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New comment by gregf in "Wind chill on Mt. Washington NH minus 108, temp -46, wind 98 gusting 107"

gregf — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 12:11:55 +0000

Ouch, hope your pipes are fine!

New comment by gregf in "Wind chill on Mt. Washington NH minus 108, temp -46, wind 98 gusting 107"

gregf — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 11:32:21 +0000

I woke up at 4am, and it was -61F in northern Maine with the windchill. I'm tempted to take my garbage out in a t-shirt and see what happens :)

New comment by gregf in "Ask HN: Is anyone else genuinely scared that this is the start of WW3?"

gregf — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 23:55:13 +0000

I have been prepping for another a disaster or war most of my adult life. It's always good to be prepared. Can't count on the US being a superpower forever. This is why I'm happy I guns and ammo where I was born. I have MRE's for a long, an extended time. The ability and knowledge to garden & hunt for food. As well as trapping. I have a bunker, and an isolated cabin available to me and my family. There wouldn't be many if any survivors in a nuclear war between superpowers. If we are ever invaded, at least I can give myself and family a fighting chance of staying alive for a bit. I would rather die fighting than to be a prisoner of any sorts. I know a land invasion of the US is a very slim chance, but there's always a chance in life. I should also have no problems surviving more or less forever without internet (laugh at this one but our world runs on the Internet at this point as most of you should know.) or power. I can survive without running water, sewer. I am able to garden and hunt if it were to come to it. Likewise, I feel bad for those in cities. You're the ones that are going to have the toughest go at it if anything major were to happen. Hope nothing happens, I hope the Ukraine survives this. I feel horrible for any of the people that have no training that were forced to be canon fodder for their government. It's a shit situation. I'm not a praying man, but my thoughts go out to all their families. I hope there's something NATO can do to step in and stop this soon. Standing by shouldn't be an option. Just to be clear, I do not believe in war, I also don't believe in being bullied either. Sometimes it may be the only option left. I may have prepared more than others, but I seriously hope nothing happens. Putin is a dangerous man, and I'm not sure Joe Biden has the mental capacity left at this stage in his life to make the right decisions. I have no issues with the man, just worried. I would Kamala Harris in power over Biden in this situation. He's aging quick. Peace & Love to everyone, except for Putin!

New comment by gregf in "NvChad: An attempt to make Neovim TUI as functional as an IDE"

gregf — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 18:47:44 +0000

I have really been enjoying the simplicity of lunarvim. Just the basics, add what I want extra.

New comment by gregf in "Google Groups kills RSS support without notice"

gregf — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 04:43:19 +0000

Google is down right hostile to their users. So glad, I haven't used any of their services in years besides maybe YouTube occasionally.

New comment by gregf in "Association of sleep duration in middle and old age with incidence of dementia"

gregf — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 00:54:35 +0000

In the process of changing my meds again. Sadly they never last longer than 6 months to maybe a year. It's a frustrating process honestly. So, I tend to lie as to how well I'm doing just due to the fact I don't want to take a dive into a deep depression for months while they work out the kinks again. I guess the mania is better than the depression, even though I know it's unhealthy. Well they both are so, not sure what I can do till the science improves.

New comment by gregf in "Association of sleep duration in middle and old age with incidence of dementia"

gregf — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 22:07:38 +0000

Turning 40 in August. I haven't slept this badly all my life. It's got worse over the years. Specially the last 5 or so. I'm bipolar II, I take my meds as I'm supposed to, but I still seem to frequently cycle with manic episodes that keep me up working on projects all hours of the night. I then refuse to sleep all day, so I'll go to bed at say 3-4am and get up by 9am. Nights I can go to bed, I suffer from horrible sleep paralysis and that will have me waking me up throughout the night. Some of it is pretty disturbing, at least to me. So I end up giving after it happening several times in a night and just not sleeping any longer.

Sleep issues run in the family though. My father is a logger and I have never seen him sleep longer than 5-6 hours my entire life.

*EDIT* not abusing Amphetamine's BTW. Sorry forgot to even talk about that. Just lots of mania I would guess. Like right now, I have been kinda down and depressed all afternoon. It's now 6pm where I'm at, and I just had a switch go off, and now I'm full of energy and will probably end up coding till I drop. I'm my own worst enemy, I know.

New comment by gregf in "Association of sleep duration in middle and old age with incidence of dementia"

gregf — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 17:52:27 +0000

I'm screwed then. Due to a mental issue and my sleep paralysis I'm lucky if I sleep 3-4 hours a night as much as I would like to sleep more.

New comment by gregf in "Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development"

gregf — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 21:41:46 +0000

I would say reddit is on the far left not the far right, you can't have any opinion that isn't towards the left on reddit with being attacked.

New comment by gregf in "Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?"

gregf — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 16:40:12 +0000

Didn't build as much as I dove into NixOS. Really enjoying it so far.

New comment by gregf in "A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website"

gregf — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 19:11:36 +0000

I'm going to get a ton of hate for this, but he was doing it with the intent to redistribute the content for free. He didn't own the content. There's a big difference. That being said it's very sad what came about of that. I really don't think the FBI needed to be involved.

New comment by gregf in "Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever"

gregf — Wed, 13 May 2020 13:23:28 +0000

I live in a small apartment with my dog. I don't get out enough, it does make you depressed after a while. Luckily I have a some friends that work from home in the area. We take turns going to each other's house for the work day. Gives you a change of scenery while you work, and someone to interact with while working. Although a lot of it is sitting in silence in the same room, just having another human around can boost your mood. At least for me this does wonders.

New comment by gregf in "Mozilla will remove FTP support in Firefox"

gregf — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 22:00:41 +0000

I never seen a distro that didn't have a http mirror for those things myself. Even the ones that offer ftp.debian.org for example are accessibly over http as well.

New comment by gregf in "My Emacs Productivity Tricks/Hacks"

gregf — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 18:44:30 +0000

I had a fairly large config and kept running into problems with speed. I gave up late last year and tried doom and haven't looked back. Very fast compared to what I had hobbled together.

New comment by gregf in "Every Google result now looks like an ad"

gregf — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 07:56:33 +0000

You got a laugh out of me :)

New comment by gregf in "FreeBSD is an amazing operating system"

gregf — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 00:10:34 +0000

I been daily driving FreeBSD for the last 3 or 4 years. I was frustrated by a lot of things in Linux at the time, no this wasn't just because of systemd. I don't actually mind systemd on my desktop.

Everything was very easy much like Debian maybe to get going. There's over 10,000 ports most are in package form at any time. Sometimes the build process fails and a package goes away for a short time, but you can always install it via ports.

My biggest gripe is and always will be the fact I can't use my spotify account on my FreeBSD desktop. I don't see this ever changing though. What I have done is gone back to relying on my local music collection a bit more again. I also bluetooth stream spotify from my phone to my receiver, but I'm lazy, hate phones, and don't generally like to do this.

It also has easiest operating system upgrade path out there that I have experienced. Just freebsd-update, reboot, done.

Jails are great, but they need work to be a bit more modern at this point. Docker has kinda showed some type of image repository is a nice feature. I'm not sure we'll see this right away, but BastilleBSD is working on some nice jails based solutions. Based off of FreeBSD, i'm pretty excited to possibly use this in the future.

New comment by gregf in "A Man Who’s Spending $1B to Own Every Pop Song"

gregf — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 04:14:06 +0000

I'll worry when they start coming from 80s thrash metal.

New comment by gregf in "Ask HN: Why don't more people know about Freenode?"

gregf — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 02:58:46 +0000

In my experience asking questions on irc is pretty much useless. A lot of times you just get try hard's they don't even understand what you are trying to do that are determined they know more than you about what you are doing. It's just frustrating. If I got a question I typically just sit on it for a day two, and figure it out or ask on a forum. As far as chat, I much prefer something like rocketchat/slack/mattermost because of the embedded data that comes with it. A friend posts a funny YouTube video I just click play I don't have to load open a browser and navigate to the link. When someone posts a link you get meta data with the link so you can decide if you want to click it or not. It's more streamlined that way IMO. IRC could easily integrate this stuff but development of the standard hasn't really progressed that I have seen.

New comment by gregf in "Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack"

gregf — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 19:35:15 +0000

I been a mattermost user for two years, can't say enough good things about it. Love that it's written in go. We run ours with very little resources and it still chugs along.

New comment by gregf in "Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas"

gregf — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 19:40:27 +0000

Please come with a button that makes a gun pop out!