anitil

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   by anitil 1y ago

   I agree that Waymo video was probably a poor decision. He does say that the video is sponsored but it just comes off a bit odd. It's not uncommon that youtubers are paid either in money or access - Destin for example gets access to mil
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   by anitil 1y ago

   I think I remember he did a video explaining that changing the title and thumbnail gives a significant bump in views so that a video can become evergreen. CGP Grey mentioned doing this and hitting 1B total views years earlier than he expect
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   by anitil 1y ago

   My approach is usually: start building the thing -> 'hmm a DSL would really make this easier' -> 'hmm I think it needs a custom parser' -> project dead
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   by anitil 1y ago

   I just watched that Andrew Kelly one yesterday, and really enjoyed it. I think Zig needs to be my next language to play with.
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   by anitil 1y ago

   I love this, but I wonder what your plan is to prevent denial-of-service against, for example, government services?
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   by anitil 1y ago

   I find this difficult to navigate sometimes because I find myself looking around the room and wondering "we don't really believe this, right?" but I can never quite be sure
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   by anitil 1y ago

   You're right, my read on it was that there's some randomness to the changes of direction, I'm not sure what that would be called
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   by anitil 1y ago

   One of the youtubers [0] I follow uses a Delaunay triangulation pattern on points that I _think_ are doing a random walk as their intro screen. There's something very satisfying about this pattern. I'm not sure how the choice of c
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   by anitil 1y ago

   Very nice project, interesting that there's a couple header-only projects on the front page today [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44556318
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    by anitil 1y ago

    I was wondering how it would do arbitrary-sized kernels without dynamic allocation (my guess was that it would use the input/output buffer as a temporary storage). The answer is that there's a _slight_ asterix to the 'zero-al
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    by anitil 1y ago

    Oof that's a near miss. That's the sort of hard-to-find issue that keeps me up at night. Although maybe these days some ai tool would be able to pick them up
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    by anitil 1y ago

    While in general I'd agree, this isn't necessarily just for bash scripts. It could just wrap the execution of another program allowing higher-level logic to handle concurrency and the low-level program to do it's one-at-a-tim
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    by anitil 1y ago

    This was my first thought and I suppose flock(1) could be used to recreate a lot of this. But it does come with some other quality-of-life improvements like being able to list all currently-used locks, having a lock holdable by N processes
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    by anitil 1y ago

    I would love to hear about the security issue if you're able to talk about it
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    by anitil 1y ago

    Just this morning I was wondering about using an in-process redis instance for either mocking for unit/integration test and also just as a convenient logical boundary. It looks like this would fit the bill, either with an in-memory sql
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    by anitil 1y ago

    This is from the deranged mind that brought you 'Every UUID' [0]. The technical breakdown was really interesting, it even handles En Passant and rollbacks! I'm continually impressed how much can be done with so little with a
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    by anitil 1y ago

    This is really cool. I was initially skeptical about the 'AI' pitch on your page but having played with it I think that should be your number one pitch, particularly on HN. For people reading: Using FakerJS and any Yaml/Json
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    by anitil 1y ago

    If you're using protobuf you can still use text as it turns out [0] [0] https://protobuf.dev/reference/protobuf/textformat-spec/
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    by anitil 1y ago

    There's a big range of 'embedded' from CR2032-powered low-profile devices up to mains-powered logging devices with no size constraints. I agree in the first case you're unlikely to want GC but in the latter case it proba
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    by anitil 1y ago

    I'm not sure what the solution is here - some forums put people in a 'probationary' state for a while where they either can't post or have extra scrutiny. There's some spoiling of the commons going on here that I ca
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    by anitil 1y ago

    > Anyone making a production quality compiler these days needs to be using high volume random testing How is this done these days, do people just set up CI workflows for this or have dedicated machines running tests 24/7?
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    by anitil 1y ago

    I'm really enjoying this series, and this one is a good example of how working with hardware can be really difficult as manufacturers aren't always fully open (or honest) about device's capabilities. But typically you don&#x2
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    by anitil 1y ago

    Well there you go, I learnt something today. My spidey sense told me to be wary of overflow but I suppose I was wrong
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    by anitil 1y ago

    I once used the phrase 'Enterprise Software' in front of a friend. To explain what I meant I asked "What software do you use at work in the hospital?". They rolled their eyes. Exactly.
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    by anitil 1y ago

    If you are looking for an offline solution, one I came across recently as a python one-liner (requires faker) python3 -c 'print(__import__("faker").Faker().bs())'
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    by anitil 1y ago

    Ah ok as an outsider it's hard for me to recognise that
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    by anitil 1y ago

    Reading and learning about these is like peering in to a world of mystery. I know I'm looking at something interesting and important but it always sits just out of reach
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    by anitil 1y ago

    A question as a non-American that I hope will be taken in the spirit of enquiry. I am hearing a lot more about ICE raids, particularly on reddit. Is this an artefact of more attention to raids that have been going on for years, or is there
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    by anitil 1y ago

    I know that this is the outcome they're hoping for, but my usual behaviour is: > Do nothing It makes me a little bit mad but having $50 'stolen' from me just feels like par for the course these days.
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    by anitil 1y ago

    The IOT and embedded space is simultaneously obsessed with IP protection, fuse protecting code etc, and incapable of managing the life cycle of secrets. I worked at one company that actually did it well on-device, but neglected they had to