Readit Newstwp commented on Kirigami-inspired parachute falls on target physicsworld.com/a/kiriga... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
This is really cool and innovative thinking, but anything aerodynamic does not scale linearly. It's really easy to make something light fall slowly. Baby spiders use "ballooning" -- a single thread -- to fall so slowly that they can travel far in thermal updrafts.
What's missing here is any evidence that the same cool parachutes will work on anything of significant mass, e.g. a parcel weighing 2kg or an average human weighing 80kg.
Original URL was https://github.com/dashboard-feed.
Presumably some HN mod changed the URL to point to something different?
twp commented on Just use `git` to manage your dotfiles ericgreer.info/post/2025-... · Posted by u/integrii
I’ve been using Chezmoi. It has lots of niceness. Two things are awkward for me. Maybe you have solutions.
I know my way around emacs. vimdiff is a foreign country.
Often my changes are speculative or experimental. So I checkout, edit, apply and only then discover I’ve messed up. Or I can edit in place. Voila vimdiff!
What’s the better way?
> I know my way around emacs. vimdiff is a foreign country.
You don't have to use vimdiff. You can use any merge tool you want. See https://www.chezmoi.io/user-guide/tools/merge/.
> Often my changes are speculative or experimental. So I checkout, edit, apply and only then discover I’ve messed up. Or I can edit in place. Voila vimdiff!
> What’s the better way?
There are lots of options. See https://www.chezmoi.io/user-guide/frequently-asked-questions....
Personally, I tend to use `chezmoi edit` and then use git in my source directory to `git add -p . && git commit` the changes I want to keep and `git checkout` to discard the changes I don't want.
twp commented on Dotfiles feel too personal to share hamatti.org/posts/dotfile... · Posted by u/speckx
How do you automatically set up the hooks, e.g. when you clone the repo on a new computer?
Also, is there a way to automatically edit a chezmoi managed file in the chezmoi directory? I accidentally type stuff like "nvim .bashrc" way too often and then forget I never added the changes to chezmoi. It would be neat if there was a vim plugin or something that just opened the chezmoi file instead if it's managed.
Please can you open an issue or discussion for these questions on https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi - this way more people will both be able to help and more people will see the answer.
twp commented on Dotfiles feel too personal to share hamatti.org/posts/dotfile... · Posted by u/speckx
I feel similarly. For me it’s less about my unique customizations and more about this paranoia of there being something remotely sensitive in my ssh configs or something… the idea of hostnames, ips, domains, etc “leaking” worries me.
I use chezmoi to manage my dotfiles, if anyone has any advice on how to handle these worries I am all ears. I would love to share mine, even to just be able to point coworkers at my config.
chezmoi includes secret scanning from https://gitleaks.io/ by default to catch when you accidentally add a file with a secret in it. To be even more confident, you should add gitleaks as a git hook to your repo however.
deepwiki.com's generated page on my project contains several glaring errors. I hate to think of the extra support burden I will have to bear because of deepwiki.com publishing wrong information.
I asked the authors of the site (Andrew Gao) to remove their page on my project, but they ignored my request.