elcapitan

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by elcapitan 11mo ago
I was talking about the posts on HN and the motivation why they are posted right now, not the author, with whom I'm familiar. Also there's literally a discussion on C for vibecoding on the front page atm https://news.yc
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by elcapitan 11mo ago
Wow, lots of C related posts in the last few days. Is that because of vibecoders rediscovering it?
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by elcapitan 11mo ago
Thank you for recording it! :) It hits the right balance between opinionated choices with explanations and a general introduction to "post-beginner" problems which probably a lot of people who have programming experience, but not
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by elcapitan 11mo ago
At least you can now safely buy into Kafka, as nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.
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by elcapitan 11mo ago
Same here, it's great for anything out of print. Regarding DL speed, I found it pays to try out the different free links, as they come from different sources, but seem to have the same order (ie the fourth link will typically be the sa
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by elcapitan 11mo ago
With all the changes in C++, it always makes me wonder how developers these days reason about what the code is actually going to compile to and perform like. I feel like I have a good enough understanding of C and of older C++, but there&#x
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by elcapitan 11mo ago
And the corresponding `goto http` is the chef's kiss :D love it
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by elcapitan 11mo ago
This may be a stupid question, but what do people usually mean when they refer to a mathematical text as being "rigorous"? Does it mean that everything is strictly proof-based rather than application-oriented?
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by elcapitan 11mo ago
Probably because writers love writers being a plot point ;)
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by elcapitan 11mo ago
So that people with no shame, and with strong anti-social tendencies who are in power can come back at the de-anonymized people. Yeah, thanks.
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by elcapitan 11mo ago
I've found that most of my additional feature needs are covered by the BOSL2 library, tbh. It's also a pretty compact core, so being rather limited to me is a good thing. I think I looked at CadQuery a year ago or so, but quickly
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by elcapitan 11mo ago
I would think that in this audience OpenSCAD would be an option. I only do occasional design for some things to print, and I'm always happy to come back to my OpenSCAD text files that I can actually read and understand within minutes,
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by elcapitan 11mo ago
Mittelstand is singular (like middle class). I would say decidedly yes for Hetzner. Mittelstand can somewhat be characterized by size, but it's mostly that they are more like a family, have different values and more long term thinking
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by elcapitan 11mo ago
Black HN ribbon for the Internet
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by elcapitan 11mo ago
I think the word "modern" gives away that it's going to be marketing vaporware.
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by elcapitan 1y ago
Is there some sort of equivalent to this book but in English, which explains and diagrams the Linux network stack? Doesn't need to be all in one, I feel like having a more high level overview and then subsystem diagrams with explanatio
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by elcapitan 1y ago
Thanks for the reminder to cancel my Bahncard, last time I forgot.
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by elcapitan 1y ago
Kind of fitting that this is currently #1 on HN
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by elcapitan 1y ago
That's an "Office Space" reference, in which a grumpy employee burns down the IT company building.
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by elcapitan 1y ago
I love this idea of a topic-specific search index with manual curation of sources, really well done :) Would be great if others could build similar catalogs for other areas (e.g. specific to certain programming languages, etc). Have you con
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by elcapitan 1y ago
Great article. Reading it, I was expecting the author to come across a little sled labeled "Rosebud" every next sentence.
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by elcapitan 1y ago
The simple message is "Don't spend your money on things you don't really own, because you'll be at forever war with the lenders".
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by elcapitan 1y ago
The solution is already there, now we just need the problems
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by elcapitan 1y ago
Is there an official name for this endless uphill battle? Counter-Enshittification?
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by elcapitan 1y ago
All else being equal, what I've come to value more over time is long term stability of languages and their ecosystems: - stable APIs of essential libraries and frameworks - a grown up culture that accepts that something isn't dead
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by elcapitan 1y ago
The most prevalent source of this are people who try to ban the thought that people with different opinions exist by completely categorizing those as "bots", it seems. That's probably because the exposure to the huge variety
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by elcapitan 1y ago
Oh, I had a suspicion that was what you meant, that's a good name for that annoying change.
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by elcapitan 1y ago
What's the comic sans update?
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by elcapitan 1y ago
Too good to be true or false
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by elcapitan 1y ago
Among other things, yes.

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