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New comment by rustyminnow in "Modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space"

rustyminnow — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:54:39 +0000

Why would I want them hidden? I access files in ~/.config almost daily, I think this is a really good idea

New comment by rustyminnow in "Environment variables are a legacy mess: Let's dive deep into them"

rustyminnow — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 18:13:19 +0000

I think in the context of containers you're right, there's a level of isolation and secrets are probably fine. But I think under other contexts that lack that isolation (e.g. bare-metal processes, local dev tooling) there are extra concerns.

(inb4: container env-vars are isolated from other containers, not from processes on the host system)

New comment by rustyminnow in "I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster"

rustyminnow — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:41:23 +0000

Nobody thought an RPI cluster would ever be competitive, and Geerling never expected anybody would. But it's fun to play "what if" and then make the thing just to see how it stacks up and that's his job. Any implication or suggestion of this being a good idea is just part of the story telling.

New comment by rustyminnow in "Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management"

rustyminnow — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:20:55 +0000

How do you expose the service for your SO when away from home? Do you use tailscale/cloudflare tunnel/vpn? public port on your router? I've been trying tailscale for myself, but there's a hair more friction than my SO would accept.

New comment by rustyminnow in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

rustyminnow — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:48:09 +0000

I don't keep tabs on OP; I just provide hypothetical answers to literal interpretations of rhetorical questions.

New comment by rustyminnow in "Framework Laptop 16"

rustyminnow — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:08:32 +0000

I would be all in on the nub if mine didn't have such terrible drift. Trackpad with top buttons beats any other trackpad though.

New comment by rustyminnow in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

rustyminnow — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:57:57 +0000

If one is a "digital nomad"

New comment by rustyminnow in "Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs"

rustyminnow — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 19:31:07 +0000

:help 'autoread' (I think)

New comment by rustyminnow in "TODOs aren't for doing"

rustyminnow — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:18:59 +0000

What does NB stand for?

Edit: "Nota bene" apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nota_bene

New comment by rustyminnow in "You Are in a Box"

rustyminnow — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:21:17 +0000

A bit off-topic, but in a shell pipeline like that, if you put your pipe chars at the end of the line you don't need backslashes and you can comment out bits of the pipe for devving.

This little change was mind-blowing for me so I always try to share when I can :)

New comment by rustyminnow in "AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why"

rustyminnow — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:03:57 +0000

> You should be rejecting the PR because the fix was insufficient

I mean they probly could've articulated it your way, but I think that's basically what they did... they point out the insufficient "fix" later, but the root cause of the "fix" was blind trust in AI output, so that's the part of the story they lead with.

New comment by rustyminnow in "Does showing seconds in the system tray actually use more power?"

rustyminnow — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 18:15:38 +0000

Not that weird. Idle desktop isolates the effects of the change to get a worst case scenario. Would be interesting to see a light activity test too though - see if you still get a noticeable difference.

New comment by rustyminnow in "Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists"

rustyminnow — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 17:49:56 +0000

If I were someone who ran ChatGPT then yeah, I'd have something to improve. But most of us aren't, and can't do anything about it - so might as well make lemons into lemonade instead of getting hung up on the obvious and unchangeable fact that our future is filled with AI garbage.

New comment by rustyminnow in "Async Queue – One of my favorite programming interview questions"

rustyminnow — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 02:12:58 +0000

Because it was written in ALGOL 60, none of the mainframe devs are willing to touch that code, and the dozen other clients probably depend on the broken functionality.

New comment by rustyminnow in "Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable"

rustyminnow — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 18:14:35 +0000

I see what you mean now. Having owned both kinds (and under-screen), I think they still have a point though - on the back was (slightly) better and I wish they'd come back.

New comment by rustyminnow in "Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable"

rustyminnow — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:43:49 +0000

Who said it has to be on the back? Bro said that's what he prefers over Face ID, maybe just has never had one on the lock button.

New comment by rustyminnow in "The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything"

rustyminnow — Tue, 06 May 2025 21:08:09 +0000

I submitted a patch for an annoying terraform provider once. It took about a week to fix and almost 3 years for them to merge it upstream. I got to learn Go and gained a much more solid understanding of how terraform works. I gained more from undertaking the project than from the actual fix.

> Consider the way you think it should be done is not the only "right" way and you'll open more doors for yourself.

Absolutely.

New comment by rustyminnow in "Don't Be Afraid of Types"

rustyminnow — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 17:57:30 +0000

Sealed interfaces and records allow you to effectively build sum types. Switch expressions with type based pattern matching really streamline certain patterns. Type inferred vars are massively welcome. Streams and lambdas are pretty old by now, but they are much more widely embraced in e.g. frameworks and std libs which is nice.

Independently none of these are game changing, but together they provide much improved ergonomics and can reduce boilerplate. Now if only we had null safe types <3.

New comment by rustyminnow in "Stoicism's appeal to the rich and powerful (2019)"

rustyminnow — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 17:59:38 +0000

> one of the few therapeutic skills that are generally offered to men and that genuinely considers the problems that men face.

These things are not OFFERED to men, they are available for the taking if one is so inclined. Your options do not depend on your gender, but many will reject them as if they do. Therapy? It's not just for sissies. If men are so tough, why do they need society to OFFER solutions to their problems?

New comment by rustyminnow in "Running ArchiveTeam's Warrior in Kubernetes"

rustyminnow — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:53:26 +0000

They say exactly why they want it... "I wanted to reduce write-wear on my ssd"