mixmastamyk's comments

On: Infinite Mac OS X

[mixmastamyk]

Only goes on one more sentence. :-/

On: Open source can't coordinate?

[mixmastamyk]

I’d say Mint Cinnamon is better than mediocre.

Further try Little Snitch on macos to see how completely out of control it is. Since they implemented the sealed volume it is also a lot harder to configure permanently, so fixing it is less feasible.

On: Show HN: A DOS-like hobby OS written in Rust and x86 assembly

[mixmastamyk]

I would have preferred something like this to the current UEFI environment and shell, a FLOSS 64-bit DOS-like. A cool retro boot manager and diagnostic env perhaps.

Could this run from an efi system partition? Seems to support fat12, what about gpt?

Does it poke video hardware like DOS, or have a terminal like output?

[krustowski → mixmastamyk]

Booting from an EFI system partition has not been tested yet. FAT12 is the only filesystem (ok, there is a memdisk implementation, but it won't work now) supported, so GPT is not supported at the moment too (yet). Kinda aiming for FAT32 implementation to be the very next implemented (flash disks are usually FAT32 iirc). Not sure about the last question: the OS utilizes/directly writes to the VGA buffer in memory, the provided resolution is 80x25 by GRUB.

[mixmastamyk → krustowski]

So MBR partitions? Or no partitions, like from a floppy? Or perhaps it doesn’t know because grub handles that part.

[krustowski → mixmastamyk]

For FAT12, it reads the first sector (0 or bootsector) of the floppy provided to gather information like bytes per sector, reserved sectors count, LBA of the root directory, etc.

On: The Zed Debugger Is Here

[mixmastamyk]

How prominent? Can you remove it from main window?

[tall9732 → mixmastamyk]

Yes, add to your settings.json:

  "title_bar": {
    "show_sign_in": false
  },

[haiku2077 → mixmastamyk]

Not in the official builds.

On: The Zed Debugger Is Here

[mixmastamyk]

Separate tools that do one thing well, works better sometimes.

E.g. editors often integrate a terminal and file manager. I already have them open constantly, so have never used the integrated versions.

[haiku2077 → mixmastamyk]

I used to use separate of each, but switched to the ones integrated into Zed. being able to click on a file in one and have it open one frame later in the others is very productive for me. e.g. click a link in my test runner's output to a line in a file and immediately jump to that file in the file tree and that line in a buffer.

[mixmastamyk → haiku2077]

Hmm, open tab performance hasn't been a concern of mine... since the turn of the century? (cough) Not using electron of course.

I suspect a preference here has more to do with how many monitors one has. I have multiple so prefer multiple windows. If away from my desk, having a fullscreen window split makes sense.

[haiku2077 → mixmastamyk]

Yeah, in my office I use a single ultrawide. And I'm often programming away from a desk on a laptop.

Back in the day I had a multi-monitor setup and that was super nice with a tiling VM and a terminal/*nix based development environment.

On: The Zed Debugger Is Here

[mixmastamyk]

Probably also requires an api key, no? So would be difficult to force.

I have a firewall, OpenSnitch, so don’t have to worry much about programs trying to connect. But definitely would prefer they don’t unless directed.

How does zed handle it?

[haiku2077 → mixmastamyk]

There's a pair of config settings to turn off all of the AI features:

features.edit_prediction_provider=none agent.enabled=false

There's additional config to set if inline assistance is automatic, only when the user presses a key, fully disabled, etc.

[mixmastamyk → haiku2077]

I’d prefer an option at first start perhaps, to turn it on.

[haiku2077 → mixmastamyk]

That might be how it works, I haven't been through the new user flow in a while.

On: The Zed Debugger Is Here

[mixmastamyk]

I suspect their previous “collab editing” marketing angle was probably not a big enough draw. AI features seem to be desired by more people, or at least the hype cycle currently says so.

On: The Zed Debugger Is Here

[mixmastamyk]

Copying a buffer into a network call, reading a response, writing the buffer. Not trivial per se, but table stakes for an experienced developer.

Rust probably slows them down here, but working correctly early is preferable imho.

[WD-42 → mixmastamyk]

Over simplify much?

[mixmastamyk → WD-42]

Which computer science frontiers are being pushed here at the user interface level, do you think?

(This is referring to their recent integration work. The acceleration layer was usable a year or more ago.)

On: The Grug Brained Developer (2022)

[mixmastamyk]

Same. I think it is inspired by an earlier work.

On: Getting free internet on a cruise, saving $170

[mixmastamyk]

How do you get through a portal on a travel router?

[bitpush → mixmastamyk]

The steps are as follows

1. Turn on travel router

2. Connect to its network

3. Go to travel router's admin page (192.168.8.1 or similar)

4. Click buttons and join the Hotel/Cruise/Flight WiFi

5. Go to neverssl.com (or google.com or whatever)

6. See the captive portal of Hotel/Cruise/Flight and follow instructions.

In other words, for the portal, it is no different than using your phone. The extra step is logging into the admin portal and having the router join the public wifi first.

[mixmastamyk → bitpush]

Ok, so once connected any client can authenticate at the portal page.