ernesto905

Something that's been working for me the last few weeks is turning off all cookies on the safari browser. That, plus no addictive apps seems a solid combo. I've been pleasantly surprised by how few sites break, and how effectively all social medias lose their flavor.

An end to crunch

I was unaware of the crunch concept:

"In the video game industry, crunch (or crunch culture) is compulsory overtime during the development of a game. Crunch is common in the industry and can lead to work weeks of 65–80 hours for extended periods of time, often uncompensated beyond the normal working hours" -- wikipedia

Needless to say this seems extremely predatory.

From the administration's perspective, why was this a good idea? I'm scouring the web but I'm struggling to find a steel-man. My best guess is that this is to control where the research dollars go which I'll summarize below, but wondering if anyone has better ideas.

From what I've read it seems the administration is very anti-social sciences, and very pro nuclear, AI, quantum. Thought from what I can tell most of the funding already goes to the hard sciences [1]. There were cuts proposed over the last few months but they were shut down by congress [2]. I suppose by cutting off the head of the org it's an easier fight to cut funding FY2027?

[1] https://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/all

[2] https://www.aps.org/apsnews/2026/04/nsf-lags-trump-proposes-...

when all hope is lost in conversation, retreat into your self

This speaks to me quite a bit, particularly around unfalsifiable topics I'll have with friends/family, such as theology. If we define hope as the idea they'll change their mind and agree with me, seems not much one can do but retreat into themself, right? I suppose I can sympathize with their sentiment before I retreat into myself, but taking this bullet point at face value I'm unsure how to make this a pro-social experience :/

Red herring?

Reading and blogging. I'm early career and trying to transition into a performance engineering-esque role. So, I'm spending a lot more time writing to learn, particularly about OS under-the-hood stuff and observability best practices.

Wow, this is a lot of great info/sources. I can't thank you enough! I think I'm sold, honestly. I've been looking for an excuse to ditch my laptop's quasi-vestigial Windows partition. I dualboot for once a blue moon gaming, since I'm also on Wayland and neither games nor electron apps play nice.

I think for part 2 the move will be to overwrite the Windows partition on the laptop with Catchy and go from there. I'm excited to see the outcome.

Before AI, both camps were doing the same thing every day. Writing code by hand. Using the same editors, the same languages

Throughout college I would see a pretty stark divide, where most people would use vscode on mac or on Windows + WSL. But there was a small minority who would spend alot of time 'tinkering' (e.g, experiment with OS like nix/gentoo, or tweaking their dev environment). Maybe i'm misunderstanding what a 'craft lover' means here but it seemed to me, at the time, that the latter camp had more technical depth just based on conversation. Can't speak to the result in terms of test scores. Though it would be interesting to see any data on that if it exists.

Trying Openj9 is a great idea, I'm curious how it will stack up against Hotspot for this use case.

I haven't personally tried CatchyOs (if you're actively using it I'd love to hear what you think about it). Though I figure I'll eventually have to try fiddling with the scheduler, so i'll look into it. Thank you for your response!

Hi HN! This is my first post, hope you find it interesting. If you have any ideas on how to get more squeeze out of my setup I'm all ears!

Thanks for stopping by!