Hacker News: amrtn

New comment by amrtn in "How to setup a local coding agent on macOS"

amrtn — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:29:50 +0000

Did you have any issue with tool calling inside opencode? I tried the same approach, but my models don't see any tool.

New comment by amrtn in "Apollo Lunar Surface Journal"

amrtn — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 08:20:22 +0000

If you liked it, you'd probably also enjoy the three Omega Tau Podcast episodes with David Woods, one of the contributors of the NASA Apollo Flight Journal [1]

https://omegataupodcast.net/83-how-apollo-flew-to-the-moon/

https://omegataupodcast.net/97-how-apollo-explored-the-moon/

https://omegataupodcast.net/176-the-gemini-programme/

--- 1: https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/

New comment by amrtn in "Everyone Is on Their Phones"

amrtn — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 20:41:30 +0000

Mandatory reference https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=31CcclqEiZw

New comment by amrtn in "Ask HN: What helps you focus and get things done?"

amrtn — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 20:37:26 +0000

Cercle has good sessions

https://youtube.com/@Cercle

New comment by amrtn in "Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)"

amrtn — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 20:48:05 +0000

I loved ditto when I used windows. Do you know a good ditto alternative for mac?

New comment by amrtn in "Ask HN: What music do you listen to while working?"

amrtn — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 14:04:35 +0000

Lately, some of the chiller shows from cercle. E.g. [1]

Before that, lots of post-rock sprinkled with some infected mushroom according to my mood that day

--- 1: https://youtu.be/mKhQwfiDAfs

New comment by amrtn in "Forebruary is a wall calendar that you do not need to replace every year (2013)"

amrtn — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 13:17:01 +0000

-M sets the first day of the week to Monday. If in your locale the weeks already begin on Monday you are not going to see much difference on the output.

New comment by amrtn in "Forebruary is a wall calendar that you do not need to replace every year (2013)"

amrtn — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 12:14:20 +0000

The -v flag didn't work in my WSL.

This worked:

   $ ncal -b -M -A2
       June 2022             July 2022            August 2022
   Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su  Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su  Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
          1  2  3  4  5               1  2  3   1  2  3  4  5  6  7
    6  7  8  9 10 11 12   4  5  6  7  8  9 10   8  9 10 11 12 13 14
   13 14 15 16 17 18 19  11 12 13 14 15 16 17  15 16 17 18 19 20 21
   20 21 22 23 24 25 26  18 19 20 21 22 23 24  22 23 24 25 26 27 28
   27 28 29 30           25 26 27 28 29 30 31  29 30 31

New comment by amrtn in "When negotiating a price, never bid with a round number (2016)"

amrtn — Fri, 06 May 2022 13:22:13 +0000

This is one of the key ideas behind the book Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss [1]. I found the book quite enlightening if you peek through all the hostage negotiation stories.

1: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26156469-never-split-the...

New comment by amrtn in "Lo-fi hiphop beats mixed with live police scanners"

amrtn — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 11:56:04 +0000

That was awesome, thanks!

New comment by amrtn in "Brave New World Revisited, Revisited"

amrtn — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 13:07:00 +0000

Can't recommend enough the Intelligence Squared episode on Brave New World vs 1984

https://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/brave-new-world-v...

Lean Testing, or Why Unit Tests Are Worse Than You Think

amrtn — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 07:51:43 +0000

Article URL: https://jobs.zalando.com/tech/blog/economic-perspective-testing/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17731442

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by amrtn in "Ask HN: Which YouTube channels do you watch regularly?"

amrtn — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 08:26:49 +0000

Fun fun function has helped me to find the joy in programming javascript. Kudos to him!

15 Best Ways to Achieve Flow

amrtn — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 20:42:41 +0000

Article URL: https://dev.to/lpasqualis/15-best-ways-to-achieve-flow-1f2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15474169

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by amrtn in "What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike"

amrtn — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 08:57:50 +0000

That was exactly the case on my 18 month bike trip in Alaska, South America, SE Asia & China. We found it very difficult to pack or even find enough quality proteins (and at the time we didn't know they where that important tbh). In the end I lost 20 kgs and went from 85 to 65 for a 178 cm 30 y.o. guy.

That was 5 years ago and I managed to mantain that weight by taking care of what I eat. I think that trip changed something in my metabolism and helped to know myself better.

How typing is destroying your memory

amrtn — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 13:55:21 +0000

Article URL: http://www.fastcompany.com/3044907/work-smart/how-typing-is-destroying-your-memory

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9387897

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by amrtn in "How I Start: Elixir"

amrtn — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 08:25:25 +0000

¿No RSS or ATOM feed available? Feedly doesn't find any feed on http://howistart.org/

I know I can get updates by twitter but feeds are a commodity I'm used to :(

New comment by amrtn in "Cue, the home lab for quantified self"

amrtn — Wed, 14 May 2014 11:21:01 +0000

I don't know why, but it creeps me out. If it's that easy to test your body for "molecular" levels . How long before you are asked to be tested at your workplace, on interviews, etc.

Gattaca anyone?

New comment by amrtn in "Question quality is dropping on Stack Overflow"

amrtn — Wed, 07 May 2014 07:38:59 +0000

I've been using a tampermonkey script [1] to hide "Hot Network Questions". I find them utterly distracting.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/amrtn/3ec581e356a94ef3fa0f

New comment by amrtn in "Are You a Zen Coder or Distraction-Junkie?"

amrtn — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:46:37 +0000

That have not happened to me even once. My brain needs too much sugar to function propery and if I miss a meal he won't work at all. On the other hand I can easily disconnect my body from my brain while riding my bike and forget completely about eating & drinking. When I reach my limit I faint, stumble and fall.