Y
HN Search
Hacker News Search
new
|
comments
|
top
|
jobs
froh
searching PlanetScale…
1.
▲
2.
▲
3.
▲
4.
▲
5.
▲
6.
▲
4 ms
·
1.
▲
by
froh
7d ago
TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categories_(Peirce)
2.
▲
by
froh
8d ago
I'd also love to see Waymos more in the countryside: _there_ calling a cab is annoyingly expensive, financially impractical, while "granny" and "pops" are having a hard time driving around without help. I have high
3.
▲
by
froh
11d ago
and deliberately so, as it would be infinitely hard to upgrade the kernel license. alas, only GPL-3 gives the right to repair and modify the TV or car or refrigerator you own...
4.
▲
by
froh
11d ago
yes, exactly, that's the fliplside of it. the business loves GPL free embedded, gpl-3 was created to protect our freedom, the right to repair and modify, as far as GPL components are concerned. it was created as response to Tivo, who
5.
▲
by
froh
11d ago
it's GPL free. which is good for embedded, the business side of it. like cars.
6.
▲
by
froh
11d ago
to enable GPL free embedded Ubuntu, field tested on all platforms (because it happens to be the default).
7.
▲
by
froh
25d ago
> fantasizing about how computing could be used to advance race science research. mind to share sources to that part? that's saying "Nazi" btw.
8.
▲
by
froh
26d ago
to my understandung this strong "fascist" hypothesis is hypebole. he was member of a conservative student association, however those were prohibited by the Nazis. correct is that he was a conservative engineer who happened to be
9.
▲
by
froh
26d ago
"no" is how to get in trouble real quick in totalitarian neo fascist regimes. and coming from a region that had some of that in our history books, from the outside lots of the things in the US start walking and talking like that
10.
▲
by
froh
1mo ago
pro move. made my evening.
11.
▲
by
froh
1mo ago
oh. only now I realize I misread your comment as saying "besides tree sitter and eglot there is not much in emacs" and somehow that is not what you said. is this what you meant: "Now that modern IDE features (syntax parsing
12.
▲
by
froh
1mo ago
yes. autocorrect and the wrong glasses turn magit into magic fittingly so but still annoying. srry
13.
▲
by
froh
1mo ago
I infer you don't use magic?
14.
▲
by
froh
1mo ago
landscape it is not good but okay-ish on my phone display. hth.
15.
▲
by
froh
1mo ago
https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/pulls?q=is%3A... an active project indeed!
16.
▲
by
froh
1mo ago
wait. that's about the green field rewrite of Netscape. not about refactoring where needed. actually it is very explicitly pushing to refactor and rejuvenate the working field tested code, instead of green field rewriting it. elsewh
17.
▲
by
froh
1mo ago
funny indeed! but no trash talk, no swear words, nothing gross or offending.
18.
▲
by
froh
1mo ago
maybe I simply don't know how this works ;-) I was very much surprised and asked. give me demerits for the way of asking. but the question stays: how come an encryption scheme inflates data by this order of magnitude and needs GB siz
19.
▲
by
froh
1mo ago
where does this factor "1000x" come from? I have doubts.
20.
▲
by
froh
2mo ago
this one numbers, man...
21.
▲
by
froh
2mo ago
the banking was done via an external ram controller whose bank control register was mapped to some (unbanked) controller address.
22.
▲
by
froh
2mo ago
It's because of the basket with the fish. like ET, fishy fishy sail home.
23.
▲
by
froh
2mo ago
> It is empowering to hand off execution July 26, 2026 > I read David Nicholas Williams's short blog post titled It's not empowering to hand off the details, in which he argues that AI cannot replace expertise because doing
24.
▲
by
froh
2mo ago
Prolog (and common lisp) were all the rage for NLP in the 1990s, HPSG systems, le dernier cri, were implemented in them. what confused me back then and still does is the strict determinism, the fact that program code order defines the outpu
25.
▲
by
froh
2mo ago
hehe... fwiw, the un-editorialized title is "Using the *latest" Gemini models" I speculate OP wanted to put focus on their chosen detail in the title...
26.
▲
by
froh
2mo ago
I meanwhile understood that you can commit a copy of a file and then edit both, and then the ancestry tracking options to git log resolve the two split parts ancestry just fine.
27.
▲
by
froh
2mo ago
I love and appreciate you doing and sharing them, with stats and details. thank you.
28.
▲
by
froh
2mo ago
on the standard? or the compilers? or both?
29.
▲
by
froh
2mo ago
the purpose (from the paper): > texlode, the browser-based book editor built on this architecture, is scheduled for public release in October 2026. It provides collaborative editing via conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs), manu-
30.
▲
by
froh
2mo ago
they don't do that while flying though.
More ›