herewulf (u/herewulf)

herewulf commented on The use of LLM assistants for kernel development lwn.net/Articles/1032612/... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

mhh__ · 2 days ago

Replace "LLM" with "C".

Runs

herewulf · 2 days ago

I'd rather replace both with Rust, please.

herewulf commented on My other email client is a daemon feyor.sh/blog/my-other-em... · Posted by u/aebtebeten

throwaway201606 · 4 days ago

Me: let's watch the animation to see this in action ...

sees: "an uncursed food ration"

This is wild; I gotta start playing text based games.

herewulf · 3 days ago

I recommend trying Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup also. The devs are constantly refining the game to increase the fun factor and aren't afraid of removing decades old features to do it. E.g.: In more recent versions there is no food hence you cannot starve to death (a questionable game mechanic in a type of game lacking any real "economy").

https://crawl.develz.org

herewulf commented on My other email client is a daemon feyor.sh/blog/my-other-em... · Posted by u/aebtebeten

pluto_modadic · 4 days ago

then you get into makefile escape hell (similar to yaml hell)

herewulf · 3 days ago

The 21st century way might be some combination of watchexec[1] and just[2] but you can't assume the availability of these tools.

You can almost assume the availability of make but a lot of distros (hello, Ubuntu) omit basic build tools.

Admittedly I used an LLM recently to write me a Makefile because my brain doesn't have the capacity to remember all make's idiosyncrasies every few years that I touch a Makefile. Once the file is done, it's done, and it was easy to pare down from the verbosity that the LLM coughed up.

I also wanted targets for intermediate build files (long story) so that would have required excessive poring over the man page.

[1]: https://github.com/kurtbuilds/checkexec [2]: https://github.com/casey/just

herewulf commented on My other email client is a daemon feyor.sh/blog/my-other-em... · Posted by u/aebtebeten

snickerbockers · 4 days ago

That's awesome. I wish more games would come up with creative ways to integrate "IRL" into their in-game environment.

This reminds me of the Wii U port of Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. During the Wii U/3DS era nintendo had their own social network called miiverse, which was functionally identical to twitter but games could access and post messages to your miiverse account. Wind Waker's integration was to let you scribble down a miiverse post onto a sheet of paper (via the Wii U's touchscreen) and Link would roll it up and shove it into a bottle then throw it out to sea. It would then wash up on a beach in somebody else's game and you likewise would find other peoples' miiverse-in-a-bottle posts scattered all over the beaches of hyrule.

herewulf · 3 days ago

The Civilization series absolutely needs mail integration..

"Are you sure you want to play one more turn? You have 8,371 unread messages."

(Full disclosure: That's the current unread message count for my wife's inbox, NOT mine ;) )

herewulf commented on My other email client is a daemon feyor.sh/blog/my-other-em... · Posted by u/aebtebeten

trip-zip · 4 days ago

Emacs users have all the fun. And just like eve online or dwarf fortress, I can't seem to get fully into them myself, but I love reading stories about it.

herewulf · 4 days ago

Best way to get into it is to pick one use case and stick with that for a while. Before you know it, you will want more.

For me it was org mode (with evil mode because I was coming from 15+ years of Vim). Then..

"Oh, I can manage files and edit a directory like a file buffer.."

"Oh, I can SSH into systems and edit files but it doesn't even feel like SSH.."

"Oh, this makes a great, distraction free IDE.."

I recommend a batteries included distro like Doom Emacs or Space Emacs.

herewulf commented on Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels scrollguard.app/... · Posted by u/adrianhacar

mieubrisse · 7 days ago

In case you want that same functionality now, I use the following three extensions to tame Youtube dark patterns:

- https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/df-utube-distractio...

- https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/clickbait-remover-f...

- https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/blocktube/bbeaicapb...

herewulf · 7 days ago

The irony of taming YouTube with Chrome.

I'm happy to see that BlockTube is available for Firefox at least. Thank you for sharing (all the recommendations).

Sent from my Firefox for Android.

herewulf commented on Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels scrollguard.app/... · Posted by u/adrianhacar

keerthiko · 7 days ago

You should never expect to have rights to anyone's server API endpoints, esp outside of their TOS, which is basically what trying to build your own front-end independent of youtube.com is. However, with most browsers, you have all the rights to build extensions that hide divs and change styling and add new elements with data that's already loaded (as long as you're not calling API endpoints that aren't called by the site's source though, you run into the same problems again) which would accomplish everything you were trying to do.

herewulf · 7 days ago

Of course, now there are pages that detect if their elements or code are being manipulated by the browser (i.e.: Ad blocker detectors).

Thankfully, it's rare because people using ad blockers is apparently rare on the whole.

herewulf commented on Pfeilstorch en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfe... · Posted by u/gyomu

k__ · 9 days ago

"some theories of the time held that they turned into other kinds of birds, mice, or hibernated underwater"

What did people in Africa think? I mean, they also saw birds disappearing.

herewulf · 9 days ago

They might have wondered about finding birds filled with bird shot (little rocks) or carrying a bullet (small pebble) but that's not obviously connected to human hunting activity for a society oblivious to firearms (unlike arrows and spears).

herewulf commented on Pfeilstorch en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfe... · Posted by u/gyomu

gus_massa · 9 days ago

Now we have AC in trains and buses, so the windows are closed too. I'd expect a more even flu season.

herewulf · 9 days ago

I'm not a biologist / epidemiologist but maybe the mutation of flu strains are synched up with this annual human behavior such that by the end of the winter most everyone has developed immunity for the current strains. By the next winter the mutations have happened again and the cycle repeats.

I'd love for this random thought to be confirmed / corrected.

herewulf commented on My Dream Productivity Device Is Done – and It's Becoming a Kit [video] youtube.com/watch?v=pf3Bx... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

wewewedxfgdf · 15 days ago

I really love that electronics is at the point that people are able to create their dream device.

I'm wanting to do that too but don't have the skills.

herewulf · 14 days ago

Gaining those skills through doing is a worthwhile and interesting journey. And it can be done incrementally.