canadaduane

canadaduane, 19 days ago

Here’s my take:

1. We’re built for about 150 relationships max (Dunbar number), and yet we benefit from cooperation above that threshold. Rather than make it so we have to have a personal relationship with everyone who could possibly benefit us, we accepted a ramped down version of relationship we call “transactions”. This is a very weak replacement for a relationship, but it is a sort of “micro-relationship” in that for a brief moment two people who don’t know each other can kind of care about each other during an exchange. Through specialization, we can do something well that doesn’t just benefit the handful of friends and neighbors we have, but tens of thousands and possibly millions of people via transactions (e.g. a factory, starting an Amazon business, etc.)
2. There is a process called “commensuration” in the social sciences, where people start to make one thing commensurate with another, even in wildly different domains. For example, to understand the value of a forest and to convey its importance to decision makers we might say “this forest is worth $100 billion”. It’s kind of weird to do this (how do leaves and trees and anthills and beetles equal imaginary humoney?) But slowly, over time, we have made many things commensurate to dollars at various scales. (I don’t think this is a good thing, but it does have benefits). In short, more and more things that were part of an implicit economy of relationships (e.g. can the neighbor girl babysit tonight?) have entered the explicit domain of the monetary economy (e.g. sittercity).

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IMO, in order to participate in the huge value generated by this monetary economy, people sometimes lose the forest for the trees (so to speak) and forget what really matters (e.g. excellence of character, deep relationships, new experiences, etc.) because it seems like we might be able to put off those things until “after” we square away this whole money thing first. But maybe “after” never comes–and the hollow life of a consumer capitalist drains the inner ecological diversity of a soulful life.

canadaduane, 26 days ago

I appreciate your question, but I think “we know” is problematic:

• who is “we”?
• how do we “know”?
• can some people know one thing while others know the opposite?

I’m not trolling, either, just asking questions from a philosophical point of view. I’ve changed my mind about several things I took very seriously and thought I was 100% right about. Could others be dealing with similar changing-mind-through-time processes? Could you?

canadaduane, 22 days ago

“We know better than you” has never been an effective way to change other peoples’ minds, in my experience.

canadaduane, 27 days ago

Yeah, I get that. I’ve helped contribute to Pop!_OS in the past and thought I’d give it an early run. I’m just surprised that the packaged apps are so slow. When I ran them 6 months ago, they loaded so quickly I was shocked (<50ms).

I’m not sure if it’s my system, or the (new) state of the apps.

canadaduane, 12 days ago

Thanks. Strangely, after using WGPU_POWER_PREF=high, it is always fast for me, even when I don’t specify this preference. I don’t understand it. In any case, I guess it’s “fixed” for now, so thanks!

canadaduane, 8 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

Ok, I’ve narrowed down the cause of slowdown slightly. It is when my laptop is on battery only that load time takes about 25 seconds. When plugged in (mains power), load time is < 1sec.

The only change I see in journalctl -xef when switching between battery/mains power is as follows (first line battery, second line mains):

<span style="color:#323232;">May 22 23:45:35 rosie kernel: Dynamic Preempt: voluntary
</span><span style="color:#323232;">May 22 23:45:54 rosie kernel: Dynamic Preempt: full
</span>

Edit: I can also simulate the effect via sudo tlp ac (fast load time) and sudo tlp bat (slow load time).

canadaduane, 8 days ago

No, I haven’t updated packages in 3 or 4 weeks.

canadaduane, 8 days ago

I no longer think WGPU_POWER_PREF has any bearing on the fast/slow issue, see my other comment.

canadaduane, 3 days ago

FYI this is still an issue for me. Updated to cosmic-edit 0.1.0171599034722.04~f5238e1.

canadaduane, 2 months ago

Wolf in sheep’s clothing

canadaduane, 4 months ago

I just ran cosmic-edit and was shocked at how quickly it loads. Must be ~30ms between selecting it and it’s fully loaded.

canadaduane, 4 months ago

Very nice! I was just looking at reviews on this. Really nice machine in every way, except maybe for the camera, and minor points off for the display being “only” 1080p. I have a lovely framework 13", but am jealous of the Lemur’s battery life.

canadaduane, 4 months ago

Very interesting. Do you have any more info about the relationship between 1080p/60hz and battery? It sounds intuitively true, I’d just like to learn more.

canadaduane, 4 months ago

From “Verissimus”, a comic about the Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor, Marcus Aurelius: imgur.com/a/FlvGJGT (my apologies for the first two pages being out of order).

There is a section about the Greek philosopher, Epictetus’, teachings about anger. My favorite two are “Being unlike your enemies is the best form of revenge,” and “Goodwill is a virtue, the opposite of revenge, the desire to help rather than harm our fellow man. So replace your anger with its antidote: kindness.”

canadaduane, 4 months ago

I read this as “buying clubs”. Like, buy clubs and hit stuff. My first take was “Ah, the violent revolutionary type.” :)

canadaduane, 4 months ago

ChatGPT suggests the following:

1. Run tmux
2. rsync -naP --exclude-from=rsync-homedir-local.txt /home/$USER/ $BACKUPDIR/ | tee /tmp/rsync_output.txt
3. Ctrl+B % # splits screen vertically
4. Ctrl+B right-arrow-key # moves to right split
5. tail -f /tmp/rsync_output.txt | grep denied

Not quite a one-liner, but I can see how tmux is a big help here.

canadaduane, 4 months ago

Elegant and flexible, thank you!

canadaduane, 4 months ago

Thanks! I’m curious if there is a way to do this as a one-liner?

canadaduane, 4 months ago

Given encouragement to try tmux, here is what I’ve come up with as a “one-liner” (script) that does what I was originally looking for:

<span style="color:#323232;">#!/bin/sh
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">tmux new-session -d -s split_screen_grep ; 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  send-keys "/bin/sh -c '$1' | tee /tmp/split_screen_grep.txt" C-m ; 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  split-window -h ; 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  select-pane -t 1 ; 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  send-keys "tail -f /tmp/split_screen_grep.txt | grep '$2'" C-m ;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">tmux attach-session -t split_screen_grep
</span>

I use it as follows, first arg is a command, second arg is a pattern to search for:

<span style="color:#323232;">$ ./split-grep "cat big_file.txt" "tmux"
</span>

canadaduane, 4 months ago

Thanks!

canadaduane, 4 months ago

This is the case for me as well. I tried NixOS this weekend, and even though it has more adoption than Guix, it still does not have 100% coverage of all software I wanted. That said, the packages I did install were pretty up-to-date. I guess NixOS is as close to “critical mass” as we’ve got when it comes to this type of OS. But if I were a wizard devops type person with more time, I’d probably enjoy Guix more.

canadaduane, 4 months ago

I don’t know when they mark releases, but it’s still under active development.