Like many I installed omz and ran it as the default for a long time. After a while I looked to optimize my shell starts and realized I was only using a fraction of the functionality.

So I figured out what I was using and created my own very paired down version of what I needed. My boot times are much faster and I’ve been totally happy with it. I also learned a lot more about shell configs as a result.

What does it mean saying California hasn’t done a Flex Alert since 2022? PG&E issued 3-4 in September/October this year. Is that different?

Are you sure you're not thinking of "SmartDay" days that are part of the SmartRate program?

Flex Alerts are CAISO and ultimately about grid stability. SmartRate/SmartDay are ultimately about marginal cost of production on PG&E. The two are certainly correlated -- at the very least, a Flex Alert day is almost guaranteed to be a SmartDay.

Notably, the SmartRate program is capped at 15 days per year, and in practice PG&E will keep a few in reserve for surprise late season events, but even if there are no Flex Alert days they're still going to be called on electricity-is-expensive-even-if-the-grid-is-stable days.

The devcontainers cli has existed for a while. Definitely not as smooth as using with vscode but it has all the main points.

https://github.com/devcontainers/cli

TIL.

I'm not proponent of installing nodejs apps globally, npm install -g or yarn install -g

I bought a moonlander in 2020 after work gave us a work from home credit when we transitioned to remote for Covid. I tried it but couldn’t get into it and it sat collecting dust for years. In 2024 I dove back into splits with a kinesis freestyle 2. I loved it as it felt more natural as it’s a basic keyboard just split.

After I got used to that I was able to migrate to the moonlander pretty easily. I just had to spend the time to sent it up properly for programming.

Now I own 2, each with the platform addon, which solves many of the issues with tenting as you no longer have to pivot the thumb cluster. It is expensive though.

Both keyboards also have shrimp switches to make typing pretty quiet.

This combined with a ball mouse have solved my RSI that developed a few years ago entirely.

Is there no dockerized irc server that exists or are you thinking about something else here?

There are, of course: ergo and inspircd work well

Hm from what I’ve seen it emits metrics at a regular interval just like Prometheus. Maybe I’m thinking of something else though.

For folks that are using better-auth: are you using anything to build your frontend with? Or just writing it from scratch? I was interested in trying this out but was kinda surprised to find this is just an sdk with no components.

I found this https://better-auth-ui.com/

Hm, 600 symmetric with monkeybrains?? I’ve had monkeybrains for over 3 years and have never seen over 200 down. In fact, I reached out to them today because for the last 3 months it’s been about 50 down or less. Like, I can barely stream content slow. What gives? I am in a 6 unit in lower haight. Most of the units also have MB. The hardware is relatively new (2019?). What gives?

Maybe you would be the person to answer this. Back in 1.6 it was common to install amxmodx for use as admin software in game. There was a function in one of the menus that would open up a players disc drive on their PC! I was an admin on a wc3 fun server back in the day and would do it to people for fun. Too young at the time to ever think more about how that was actually done or what security vulnerability that must have been exploiting! I always wondered how it was done.

Back in the cs1.6 days there were servers that advertised as hacker servers. Obviously anti cheat was turned off, but the draw was that everyone was hacking and you could test your hacking skills. The goal was to see who had written the best hacking software. It was actually really fun and an entirely new way of playing the game.

This still exists in various games, it's called HvH mode

TIL! That is exactly what I am referring to.