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zetalyrae commented on Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system   borretti.me/article/hashc... · Posted by u/thomascountz
tester457 · 2 days ago
> Your performance and review history is stored in an SQLite database in the same directory as the cards.

Do you use Syncthing or something else to sync your performance history between devices?

zetalyrae · a day ago
Yes.
zetalyrae commented on Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system   borretti.me/article/hashc... · Posted by u/thomascountz
eps · 2 days ago
> Cards are content-addressed, that is, identified by the hash of their text.

Wouldn't this invalidate card's review history if I am to fix a typo in the card's text?

zetalyrae · a day ago
Yes, and that's fine.
zetalyrae commented on Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system   borretti.me/article/hashc... · Posted by u/thomascountz
mstipetic · 2 days ago
I wish more people knew about GNU recutils instead of inventing new formats
zetalyrae · 2 days ago
I actually know about Recfiles lol.
zetalyrae commented on Ly – A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD   codeberg.org/fairyglade/l... · Posted by u/modinfo
gunalx · 15 days ago
How did you get this to work? (See the config and did this before but never got ly to work on nixos, i migth have just been to early i guess)

Ive been using LY on arch for a while, and it is great looking, when it works, but it has lots of issues. Mostly related to multi monitor, kernel warnings filling up the screen, and for all being just sligthly broken. But then again probably user error.

zetalyrae · 15 days ago
NixOS 25.05 had a very old version of Ly that doesn't support the latest config. I switched to NixOS unstable and that worked.
zetalyrae commented on Ly – A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD   codeberg.org/fairyglade/l... · Posted by u/modinfo
zetalyrae · 15 days ago
I use this on NixOS[0] with the Matrix digital rain animation and enjoy it way too much :)

[0] https://github.com/eudoxia0/dotfiles/blob/a812dd5b5e62e53b30...

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zetalyrae commented on You can choose tools that make you happy   borretti.me/article/you-c... · Posted by u/zdw
sndean · 7 months ago
> Emacs is a Gnostic cult. And you know what? That’s fine. In fact, it’s great. It makes you happy, what else is needed? You are allowed to use weird, obscure, inconvenient, obsolescent, undead things if it makes you happy. We are all going to die.

There’s a handful of things like Emacs and APL/J/K that HN introduced to me a decade ago that actively reduce my productivity — and I don’t need your explanations for how I’m using them wrong. They’re, to me, like a good book I’ve already read but keep rereading in-place of books I haven’t read. The reduced productivity is fine because we’re some unknown time away from nuclear war or falling down the stairs.

zetalyrae · 7 months ago
In fairness to Emacs, this is a bit sour grapes on my part!

I have tried to go fully into the "Emacs mindset" (org-mode for everything, multiple pages of custom hydra keybinds etc.) a number of times and I always bounce off. I always feel there is some activation threshold that if I could cross it, I could enter editor nirvana.

I used to joke that the way I use Emacs is I open it, give the empty buffer a very meaningful look, C-x C-c, and open VS Code.

zetalyrae commented on You can choose tools that make you happy   borretti.me/article/you-c... · Posted by u/zdw
skribanto · 7 months ago
My interpretation is that as engineers, we attempt to justify all of our choices through purely rational means. However, as humans, we cannot really make said choices without also being at least somewhat influenced by our subjective affections.

Perhaps I'm stretching the author's message, but at least I believe that the argument extends to all engineering conclusions. The author's call is that we acknowledge this subjective side.

Essentially, true engineering is about tradeoffs, there is no X that is objectively better than Y in all circumstances and contexts.

zetalyrae · 7 months ago
> The author's call is that we acknowledge this subjective side.

I think that acknowledging the subjective side is a necessary step to making more rational choices. If you don't know your motivations, you will be a motivated reasoner.

When you can add "I like this tech because it helps me build an identity I aspire to" as an item in the pros column, you realize you no longer have to.

u/zetalyrae

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