nickjj

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by nickjj 6mo ago
I evolved an rsync based backup script I've been using for almost a decade into https://github.com/nickjj/bmsu . I use this for backing up my life's work to an external drive but also syncing files to my lapto
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by nickjj 6mo ago
Yep, I use rsync to sync files / directories between my desktop, laptop and even phone (Android). Also an external drive. I ended up creating https://github.com/nickjj/bmsu which calls rsync under the hood but hel
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by nickjj 6mo ago
The functionality I miss from a GUI spreadsheet is this "simple" case: I have a spreadsheet with 186 rows and want to select a specific cell's value from rows 6 and 127 and immediately know the sum if it happens to be 2 digit
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by nickjj 6mo ago
This is what I use too, the nice thing about this is you can use your existing tools natively and you have lots of flexibility in how you want them arranged. Could be split panes in 1 window or different windows in their own session. For ex
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by nickjj 7mo ago
> watching people discover all these tools now that claude code is sending them into the terminal. Hi, I'm the author of the post. I don't like replying to comments like this but I think it's important because of how &quot
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by nickjj 7mo ago
Nope. I've been subbed since 2008 (before streaming with DVDs). My bill has increased for each increase they introduced. The last bill for the standard 1080p no ads plan was $19.56 (before this new price update). It was about half that
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by nickjj 7mo ago
CTRL+L isn't the same as clear btw, it really maps back to `clear -x`. CTRL+L clears the visible output but you can still scroll up in your buffer to see the rest, clear will clear that scroll up buffer too. I've written about and
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Improved Git Diffs with Delta, Fzf and a Little Shell Scripting(nickjanetakis.com)
175 points by nickjj 7mo ago|42 comments
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by nickjj 7mo ago
> It’s for somebody who goes to the store, puts their hands on the keyboard, uses the touchpad, looks at the screen, and feels the chassis, and then makes their decision. We might live in different areas of the world. Every person I know
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by nickjj 7mo ago
Sure but if people want a device for only casual browsing and are ok with 256 GB of storage and 8 GB of memory they can get a Chromebook for half the price of the Neo. Not all of them are bad, there's tons in the $300 range with good e
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by nickjj 7mo ago
It's made of metal and is sturdy. I've taken it on 2 trips (including international), it's all good and still feels like new but to be fair I don't abuse it. For traveling I put it into a regular backpack that has a lapt
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by nickjj 7mo ago
> A much larger laptop with less than half the number of display pixels is not really the same market. And how's that battery life? Yes, the display isn't as good but the Neo with 512 GB of storage is already $700 and has half
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by nickjj 7mo ago
> The competition at this price point is weak. Is it though? 6 months ago for $575, I picked up a 15" 1080p IPS display laptop with an AMD Ryzen 7 6800H (8 cores / 16 threads), 32 GB of DDR5 RAM, Radeon 680M iGPU that can use u
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by nickjj 7mo ago
Yep I had a GeForce 750 Ti (2 GB) and I was able to run a ton of things on Windows without any issues at all. As soon as I switched to Linux I had all sorts of problems on Wayland where as soon as that 2 GB was reached, apps would segfault
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by nickjj 7mo ago
tmux by itself lets you create any number of sessions, windows and panes. You can arrange them for anything you want to do. Having a pane dedicated to some LLM prompt split side by side with your code editor doesn't require additional
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by nickjj 7mo ago
> Why do you orchestrate the AI manually? I have zero trust in any of these tools and usually I use them for 1 off tasks that fit well with the model of copy / pasting small chunks of code. > But, after you create the code, if yo
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by nickjj 7mo ago
I do everything manually. Prompt, look at the code, see if it works (copy / paste) and if it works but it's written poorly I'll re-prompt to make the code more readable, often ending with me making it more readable without ex
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by nickjj 7mo ago
> properly defining the spec Why do you often need to re-prompt things like "can you simplify this and make it more human readable without sacrificing performance?". No amount of specification addresses this on the first shot u
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by nickjj 7mo ago
Besides having a script to run `myip`, `myip --local` or `myip --public`, the post and video go over using strace to monitor network traffic to make sure the command to help get your local IP address isn't accessing the public internet
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Quickly Get Your Local and Public IP Address from the Command Line(nickjanetakis.com)
2 points by nickjj 7mo ago|1 comments
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by nickjj 7mo ago
I was using Photoshop, I don't remember when exactly but it's probably in the 15-20 year range when non-destructive scaling was available. I don't remember not having it. Glad to see GIMP is moving in this direction.
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by nickjj 7mo ago
Being able to scale an image without losing quality is going to be handy. I always found it odd that scaling down an image now and then scaling it back to its original size 2 seconds later with the same tool resulted in a loss of quality an
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by nickjj 7mo ago
I don't think it's that Here's an example from Gemini with some Lua code: label = key:gsub("on%-", ""):gsub("%-", " "):gsub("(%a)([%w_']*)", function(f, r) r
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by nickjj 7mo ago
I have 2 wired headphones. My main ones are Sony MDR-V6s which I've had for 10 years. They are the best headphones I've ever owned and they sound just as good today as they did a decade ago. They were originally made in 1985 and t
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by nickjj 7mo ago
I really admire Carmack and followed everything id software since the beginning. They really did put a lot of things out in the open back then but I don't think that can be compared to current day. Doom and Quake 1 / 2 / 3 we
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by nickjj 7mo ago
Thanks, I tried both and the results were not good IMO. I gave them the same prompts. Both failed to give a working solution. I lost track of how many times it said "This is the guaranteed to work final solution" which still had t
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by nickjj 7mo ago
Haha thanks. I went all-in developing that editor. It had a website and forums but it wasn't something I sold, you could download it for free. Funny how even back then I tolerated almost no BS for the tools I use. I couldn't find
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by nickjj 7mo ago
I agree, even with syntax highlighting it visually looks more appealing in caps.
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by nickjj 7mo ago
Yes, I remember writing a VB6 driven editor. I was so happy when I got find and replace to work. I still have the marketing page copy from 2002: <UL> <LI>Unlimited fully customizable template files</LI>
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by nickjj 7mo ago
Both ChatGPT's anonymous one as well as Google's "AI mode" on their search page which brings you to a dedicated page to start prompting. I'm not sure if that's Gemini proper because if I goto https:/&#x2F

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