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New comment by taude in "It's getting harder to focus every day"

taude — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:31:00 +0000

Funny enough. I never smoked, but I often went and hung out in smoking sections outside our work office. I really enjoyed how open smokers were to just random conversations, and the quick 10 minutes of not looking at the screen were typically energizing. Almost like a natural pomodoro work schedule that forced up out of our desks, and then out of our offices.

New comment by taude in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

taude — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:27:27 +0000

When i was in college, we wrote a lot of C code in those blue notebooks. And this is a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, which is probably why I don't totally didn't hate whiteboard coding tests. And when I'm trying to work with a new programming language or tool, I'm usually writing things out by hand (helps with the memory, like the article referenced).

New comment by taude in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

taude — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:00:49 +0000

i've actually had marketed to me on the socials a course on "transcribing" professional writers demonstrating various angles of the craft. I'm sure the course was vibed or something. Pretty easy to identify authors you like, and whose dialog snaps, whose descriptions you identify with, whose doing great character development, etc. And then transcribe them....

EDIT: maybe the term I was looking for is: copywork?

New comment by taude in "Back to Kagi"

taude — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:21:14 +0000

Also, Google isn't scraping your data....

New comment by taude in "Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns"

taude — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:37:23 +0000

The Tour De France had one a long time ago, writing chalk signage on the roads [1]. I had to search for the YouTube video about it....

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khffa2GkvPE

New comment by taude in "The death and rebirth of my home server"

taude — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:43:33 +0000

If i'm reading this correctly, can run Immich from a Raspberry Pi 4? That's pretty cool.

I bought all the stuff (new case, networking card and a Jonsbro N4 to repurpose some intel i7-9700 era processor and motherboard, but didn't get it setup yet, as I was starting to rethink the power consumption....

Also looking to use this rebuild as an opportunity to learn Nix.

Let me know if you all have some good article references, to point me at. I've been doing some research, but could always do more.

I may end up putting a low power NUC in the case, or something. I don't know...

New comment by taude in "Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels"

taude — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:20:16 +0000

I remember collecting original Shatter when it came out. The big novelty was that it was 100% created on a computer. Pixels and all in the output.

New comment by taude in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

taude — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:14:07 +0000

it said in the original article on the bun rewrite ~165K.

New comment by taude in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

taude — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:35:24 +0000

Everyone is deluding themselves if they think their enterprise privacy contracts with these frontier model companies (especially in CA) aren't reading and processing their private data

New comment by taude in "A love letter to flashcards"

taude — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:32:00 +0000

I do a really lightweight version of flash cards. Everytime I'm learning a new tool or tech, I grab oversized notecards (my favorite are 8x5" dot-grid cards). I put a label at the top, and create bullet points of each item i want to remember. I then review. No individual cards for each item or anything. Just all the things grouped on one card as bullet points.

For example, I'll have a `sqlite` card, and put all the commands and everything on it, as I learn them. I'll use it as a cheatsheet, but then also a few minutes of mindful review. This for the toolings that I want to know well enough to not get slowed down googling the commands. I do this for a lot of CLI tools, but also things I need to remember about the business of my company and working across group, etc....

Eventually the five or six working cards I have, get put on a pile and new ones come in.....

New comment by taude in "30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format"

taude — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:36:27 +0000

at least you haven't optimized a workflow to convert the page to markdown file, download locally into some folder that you watched 30 youtube videos on how to organize your knowledge graph....to never read later, or to burn 10s of Ks of tokens to build into karpathy wiki knowledge tree....

New comment by taude in "How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)"

taude — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:09:15 +0000

This is what I'm hoping to do. I haven't done much research yet, so I look forward to reading about your learnings. (Also to the person who responded to you with their experience and link.)

Thanks for saving me probably some hours...

EDIT: I'm also coming from an old Synology NAS from the ~2015 era.

New comment by taude in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

taude — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:58:14 +0000

I shift a 1 GB electron app to a 900 MB browser tab (i don't know what it actually is, but the number of Tabs I have taking up 1 GB memory is shocking these days).

Trying to vibe as many of my own CLI toolings as possible....

New comment by taude in "Google hallucinated that I am sponsored by Ground News"

taude — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:43:42 +0000

My favorite google hallucination was that the famous jazz bass player, Jaco Pastorious, who passed away in the mid-80s, was the bassist for Metallica. I have a screen shot of that one around....

New comment by taude in ""Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds"

taude — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:34:58 +0000

Not real work. It's an amazing couch laptop, though. I do have a full CLI tooling pipeline setup, though. I mostly read, research, and write on it. Chrome tabs galore open, Obsidian, etc...

It's pretty amazing at the price point. Thought last year the M4 Airs were on sale for $749 -- I'm doubtful we'll see that price again on those....

New comment by taude in ""Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds"

taude — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:31:13 +0000

I'm on a NEO right now, my Chrome has like 25 tabs open. Doom Emacs running in terminal, Obsidian open, Apple Music, Apple NOtes, etc. I have a lot open...

AND I'm not seeing this issue. What am I missing?

I'm on 26.4.

:shrugs:

EDIT: I guess I wait to update and install the latest version? Maybe the linked page could have stated there's a new regression in newer MacOS versions that introduced this?

New comment by taude in "Show HN: Lowfat – pluggable CLI filter that saved 91.8% of my LLM tokens"

taude — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:46:22 +0000

I don't think frontier model providers are going to be incentivized to invest in this much, yet. Once inference gets more competitive, sure. I haven't looked lately, but won't be surprised if tools like OpenCode do do what you're suggesting, though. Third-party coding harnesses ARE aligned to deliver this type of feature and optimization.

New comment by taude in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

taude — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:10:26 +0000

Thanks. I've added

New comment by taude in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

taude — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:36:43 +0000

Did everyone like this Stephensen in this thread? I read Cryptonomicon and Seveneves, mostly. They slogged for me a bit. But I love what he writes about, so willing to try another one (even if he doesn't have an editor). It sounds like this could be topical 2027 read. I have a long summer ahead of me.

New comment by taude in "ESP32-S31"

taude — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:21:11 +0000

I need the equivalent of Claude Code, but for hardware projects, so I can actually do all the projects I envision with the EPS32s.

Something that combines: 3d printing; auto procurement of parts; custom software writing; maybe a robot arms or something, all in a nice box on my desk that I feed parts into like a mail slot. PROFIT.