NSQ episode about evil led me to thinking about this.

Takeaways from the episode

• Evil is attributed only to humans.
  • If an animal attacks and kills human(s) we do not label the animal as Evil.
• Intentionality matters.
  • Accidental killing/death does not mean Evil
• People do bad things because their brain is not “well”
  • Amigdala is the part of the brain that is responsible for fear and morality.
  • Should bad people be locked away longer (cause they may be threat to the society)
• Phil zimbardo prison experiment
• Bad barrel (Vs Bad Apple)
• People become evil due to surrounding ¹
• Stanley Milgram Experiment
  • People are OK doing bad things if
    • They are in position of power and
    • Are told by their superiors to “punish” others
    • 2 out of 3 volunteers shocked the (the actors playing) students upon giving wrong answers, because they were “instructed” to do so ²

My thoughts

• Only movies/TV has pure evil person
  • In good movie/TV, they have some explanation about why the person become “evil”
• When people do bad things to you, do not hate them
• Consider some of the points above.
• What made them behave the way they did
• (Most of the times) it is not personal [^3]

When working on multiple projects, I run separate postgres instance for each of them.

Since these are docker instances, this is not a problem as long as they are not running at the same time

If I’m actively working working on multiple projects parallelly, then there are two problems :

1. Resources : My laptop becomes slow. There is no solution for this ¹
2. Assuming you have LOTs of memory, second problem still remains. Both instances try to bind to local port 5432 the default port. Which does not work. So you need to bind other postgres instances to different local ports like 5433, 5434 and so on. This is controlled via -p in the docker command.

The format is :

I initially tried to turn off the type hints via rust-analyzer extension setting, but that did not work 😞

Turns out it is very complicated (at least for me) documentation did not help 😞

Here is what worked for me. Thanks to SO ¹

• Open Command Palette Cmd+Shift+P
• Select Preferences: Open User Settings (JSON) from the drop down
• Add the following to existing settings
  • Or create new one, if empty. You may need to enclose it within { } though.

	"editor.inlayHints.enabled": "offUnlessPressed"

This will turn off the type hint inlays.

After using Apple laptop for nearly 10 years, I have gotten used to Apple’s shortcuts where most places use Cmd instead of Ctrl

After switching to Linux, initially I fumbled.

Then I had to be alert, which I did most of the times, but when in the zone, I would still do Cmd+c to copy, and when pasted would be disappaointed that it did not work 😄

Then I came across kinto

No, I’m not talking about Atuin. ¹

I improved my search experience with just one tool - fzf

As you might know, fzf is a general purpose fuzzy finder. ²

But adding just source <(fzf --zsh) at the end of ~/.zshrc (and/or running it in your existing session) improves your Ctrl+r experience.

See the demo yourself.

It has been more than 20+ years since I used Makefiles seriously. I did use them later, but they were very simple.

Then I found and moved just task runner, which is supposed to be replacement for make

My justfiles were also simple.

and today, I needed to define a task that we dependent on another.

Turns out, it is same as Makefile

task1:
  @echo "Task1"

task2: task1
  @echo "Task2"

In the above example, task2 depends on task1, and thus when we say just task2, task1 will get executed, as it is a dependency for task1

After the basic setup was done (I made a list of tools to be installed on line before I installed Linux itself), I wanted Espanso

While Espanso is well supported on X11, for wayland, it needs to be compiled from the source

I ran into this issue but solution was found in the same issue.

While install went through, I ran into issues related to capability grant.

Following worked:

sudo zypper install libcap-progs
sudo setcap "cap_dac_override+p" $(which espanso)
espanso start --unmanaged

I also needed to add the following to config/default.yml

My Macbook Pro (early 2015) isn’t getting any OS updates for some time.

Only version it supports is Monterey (which is already couple major versions behind the latest)

brew has also started complaining as This version is not supported

So I’ve been considering installing linux on it for some time anyway.

I finally pulled the trigger and installed openSUSE Tumbleweed

I had tried the live version, and knew and it generally works.

While copying large amounts of files (lots of photos) I used to use Finder in the macOS. Good ol’ drag-n-drop

Usually it is reliable, but lately I’m facing some problems when copying files to external disk.

Finder itself would become unresponsive.

So I decided to use terminal instead.

It worked (kinda) but it took 51 minutes to finish the copy (There were a lot of files)

and as you know traditionally cp does not show progress.

See this thread titled :

Disk Not Ejected Properly – AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN AND AGAIN…

I have started seeing this problem a LOT

TL;DR: Something breaks when macOS goes to sleep

Solution : Do not allow macOS to sleep when using external disk.

I have had to resort to using an application called Amphetamine (earlier Caffeine) and set the ‘Drive Alive’ mode to prevent sleep. All the problems went away. It has nothing to do with ‘frayed cables’ or ‘drives going bad’.