So far I'm the only one here who has provided any numbers. All you and soperj have provided are unsubstantiated claims. Why don't you do some analysis on the "scope of all software" and get back to me? Given the scale,…
The assertion I was addressing is that copyfree code "just ends up being incorporated into someone else's commercial product, with no contributions". My post proved that copyfree code bases actually do receive…
> FBI should not run surveillance Ops on Right activists, J6 rioters I think an important distinction here ICE is Immigration and Customs Enforcement, so they have no reason to be spying on US citizens unless we're…
I'd be willing to spend that much if it unlocked the ability to run top-of-the-line open weight models at their best quantization at a decent enough speed for personal agentic use. We're clearly not there yet, and I…
> A fully static binary can run in `FROM scratch`. Not just `FROM scratch` but also in other contexts. For example: I wrote my own password manager which lives on a USB drive. Since I compiled a static binary, I can…
> Does anyone use/like touch on their windows (linux?) laptops My retired parents. When they borrow my laptop, I see them trying to touch my regular non-touch screen.
> no contributions That's just obviously not true. Check out the commit history on FreeBSD and look at all the contributions from Netflix. Off the top of my head they contributed kTLS and asynchronous sendfile which…
One thing I'm cautiously watching is NixBSD. With nix you can trivially compile all your software from source and modify it (both of which I do on the Linux-based NixOS). So I think that would cover the main selling…
Woah, TIL! My Alpine Linux world view has just been shattered. Static linking was frankly *the* selling point of Alpine Linux for me and it turns out I was just plain wrong.
Neat project. One thing I don't see covered: is everything going to be statically linked like it is on Alpine Linux? Is statically linking libc advisable on a NetBSD kernel? I know (unlike Linux) on FreeBSD the kernel…
twitter format? I've never used twitter (aside from following links when they are posted on HN) so I have no idea what you're referring to. My only association with the phrase "twitter format" is the 140 character limit…
Indeed, the one mistake I keep seeing new people make when writing Dockerfiles is writing them in a way that doesn't optimize for caching. For example, they'll copy their code into the container first and then start…
This is a strange question because you could learn Dockerfile syntax in a single night. There are only 18 directives, and the average Dockerfile uses like 6 of them. 90%+ of Dockerfiles is just "run this shell command"…
> narrow tools specific things like ripgrep Ripgrep has the `--pre` flag and `--hostname-bin` flag that enables it to execute arbitrary commands. > finding files, [...] Does that tool invoke the `find` command? Because…
> Water, food, housing, healthcare, telecommunications, computing > planet that provides all those things and more for free This planet does not provide healthcare, telecommunications, or computing for free (unless you…
This is very helpful! I hadn't noticed that small code link at the top. Thank you.
I don't know your full situation, but as someone who has gone through full-blown real burnout: it's not worth it. In this economic situation, we do need to grind to keep our jobs but if you're getting close to burn-out…
Wow. "I would like to understand this information, but the way it is presented is unfamiliar to me. If we had the exact same information written in a different way, I would be able to understand it." "You are the…
> You said "this is software development site". I disagree with that premise Looking at the HN front page right now, of the 30 posts, 19/30 (63%) are about software or software companies. I think "this is software…
That is not an accurate read of my post. My post was about two things: 1. The notation used 2. The lack of concrete examples I'm not saying they should remove any of the content, just put it in a form more accessible to…
> I said to move on They're the same thing on an internet forum. There is no space to move through, so while in the physical world "move on" is different from "shut up", on an online forum they both mean exactly the…
"If you don't understand something, shut up!" Got it. Stay classy HN.
I had no idea it used to be called Startup News! When I joined in 2012 this site was "essentially /r/programming but for more serious programmers and without jokes"
I'm not suggesting they drop any math. I'm suggesting they drop the math notation. As programmers, we spend 8+ hours per day reading code. Expressing the same math but in the syntax of code would make it accessible to…
Not sure I'm understanding you correctly, but it sounds like you're saying that I said that this post doesn't belong here? I said no such thing. I said this article is "unhelpful for *me*" but "deeply relevant to this…
So far I'm the only one here who has provided any numbers. All you and soperj have provided are unsubstantiated claims. Why don't you do some analysis on the "scope of all software" and get back to me? Given the scale,…
The assertion I was addressing is that copyfree code "just ends up being incorporated into someone else's commercial product, with no contributions". My post proved that copyfree code bases actually do receive…
> FBI should not run surveillance Ops on Right activists, J6 rioters I think an important distinction here ICE is Immigration and Customs Enforcement, so they have no reason to be spying on US citizens unless we're…
I'd be willing to spend that much if it unlocked the ability to run top-of-the-line open weight models at their best quantization at a decent enough speed for personal agentic use. We're clearly not there yet, and I…
> A fully static binary can run in `FROM scratch`. Not just `FROM scratch` but also in other contexts. For example: I wrote my own password manager which lives on a USB drive. Since I compiled a static binary, I can…
> Does anyone use/like touch on their windows (linux?) laptops My retired parents. When they borrow my laptop, I see them trying to touch my regular non-touch screen.
> no contributions That's just obviously not true. Check out the commit history on FreeBSD and look at all the contributions from Netflix. Off the top of my head they contributed kTLS and asynchronous sendfile which…
One thing I'm cautiously watching is NixBSD. With nix you can trivially compile all your software from source and modify it (both of which I do on the Linux-based NixOS). So I think that would cover the main selling…
Woah, TIL! My Alpine Linux world view has just been shattered. Static linking was frankly *the* selling point of Alpine Linux for me and it turns out I was just plain wrong.
Neat project. One thing I don't see covered: is everything going to be statically linked like it is on Alpine Linux? Is statically linking libc advisable on a NetBSD kernel? I know (unlike Linux) on FreeBSD the kernel…
twitter format? I've never used twitter (aside from following links when they are posted on HN) so I have no idea what you're referring to. My only association with the phrase "twitter format" is the 140 character limit…
Indeed, the one mistake I keep seeing new people make when writing Dockerfiles is writing them in a way that doesn't optimize for caching. For example, they'll copy their code into the container first and then start…
This is a strange question because you could learn Dockerfile syntax in a single night. There are only 18 directives, and the average Dockerfile uses like 6 of them. 90%+ of Dockerfiles is just "run this shell command"…
> narrow tools specific things like ripgrep Ripgrep has the `--pre` flag and `--hostname-bin` flag that enables it to execute arbitrary commands. > finding files, [...] Does that tool invoke the `find` command? Because…
> Water, food, housing, healthcare, telecommunications, computing > planet that provides all those things and more for free This planet does not provide healthcare, telecommunications, or computing for free (unless you…
This is very helpful! I hadn't noticed that small code link at the top. Thank you.
I don't know your full situation, but as someone who has gone through full-blown real burnout: it's not worth it. In this economic situation, we do need to grind to keep our jobs but if you're getting close to burn-out…
Wow. "I would like to understand this information, but the way it is presented is unfamiliar to me. If we had the exact same information written in a different way, I would be able to understand it." "You are the…
> You said "this is software development site". I disagree with that premise Looking at the HN front page right now, of the 30 posts, 19/30 (63%) are about software or software companies. I think "this is software…
That is not an accurate read of my post. My post was about two things: 1. The notation used 2. The lack of concrete examples I'm not saying they should remove any of the content, just put it in a form more accessible to…
> I said to move on They're the same thing on an internet forum. There is no space to move through, so while in the physical world "move on" is different from "shut up", on an online forum they both mean exactly the…
"If you don't understand something, shut up!" Got it. Stay classy HN.
I had no idea it used to be called Startup News! When I joined in 2012 this site was "essentially /r/programming but for more serious programmers and without jokes"
I'm not suggesting they drop any math. I'm suggesting they drop the math notation. As programmers, we spend 8+ hours per day reading code. Expressing the same math but in the syntax of code would make it accessible to…
Not sure I'm understanding you correctly, but it sounds like you're saying that I said that this post doesn't belong here? I said no such thing. I said this article is "unhelpful for *me*" but "deeply relevant to this…