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by _benj 3y ago
> I now value simplicity more than I did before and I find myself scowling at some of the advanced modern programming features, grumbling that they exist to solve uncommon problems or, worse, to provide an exciting toy to otherwise bored
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by _benj 3y ago
I’m so sorry to hear that :-( I’ve been in the grind of trying to get a startup off the ground and not succeeding. I’m personally am not in a position to make purchases decisions and that makes me think that that might be one of the challen
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by _benj 3y ago
In a team I was a part of some years ago I had the distinct feeling of being able to tell which one of my teammates wrote what code. Something in the favorite methods to solve problems, variable names and so on (it was in Python where you h
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by _benj 3y ago
hehe! I see it as great marketing, possibly decreasing churn (although Kagi subscribers seem among the most enthusiastic I've seen around!) and just generally continuing with the tred of goodwill towards users (the opposite of the usua
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by _benj 3y ago
This news makes me so happy! With the trend that the tech industry seems to be taking towards enshitification (I might be quite cynical...) Kagi proves that is possible to make profitable business differently! Congrats!!
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by _benj 3y ago
I've borrowed money from family and it can be sticky depending on the situation. Make sure to be as clear as possible of the risks and be clear to yourself first and to them when will you cut your loses if things go south. Otherwise, t
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by _benj 3y ago
I admire the reaction of BambooLabs! They could have taken an aggressive stance, push a firmware to block rooting, take legal action or whatever… but instead they are giving the user a choice! It’s quite opposite to a lot of other business
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by _benj 3y ago
This makes me happy! Phoenix and RoR before it have proven to be incredibly productive but the issues with types and runtime errors IMHO made it easy to break stuff. Types should pass a whole range of runtime errors to build time error, whi
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by _benj 3y ago
I might be totally misled here but, why would a company need to turn to such practices? Like, I’ve heard about enshitification but, can there be a company that provides a service, is profitable, the customer are happy and that is that? No n
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by _benj 3y ago
> a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool Honestly this is not a terrible approach. Years ago I bought TLPI and TAOE and have in felt a little guilty when I see them in my library (TBH being displayed with
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by _benj 3y ago
Depending on your level of interest you could learn some hacking. I have used tryhackme.com (no affiliation) in the past and loved it! It’s kind of enlightening and empowering to understand how a hacker thinks, the actual tools they use and
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by _benj 3y ago
It might sounds old and something that somebody always says, but emacs org mode is absolutely fantastic!! I picked it up just a few days ago because I needed to keep notes, code, links, tables… just general information as I worked on projec
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by _benj 3y ago
Yeah, for the the results of kagi are so much better than anything else, that it makes me wonder how objective can one be measuring search results. I use google in a clients computer and it’s just horrible. But it could also be a factor of
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by _benj 3y ago
I don’t think is a bot thing but a people thing… when there’s a sudden grow in volume whoever sees that assumes that whoever took that position knows something that they don’t know and thus taking a similar position is often a “sensible” ac
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by _benj 3y ago
Idk about “dear” but ImGUI I believe stand for “immediate mode graphical user interface”
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by _benj 3y ago
I hear you there. After getting frustrated enough with gnome 3 to jump to plasma I quickly came to discover that tweaking whatever you want on the desktop is way easier than what I thought. Literally just right click on the thing and disabl
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Dear ImGui: Graphical User Interface library for C++(github.com)
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An open source cross-platform USB stack for embedded system(github.com)
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Open source ARM Cortex-M microcontroller library(github.com)
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by _benj 3y ago
I mean, KiCad, Scribus, InkScape! All professional tools that power my business
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by _benj 3y ago
Thanks for the reply and analysis!
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by _benj 3y ago
Oh, I like this!! I might need to look deeper but how is memory management done? It seems like there’s some allocation happening on the background? For example, the split() or string_to_json(), some memory is happening somewhere. I ask for
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by _benj 3y ago
I mean, I once got an email with my password in plain text and it was pretty disturbing. I did a quick search and realized that that password wasn’t used in anything I cared about so, I just went about my day, still disturbed but knowing th
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by _benj 3y ago
There’s also an active community of 9Planers in sdf. They do regular boot camps and try to help people learn how to use 9 Plan. https://sdf.org/plan9/
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by _benj 3y ago
I hope to find a more consistent use for guix, is just that I mostly forget about it. My default package manager (xbps) has pretty much everything I need and the rest are either so obscure that I need to patch and compile by hand or are pro
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by _benj 3y ago
Came here to write this. Is a wealth of “common sense” that is anything but common nowadays
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by _benj 3y ago
I’ve been running a ubiquiti router and AP without any issues for years. I don’t remember having to restart it, there will be times that that I just turn everything off and on again, but it’s not usually at all. A few months ago I upgraded
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Ask HN: Software You Are Thankful For
3 points by _benj 3y ago|2 comments
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by _benj 3y ago
I've been enjoying purelymail quite a bit
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Here in America we have something called “term” life insurance which pretty much is just limited to say, “if you die in 20 years” I find that insurance a lot more reasonable because looking at it from a lifetime cost it makes a lot of sense

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