I'm gonna use this as an opportunity to get some feedback on mine: https://ayman.eldidi.org/articles/unicode-identifiers/
I've had better experience with LLMs translating than any bespoke translation tool, oddly enough. LLMs seemingly have a very good handle on regional varieties. As an example, I've never found a good translator for…
The Acid2 test is the benchmark you’re thinking of, for anyone not aware: acid2.acidtests.org
> The C compiler that Anthropic created or whatever verb your want to use should prove that Claude is capable of doing reasonably complex level of making software. I don't doubt that an LLM would theoretically be…
There's an odd trend with these sorts of posts where the author claims to have had some transformative change in their workflow brought upon by LLM coding tools, but also seemingly has nothing to show for it. To me,…
I'm becoming concerned with the rate at which major software systems seem to be failing as of late. For context, last year I only logged four outages that actually disrupted my work; this quarter alone I'm already on my…
Yep, this sums it up perfectly for me. I tend to stay away from the extra stuff since the quality is hit or miss (more often hit than miss to be fair), but really there’s something special about having something like it…
I use my Nextcloud as a general file storage thing, I just emphasized the photo aspect because that’s my family’s main use case. I have heard of Immich though, perhaps I owe it an honest try someday.
There's some truth to this too honestly. At $JOB we prototyped one of our projects in Rust to evaluate the language for use, and only started using Docker once we chose to move to .NET, since the Rust deployment story…
Yeah that's becoming increasingly true. I guess it really depends on what your setup is.
There's another idea too, that docker is essentially a userspace service manager. It makes things like sandboxing, logging, restarting, etc the same everywhere, which makes having that multi-line build script more…
That's really interesting, I might actually use that for mine too. Thanks for sharing.
I think the "local maximum" we've gotten stuck at for application hosting is having a docker container as the canonical environment/deliverable, and injecting secrets when needed. That makes it easy to run and test…
I read it again and understand what you mean. I apologize for commenting like that so quickly, I was on my phone and typed that comment out before I really had time to digest the contents.
EDIT: I’m leaving the comment up so the replies make sense, but I completely missed the point here. That’s what I get for writing dismissive hacker news comments on my lunch break! I find it kind of hard to take this…
No kidding. I work with an API at my job that does the following: 1. Instead of omitting optional values or at least setting them to null, optional values are set to an empty string when not present (This is including…
It’s important to note that it’s not a matter of effort for Firefox. They’ve decided that the it’s not something they want to implement[1]. The reasoning is that they think it allows low enough level access to…
That seems like a good litmus test question since it has a single correct answer, but a lot of potentially incorrect ones which sound like they might be right (North America has a lot of Hamiltons after all).
My local university used to teach MIPS, and as of some years ago they’ve switched to RISC-V. The final assignment at the time I took it was to write a program which compiles a subset of ARM machine code into RISC-V…
Most likely this. I vividly remember reading this the first time I had heard about STUXNET. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-sophisticated-piece-o... edit: someone beat me to it, I just didn't notice since it…
Nothing is unrepresentable, if I’m not mistaken. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_program_theorem Rather, I think the trade off was more in the realm of “aggressively optimize for what the web does well”. With…
Supposedly, usr was supposed to be “user”[0] but was switched after the Unix guys needed more disk space and split the file system into the / and /usr mount points. Then /home was made because /usr was filled up with…
I believe this is the syntax highlighter’s repo: https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING....
No, you’re definitely right. I’m not sure where the author of this article got the idea that Lebanese citizens are in any way “turning to cryptocurrency”. Most blanket statements about losing faith in banks and whatnot…
How do you guys handle using other libraries? Everything I can see uses stuff like std::vector and the like at API boundaries, and I'm not aware of a way to construct an std::vector without throwing an exception.
I'm gonna use this as an opportunity to get some feedback on mine: https://ayman.eldidi.org/articles/unicode-identifiers/
I've had better experience with LLMs translating than any bespoke translation tool, oddly enough. LLMs seemingly have a very good handle on regional varieties. As an example, I've never found a good translator for…
The Acid2 test is the benchmark you’re thinking of, for anyone not aware: acid2.acidtests.org
> The C compiler that Anthropic created or whatever verb your want to use should prove that Claude is capable of doing reasonably complex level of making software. I don't doubt that an LLM would theoretically be…
There's an odd trend with these sorts of posts where the author claims to have had some transformative change in their workflow brought upon by LLM coding tools, but also seemingly has nothing to show for it. To me,…
I'm becoming concerned with the rate at which major software systems seem to be failing as of late. For context, last year I only logged four outages that actually disrupted my work; this quarter alone I'm already on my…
Yep, this sums it up perfectly for me. I tend to stay away from the extra stuff since the quality is hit or miss (more often hit than miss to be fair), but really there’s something special about having something like it…
I use my Nextcloud as a general file storage thing, I just emphasized the photo aspect because that’s my family’s main use case. I have heard of Immich though, perhaps I owe it an honest try someday.
There's some truth to this too honestly. At $JOB we prototyped one of our projects in Rust to evaluate the language for use, and only started using Docker once we chose to move to .NET, since the Rust deployment story…
Yeah that's becoming increasingly true. I guess it really depends on what your setup is.
There's another idea too, that docker is essentially a userspace service manager. It makes things like sandboxing, logging, restarting, etc the same everywhere, which makes having that multi-line build script more…
That's really interesting, I might actually use that for mine too. Thanks for sharing.
I think the "local maximum" we've gotten stuck at for application hosting is having a docker container as the canonical environment/deliverable, and injecting secrets when needed. That makes it easy to run and test…
I read it again and understand what you mean. I apologize for commenting like that so quickly, I was on my phone and typed that comment out before I really had time to digest the contents.
EDIT: I’m leaving the comment up so the replies make sense, but I completely missed the point here. That’s what I get for writing dismissive hacker news comments on my lunch break! I find it kind of hard to take this…
No kidding. I work with an API at my job that does the following: 1. Instead of omitting optional values or at least setting them to null, optional values are set to an empty string when not present (This is including…
It’s important to note that it’s not a matter of effort for Firefox. They’ve decided that the it’s not something they want to implement[1]. The reasoning is that they think it allows low enough level access to…
That seems like a good litmus test question since it has a single correct answer, but a lot of potentially incorrect ones which sound like they might be right (North America has a lot of Hamiltons after all).
My local university used to teach MIPS, and as of some years ago they’ve switched to RISC-V. The final assignment at the time I took it was to write a program which compiles a subset of ARM machine code into RISC-V…
Most likely this. I vividly remember reading this the first time I had heard about STUXNET. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-sophisticated-piece-o... edit: someone beat me to it, I just didn't notice since it…
Nothing is unrepresentable, if I’m not mistaken. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_program_theorem Rather, I think the trade off was more in the realm of “aggressively optimize for what the web does well”. With…
Supposedly, usr was supposed to be “user”[0] but was switched after the Unix guys needed more disk space and split the file system into the / and /usr mount points. Then /home was made because /usr was filled up with…
I believe this is the syntax highlighter’s repo: https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING....
No, you’re definitely right. I’m not sure where the author of this article got the idea that Lebanese citizens are in any way “turning to cryptocurrency”. Most blanket statements about losing faith in banks and whatnot…
How do you guys handle using other libraries? Everything I can see uses stuff like std::vector and the like at API boundaries, and I'm not aware of a way to construct an std::vector without throwing an exception.