cbushko

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Comment · 4 months ago

Crosspoint is very popular and very easy to flash onto the device.

Locking and preventing flashing of firmware only happened in China.

Comment · 4 months ago

I picked the X4 over X3 because the usb-c is convenient for charging (which you barely need to do)

I love it and use it every day.

Comment · 7 months ago

This article makes the assumption that Bob was doing absolutely nothing, maybe at the Pub with this friends, while the AI did all his work.

How do we know that while the AI was writing python scripts that Bob wasn't reading more papers, getting more data and just overall doing more than Alice.

Maybe Bob is terrible at debugging python scripts while Alice is a pro at it?

Maybe Bob used his time to develop different skills that Alice couldn't dream of?

Maybe Bob will discover new techniques or ideas because he didn't follow the traditional research path that the established Researchers insist you follow?

Maybe Bob used the AI to learn even more because he had a customized tutor at his disposal?

Or maybe Bob just spent more time at the Pub with his friends.

Comment · 8 months ago

All of those terminals work for you now because someone went and added terminfo to ncurses which distributed it across all versions of linux.

Kitty needed to do it too back in 2018.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2018-09/msg00...

Note: Ghostty follows the same pattern as Kitty where they a) use their own terminfo, b) distribute it when ssh'ing (it gets pushed to the remote server) and c) added it to ncurses so that it will eventually go away.

Comment · 1 year ago

| In the linked speed demo one command was 8 milliseconds faster than another. Ok?

For day to day, ls'ing files that speed up won't matter too much. It is when you are tailing logs or working with multi-gig files that it matters.

Comment · 1 year ago

I think you've done an excellent job running the community for Ghostty and it is a prime example of how to do it right. From the Discord to Github repos you've been a class act all the way through and have pushed folks to be good, civil internet denizens. Much respect.

If anyone cares to search through Github, they will see loads and loads of Issues and PRs created by Mitchell in many of the related Open Source projects that Ghostty uses/references. From zig to kitty to supporting libraries, Mitchell has been trying to get the terminal community working together and have some sort of standards. A lot of them are like "X does this, Y does that, why are you doing it this way? Can we all do it this way?" and then having Ghostty follow the most reasonable solution (or supporting several!).

Comment · 2 years ago

Tailscale ssh is very useful when away from your home network. Setup was pretty easy and the only 'gotcha' that I found was you cannot assign ssh to a mac machine if you are using the gui app. No worries though as it was easy to get tailscaled running with nix-darwin.

I am often away from my home network and my main gaming machine is asleep. I worked around this by installing tailscale + tailscale ssh on my router (yes you can to this!) and using it to send a wake-on-lan packet to my gaming machine.

Some useful fzf code for anyone that wants to get a listing of tailssh machines.

  tailscale status --json | jq -r '
    .Peer[] |
    select(.Tags?[]? | contains("tag:dev")) |
    "\(.DNSName)"' |
          sed 's/\.$//' |
          fzf --ansi --border-label="| Tailscale SSH Hosts |" --height=30% --  border=rounded \
              --margin=2,2,2,2 --prompt "Connect to: " --preview-window=top:40% \
              --bind "j:down,k:up,ctrl-j:preview-down,ctrl-k:preview-up,ctrl-f:preview-page-down,ctrl-b:preview-page-up"

Comment · 3 years ago

I am 47 and I am the best I have ever been. I might code slower than people 20 years younger than me but I produce much much better code than they do.

There is definitely ageism out there. What you don't get in velocity, I make up in quality.

Also, I think I am wise enough to know that I know nothing and there is still a heck of a lot to learn!

Comment · 3 years ago

I've used everything. Windows for gaming/work, linux for prod/home and now Mac for work/play. I use docker every day and it's performance on Intel Mac used to be pretty terrible.

Until the M1 came out. It hands down beats every machine I have ever owned. I have an M1 Air, no fan, 10hr battery life, tiny package. It is amazing hardware. Docker is fast on it. Not linux fast but fast enough to always be running a dozen containers.

I find the recommendations saying that 'the software on mac is terrible' to not be the case for me. Sure, I am not running a fancy Wayland/sway tiled setup but the MacOS desktop is not THAT bad; at least it is not Windows.

I mostly use open source software every day. Alacritty (terminal), neovim (IDE), zsh (shell), firefox (browser), obsidian (docs). Spotify, slack and zoom are pretty much the only applications that are not open source.

I use dotfiles and use brew/brewfile to install packages. Brew has problems but apt/yum/etc have problems too. If you really want to keep things clean then you can use Nix on Mac if you wish.

And the Apple ecosystem? It just works and that is all I really care about. I put in my airpods and they can connect to all my devices. If I need to share files I can just air drop them to whatever device I want or just let them sync with iCloud.

I don't have time to fight with technology as I want to spend that time building things or hanging out with the family.

I think Asahi linux on M1/M2 laptops will be pretty amazing in the next year and you can have the best of both worlds.

Comment · 3 years ago

I disabled the checker on startup because that dialog was annoying me.

In /config/lazy.lua:

  checker = { enabled = false }, -- automatically check for plugin updates

I've never had a problem with the things you mentioned but the notifications are using either noice or notify. I think the submenu is <leader>sna

Comment · 3 years ago

There are a couple things:

- Most distros seem to like wrapping functionality and having you use their own convenience functions to get things done. For example, for AstroVim, astrovim.<function> is all over their config files. This is fine if you were a distro developer and you were trying to make things easy for yourself but I do not find it easier for the user when neovim already has simple lua based functions. It is another barrier to entry as you have to learn how the distro authors put things together. - The config for LazyVim is will thought out. For example, it has 2 directories: /config & /plugins. That makes it simple to figure out where things should go. keymaps go in keymaps.lua, options go in options.lua... it kind of makes sense. - The plugin config for disabling a builtin plugin is the same as where you would configure your own plugins. It is literally:

  return {
    { "github/plugin.nvim", enabled = false },
  }

  return {
    { "github/myplugin.nvim", {config here if you want}},
  }

- There are no weird plugin loaders and most examples you see from plugin authors are copy/paste into that bracket section. - The LazyVim website is decent. Not perfect though. https://www.lazyvim.org/ - The starter is a great place to start your setup. https://github.com/LazyVim/starter - The plugin manager, lazy.nvim, seems to be a lot simpler and well thought out compared to others plugin managers (like packer). It has autoloading, caching, a UI, etc. - Folke, the distro creator, has written many popular plugins and knows quite a bit when it comes to configuring plugins. That seems to be paying off in the design.

To be fair, there are some design decisions that I don't agree with when it comes to the LazyVim layout itself. Putting everything in editor.lua or ui.lua instead of per-plugin config is not how I would have done it. It was pretty easy to figure out where the plugin settings were though because they match the categories on the website.

Note: I mainly switched to Neovim as I am find that there just seems to be much more development in the ecosystem and the number of amazing plugins coming out is staggering.

Comment · 3 years ago

Please help the community and make sure that these issues are documented in Github/whatever issue tracker.

Or if you have the skills please contribute back and fixes these things that bug you!

Comment · 3 years ago

That is too bad. If they did then they would probably garner huge community support and the gaps would be quickly filled in.

Comment · 3 years ago

I have played with helix and I do like how it comes with everything out of the box. Helix is doing great things but it isn't there yet.

I can customize Neovim the way I want and the plugin ecosystem is huge. Maybe when Helix gets there it will be worth the switch.

p.s. kakoune style of modal editing makes so much sense and I wish vim had started out like that.

Comment · 3 years ago

I've re-built my neovim config like 3 times this year as I have played with several 'distributions' and styles. SpaceVim, LunarVim, AstroVim, and NVChad to name a few.

This last weekend I gave LazyVim a try and it is by far the most sane config setup I have used and I will now be sticking with it.

There is a starter repo where you clone it, delete the .git directory and start customizing.

https://github.com/LazyVim/LazyVim My config is here, feel free to copy/steal it. https://github.com/curtbushko/nvim