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brotherjerky commented on Greenland is a beautiful nightmare   matduggan.com/greenland-i... · Posted by u/zdw
grilledchickenw · 5 months ago
You just described wonderfully why I'm drawn to remote places. It started with a trip to the interior of Iceland, then Tromsø, and more recently Svalbard and the Faroes.

I tried to capture the beautiful sense of isolation in Svalbard here, maybe it inspires others to make a trip to somewhere remote. https://photoblog.nk412.com/Svalbard2024/n-ssC8fP/Svalminiph...

brotherjerky · 5 months ago
Poked around your site and enjoyed it, please post more
brotherjerky commented on Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs   github.com/manzaltu/claud... · Posted by u/kgwgk
brotherjerky · 7 months ago
Anyone have good results with something similar for Neovim?
brotherjerky commented on *@gmail.com   xkcd.com/2822/... · Posted by u/ufjfjjfjfj
dinkleberg · 3 years ago
I’ve got firstname.lastname@gmail.com and apparently someone with my same name believes they have the address with no dot, as they keep signing up for services like Facebook with it and sharing it with their friends who email me.

It is quite the odd situation. I reply to their friends saying they have the wrong email, but they don’t seem to believe me. And they keep signing up for things despite presumably never being able to actually access many of these services that require email verification.

My guess is it is someone not very computer literate. But it is always amusing.

brotherjerky · 3 years ago
I have my last name at Gmail, and the number of people who think it's their email is absurd
brotherjerky commented on Neovim 0.9   github.com/neovim/neovim/... · Posted by u/eugene_pirogov
kzrdude · 3 years ago
How do you all install neovim on Linux? The .deb is gone with this release, which I think was the most orderly way to fit into my install. I think I'll want to find a PPA solution now. I am not a fan of installs that are not reversible.
brotherjerky · 3 years ago
We are stuck with the app images now it seems
brotherjerky commented on The Portuguese can no longer afford to live in Portugal   medium.com/the-portuguese... · Posted by u/nateb2022
marcodiego · 4 years ago
For people asking about the salary: yes it is per month. Also compare it to Brazilian reality: median programmer salary here is, according to a quick google search: "The estimated salary for a computer programmer is $62,420 per year in Brazil, IN.", which comes to around 10-12K euros a year. My experience when I was a developer is really around that value. Getting 1.6K euros a month is a VERY good initial salary in Brazil, specially if you live in low cost of living areas like Northeastern backlands.
brotherjerky · 4 years ago
> The estimated salary for a computer programmer is $62,420 per year in Brazil, IN

Uh, this is almost certainly data for the US city of Brazil, Indiana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil,_Indiana -- not the country of Brazil

brotherjerky commented on My experience with NixOS   blog.patchgirl.io/nixos/2... · Posted by u/matsutsu
therein · 6 years ago
I made the switch from Arch about a week ago. So far, great experience. I love the fact that my system state is reproducible and if I use version control on my dotfiles, I basically have a full backup of the look and feel of my workstation. VFIO with GPU passthrough works flawlessly. Setting up FDE with LUKS during and after the install was a breeze as well. Really enjoyed the whole experience.

Being able to switch between wildly different possible system configurations like xorg+i3 and wayland+sway by executing a few commands and having version control while doing so is incredible.

However one thing I'm struggling with now is "overlays". Simply trying to get "electrum" to install but nixpkgs has 3.3.8, I am looking to build 4.0.0a from HEAD of master. This should be simple to do with something like overlaying this portion from file electrum/default.nix [0]

  src = fetchurl {
    url = "https://download.electrum.org/${version}/Electrum-${version}.tar.gz";
    sha256 = "1g00cj1pmckd4xis8r032wmraiv3vd3zc803hnyxa2bnhj8z3bg2";
  };
with something like:

  fetchFromGitHub {
    owner = "spesmilo";
    repo = "electrum";
    sha256 = "LATESTHASH";
  };
But for the life of me, I can't figure out how to do this overlay stuff. ( In fact I'd appreciate any help on this otherwise at this point I'm even jokingly considering an Arch container :) )

Python, NodeJS and Ruby development might also be slightly frustrating if you are used to installing things globally.

[0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio...

brotherjerky · 6 years ago
Can you share the passthrough setup?
brotherjerky commented on Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?    · Posted by u/geff82
dfee · 7 years ago
> Conventional spreadsheets used on-screen cells to store all data, formulas, and notes. Improv separated these concepts and used the cells only for input and output data. Formulas, macros and other objects existed outside the cells, to simplify editing and reduce errors. Improv used named ranges for all formulas, as opposed to cell addresses.

Amazing.

brotherjerky · 7 years ago
Sounds very similar to how Coda works: https://coda.io
brotherjerky commented on New York’s Elevators Define the City (2016)   fivethirtyeight.com/featu... · Posted by u/Osiris30
Retric · 8 years ago
I suspect Americans travel approximately as many if not more floors in elevators than stairs, making a direct comparison more meaningful. Sure, you can slice it by trips or time, but stairs still kill a lot of people each year.

EX: NYC has 8.5 million people who probably average 50+ flights a day in elevators. People may travel up and down stairs more frequently, but few people are traveling anywhere near that far.

brotherjerky · 8 years ago
> NYC has 8.5 million people who probably average 50+ flights a day in elevators

This is hard to believe

brotherjerky commented on Unpatched routers being used to build vast proxy army, spy on networks   arstechnica.com/informati... · Posted by u/rbanffy
brotherjerky · 8 years ago
After the last one of these articles, I finally flashed my router with OpenWRT, and it's been pretty nice so far. Best feature: Installed `adblock` package, and now I get DNS-level ad blocking, which is simply fantastic. Works on all clients (including mobile) and significantly faster than blocking in browser.

u/brotherjerky

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