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by diarrhea 3y ago
I am also in the boat of wanting to switch to systems programming. Writing code in Terraform or YAML is soul-sucking to me, but sadly all I get currently. I have previous, full time software engineering experience, so I have “seen the light
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by diarrhea 3y ago
It’s weird how that happens. I bet a lot of people would choose a pay cut over being let go entirely.
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by diarrhea 3y ago
But they’re not mutually exclusive. The two concepts play well together!
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by diarrhea 3y ago
Setup in a containerized environment and with structured logging is a nightmare. Last time I checked structured logging was entirely unsupported. Fail2ban has fallen out of times.
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by diarrhea 3y ago
Other than wildcard certs mentioned by sibling comments, note that this is security by obscurity in pure form. This is insecure! You cannot have a website on the public internet and hope to hide it only by virtue of having no well-known CA
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by diarrhea 3y ago
Rust specifically isn’t feature-rich. It’s mainly just different.
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by diarrhea 3y ago
Precision beyond what can be justified by the uncertainty of the original input is wrong , not just as-good-as.
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by diarrhea 3y ago
Just a guess, but perhaps things like the process model. PID 1, fork, exec and so forth. Or argv, or environment variables, or “everything is a file”, or having just three streams (stdin, stdout, stderr). In isolation, all beautifully simpl
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by diarrhea 3y ago
Thank you. For some reason, I’ve always had immense trouble with index bound arithmetic (questions like: is this inclusive? Exclusive? Is ..0 a single element or none? What about ..=0?). I have to actively think about these as I do when tel
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by diarrhea 3y ago
`envsubst` on a k8s manifest, for templating. The space for templating/dynamic k8s manifests is complex, needlessly so I felt. But this... just works. It has been running in CI for a couple months now, deploying to prod. I'm sure
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by diarrhea 3y ago
Same at my place. I think it’s for compliance reasons, but it feels patronising. A bit like taking away the sharp tools so us dummies cannot hurt ourselves. Next, maybe No-Code GUI programming because a real language is too scary too?
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by diarrhea 3y ago
> You can't find a good middle ground without stepping a bit too far in both directions. This is beautiful. So short, so apt, so instantly relatable and palpable.
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by diarrhea 3y ago
I also wonder. If a child class knows its concrete parent (apart from where inheritance is declared), and not just references it via super(), things have already gone badly wrong.
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by diarrhea 3y ago
> Then again, even popular services like CloudFlare use that term wrong, e.g. their setting where traffic is encrypted client-to-cloudflare and then separately cloudflare-to-server is called "end-to-end" in their dashboard. “Wo
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by diarrhea 3y ago
One question comes to mind: isn't cyclic dependencies something to be resolved at the root cause (remove the cycle)? It's an issue that causes various pains down the line, like type checking in this case.
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by diarrhea 3y ago
Interesting take. I find structuring code to be testable to make the code much clearer: mainly, by making dependencies explicit via dependency injection. I do that even if I don’t end up testing the code.
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by diarrhea 3y ago
That is a list full of interesting companies. In Europe, all we get is a handful of nameless blockchain companies. Has the memo not reached this continent yet?
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by diarrhea 3y ago
Just the other day I played with qdrant, using its Python client. Pretty smooth onboarding experience. I came across two questions. Perhaps some kind folks with more experience can shed some light on these qdrant use cases. 1. for embedding
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by diarrhea 3y ago
Not GP, but I understand soulless as without meaningful human interaction. Developers are generally and purposely shielded from end users. A lot of interaction is not in person, but in video calls, chats, email, internet forums like HN itse
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by diarrhea 3y ago
Sibling comments mentioned Option types, which are assumed the currently best approach. I agree, but would like to add Python as a different example. Null handling in Python is actually sane, despite there being no Option type. Its Null is
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by diarrhea 3y ago
Interesting. Most regexes being short, I reckon that copy is very cheap. Still I wonder, wouldn’t Cow be an acceptable middle ground, “best of both worlds” style (only copy when needed)?
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by diarrhea 3y ago
Wow no kidding! I had Mojo remembered as a “Python 4.0”, but briefly looking over it it’s much more like Rust indeed. They even have ownership and moving? There’s no way your average data scientist or data engineer will touch this (I though
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by diarrhea 3y ago
Just curious, but in what sense is it niche?
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by diarrhea 3y ago
I don't think I'd be comfortable with it having elaborate editing functionality. PDF editing in a browser is finicky, and an enormous bug fest. I do PDF editing offline, on the desktop, then re-upload to paperless. Not the most in
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by diarrhea 3y ago
How is that different from just… normal investing?
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by diarrhea 3y ago
True, but I've been highly bullish on that: if that's a core complaint, it seems one of the easier ones to improve in the medium term. A host of other issues, which Rust notably doesn't suffer from, are almost "unfixable
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by diarrhea 3y ago
I was going to mention that an official solution to this problem is around the corner, but the corresponding PEP has been rejected. Anyone know what happened there? https://peps.python.org/pep-0722/
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by diarrhea 3y ago
Exactly. It’s not about asking if Python is the best tool. It’s about looking at the alternatives. Python comes out ahead of all alternatives, save for 1-3 others. And those others might not be feasible for a host of other reasons. That’s h
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by diarrhea 3y ago
Pattern matching can be done over structs as well, in Rust.
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by diarrhea 3y ago
Sounds like you did everything right then. Started off simple, now your business is taking off, failures aren't catastrophic (they're grey, not black, from what it sounds like) and splitting out a component shouldn't be too h

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