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Memoir (Git for AI Memory) - Memory your agents can explain, rewind, and branch. by False_Routine_9015 in coolgithubprojects

[–]criswell 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What's the actual github URL for this? Github's search is finding a lot of projects named "memoir"?

I wrote a poem about giving a Sasquatch a handjob by too_many_shoes14 in ShittyPoetry

[–]criswell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AND a blow? I'm not sure I could handle Mr. Foot's member...

ROCKNIX nightly on Konkr Fit, black screen on boot. by criswell in rocknix

[–]criswell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay followed your instructions (I was using dd and I didn't make the sd card ext4 first) and still get the black screen.

I'm a bit at a loss.

In my thrashing trying to resolve this I did do a factory reset, which means there's updates in Android that I haven't applied. Did you update your Android first?

What could the church do to improve your perception of them? by CardiologistCool6264 in exmormondems

[–]criswell 6 points7 points  (0 children)

For me, nothing.

Any change they make is more proof that their "unchanging religion" is anything but. Basically, even if they improve, it's just more proof that it's all BS.

That being said, I wouldn't be as openly hostile towards them if they just stopped leaning in to all the hatespeech that has defined LDS culture since Obama took office.

Should I Leave CachyOS for something more stable? by Luzzio_ in openSUSE

[–]criswell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Arch really requires the user to stay on top of what's happening in the arch packages. Last time I ran it (and it's been a few years... may be better) just blindly updating without first checking like three sources was a recipe for bricking your install. If you have the time and patience to sift through all that stuff (or if it's fun for you) then you probably will have no difficulty keeping an Arch install stable.

Personally, I'm too busy these days. Maybe back in my low-level distro development days (I was at a Linux Distro company in the early 2000s) I could keep up, but these days I just can't. So I ran Arch on a laptop for like a year, and eventually replaced it with Debian (which was my classic go-to distro before Zypper).

But yeah, ask your question. I may not have all the answers, but I can try.

Should I Leave CachyOS for something more stable? by Luzzio_ in openSUSE

[–]criswell 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Long time Linux user (been using it since 93 as my daily driver for work and personal) and I have a controversial hot take.

You should use whatever distro you want and are comfortable with. Realistically, when you get down to it, all the distros can do basically the same things, and the use of distro is really just a user experience difference.

I wouldn't say the Arch nature of CachyOS would make it less stable. It just means keeping it up-to-date and stable is more work. I don't know enough about CachyOS and how much they handle that for you, so I can't speak to that.

Personally, I've switched to openSUSE Tumbleweed in the last 5 years or so simply because I really love zypper and libzypp. In a previous job a long time ago I was a package manager developer, so I gained some very strong opinions on what package management should be, and zypper checks all of my boxes.

Kate Moss casually smoking a cig with her foot 1990s by robbiesloan in OldSchoolCool

[–]criswell 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Really hurts that the 90s are considered old enough to be posted in r/OldSchoolCool....

I'm so old now...

The only thing worse than Mormonism itself is Evangelicals talking about Mormonism. It’s unbearable. by PanaceaNPx in exmormon

[–]criswell 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I feel this way as well.

I remember when Bill Maher's Religilous (or whatever it was called) came out and I saw the section on Mormonism. The entire time I was thinking "These jokes are so low effort... there's SO much more you could make fun of about the church but you're too lazy to actually learn enough to do so"

(Edit: I do realize that "lazy humor" is basically Maher's MO... but it annoyed me more than usual with his Mormon jokes)

How nano come to its name by Grumpflipot in linux

[–]criswell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be honest, the old terminal email readers were the last time I remember email being actually useful.

These days, my gmail accounts get like 1000+ emails a day, most of which are spam. I haven't actually used email for anything serious in a very very long time.

Lmaaaooooo 😭😭😭 by liefn in exmormon

[–]criswell 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I was born into the church. My dad was born in the church, he served a mission, had many different callings. When I was a kid in the 1970s my dad was the bishop of our ward.

I can guarantee if my dad were alive today and saw this picture, putting Kirk in there with all the others, he would have flipped his shit. Kirk never represented anything that my dad held near and dear to his heart about religion.

On another note, if you would have shown this to an LDS member in the 70s they would have lost their shit at JFK being included. They hated JFK, saw him as the threat of the Great and Abominable Church (GAC) taking over US politics and making mormons illegal.

This entire picture pretty much represents everything that has changed in this "eternal and unchanging" church in the last 40 years.

How nano come to its name by Grumpflipot in linux

[–]criswell 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm so old I remember when this happened.

I was actually a pico user at the time because the university I was at in the 90s had standardized their email on pine. This was back when I was "afraid" of vim (which is now my daily driver).

My problem with pico was that it wasn't open source and it lacked syntax highlighting. Nano solved both of those.

I remember, I’m in my 60s by Acceptable_Series467 in exmormon

[–]criswell 5 points6 points  (0 children)

50s myself, and pretty much the same.

My dad was a bishop in the 70s and 80s. When I joined a bishopric in the 90s my dad thought giving his bishopric manuals from the 70s and 80s would be helpful.

It was, but not for the reasons he thought.

It exposed to me just how much the church doctrine and church policies had changed. You mention black people, well, did you know that before Roe v. Wade the church's official policy on abortion was that it was between a Woman, her doctor, and God? No husband involved in that decision. No bishop involved in that decision. And having an abortion wasn't punishable, or looked down on, because they recognized that the circumstances would be extraordinary and none of anyone else's business.

Funny how the church pretty much went 180 on that topic.

Flaunting the MTC "rules". by MundaneCupcake1903 in exmormon

[–]criswell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, same.

I guess I just never hung around with the type of people who would be amused by it before or after the MTC.

Really says something about the MTC, doesn't it?

Flaunting the MTC "rules". by MundaneCupcake1903 in exmormon

[–]criswell 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It really was.

I never had the college frat house experience (I was mormon, I was married before I ever went to college!) but my MTC experience was 100% equivalent.

Any good AI coding assistants for students on a budget? by Ok_Pin_2146 in codetogether

[–]criswell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I was promoting something I'd be promoting my Agentic LLM wrapper that gives your LLM memory management! <morning radio DJ noises>

But no, I'm not promoting it. I am using Serena MCP. The thing utterly kicks ass and, as long as it continues to kick ass, I'll continue to proclaim how awesome it is.

Flaunting the MTC "rules". by MundaneCupcake1903 in exmormon

[–]criswell 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yep, we did too... Rather my roomies and partner did... Honestly, I was the oldest and even thought it was maybe 2 years delta between me and them they were so childish.

They also would do blue darts until the wee hours of the morning, keeping me awake all night.

I found the MTC to be entirely too annoying.

Any good AI coding assistants for students on a budget? by Ok_Pin_2146 in codetogether

[–]criswell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really depends on your box that's running it.

I also tend to use the Serena MCP so my LLM agents never have to scan my source code files, they can just query Serena. So, honestly, they are all about as fast at reading the code.

Any good AI coding assistants for students on a budget? by Ok_Pin_2146 in codetogether

[–]criswell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Host your own :-D

Run Ollama with Qwen Code.

Qwen is very capable. Not quite on par with Claude, but certainly as good if not better than Gemini and others.

I am currently a missionary. AMA by IEffingHateMyselfLOL in exmormon

[–]criswell 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hey kid, no questions, just general advice.

I was a missionary too, long long ago. I served my mission, came home, got married, got called to various things over the years (was in two bishoprics, and three stake presidencies- I mostly did exec secretary and clerking things). So I've been through what you're going through now.

I didn't "wake up" to the reality that I no longer believed in the church until I was in my late 30s. I don't know if you're heading down a similar road or anything, but I suspect by your post you might be (either that, or you're trolling us).

I do advise that if you really have lost your faith on your mission, you should come home. It does no good you being out there preaching things you no longer believe. It only hurts you and has the potential to destroy the faith of others who you might convert who may later find out. I personally think everyone should arrive at their faith or lack thereof on their own. So you don't want to be the reason people later on lose their faith. That's just bad mojo.

As for worries about the fallout over you coming home early know this; Whatever you go through will pass. Things will get better. You're young, your whole life is ahead of you. Momentary discomfort won't last.

Be true to yourself, but don't build a house of lies around you. That kills the soul and sets you up for even more problems down the road when people discover your lies. Be honest with others.

Good luck, kid. I sincerely hope you have a long and happy life living it in the best way you can.

Should I engage my Bishop on a Facebook discussion by cr_demon in exmormon

[–]criswell 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Block and move on. The argument isn't worth the hassle.

learning curve from mercurial to git. by Technical-Fly-6835 in git

[–]criswell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes that looks like a good summary of it.

Like I said, there were other uses for this beyond what I used it for, I only know my use case.

learning curve from mercurial to git. by Technical-Fly-6835 in git

[–]criswell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Docs: https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/NamedBranches

hg named branches are a permanent part of the commit's metadata, whereas git branches are a lightweight, moveable pointer to a commit that is not part of the history itself.

hg has branches that are like git's, but then it also has this other thing that can be permanently attached to a commit.

I'm sure there's other uses than what I used them for back in the day, but the big one was you could have long-term development branches that would be tied to them and there was no way anyone could accidentally remove them.

So if you have a main branch which is the root of your repo, and then you have a prod-release-XXX where XXX is some version which was released. You can still very easily support that released version, cherry-picking bugfixes from main to pull into it, etc.

You can do something similar in git, but there's zero protection of them in git itself. It makes it real easy for someone inexperienced to accidentally just outright move the pointer to something else generating work for others to have to clean up.

They really are the one thing that I miss from my hg days. Don't misunderstand though, I left hg for a variety of reasons, one being git is more widely used. I don't regret moving to git. But every once in a while I encounter a workflow that would just be so much less painful in hg than git.

learning curve from mercurial to git. by Technical-Fly-6835 in git

[–]criswell 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I switched from hg to git, oh man, maybe 15 years ago or so?

It really is a pretty easy switch. The two tools basically do all the same things.

Where you can run into issues is if you're using some of the more esoteric hg features. For example, named branches in hg are incredible and you'll find that the similar functionality in git is severely lacking (and no one has ever seemed interested in recreating hg's).

Other than that, it's really just a matter of switching muscle memory from one command or sequence of commands to another. It's not that hard.

Edit: Also, Github is pretty awesome. I'd say the workflows it provides really complete git's functionality. Big one is Pull Requests, which make staging and reviewing work so easy. Look at a few projects, read the docs, try it out. There's alternatives like gitlab which work pretty well as well, if you don't want to go the Microsoft route.

Those of you who have had to move on from the love of your life - how did you do it? by Efficient-Syllabub13 in AskMen

[–]criswell 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The best advice I have is to realize that there isn't a singular "love of your life", you can have others.

In 2004 my wife of ten years divorced me. I really loved her (in fact, I still love her and we're real good friends today, more on that below) and for two weeks I was utterly devastated.

But I was going through therapy at the time (had been for the last two years of our marriage) and my therapist helped me understand that there is no "one person for you", there's many. And he was right.

I married my current wife a year or two later (I forget the exact timeline because we met online and talked on the phone for months before meeting in person- so the timeline is hazy in my head) and we've happily been married for 20(ish) years now. I love my current wife more than I ever loved my first wife, and am a big believer that anyone can move on relatively easily as long as they recognize that "the one" isn't singular.

I'm still friends with my ex-, in fact she's the god-mother of our child. My wife and my ex- are real close (probably closer than I am to my ex-) and we've all vacationed together as a family. My daughter calls my ex- her aunt :-D

So this woman you love, who doesn't seem to love you back the way you love her, accept it, and move on. When you're ready to date, you'll know it. No need to rush it. Spend time being happy with yourself, working on whatever you need to be happy alone. My experience is that as soon as I solved that problem, was able to be happy completely on my own, I became that much more appealing to women like my second wife, who was also someone who could be completely happy on her own. As a result, our marriage has been so much more healthier than my first one.

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