aquariusDue (u/aquariusDue)

aquariusDue commented on Coding Agent VMs on NixOS with Microvm.nix michael.stapelberg.ch/pos... · Posted by u/secure

Cyph0n · 5 days ago

Keep in mind that this setup is a one-time cost. Also, a lot of the code is related to configuring it the way the author wants it (via Home Manager).

Generally speaking, once you have a working NixOS config, incremental changes become extremely trivial, safe, and easy to rollback.

aquariusDue · 5 days ago

To provide another data point: I too use NixOS and oh boy that one-time is really costly. And while we're sharing Nix stuff for LLMs there's this piece of kit too: https://github.com/YPares/rigup.nix

aquariusDue commented on Why are we still so afraid of using the grumpy old period? nytimes.com/2026/01/15/ma... · Posted by u/samclemens

Hasz · 13 days ago

bah humbug. In the age of LLM edited text, having a distinct style (be it written or spoken) is a breath of fresh air. AI has already ruined the em dash, no need to let it ruin your unique voice, style and cadence.

aquariusDue · 13 days ago

Hear, hear. I used to dislike low effort replies and comments that were written hastily and contained spelling/grammar mistakes, weird turns of phrase or even feeling incomplete like two different thoughts mashed together and presented as they happened to be. Now I just enjoy them, flawed as they are someone bothered to "hand-craft" them.

aquariusDue commented on Tell HN: 2 years building a kids audio app as a solo dev – lessons learned · Posted by u/oliverjanssen

Zigurd · 19 days ago

I'm currently using Flutter for a project. Considering I've been lead author or co-author on a few Android programming books, using a cross platform SDK was new for me. Dart is easy to learn, and Flutter makes attractive UI easy. I love to work on a big ambitious projects that really need platform specific implementations, but for the vast majority of cases a good cross platform SDK works well, and is a cost-efficient approach.

Well, not entirely not entirely a new experience: I had to use Xamarin on Android once because the client wanted a unified code base their existing Windows coders could maintain. It was an appropriate choice for that project, which was a piece of industrial equipment. I would not use Xamarin for mass market or even widely deployed enterprise apps.

aquariusDue · 19 days ago

Same here, I've slept these past few years on Flutter even when someone recommended trying it out and was pretty enthused about it. Last month I got roped in a greenfield project and allowed to chose the stack, instead of the tried and true React Native I went for Flutter and I'm glad I did so.

Also shout-out to flutter_rust_bridge and a video[0] on YouTube from a conference explaining how to fit it in, I get to use Flutter and Dart for the UI parts and everything else in Rust. Another great thing because of Flutter's hot-reload I get to avoid the sucky parts of waiting for Rust code to compile to see UI changes. I've also had good (not great) success getting Gemini 3 Pro to sketch out the initial UI and the boilerplate and that also allowed me to move a bit faster than I would've otherwise.

[0] https://youtu.be/yZ0XHRfU7Ao?si=JQXHS61ycxVSq9GF

aquariusDue commented on STFU github.com/Pankajtanwarba... · Posted by u/tanelpoder

horsawlarway · 24 days ago

I'm one of those people - I find any "in-ear" headphone/earbud to be outrageously uncomfortable.

Great news - there are a TON of alternatives! You're still an asshat if you play loud music without regard for your surroundings.

My personal pick? Get a bone conduction headset (ex: Shokz or cheaper alternative). Comfortable, lightweight, waterproof, you can still hear your surroundings.

aquariusDue · 23 days ago

I've been using a Shokz pair of headphones off and on for around 5 years and while they're great indoors I wouldn't really recommend them outside. Due to the city noise you'll probably tend to crank the volume pretty high (without realizing) and give yourself hearing damage over time.

aquariusDue commented on Indifference is a power (2015) aeon.co/essays/why-stoici... · Posted by u/suioir

parpfish · a month ago

The modern/online resurgence of stoicism isn’t driven by people that have studied actual books.

It’s being driven by people that are making tiktoks after they learned about it by watching a five minute YouTube video. It’s a very lossy game of telephone.

aquariusDue · a month ago

Only because Freud and Jung fell out of fashion, these TikToks are the pop-psychology books of yesteryear.

aquariusDue commented on Indifference is a power (2015) aeon.co/essays/why-stoici... · Posted by u/suioir

prox · a month ago

Reminds of “We belief something first, and then we pick our reasons for it.”

People aren’t really engaging with their philosophy (“love of wisdom”) but pick and choose so it reinforces what they already believe. They don’t exactly think about it they stay mildly glossing some concepts in the popular amateur/ social media sphere.

aquariusDue · a month ago

In some ways I always wonder if this Build-A-Bear thingy we've developed in the last 100 or so years regarding spirituality, morals, principles and all that as an alternative to traditional religious practices isn't just as lame as what it's meant to replace but in its own kind.

I'm not advocating for religious institutions or theocracy, mind you, I'm trying to formulate an argument how someone talking about how living life in accordance to Stoics on YouTube or Christ in a church is more of an aesthetics issue than a virtue one.

Though I feel by the time I successfully formulate that argument I'll have multiple groups clamoring for my head.

aquariusDue commented on Venezuela's interim government says it is united behind Maduro reuters.com/world/us/vene... · Posted by u/SilverElfin

aquariusDue · a month ago

I feel like I've entered some kind of Twilight Zone. On one hand saying I don't like the Trump Administration would be an understatement but on the other hand from what I understand the president of Venezuela is a dictator who ate on TV while his people starved[0] a few years ago.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/26/nicolas-maduro...

aquariusDue commented on Is Proton leaving Switzerland? techradar.com/vpn/vpn-pri... · Posted by u/_tk_

aquariusDue · 2 months ago

I always believed stuff like Proton and Tutanota to pander to individuals who cared about privacy but who fell ultimately to their shiny marketing campaigns.

Anyway most people would be better served when disavowing any notion that email is secure or that VPN services operated by companies (as opposed to ones you control) are good for anything other than bypassing region locks.

aquariusDue commented on Laying out the 404 Media zine tedium.co/2025/12/10/404-... · Posted by u/robenkleene

lionkor · 2 months ago

Lutris is so fantastic, if anyone here is on Linux and needs wine, try Lutris. It puts each app in its own wine prefix, its just nice to use.

aquariusDue · 2 months ago

I don't know why but I could never get it to work properly and had more success with the Bottles flatpak instead. I should really check out a tutorial for Lutris because people are always praising it and I feel it's more of a me problem that I can't get it to work.

aquariusDue commented on Show HN: Sim – Apache-2.0 n8n alternative github.com/simstudioai/si... · Posted by u/waleedlatif1

malcolmgreaves · 2 months ago

What does “n8n” stand for? I’m assuming it’s a shortening of a longer word, like k8s.

aquariusDue · 2 months ago

I've been pronouncing it as "nanites" in my head since the first time I've seen it. Dunno why and now I feel just a tiny silly, though I still prefer my pronunciation.

Needless to say I never had to actually say "n8n".