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by chubot 2y ago
People used to have phone calls for this! It was on the way out even 15 years ago, but a simple telephone call can get people unblocked pretty efficiently
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by chubot 2y ago
Yeah totally, the fact that it has all this extra design makes me imagine a mid sized paid team behind it, with ghost writers. The voice of this blog post does sound a little corporate, tbh
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by chubot 2y ago
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou This applies to so many things ... people don't remember what happened, or
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by chubot 2y ago
Hm this reminds me that the Python stdlib has grown a module for topological sorting fo a graph: https://docs.python.org/3/library/graphlib.html I haven't used it yet, I'd be curious if anyone has
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by chubot 2y ago
This is largely a browser UI and browser control issue though There’s a reason google pays both Apple and Mozilla billions to be the default on Safari and Firefox. And why MS makes its own browser, as a complement to its search engine So y
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by chubot 2y ago
As mentioned in another reply, being able to take the address of any value implies supporting interior pointers (pointers into the middle of a value) This is hard to implement in a memory-safe language. For example, the new WASM GC virtual
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Everyone quotes command line arguments the wrong way (on Windows)(learn.microsoft.com)
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by chubot 2y ago
This approach creates an odd mini language, which is incomplete: comptime assert(std.mem.indexOfScalar(u8, cmd, '\'') == null); // Quoting isn't supported yet. comptime assert(std.mem.indexOfScalar(u8
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by chubot 2y ago
I generally agree with the 4 tier categorization: 1. C/C++/Rust 2. Java/Go/OCaml 3. MyPy, TypeScript 4. Python, JavaScript But I'd also add 2 or 3 more tiers: 5. String-ish languages witho
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by chubot 2y ago
Yes sorry, if you install the latest oils-for-unix binary - https://oils.pub/release/latest/ - Then you will get a symlink called "ysh". It's also available in a few distros, HomeBrew, etc. As menti
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by chubot 2y ago
What kind of bugs have you experienced or are you worried about? Backup software shouldn’t need to be frequently updated
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by chubot 2y ago
I also felt it odd to hold up Silence of the Lambs as some kind of a paragon of achievement. I saw it when I was a kid once, and I recognize the memes/lines from it, and I know it occupies a certain place in culture ... but otherwi
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by chubot 2y ago
This is not code. This is configuration. FWIW we've been working on letting you declare data in YSH, a new Unix shell. So you can arbitrarily interleave code and data, with the same syntax. The config dialect is called "Hay&quo
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by chubot 2y ago
What's crazy is that Firefox on Debian has been nagging me for weeks that I won't be able to use it after March 14th? I have never seen those nag screens in Firefox, near the bookmarks toolbar. I think that is working around De
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by chubot 2y ago
This is what has always been missing at google IMO - there is a launch and promo and move on incentive, which is essentially the opposite of ownership There was also a related culture of deprecation, which offloads work onto consumers of an
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by chubot 2y ago
The blog post notes that it is poorly engineered and slow, which makes me glad I don't have to use Apple dev tools for anything
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by chubot 2y ago
There is a risk, but I think you're overstating it I think the shared hosting companies have issues because of customers who host "grayware" and the like, although I'd probably agree they don't have enough security
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by chubot 2y ago
For reference, this post prompted a lot of discussion on lobste.rs: https://lobste.rs/s/f5ziu7/comments_on_shared_unix_hosting_v...
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by chubot 2y ago
Interesting, thanks for the response! I guess my argument is that there are products that people want, that aren't financially viable under the current model I think Plan A is evidence of that -- investors want to fund hockey stick gro
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by chubot 2y ago
I'm glad you liked the article! I hope to write some follow-ups -- this kind of thing has been bugging me for 1 to 2 decades :-) I think it's mainly the stability. I don't think it should be that hard to serve some static w
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by chubot 2y ago
Yeah definitely, Sandstorm was a good effort ... they did use plain cgroups and Linux kernel features from what I remember. To me, it shows that the economics are hard. Writing things like Sandstorm isn't trivial, and having paid empl
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by chubot 2y ago
(author here) Yeah this is something I'd like in a host Google used/uses cgroups with just plain UID isolation, no namespaces (of course this was for mostly trusted internal users, although they became less and less trusted over t
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by chubot 2y ago
(author here) Oh interesting, I haven't heard of them I imagine this is a PHP site? They say: cPanel or DirectAdmin with all the goodies: Litespeed, LSCache, PHP8, JetBackup & more I have a PHP app, but also some Python apps ...
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by chubot 2y ago
What if I go to a dinner party and someone lies or omits crucial facts? I guess take it for what it is -- it's a conversation recorded on YouTube ... maybe don't be fooled by the suit and the mics. Anyone can buy those, there is
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by chubot 2y ago
I don't actually see a problem with that ... He is uncritical, yes. But he doesn't deny being uncritical. It's a useful "service" to get people with diametrically opposite viewpoints to talk freely, and he does tha
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by chubot 2y ago
Fridman gets his guests to open up, which is valuable, but yes he does that by being uncritical of basically all guests ... For example, I didn't know who Vivek R was before a month or so ago, and I watched the Fridman interview with h
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by chubot 2y ago
I liked the original article - since I've looked at semgrep, and I'm also hoping "closing the loop" can fix some of the downsides of LLMs I'm also willing to bet money, and I'd even thought of a challenge for 1
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by chubot 2y ago
We should update mental models of who works on open source accordingly [corporations vs individuals] I would like to see some numbers on how much code labeled "open source" (as opposed to having more of a free software ideology)
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The problem is that such a conclusion is not stable We could decide this one minute, and the next minute it will be UN-decided There is no "global world order", no global authority -- it is a shifting balance of power --- A more l
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by chubot 2y ago
I would bet money this doesn't work The future of programming will be increasingly small numbers of highly skilled humans, augmented by AI (exactly how today we are literally augmented by Google and Stack Overflow -- who can claim they

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