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New comment by dlivingston in "NixOS is making me less afraid"

dlivingston — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 05:03:26 +0000

It takes a certain kind of wizard to be able to master Nix overlays: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Overlays

New comment by dlivingston in "NixOS is making me less afraid"

dlivingston — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 04:45:46 +0000

The default is a bare-bones GNOME desktop manger (think Ubuntu if you're not familiar).

But of course you could customize it to look like any distro or even something totally new; I use hyprland with a pretty unique setup.

New comment by dlivingston in "Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI"

dlivingston — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:13:24 +0000

Well, given that AI can now decompile and port software... :)

New comment by dlivingston in "Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline"

dlivingston — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:14:16 +0000

Digital isn't "real" anymore - analog is.

New comment by dlivingston in "Omarchy Is a Power Grab"

dlivingston — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:43:38 +0000

Here's DHH directly addressing these claims of fascism / xenophobia / etc. Worth a listen.

https://youtu.be/GYx4OBbswTw

New comment by dlivingston in "OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra"

dlivingston — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:58:29 +0000

How can I set such a sub agent up?

New comment by dlivingston in "Charles Ross spent 50 yrs building Star Axis naked-eye observatory in New Mexico"

dlivingston — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:58:52 +0000

I grew up in southern NM, near White Sands, and the skies were so dark and vibrant that the Milky Way band is visible and prominent, and thousands of stars dot the night sky.

My parent's first date was going stargazing in the desert!

New comment by dlivingston in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

dlivingston — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:00:50 +0000

I either mix it with a cup of cold water and gulp it down, or mix it in with a protein/greens shake.

New comment by dlivingston in "Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)"

dlivingston — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:07:15 +0000

And paraphrasing (allegedly) Aristotle:

> "We are what we repeatedly do. [Kindness], therefore, is not an act, but a habit."

New comment by dlivingston in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

dlivingston — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:02:52 +0000

Bandcamp is great. Albums are usually ~$10 for high-fidelity digital downloads, and ~$25 gets you a vinyl record + the digital download.

New comment by dlivingston in "The worst job interview I ever had"

dlivingston — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:24:26 +0000

This reads to me as if he wasn't prepared for the interview and said the first open-ended design question he could think of.

New comment by dlivingston in "Ferrari Luce"

dlivingston — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:49:12 +0000

The exterior of the car is silly, but I am really and truly blown away by the interior. It's really quite handsome and well-designed. Highly recommend giving this a skim: https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/ferrari-luce-design

New comment by dlivingston in "Show HN: Race to the Bottom"

dlivingston — Fri, 15 May 2026 02:25:13 +0000

Some of these tripped me up as well.

Oil & Gas are necessary for a country's survival. Good!

The Oil & Gas Industry operate political lobbying and climate change disinformation campaigns. Bad :(

So, which of the two should I consider in my rankings? Both? Neither?

New comment by dlivingston in "Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads"

dlivingston — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:21:41 +0000

I am not a sparkly special pretty princess. My friends are where they are. In the trade off between meeting people where they're at or doing something unique to me with friction to them, I know which one wins.

(note - this is snarky and I don't actually fully disagree with you)

New comment by dlivingston in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

dlivingston — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:23:46 +0000

I run NVIDIA on my Bazzite box and I get excellent performance. I had to fiddle with a few things though that probably work out of the box on AMD (example: screen tearing in Steam Big Picture mode. Fix: enabling developer mode in Steam and setting "Force Composite" to true).

New comment by dlivingston in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

dlivingston — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:19:52 +0000

Then swap! Partition and dual-boot into Bazzite. Or get an extra SSD and flash Bazzite there.

It's an easy weekend side project, and any numbers people give you will be ballparks anyway - the performance of Linux drivers for YOUR specific GPU running YOUR specific Steam games are all that actually matter.

Just take the two hours to do it. You won't regret it.

New comment by dlivingston in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

dlivingston — Wed, 06 May 2026 05:43:00 +0000

Are you one of those engineers building said crawlers, by any chance?

New comment by dlivingston in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

dlivingston — Wed, 06 May 2026 05:39:34 +0000

It would still be useful to share as an example and reference point. People can use Claude Code / etc. to re-write it to their specific situation.

New comment by dlivingston in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

dlivingston — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:51:08 +0000

Former Crossfitter. HIIT routines are prominent in CrossFit but it is more than just that.

CrossFit is functional fitness, meaning the goal is to build a broad foundation of athleticism - strength, speed, agility, endurance.

So, while HIIT is prominent in the WOD (workout of the day), so are Olympic lifts, running, climbing, and mobility.

New comment by dlivingston in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

dlivingston — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:12:55 +0000

I find it so bitterly ironic that the people whose opinions we read the most of - the terminally online Redditors and tweeters - are exactly the kind of people we should not be listening to.

Like you alluded to, the terminally online people who post the most tend to be those with neuroticism, isolation, severe anxiety, etc. There's a famous Reddit post about this I can't seem to find - "Everyone Online Is Insane" or something.

I really think this is why the past decade+ of American culture, politics, and society has been so off-the-wall insane. The Overton Window - another overused Redditism - of society has shifted towards the opinions of the neurotic and anxious. Those are the people whose words fill the comment sections and posts that we all read, which then infuse our minds to expect these thoughts as the baseline/median opinion of society.