Hacker News: mtsolitary

New comment by mtsolitary in "I use excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog"

mtsolitary — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:53:57 +0000

PlantUML is a better ask for LLMs, you have a lot more control over the output

New comment by mtsolitary in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

mtsolitary — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:24:46 +0000

You said the v word!

New comment by mtsolitary in "My Homelab Setup"

mtsolitary — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:12:43 +0000

I get 3-2-1 backups with no "big cloud" dependency using - My Mac - My NAS (RAID1) using Syncthing - Incremental borg backups to rsync.net (geo-redundant plan) with a cron job.

New comment by mtsolitary in "CasNum"

mtsolitary — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:53:16 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructible_number

New comment by mtsolitary in "CasNum"

mtsolitary — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:52:11 +0000

Tried to use it to solve a quintic equation and it didn’t work :(

New comment by mtsolitary in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

mtsolitary — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:54:09 +0000

"The exception of Area C" is doing a lot of work in this argument. That's 61% of the territory of the West Bank ("Judea and Samaria") (those scare quotes also doing a lot of work).

To counter your list of things that the PA does de facto control, I will add: who controls the criminal court system? The checkpoints which lead to the outside world? The airspace? The ability to import and export goods? The roads? The territorial contiguity of Areas A and B? The decisions on building new settlements?

Aside from the municipal things you mentioned, which in most places in the world are controlled by subnational entities, Israel is in de facto control of the lives and futures of all 15 million people "from the river to the sea", roughly half of them Jews and half of them Arabs, while only one of those groups has what anyone in the West could consider to be a normal existence.

New comment by mtsolitary in "Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal"

mtsolitary — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:14:49 +0000

My first thought with apps like this is always: couldn’t you do this in org mode?

Lit: Version control where prompts are the source of truth

mtsolitary — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:54:39 +0000

Article URL: https://clintonboys.com/projects/lit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048871

Points: 1

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New comment by mtsolitary in "SCM as a database for the code"

mtsolitary — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 11:12:28 +0000

Of course. But if this is the direction we’re going in, we need to try and do something no? Did you read the post I linked?

New comment by mtsolitary in "SCM as a database for the code"

mtsolitary — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 10:05:09 +0000

I’ve recently been thinking about this too, here is my idea: https://clintonboys.com/projects/lit/

Lit: Version control where prompts are the source

mtsolitary — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 10:04:40 +0000

Article URL: https://clintonboys.com/projects/lit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022516

Points: 1

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Rebuilding my home network with VLANs and 10Gbps

mtsolitary — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 13:12:02 +0000

Article URL: https://clintonboys.com/projects/homelab/03-network/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46933901

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mtsolitary in "My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition)"

mtsolitary — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 20:15:56 +0000

Check out icloudpd. It’s a bit fiddly but it definitely does work once you have it set up.

New comment by mtsolitary in "My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition)"

mtsolitary — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 20:12:44 +0000

Check you don’t have a circular import on your NAS. I had similar issues because I had my photos at /nas/photos and my Immich metadata folder configured as a subfolder of that. So it kept reindexing its own metadata.

New comment by mtsolitary in "Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon"

mtsolitary — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:28:21 +0000

How old are you?

New comment by mtsolitary in "Radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica"

mtsolitary — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:04:02 +0000

That's where they left the Stargate!

New comment by mtsolitary in "The Two Ideals of Fields"

mtsolitary — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 09:48:10 +0000

It depends what you include in your definition of "parsing". For example, the chess master looks at the board and "parses" it in a very different way to the amateur player: he includes his knowledge of thousands of games played, analysis of potential future outcomes, and so on.

New comment by mtsolitary in "The Two Ideals of Fields"

mtsolitary — Sat, 31 May 2025 16:11:56 +0000

I think what you call “parsing” is largely indistinguishable from mastery in a lot of fields, particularly in abstract mathematics

New comment by mtsolitary in "The Two Ideals of Fields"

mtsolitary — Sat, 31 May 2025 14:44:46 +0000

This is a great example of one of those things in abstract maths that is hard to follow when you learn it, but once you’ve been through it a few times and learnt the definitions to heart it’s really just a rephrasing of the definitions.

The emoji problem (2022)

mtsolitary — Tue, 20 May 2025 10:18:15 +0000

Article URL: https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c2532359h2760821_the_emoji_problem__part_i?srsltid=AfmBOor9TbMq_A7hGHSJGfoWaa2HNzducSYZu35d_LFlCSNLXpvt-pdS

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44039864

Points: 333

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