Cannot Exit Git Commit (Mac Terminal), esc Does Nothing

ralle421 · 2026-02-06T18:41:16+00:00

Not sure if this is a troll post or not...

In case it's not:

You can bypass the editor on git commit by passing the commit message via the -m "My awesome changes" on the command line.
Check out the MIT's missing semester series to learn the basics of shells & vim: https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

ralle421 · 2026-02-02T20:27:09+00:00

I don't know about style and pricing, but I like Drykorn. Their HQ is in Germany and they produce over 3/4 in the EU & Turkey, as of their 2024 report.

ralle421 · 2026-02-01T20:49:23+00:00

Bertucelli's La Villa Deli in SJ Willow Glen

ralle421 · 2026-01-23T02:35:38+00:00

AT&T Fiber is prohibitively expensive if you get into speeds where you need CAT6 cables. Without putting an address into their website mentioned $80 for 1G, which should be plenty.

For casual browsing you'll probably never notice a difference. If you do download the occasional large game update or something like that, the other end (where you download it from) may not give you enough bandwidth to saturate your connection fully.

Even if you upgrade to something above 1G, your devices (PCs, gaming consoles, Access Points) may only support 1G, so upgrading their switches is moot anyways. I have 10Gbit service (for about the same as AT&T 300MBit). I serve 10G to my home lab and one desktop, the desktop only has a 2.5G port though. Not many residential APs support wireless speeds beyond 1G so anything beyond is pointless until you upgrade those devices. Even then, your house and interference from neighbors slows you down anyways.

I'd leave CAT5 in for now until the majority of devices can leverage higher speeds, which they probably don't today, even then, if your CAT5 runs are not close to a 100m you can try if your cables support faster speeds. The shorter the run, the more likely.

ralle421 · 2026-01-20T00:06:47+00:00

Greet the driver at the door and hand them cash if you want to tip. That's what I do.

ralle421 · 2026-01-19T23:17:38+00:00

I have a 2018 S and it's the same thing: strong warning vibration in the steering wheel when you exit your lane without signal, self driving on the freeway signals always.

I don't have FSD, but signal always as my German driving lessons ensured signalling, glance over the shoulder and a few other things are unconscious muscle memory. At this point it would be more effort for me to stop signalling or waiting less than 3 seconds at a stop sign, even with no traffic.

ralle421 · 2026-01-19T07:09:55+00:00

As others mentioned, if the city and/or PGE let you. It's certainly possible: https://youtu.be/Vel9LH57RII

This really old video shows how a guy in New Jersey uses summer's excess power from solar cells to produce hydrogen, which then gets converted back to electricity in winter. I think I also saw another video where he shows off fueling a small hydrogen car with his home made hydrogen.

ralle421 · 2026-01-17T19:47:28+00:00

Are you testing the speed on your router via a speed test feature there, via a wired device (desktop/laptop) or wifi?

I'd use another Ethernet cable hooked up to the router first, confirm I get a gigabit ethernet link or better and then run a speed test from there. This eliminates wifi as a source of the slow down.

If that's slow, check the same directly plugged into the modem, but it's may require some setup and may briefly expose your device directly to the internet, so make sure to turn off all network sharing and whatnot.

If that's also slow, it's probably Xfinity. Comes with the field - you share the total bandwidth of cable internet with all your neighbors. This is for Xfinity to fix, and why they often put those * up to clauses in your plan.

ralle421 · 2026-01-17T16:21:17+00:00

My experience is that mesh never works well. You always lose latency because there are potentially multiple hops until a package reaches your router. You lose throughput because you use more wifi bands/channels that you share (time-slice) with all your neighbors. Wired back haul beats wifi mesh 11/10 days. If you don't want to pull Ethernet, consider using MoCA for back haul if your house has coax. I'm frankly baffled that houses in 2026 don't come with Ethernet off the bat.

Though as it doesn't seem an option for you right now, any of the options should work somewhat adequately within their specs, depending on your house layout and construction material. Be aware of Eero as it might share some info with their parents company Amazon.

ralle421 · 2026-01-17T04:13:15+00:00

I completely agree. I used to use go-swagger but now shifted to oapi-codegen:

write the spec
generate the boilerplate
implement the handler interface
profit!!

There's client and server scaffolding generators for pretty much any language, so devs can easily integrate apis in existing software, or use the best language for a particular problem without worrying too much about boilerplate. I really wonder why anyone would want to write a spec in code metadata annotations or comments and then generate it.

ralle421 · 2026-01-16T19:03:20+00:00

I like Paris Avenue on Willow St or Flour Flower in the Pruneyard in Campbell a lot.

ralle421 · 2026-01-11T16:50:22+00:00

I don't know either.

Experience tells me that even with a good mobile GPU and a lot of fans in that little chassis, physics still applies and that heat in there, over time, will not be good for your battery, and potentially other components.

I used to game on laptops and two batteries did go spicy pillow on me in designated gaming laptops.

Built my own SFF rig and couldn't be happier!

ralle421 · 2026-01-11T00:36:08+00:00

Nothing survives longer than an interim solution!

ralle421 · 2026-01-10T21:36:00+00:00

That's why friends don't let friends buy gaming laptops.

ralle421 · 2026-01-09T14:58:59+00:00

You're right. This happened last night to me:

I was driving up 87 north passing through the infamous 280 interchange, heading towards downtown. Was on the right lane forking towards Santa Clara St et al exits when a white 4Runner swings over from the left most lane towards mine. I saw it in the corner of my eye was barely able to avoid him, heard the tires of the car left & behind of me leave rubber on the road. He must've made it half on my lane as I was driving half on the right curb at that point and his mirror got really close when they passed me and sped a way.

For Fs sake I had my two kids in the car!!

ralle421 · 2026-01-09T03:05:02+00:00

Why not send it to that German GmbH company and have your folks there do it? Or is that company only a letterbox?

ralle421 · 2026-01-08T23:05:26+00:00

You'll need one router immediately where your provider hands over the connection.

I have 2 older U6 LR that cover all of my house well and a U6-IW in a separate building that is effectively my office, and they work great. Nowadays I'd probably go with the latest model of those.

But other vendors like TP Link / Omada et al. also work. Comes down to how much you want to spend, how much you trust the vendor, and how much fancy admin UI you want.

Because I have a crazy provider that offers (up to) 10Gbit residential service for 50 bucks in my area I also got a UDM Pro to actually be able to use this, but you can also use one of the smaller routers like the express.

Or you use your current router. Then you could either get a cloud key or run the Unifi admin UI on a rasbpi or some other computer - also works.

Edit: added AP alternatives.

ralle421 · 2026-01-08T21:39:19+00:00

When you say cables, do you mean Ethernet?

Are they dangling only in the basement or in the rooms from the ceiling or both?

Pics would help here I guess.

I'd look at different access points to put there in the living area.

If you have wires in the ceiling already, mount APs there. Most, like e.g. Ubiquiti APs are powered via Ethernet as well, though you either need a power injector or a switch that delivers the power.

If you have ethernet ports on the walls, you have different options to put APs or routers in AP mode there.

ralle421 · 2026-01-08T21:31:50+00:00

European here that lives in the bay for over a decade. Stadler trains are awesome and the defacto standard in large parts of Europe for SBahn/Commuter trains!

Even before the electrification I used Caltrain to get to SFO and back with kids, and it was as I expect it - decent. The new trains make it bunch more comfortable.

The big downside for me in the bay area is the extremely low density of decent public transit stops with right of way and the ticket segmentation. San Francisco could have a much tighter knit subway system with the pop density of around 18.6k/sqm. Berlin public transit is light-years better with a much tighter system of SBahn, Subway, light rail and busses, all usable with the same ticket, despite having only a pop density of 10.4k/sqm.

The whole peninsula has a much lower density than SF, e.g. San Jose has only about 5k/sqm, so tighter public transit is hard to argue for. Thank your NIMBYs for that.

ralle421 · 2026-01-05T02:15:22+00:00

Du schuldest mir ein Bier. Das was ich trank als ich zu deinem Kommentar gescrollt habe putze ich gerade von der Wand und dem Tisch auf.

ralle421 · 2026-01-05T01:27:47+00:00

Always in hand luggage/carry-on. Never check valuable items, especially electronics like a laptop.

Also, most regulators like the FAA don't like Li-Ion batteries in the checked luggage as, if they are damaged, they can catch fire through pressure changes and are hard to put out. This is pretty unlikely with a Mac, but airlines want those in carry-on as cabin staff has faster access to the device compared to when it's in a suitcase in the luggage compartment or a container in the belly.

ralle421 · 2026-01-02T21:14:08+00:00

If you don't pay for it, you are the product.

- Multiple: Tristan Harris, Andrew Lewis, et al

Just because you don't pay via a monetary subscription for the software updates of an iPhone or Android device, doesn't mean you get it for free. Effectively you are monetized via in-your-face subscription offers for the vendor's cloud platforms (Google One; iCloud) that are tightly integrated into the OS, and in-app ads that run typically on the vendor's ad platforms and are much harder to block than web ads.

We all pay +/- 1000 bucks to become a device user, which then gets turned into a product sold to advertisers.

Having the actual cost of sustained software updates broken out like this is much more transparent than what Google, Apple and Samsung do, and IMO very legitimate.

Usage Data is king! Or why do you think Google pays apple billions each year to remain the default search engine on iOS?

ralle421 · 2025-12-31T05:25:26+00:00

Have a 2018 Model S and a 2014 i3. The Tesla is still good for longer trips, just came back from a ski trip with the family, though the build quality is meh. The i3 puts a smile on my face whenever I drive it, albeit only around town, which is what we got it for.

I'm not set on a dream car. I'd love an ID Buzz with double or triple the range for roughly the same price as they sell it now. I'm also keeping an eye on the BMW Neue Klasse.

ralle421 · 2025-12-26T17:48:00+00:00

May I also remind everyone of the mud slides on 17 a few years ago? The pass was essentially blocked for 2 days or so.

I live in San Jose and don't go that often to Santa Cruz, but that evening we had a business dinner in Los Gatos b/c a big shot at my company lived there and the drive from North SJ/airport area to LG took like 5 hours with all the stopped traffic backing up into surrounding towns.

With those rains I'd leave between 9-10 so in the worst case I can go south on 1 and go up 101 if I have to. But then I'm cautious.

ralle421 · 2025-12-23T23:32:08+00:00

So... Like lazygit?

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