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by MarkSweep 7mo ago
There is a middle ground between using XML and imperative code for representing tax forms. Robert Sesek’s ustaxlib [0] uses JavaScript to encode the forms in a way that is reasonably statically analyzable. See the visualizer [1]. My approac
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by MarkSweep 7mo ago
Rejecting a PR for being overly complicated or difficult to understand is valid. Breaking a large change into understandable pieces is an important skill both for making changes reviewable as well as helping the author understand the proble
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by MarkSweep 7mo ago
The link on GitHub to the real site is marked with rel="nofollow". I wonder if it would make sense for GitHub to remove nofollow in some circumstances. Perhaps based on some sort of reputation system or if the site links back to t
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by MarkSweep 7mo ago
By their self reporting, people are already dying in ICE custody. Looking a few reports, it a common occurrence is someone starts having a heart attack and EMS does not arrive until hours later: https://www.ice.gov/detain&#x
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by MarkSweep 7mo ago
Yeah, the article's claim of having a low number of lines of code are disingenuous. Rather than writing some sort of plugin interface, it has "skills" that are a combination of pre-written typescript and English language inst
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by MarkSweep 7mo ago
.NET bothers with it, to support RuntimeHelpers.EnsureSufficientExecutionStack [1] and other things. See the pthreads calls used to here [2]. [1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.runtime...
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by MarkSweep 8mo ago
I think some form of ads made it into the release channel. I recently did a clean install of Windows 11 25H2 and I could not figure out how to get App Store ads out of the search results in the start menu. That and a game working better on
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Show HN: MCP server for SOAP web services(github.com)
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by MarkSweep 9mo ago
Agreed. If the author did not bother to write, much less read, their work, why should we spend time reading it? In the past a large codebase indicated that maybe you might take the project serious, as some human effort was expended in its c
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by MarkSweep 9mo ago
This and the other top story on HN right now ( I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page) [0] make it clear the the most important thing as a software developer is jumping through hoops and being agreeable. It does not matter if it makes sense
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by MarkSweep 9mo ago
I made the switch as well. For many years I dual-booted Ubuntu and Windows, hanging on to my familiarity with Windows and love for Visual Studio. Finally October 2025 some update made games laggy on Windows while they still worked fine on U
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by MarkSweep 9mo ago
The derivatives following jerk are snap, crackle, and pop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth,_fifth,_and_sixth_deriv...
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by MarkSweep 10mo ago
I don’t see how your comment is relevant, none of things you mention are covered in the article. This was an article about logic bugs that can exist in spite of the borrow checker.
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by MarkSweep 10mo ago
Is it really an obvious use case of LLMs? Traditional byte code to source decompilers are faster, use less memory, and are deterministic. Using a LLM to decompile code makes as much sense as using a LLM to compile code. That said there are
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by MarkSweep 11mo ago
Yes, the restrictive license they place on their debugging components is frankly bizarre.
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by MarkSweep 11mo ago
The .NET debugging extension (SOS) is not Windows only, it supports LLDB on Linux in addition to WinDbg: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/diagnostics/de...
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by MarkSweep 11mo ago
I assume this type is for compatibility with the 32-bit BOOL type on Windows. This is a common bugaboo when doing interoperability, as I think languages tend to define bool as a 8-bit value. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
As long as changing the name of the default branch in a Git repo is worthy of the front page of Hacker News: I also changed my defaults this year. My muscle memory has changed so that “main” is now what I expect. I’ll just go with the flow
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
Other people mentioned Zume pizza tried this in the past. Currently there is a company doing this San Mateo call Olhso: https://www.olhsotruck.com/ They have not implemented the Mad Max style of vehicular combat you describ
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
.NET Core got renamed .NET in version 5. .NET Framework is still used as the name of the classic version of .NET that comes with Windows. See here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fundamentals/implem.
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
Yeah, I fear this. This will also make pedestrian bridges that connect housing to transit some that NIMBYs dislike even more. For example.
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
I wonder if Go had a mode where you make it single step every instruction and trigger a GC interrupt on every opcode. That would make it easier to find these kinds of bugs.
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
> I'm curious if anyone has found any serious performance benefit from using a Span<T> or a "public readonly record struct" in a .NET CMS This response is not directly answering that "in a .NET CMS" part of
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
Would you be so lucky if your legacy code was written in a well-known language. At a previous employer we had a big pile code in a “macro” language. It could interface with the main C++ code base. It was similar to assembly language in that
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
Whole Foods is an offender here. They were selling a slice of fresh vegan pizza, which I assumed just had vegetables on it. Instead it had this obscene goopy “vegan cheese” that had more in common with mochi than cheese. (Yes, you can find
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
Sorry, I forgot to include in my comment this part: If you include multiple version of llama, and each of those llama version depends on different GPU libraries, that could balloon the download size. If these GPU libraries change rarely, th
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
I agree. I recently had a side project that had wanted to do for a while, but never could get past the developer's block on. Using a LLM was a great way to overcome this and get a MVP that I could start evolving. https://www
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
Sure, "It's satisfying to write software I believe is a net positive to society used by millions". But, if there was no increase in compensation, you would try to move up the corporate ladder? I'm not trying to invalidat
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
If we are going to talk about 35 years of illumos linkage, we as well go all the way. Using you notation: Solaris <—- SVR4 [0] <—- AT&T System III [1] <—- Bell Labs Version 7 Unix [2] <—- the birth of Unix at Bell Labs in 19
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
32-but ARM support is on its way out: > Support for 32-bit Arm versions of applications will be removed in a future release of Windows 11. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/deprecat... So

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