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by dig1 1y ago
> Facebook/Meta/Zuckerberg seem almost uniquely unable to turn the startups into great new businesses, when compared with the other big tech companies. Really? Instagram, WhatsApp... the two most used apps & services in the
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by dig1 1y ago
I believe this reflects the euphemization of the english language in US, a concept that George Carlin discussed many years ago [1]. As he put it, "we don't die, we pass away" or "we are not broke, we have negative cash f
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by dig1 1y ago
Sandbox escape with high-quality report in Chrome: $250k [1], yet Mozilla will offer you $20k [2] for that... [1] https://bughunters.google.com/about/rules/chrome-friends/574... [2] https://www.moz
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by dig1 1y ago
Maybe in US (which is about 4% of world population). Worldwide, iOS is around 27% [1]. [1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide
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by dig1 1y ago
Ansible, puppet, chef, salt, cfengine... There are tons of tools that are more precise and succinct for describing sensitive tasks, such as managing a single or a fleet of remote servers. Using MCP/LLMs for this is... :O
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by dig1 1y ago
Quite the opposite, it was shown that reading improves memory and cognitive abilities for children [1] and older adults [2]. [1] https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/reading-for-pleasure-ear... [2] https:/&#x
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by dig1 1y ago
> I love Google Cloud Run and highly recommend it as the best option I'd love to see the numbers for Cloud Run. It's nice for toy projects, but it's a money sink for anything serious, at least from my experience. On one pr
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by dig1 1y ago
I don't see why this wouldn't be considered idiomatic clojure code; it makes proper use of all the facilities provided by the language and the main intention of this code is to follow the article. Additionally, the clojure core te
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by dig1 1y ago
Slack ships elilo package for EFI systems. AFAIK config (elilo.conf) should be pretty much the same as standard lilo.conf
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by dig1 1y ago
Lilo is still alive and kicking on Slackware ;)
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by dig1 1y ago
> We are already underway on the arXiv CE ("Cloud Edition") project... replace the portion of our backends still written in perl and PHP...re-architect our article processing to be fully asynchronous,.. we can deploy via Kubern
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by dig1 2y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but what is painful to set up with C toolchains? On almost every *nix, (g)cc, vi(m) and make are enough to be dangerously productive. Sure, you can overcomplicate stuff with modern IDEs and IDE-like tools,
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by dig1 2y ago
> That implies that we have some work to do on the problem of identity. As it is, there is not even a way for a known email sender to securely introduce an unknown email sender. There is: gpg/pgp signature, but many people find it c
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by dig1 2y ago
As someone dealing with billions of records on it, BigQuery is far from cheap; G will not charge you much for storage as they will charge you for queries and data transfer. AFAIK, the cheapest Postgres server on GCP is very expensive compar
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by dig1 2y ago
I cannot speak for Spain and France, but for Germany, stagnation was primarily due to long-standing internal political issues. Wolfgang Münchau discusses this in his book Kaput [1]. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Kaput-E
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by dig1 2y ago
The actual trend these days is that if your company struggles, blame AI ;) I can't say about WebMD and Chegg, but Quora and SO started going downhill before this AI (boom or bubble, whatever you call it) due to their policies, politics
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by dig1 2y ago
> because everybody is using VSCode now Maybe I'm living under the rock, but I know only 2-3 people that are using VSCode
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by dig1 2y ago
The comparison to the Titanic was quite fitting. I was with Nokia then, and there was an overly large administration, excessive politics, and far too many managers and meetings for anything to be done on time. If I recall correctly, we spen
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by dig1 2y ago
> There was no major effort to fork off MongoDB, Neo4j, Kafka, or CockroachDB when they announced their license changes. AFAIK people didn't take MongoDB seriously from the start, especially with the "web scale database" j
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by dig1 2y ago
IMHO, it doesn't need to be overly complicated, but I might be wrong. The optimizer doesn't have to optimize all the Clojure code out there (for the start). Still, it could adopt a Graalvm-like approach, explicitly stating which e
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by dig1 2y ago
Big apps where startup time matters are desktop/mobile GUI apps. These aren't heavily emphasized in the Clojure community (excluding ClojureScript), but they are feasible to build - and I do build some of them. If startup time is
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by dig1 2y ago
My impression is that many profitable small businesses (small teams, long-term goals, which can be considered even boring) don't make it to the front page of HN because they don't aim (unrealistically) high. I find it fascinating
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by dig1 2y ago
Agree. Writing code is (TBH, only a tiny) part of the project - creating packages for different OSes and distros, testing, filling bug reports, promoting project, writing tips and ticks, articles... Many projects remain unpopular not becaus
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by dig1 2y ago
Sadly, it's true. In my opinion, this is the hypocrisy of the modern 'green' agenda - we endlessly discuss pollution, yet we cling to the comforts of modern life, many of which cause even greater harm.
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by dig1 2y ago
I have often wondered if my eyes have become more sensitive to car headlights since covid, but it seems I'm not alone in this feeling. I frequently wear glasses with a blue light protective coating while driving on busy roads at night.
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by dig1 2y ago
Thank you for sharing the details!
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by dig1 2y ago
My impression of this opposition (and hate) is that people don't read the docs and expect submodules to bend to their vision of how submodules should work. Because of that, we have multiple similar but not the same "submodule&quot
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by dig1 2y ago
The last time I followed Pidgin development was a while ago, but I'm actively using it for various protocols (slack, discord, googlechat, skype), so I'm curious about the decision to break the API. I understand that the Pidgin com
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by dig1 2y ago
> Honestly as a polyglot, only a Go project can run without being touched for 5 years. Go CVE archive [1] clearly indicate otherwise. What distinguishes a Go project from any other programming language? [1] https://pkg.go.dev&
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by dig1 2y ago
The issue with the modern internet is that it's primarily used for communication (via short writing), often resulting in poorly written messages. Animals communicate through sounds, but this doesn't mean they can talk. I agree wit

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