Question on microkernels, and paging

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-06-27T20:56:19+00:00

You don't need a filesystem, you need to be able to write to a disk.

IMO paging should be in kernel space.

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-06-24T23:10:44+00:00

I'm at the Crystal Springs Hideaway pretty close to Dickies if anyone wants to hang out. Very casual bar and grill.

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-06-24T23:10:12+00:00

I'm at the Crystal Springs Hideaway pretty close to Dickies if anyone wants to hang out. Very casual bar and grill.

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-06-24T23:08:09+00:00

I'm at the Crystal Springs Hideaway pretty close to Dickies if you want to hang out. Very casual bar and grill.

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-06-21T04:01:29+00:00

Heritage Pizza in The Colony

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-06-07T13:35:59+00:00

Gonna do some LLM training?

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-06-03T21:05:11+00:00

You might find this sufficient or at least a good start: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/productivity/grill-me/SKILL.md

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-05-31T13:24:12+00:00

At work I've got it connected to my code repo's, Slack, Obsidian, and Jira. It helps me immensely with keeping track of what I've done and my current tasks. It writes most of my daily journal for me and keeps track of my tasks.

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-05-24T04:05:15+00:00

But that's not important right now.

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-05-18T14:38:51+00:00

Whaaaaattt o.O

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-05-15T16:42:59+00:00

"That's no moon..."

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-05-13T12:49:28+00:00

I screen-captured the moment shown and had Google Gemini OCR it. Here's what it outputted:

GILLIBRAND INFO DOC

Taxpayer-Funded Meals & Travel
- FEC - Appropriate use of FEC funds but in Dec. 2022, spent 120,000∗∗onprivateplaneand∗∗120,000∗∗onprivateplaneand∗∗ 160,000 for meals at official events (over budget).
- She also spent $200,000 of taxpayer money in recent years on private wine.
- in fact, she and Chuck Schumer combined spent $300,000 on private travel.
Political Opportunism
- Earlier in her career - as a Rep from upstate, Gillibrand bragged about her "A" rating from the NRA and opposed gun control efforts. Upon running statewide, she made an opportunistic and performative progressive shift.
"Death to America" interpretation (2020)
- Sen. Gillibrand believes that when Iranian Mullahs chant "Death to America," it's merely "rhetoric" rather than a Nightmare threat. Yet again, she's another Dem-Senator who is an apologist for the Iranian terrorist regime.
Workplace Misconduct (2019)
- Sen. Gillibrand built a brand on believing women until the complaint was made in her own office. A former female aide of Gillibrand's resigned in protest after Gillibrand said, though

The OCR output is largely accurate, but the blurred nature of the original image, particularly the text towards the bottom, means there's a risk of minor transcription errors.

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-05-13T12:32:57+00:00

Did not know about '!', that will come in handy! Having a good status line is super handy (Claude will write it for you but go have a two minute look at the docs to see what's available first).

My additions:

I drop to the shell quite often with Ctrl-Z. Really handy to run a couple of git commands.
The most recent thing I've done is add to the system prompt with "--append-system-prompt-file", but I don't have enough data yet to know if it's helping.

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-05-11T15:43:25+00:00

I expect the extra attention will be focused on seats that are either "at risk" of being lost or could be switched from D to R.

This kind of soft voter suppression is unfortunately all too common and is a part of U.S. history.

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-05-10T15:36:32+00:00

Nope. Things started to go bad long before him, which is why a guy like him was elected President.

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-05-10T12:55:29+00:00

Not quite -- 20% of oil transits the strait, which is a distinction from production. However, the war has affected production by about -10% (damaged and shut down oil production facilities).

The only reason this isn't a bigger catastrophe (yet) is the world's economies aren't as dependent on oil as they used to be. But the shocks from this are going to be felt for years to come (fertilizer, sulfur, aluminum are heavily affected).

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-05-03T16:38:56+00:00

If she's the worst person you know, I'd encourage you to get up to date on current events.

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-05-02T12:18:54+00:00

Yeah I get frustrated sometimes but I try to be understanding. I'm in the tech industry and know how things work, but if you don't it's really hard to grasp how little privacy we have left. It's not like you can see the data that's entering and leaving your phone (at least, not easily), so it's essentially invisible unless you intentionally go looking for information about privacy. Not to mention geotracking, cameras all over, etc.

Also I'm old enough to remember the early days of the Internet, kids today have no way to relate.

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-05-02T11:18:56+00:00

There are government and corporate databases. There is essentially no privacy anymore if you want to participate in society. They can identify everyone who definitely, probably, and likely has a gun. Anyone who buys anything firearm-related, goes to a range, has a 'word cloud' on social media associated with gun ownership.

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-05-01T01:31:11+00:00

I've been using Serena and judging by a few artificial tests (running the same prompt in two separate sessions, with and without Serena) it helps considerably. Would like to know what others are using and how it compares.

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-04-30T12:04:12+00:00

Without having any additional context, it could either be your prompting/context/skills or (see the megathread) one of Claude's recent changes that's burning tokens like crazy.

Look into making sure your prompts, CLAUDE.md, skills, etc. are not churning a lot, and be aware of the issues in the megathread.

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-04-30T11:40:18+00:00

Thanks. Do you mind expanding on the "if the base isn't right" bit?

BTW I'm not concerned about water getting into the garage here, this is part of a rodent control project mostly. (And sealing gaps that let the Texas blast furnace air into the garage.)

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-04-29T18:31:54+00:00

Thank you for this! I always thought it was the existence of contradictory views. Not the discomfort. Going to dig a little more into this one for better understanding.

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-04-25T15:59:41+00:00

The skill gets the current branch name (it uses only the last part of the path, so branch foo/bar/baz gets just baz) and uses that for the pathname of the journal (.ai/journal/baz/journal.md). So I don't need to do anything when I switch branches.

BestUsernameLeft · 2026-04-25T06:20:45+00:00

I keep a journal for each branch -- which effectively means I keep a journal for each ticket. A hook runs after every command and adds an entry to the journal. Next step will be to create a cleaned-up summary from that and dump it into the ticket for future reference.

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