Hacker News: uncletaco

New comment by uncletaco in "Why I love NixOS"

uncletaco — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:42:55 +0000

No there’s a nerd who will obsessively submit the latest version of any popular software that does that to nixpkgs. Or suggest you use the flatpak.

New comment by uncletaco in "Two Years of Emacs Solo"

uncletaco — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:30:04 +0000

It’s interesting how your comment did not talk about anything that’s unique to emacs.

New comment by uncletaco in "Altman on AI energy: it also takes 20 years of eating food to train a human"

uncletaco — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:17:09 +0000

It really sucks that everyone’s go to dystopia is 1984. Especially in this case given 1984 required the active participation of millions of citizens whereas Brave New World maps better where control is enforced through comfort and irrelevance instead of force.

The tech dystopia doesn’t even try to flatter us by assuming we’re important enough to oppress individually.

New comment by uncletaco in "Bazzite Post-Mortem"

uncletaco — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:21:19 +0000

Why? Because some guy was pushed out of the friend group?

New comment by uncletaco in "Bazzite Post-Mortem"

uncletaco — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:10:55 +0000

Very nice of Bazzite to adopt Drama Tuesday. They are true gamers.

New comment by uncletaco in "Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User"

uncletaco — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:27:02 +0000

Guix on servers is ok. I run Guix in my homelab.

The vast majority of what you’d want in a Guix server can be found in the services section and parts of the documentation that lay out how to build services. But it doesn’t have as many services available as nix.

New comment by uncletaco in "The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar"

uncletaco — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:25:34 +0000

> History will probably remember him as LTT, “Linus The Torvalds”

This is trolling right?

New comment by uncletaco in "French Court Orders Popular VPNs to Block More Pirate Sites, Despite Opposition"

uncletaco — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:22:56 +0000

It’s not about circumventing the bans, it’s about the bans being in place to begin with.

New comment by uncletaco in "French Court Orders Popular VPNs to Block More Pirate Sites, Despite Opposition"

uncletaco — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:33:00 +0000

Hi. You cannot log on to porn sites in Alabama which is subject to those documents. I think it’s crazy that you’re this naive.

New comment by uncletaco in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

uncletaco — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:11:40 +0000

I don't know much about car economics but I'd think Tesla probably should have built a truck to sell as a fleet vehicle first. There are very few car brands that aren't part of a larger entity doing b2b vehicle sales.

New comment by uncletaco in "ChatGPT Health"

uncletaco — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:09:03 +0000

They’re not saying you’re crazy they’re saying you may be helplessly incompetent when it comes to interpreting social data. You probably aren’t a good reader either if crazy was your takeaway.

New comment by uncletaco in "Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern""

uncletaco — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:45:15 +0000

Grok 4.1 told me my writing surpassed the authors I cited as influence.

New comment by uncletaco in "Writing a good Claude.md"

uncletaco — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:41:18 +0000

Honestly I’d rather google get their gemini tool in better shape. I know for a fact it doesn’t ignore instructions like Claude code does but it is horrible at editing files.

New comment by uncletaco in "Writing a good Claude.md"

uncletaco — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:38:43 +0000

I’m pretty sure Claude would not work well in my code base if I hadn’t meticulously added docstrings, type hints, and module level documentation. Even if you’re stubbing out code for later implementation, it helps to go ahead and document it so that a code assistant will get a hint of what to do next.

New comment by uncletaco in "Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming"

uncletaco — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:44:53 +0000

Weird question probably but outside of the super esoteric distros running a bespoke package manager what stops someone who installs a distro like bazzite from just continuing to update packages? If they use apt for example then they'll still get updates when the repos are updated and most of these distros reuse existing software repositories.

New comment by uncletaco in "Steam Machine"

uncletaco — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:09:54 +0000

Even if they are, Valve has a long track record of contributing back to open source projects.

New comment by uncletaco in "Claude Memory"

uncletaco — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:42:34 +0000

You’re asking ChatGPT for advice to stop drone attacks? Does that mean people die if it hallucinates a wrong answer and that isn’t caught?

New comment by uncletaco in "Getting syntax highlighting wrong"

uncletaco — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 20:27:51 +0000

I have used Tao theme in Emacs along with rainbow identifiers for over a decade now (on light mode) and I personally prefer a less colorful palette on my text editor. Makes a nice contrast with my eboy tokyo/San Francisco backgrounds which I also love dearly.

New comment by uncletaco in "Dgsh – Directed graph shell"

uncletaco — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:10:20 +0000

Hello. In English this makes me think of the phrase “dog shit”. Not sure if that’s intentional or not.

New comment by uncletaco in "The American Nations regions across North America"

uncletaco — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 21:29:16 +0000

Yeah, you're always gonna have those.

I was just saying two middle class families living a thousand miles away from each other along I-40 were fairly similar to me. They are also considered in the same nation according to this map.

The only part of this map I'd quibble with based on personal experience is Birmingham, AL (and Jefferson County) is definitely in that same Greater Appalachia nation because I can't in my heart of hearts say it and Dothan, AL have anything in common. The most interesting thing in Dothan is a hardware store.