Zambyte

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by Zambyte 1y ago
They specifically said they want to replace their paper usage.
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by Zambyte 1y ago
I really love that there seems to be a general renewed interest in e-paper devices. I personally have made the Daylight Computer my primary mobile computing device (even over a smartphone, which I really only use if I need GPS, which I only
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by Zambyte 1y ago
> If you create a server client protocol, implementing security is your job. Yes, this goes right along with the tried and true Unix philosophy: do everything, poorly. Wait what?
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by Zambyte 1y ago
The dockerd TCP socket has no auth mechanism by default... You have to wonder why they never focused on that.
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by Zambyte 1y ago
It seems like this is pretty much reimplements std.heap.MemoryPool, no? https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.15.1/std/#std.heap.memor...
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by Zambyte 1y ago
I switched to Dvorak at the same time as switching to a split, columnar keyboard. I have never used Dvorak on a traditional staggered keyboard, and I have never used QWERTY on a split columnar keyboard. By separating the layout usage on suc
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by Zambyte 1y ago
I switched to Dvorak around five years ago now. I decided to switch at the same time as switching to a columnar split keyboard (specifically the ZSA Moonlander, which is still my primary keyboard (my secondary is the ZSA Voyager for travel)
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by Zambyte 1y ago
The original stance of open source is to cater to "free-riding" businesses. That's like, why the term "open source" even exists. You're thinking of the "free software" crowd.
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by Zambyte 1y ago
"you can run anything you want as long as it's not what I don't want you to run" seems like an odd argument to make.
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by Zambyte 1y ago
All software distributed under permissive licenses can be sublicensed under GPLv3 overnight. And all future contributions can only be accepted under GPLv3. Software licensed as exactly GPLv2 (rather than GPLv2 or later) is harder to do this
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by Zambyte 1y ago
Hardware vendors are like creepy ex's that won't let go. You sold the device. Move on. It's not yours anymore.
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by Zambyte 1y ago
If you want a very deep rabbit hole to go down, look into the connections between the Bourbaki group and Twenty One Pilots lore :)
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by Zambyte 1y ago
Suggesting C++ as a solution in the face of "masochist obsession" is... an interesting choice :-D
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by Zambyte 1y ago
Web applications (even those with interactive editing!) can store all data locally instead of remotely if desired. See Excalidraw for a nice example.
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by Zambyte 1y ago
Nim has been on my radar for a while, but I've never really dug into it. I have actually written some small projects in Zig though. Are there things you think Nim does better than Zig?
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by Zambyte 1y ago
I ran some numbers by GPT-5[0], and for the scenario of generating 10k UUIDs in one ms every 10ms, over three years, it came up with a 0.0025% chance of collision for UUIDv7, and a 0.000000084% chance for collision with UUIDv4. [0] https:&
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by Zambyte 1y ago
> isn't the time making it more collision resistant? That seems to depend a whole lot on the pattern your application generates UUIDs in. If you're generating a consistent distribution over time, sure. If you generate a whole l
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by Zambyte 1y ago
"he" is OP btw. Instead of adding the requested details, OP made another issue complaining about the bot closing their issue, and then posted their own issue to HN. This seems like a lot more effort than actually adding the reques
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by Zambyte 1y ago
Is it? I've heard of people using a non-Microsoft terminal on Windows besides git bash and cygwin probably no more often than I could count on one hand. And people don't ever use those for the terminal, but usually for GNU. On the
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by Zambyte 1y ago
Make it legal to build homes
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by Zambyte 1y ago
Cross platform doesn't mean your platforms. I use Ghostty on GNU/Linux and MacOS, because it truly is cross platform.
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by Zambyte 1y ago
jj undo, and jj op log && jj op restore can get you out of any trouble.
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by Zambyte 1y ago
Right, I'm not saying it's impossible in Go, but it's so easy in Lisp you're bound to do it even by accident. There are no "AST utilities" in Lisp because the AST is just a normal list / tree of primitive
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by Zambyte 1y ago
Go is one of the last languages I'd think about when considering access to the AST. The first would be Lisp.
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by Zambyte 1y ago
I would be extremely surprised if they don't get kickback through their existing shopping features. It's just well integrated, so it doesn't look like advertisements.
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by Zambyte 1y ago
Perplexity is also an ad-tech company.
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by Zambyte 1y ago
I think you're still misinterpreting them. It's harder to donate tokens than it is to donate books or a computer. Not all donations are cash. Though, in a sense, I am donating tokens. I run an LLM box at my apartment, and I let so
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by Zambyte 1y ago
Hence the paranoia :-D But I do think adding explicit `comptime` in places like this is reasonable for the sake of conveying intent to other programmers.
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by Zambyte 1y ago
In practice, almost all memory safety related bugs caught by the Rust compiler are caught by the Zig safe build modes at run time. This is strictly worse in isolation, but when you factor in the fact that the rest of the language is much ea
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by Zambyte 1y ago
Do humans that perform below average at economically valuable work not have general intelligence? That sounds like a great definition of AGI if your goal is to sell AGI services. Otherwise it seems pretty bad.

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