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Although it's not its main topic, I enjoyed Ian Morris' Why the West Rules—For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future, which goes over this in a way that really fascinated me. The book's ideas seem contested but as a layman it was a great tour of many years of humanity.
They hardly refused to talk. See them answering his questions in the full video of the call, if you can still stomach him talking. There was an awkward silence in the middle.
Even so, it's not good to spin this event into something it isn't. The video is misleading and I felt manipulated by it.
As a kid in the 90s I discovered indoor free flight(1). It's a hobby where you build flying machines with balsa wood and carburator paper, and you power them with elastic bands using an old clock mechanism. Then people compete to see which airplane flights for the longest time, some flying for over 30 minutes!
This was magical to me. My "mentor" was able to build tiny butterfly-like contraptions with four flapping wings, and many other flying machines of different kinds.
Maybe this is interesting to your family as well!
I just launched Kyaraben, it's an alternative to EmuDeck that autoconfigures Syncthing for your devices.
For those not in in that niche, the goal is to set up a Linux desktop or Steam Deck for retro (and not so retro) video game emulation, so you just drop in your ROMs, open a frontend via Steam, and play your games.
https://fnune.com My blog. It's not in great shape.
https://fnune.com/waza A site I made to properly learn judo vocabulary in a way that builds up from basic concepts to form more and more complex technique names.
NixOS rocks, but if there is some software you need to install to comply with company policies (e.g. Vanta) then you may be in for some unexpected tinkering.
I would suggest Home Manager though, which will let you set up your environment just as well and is very portable, while still affording you a mainstream host system of the company's choice.
Made me think of my own insistence on relying on the existence of RCTs for a lot of things related to health...
The website could mention that. Since I did not discover this website's affiliation with OpenAI until I found the GitHub repo, I had assumed that this is purely an informative website, and as such I expected it to mention the agent tool most people I know use (Claude). Even if that mention is "Claude does not support this yet".
This seems much more insightful than the website in the OP. Thanks!
Interestingly, the old one mentioned CLAUDE.md and ln -s, but the new one does not. The whole website is just a marketing/partnerships battle, it seems.
Strange website. It is made by OpenAI. I suppose they are doing this to gain visits and as marketing positioning?
There is no format here, just a filename.
Also, Anthropic/Claude is a glaring omission. I suppose people can use symbolic links if they want to and point CLAUDE.md at AGENTS.md.
- add todo.txt to global gitignoreAuthor here, posting a self-review.
I've realized most of my blog post is not really about NixOS, it's just about this particular TUXEDO laptop requiring special tweaks to work properly. I've set up Debian 13 with Nix (plus Home Manager) in a VM to try it out and have realized that on the real laptop I would need to perform the same tweaks: install special drivers, install the TUXEDO Control Center (albeit using a supported .deb), and add those same kernel params. The only "care-free" option would be using TUXEDO OS, which I could explore. I've run NixOS on e.g. an AMD ThinkPad T14 and it was seamless, with no tweaks needed.
I suppose using something other than NixOS would indeed make some things easier (in my case Vanta, `pinentry` programs, Playwright and Cypress) and would perhaps let me live a more hands-off experience. I currently run `nix flake update` on my system way too often... but other than that, NixOS is not really getting in the way, at least as far as using this laptop goes.
A while ago I made a fortune database that draws from Marcus Aurelius's Meditations. I used to have a tmux pane that ran them on my work session boot script :)
The Snowman (1982), a short Christmas animated film. I'm not sure it counts as silent, but it's a great piece of art nevertheless.
As a long-time GNOME user, thank you for making this wonderful compilation, and for all the detail.
Oh my, I did almost exactly the same when I was 8, but mine was about dinosaurs :)
Check out Nix's plasma-manager.
Can it be database-agnostic and 100% expressive at the same time? Perhaps expressiveness is different depending on the engine.
SQLx comes close to this btw.
I bought a Biostar J4125NHU motherboard and put it in a small case with two 2.5 HDDs and two SSDs and am using it to download shows and movies from a Usenet provider and stream them with Jellyfin.
The motherboard was a huge pain to work with, and I had to return two (!) units; I made the third one work. The first two would not boot in the same configuration.
I set up the box with NixOS. Here is its flake: https://github.com/fnune/bilbo
The NixOS experience was fun!
I made a fortune database from Marcus Aurelius's Meditations. You can go "fortune /path/to/meditations" and get a random paragraph from the book. But you need to build it first.
Totally off-topic, but while reading this I was thinking "that is exactly what I would say". Then I saw your username... it looks like we share not only a taste for monitors but also a surname!
Ever since discovering Sabine's channel I have been a big fan of her videos and have binge-watched a lot of the content.
Sabine provides content on physics as well as a scientific view ongoing social matters.
I hope you'll enjoy the channel, too!
From Marcus Aurelius's Meditations:
Mortal man, you have lived as a citizen in this great city. What matter if that life is five or fifty ears? The laws of the city apply equally to all. So what is there to fear in your dismissal from the city? This is no tyrant or corrupt judge who dismisses you, but the very same nature that brought you in. It is like the officer who engaged a comic actor dismissing him from the stage. 'But I have not played my five acts, only three.' 'True, but in life three acts can be the whole play.' Completion is determined by that being who caused first your composition and now your dissolution. You have no part in either causation. Go then in peace: the god who lets you go is at peace with you.
Related reads are Seneca's On The Shortness Of Life (appropriately only about 100 pages) and maybe also Marcus Aurelius's Meditations.
These are recommendations from a philosophy newbie.
I had a suspicion that this was Mac-only from the looks of the site and docs, but after some clicks I gave up trying to find out; reading comments on HackerNews was faster.
Can you buy the domain and redirect them?
The maintainer can be blunt at times but from that to saying he's a "dbag"... there's a stretch.
In my opinion he's one of the most expedient OSS maintainers I've seen, and has a great deal of patience with entitled users who expect him to basically do free work for them.
Please don't listen to this comment and do consider contributing.
Oh, sweet! It looks like it's not out yet in Germany. You can get the Omnipod Dash here. It does look like it's going to be available soon, though. Will keep an eye out, thanks for the tip!
I've been following the press about closed loop artificial pancreases closely, too. Currently, the open-source solutions there are require using insulin pumps that are pretty big and for some, that's not a choice they're ready to make. I too hope this tech continues to advance quickly.