Uptrenda

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by Uptrenda 2y ago
Yeah, you pretty much just described some of the worst interview experiences I've ever had. Seeing you write it here like this makes me feel much less alone. Thought I'd say I appreciate it.
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Building a Polymorphic Installer with NSIS(roberts.pm)
3 points by Uptrenda 2y ago|0 comments
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by Uptrenda 2y ago
Yeah, if you think thats bad I once had someone submit a pull request linting my entire projects code. It was like a single 20k+ line change. I would have had to have read every line changed to make sure it wasn't malicious to merge th
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by Uptrenda 2y ago
Quite honestly I'd tell you not to mix threads with asyncio. As you note: IO bound tasks aren't CPU hogs and there's little benefit to mixing it with threads. It will lead to unnecessary bugs, complexity, and problems with ev
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by Uptrenda 2y ago
My thoughts exactly. Python was supposed to be this ultra-portable thing. But... I am finding myself having to write patches to get my software to work on different Python versions. People who have Python 3 installed can be on many differen
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by Uptrenda 2y ago
wanted to thank you all for the amazing advice. I'm studying your thoughts and appreciate it. I think this stuff is useful and the posts here are golden.
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Ask HN: How do you deal with overly negative comments?
21 points by Uptrenda 2y ago|29 comments
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Install any Python 3 package by renaming an EXE (Windows)(github.com)
2 points by Uptrenda 2y ago|1 comments
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by Uptrenda 2y ago
Not controversial, just wrong.
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by Uptrenda 2y ago
Why are they airing their dirty laundry like this? None of what they've said makes either side look good. In fact it makes OpenAI look like the money-obsessed hypocrites we always knew them to be.
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by Uptrenda 2y ago
To me it seems like magic that we possess the ability to analyse the structure of a chemical sample and then synthesize it. That is real life alchemy. I know about some of these technologies for analysing samples. But they're all expen
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by Uptrenda 2y ago
>Batteries that can store the internet in them for when your connection goes down. This idea is kind of great though. Remember that mcmaster car website? One reason it was so fast is it would silently download the next pages before you v
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by Uptrenda 2y ago
You could easily turn these ideas into a poster. Get the funniest ideas and sell them as merch.
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by Uptrenda 2y ago
I find that the gun and silencer were 3D printed really quite fascinating (also maybe why people were saying the gun jammed -- less reliable?) I knew you could 3D print guns (not sure if the whole thing can be 3D printed.) But it would seem
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by Uptrenda 2y ago
'It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch.' Wait... what? Google said this and not som
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by Uptrenda 2y ago
I think whether you 'succeed' or 'fail' on a side project they are still valuable. No matter if you can't finish it or it turns out different to how you imagined -- you get to come away as a better version of yourse
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by Uptrenda 2y ago
I was there, anon... I was there 11 years ago when the $100k Bitcoin was proposed... One had only to outstretch their hand and all the Bitcoins would be yours. But the coins, it seemed, had a will of their own. The fearful and the weak were
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by Uptrenda 2y ago
This is somewhat true but their fork of Openwrt is horribly out of date, very hacked, and has a baby interface that doesn't fully provide what openwrt can do. I found myself having to manually edit files on the routers shell. I mean my
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by Uptrenda 2y ago
The blockchain industry is basically founded on incompetence. If you go back to early Silk Road and Mtgox you can see some shocking things. Like the founders were posting questions on Stackoverflow about database basics. They then ended up
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by Uptrenda 2y ago
I think OpenWRT is the right approach at this point. Open source really excels where there is a 'commons.' We all have a shared interest in secure networks. Commercialized gate keeping of router firmware doesn't make sense. T
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by Uptrenda 2y ago
Yeah, this doesn't surprise me one bit. The number of vulns that get patched in home routers is staggering (D-Link is particularly shit-tier and known for this.) If there's that many vulns being fixed then imagine the backlog of u
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by Uptrenda 2y ago
Yeah, I'd strongly, strongly, in fact plead for people not to try this challenge. When it comes to 'compressing' random data: every single bit in random information is 'significant.' I am quite sure that the problem
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by Uptrenda 2y ago
This reminds my of 'chaos engineering' and the approach that Shopify took with 'Toxiproxy.' Toxyproxy is this elegant system that provides a REST API for spawn proxy servers. The proxy instances can have 'toxics&#x2
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by Uptrenda 2y ago
It's probably just money laundering.
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Ask HN: Have you found any unusual hacks for motivation [that work]?
5 points by Uptrenda 2y ago|3 comments
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by Uptrenda 2y ago
I think its cool but am I the only one that doesn't really think the web is a good platform for this? Like, VM stuff needs to be as close to bare metal as possible to be fast. There's special processor features that make virtualis
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by Uptrenda 2y ago
Imagine putting all that effort into 'decentralization' and then building literally, the most Orwellian, cucked version of the Internet possible. See the thing with free speech is that a lot of views that might be concerned '
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by Uptrenda 2y ago
Despite crypto getting easier and easier + more main stream. You often don't see it used that often. Even in ((('"```blockchain'"```))) projects (wink emoji; skull emoji; frown; picture of a chart crashing.) I welco
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by Uptrenda 2y ago
All this pay-as-you-go BS is such a scam (note: I'm not blaming victims here.) There's just so many ways to screw you. Like a program gets bug and starts sending out a metric crap load of traffic. Or you get DDoSed and charged for
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by Uptrenda 2y ago
It has expressions that seem like they could lead to much shorter code. I suspect it would take some time to get used to though...

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