debian does use systemd by default so it's there. I'm running Arch Linux and /etc/machine-id is present. There's also an optional /etc/machine-info file that could exist. It's not a part of
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by nickjj 3mo ago
> I don’t have a dog in this fight but it seems you’re not accounting for iteration and feedback You can provide AI official sources to look at and dozens of prompts. I've lost track of the number of times where it didn't arriv
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by nickjj 3mo ago
> Some devs just 'get it' and thrive, leading a team really well and building a great culture. I don't think it's this because the outcome you get from AI isn't controllable. You can give it the best prompts and
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by nickjj 3mo ago
I'm really sad to see this happen to another fellow course creator. I'm not sharing this to steal any thunder, but more to relate: I've been making video programming courses since 2015 on Flask and Docker. Built up a whole bu
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by nickjj 3mo ago
I'm in the US / NY, with a normal personal account. I think the issue with localizing it to a specific state is oftentimes contracts or working agreements have jurisdiction locations that align with the company. In other words, it
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by nickjj 3mo ago
> If you need the original email for legal/evidence purposes, you can back it up first, either through Gmail or Unattach. Yes, that was covered in the other thread. Presenting a backup as evidence has a lot less strength than the or
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by nickjj 3mo ago
Oh nice, if everything they say is true, this seems like a good match but it seems like it has 1 big potential downside. THE GOOD: Their FAQ says it uses OAuth to connect to your Google account and the emails never leave your browser. It al
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by nickjj 3mo ago
I'd love to somehow do the opposite of this but I don't think it's possible? It would be deleting attachments from emails without deleting the email thread. For example I'm always 1-2 GB away from my Google account being
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by nickjj 3mo ago
I remember reading somewhere that one of many long life markers is if you can go from sitting on your butt straight into standing without your hands or knees touching the floor.
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by nickjj 3mo ago
SMART stats shows it's at 54% health remaining, all tests passed without errors. The drive might be too old to report back TBW. It's a Crucial 256 GB SATA 3.1 SSD. It has LBAs written which is 138292009426. The sector size is 512
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by nickjj 3mo ago
Yes, so are the hardware components. Current machine has been running since 2014. SMART stats on the SSD shows 100,586 powered on hours which is 4,191 days.
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by nickjj 3mo ago
I've been keeping my desktop machines running 24/7 for ~25 years. I only reboot when necessary. I remember having around 280 days of uptime on Windows 7 when it went end of life. Having a UPS helps a lot to protect against short p
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by nickjj 4mo ago
If anyone is looking for a niri based opinionated set of configuration on top of CachyOS (or vanilla Arch) I put together: https://github.com/nickjj/dotfriedrice The goal is after installing the official ISO, you can g
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by nickjj 4mo ago
I know it's easier said than done but is there anything you can do to become an advocate for change? I've been fortunate to have a very limited amount of on-call events. At one place for 3.5 years there was 1 event. In another pla
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by nickjj 4mo ago
I'm curious, how often are people getting contacted outside of work hours for "regular" jobs? I do SRE / Platform type of work where I'm technically on-call 24/7/365 but as a salaried worker I don't r
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by nickjj 4mo ago
I run vanilla Arch with niri (Wayland), Waybar and a few other tools to create a desktop environment. I didn't do any special kernel or app specific tweaks for performance. The machine boots using 1.1 GB of memory and total disk space
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by nickjj 4mo ago
The mobile app is quite good, it works and gets out of your way. I use it on Android. For syncing, I do it manually with rsync. Given the database is 1 file it's easy to move around. You can rsync / scp it over, use a USB cable, u

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