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by QuadrupleA 1y ago
Also be careful not to reach for system design when you only need software design: https://lukerissacher.com/blog/optimizing_your_web_app
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by QuadrupleA 1y ago
Hopefully decency reduces the necessary price a little.
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by QuadrupleA 1y ago
Everybody here is coldly evaluating the financial profit comparison. How about being a decent human being, and not enabling hundreds of criminals to hurt millions of people because your net income is potentially better?
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by QuadrupleA 1y ago
$50m more than Oxide Computer, a company actually building something, just raised. For what exactly? A free python distro, doing some vague AI pivot?
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by QuadrupleA 1y ago
Side note, sick of jQuery being always associated with spaghetti in the tech lexicon. Any Turing-complete system is spaghetti in the hands of bad programmers. And simple & clear in the hands of good ones who know how to design.
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by QuadrupleA 1y ago
Recently moved to Arch Linux after 25+ years on Windows. It was a LOT of work (my whole career is on the computer and I have a lot of custom scripts and tools), but I'm so happy with the result. No more hundreds of background processes
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by QuadrupleA 1y ago
Wouldn't printing a QR code be way easier? If it's just for retro fun / Rube Goldberginess than nevermind, carry on :)
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by QuadrupleA 1y ago
What are you doing with Zapier that you couldn't do with your own code, or carefully curated small set of libraries? For networked services, the REST APIs of popular providers (Stripe, AWS, etc.) are usually kept backwards compatible f
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by QuadrupleA 1y ago
From experience - if you look at the "security flaws" in detail that updates and patches address, an app with good dependency hygiene is rarely vulnerable to them, and doesn't need the purported fixes. So in those cases it&#x
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by QuadrupleA 1y ago
This always saddens me. We could have things instant , simple, and compute & storage would be 100x more abundant in practical terms than it is today. It's not even a trade off a lot of the time, simpler architectures perform bette
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Stop Running from Boredom [video](youtube.com)
1 points by QuadrupleA 1y ago|0 comments
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
I personally don't think this "use a dependency for every little thing" npm development style is good for software quality, performance, maintainability, etc. The complaints I see about Python in this regard seem to be coming
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
This article is sort of just a paraphrase of the Tiobe release announcement: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
"Age of inference", "age of Gemini", bleh. Google's doing some amazing work but I hate how they communicate - vague, self-serving, low signal-to-noise slop. It's like they take some interesting wood carving of
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Not quite true though - I've occasionally passed a codebase to DeepSeek to have it simplify, and it does a decent job. Can even "code golf" if you ask it. But the sentiment is true, by default current LLMs produce verbose, ov
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
That seems crazy - millions of $ on GPUs but they can't afford some cheap storage? And direct network scraping seems super high latency. Although I guess a massive pretaining run might cycle through the corpus very slowly. Dunno, sound
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Isn't this just poor, sloppy crawler implementation? You shouldn't need to fetch a repo more than once to add it to a training set.
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Ah, the elimination of payroll, that annoying business expense.
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Algorithmic feeds were about when I stopped feeling proud of Silicon Valley.
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Manually - I want as slim/minimal/resource-efficient a setup as I can, and to understand what I'm configuring.
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
You may have just forgotten the pain of the learning curve? Admittedly postfix & dovecot are way more sane than rspamd. But their whole default config (and something like 50% of the options and documentation) are oriented around UNIX sy
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Wow... having just gone through a 20+ hour byzantine nightmare of setting up postfix & dovecot (that's on top of an already deep understanding of SMTP, DKIM, SPF, DMARC, SASL, etc.) and now struggling through an even more kafkaesqu
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Maybe just my present frustration, but I spent the day revising the Aider AI editor's code because it barely even works without git. It relies on git just to list the files in a directory, and so turns off most of it's cool featur
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Sort of repeating a nested comment, but - I've been using fossil ( https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki ) for years and absolutely love it. Single executable you just download and pu
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Been using it for years and absolutely love and highly recommend it. Single executable you just download and put in your path. Sane, well-documented interface. Full repo in a single SQLite file. Highly intelligent and efficient diff-based s
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
I avoid apps too if I can. So rare that the app does anything a website can't. Indeed most apps are implemented with embedded browsers. It's about tracking, and push notifications. Full stop.
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
You can hover to get the page types (title attributes) and learn the color scheme that way, although it's not super clear. And yeah, large DBs get slow; pages are iterated "server side" which can take a while when there are h
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Ha, honored :) When I was hacking this together the thought did occur, "I bet this is up SimonW's alley." Thanks for all the great LLM experiments & writeups.
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Show HN: SQLite disk page explorer(github.com)
288 points by QuadrupleA 2y ago|41 comments
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Had a lot of fun with this last week, played 10-20 games. It does reach a point where you can beat every game, I found myself craving an extended version that introduces some new elements. One gripe, the code is incredibly inefficient - my

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