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by imiric 1y ago
When a project has thousands of users it's irresponsible to use it as a testing playground. If there is a legitimate benefit from rewriting something in another language, which is rare to begin with, the decision should be researched t
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by imiric 1y ago
Just because a service doesn't require direct payment doesn't mean that its users shouldn't have any expectations of availability. There should be fair usage limits, of course, even if the service is commercial, but being cau
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by imiric 1y ago
Tip: you might want to decrease the btop refresh rate. It's likely that at 100ms a considerable amount of CPU time is taken up by btop itself.
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by imiric 1y ago
Modern hardware in conjunction with smart software choices can be very capable, but it's pretty negligent to run a service people depend on with such limited resources. Sure, not every site needs to run on a highly-available elastic cl
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by imiric 1y ago
That's... interesting. Most of the gripes about Go could've been apparent before a single line was written, with just some preliminary research. The packaging issues are valid for 2016, even though they are now resolved with Go mo
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by imiric 1y ago
This is interesting. Thanks for sharing! As someone who is disillusioned by the state of modern frontend web development, I'm always curious about novel approaches that do things differently. At first glance, I like that this is buildl
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by imiric 1y ago
This looks very slick and polished. Nice work! I'm used to drun/rofi and enjoy their simplicity, but have also secretly envied the out-of-the-box experience of more fully featured launchers on macOS. I remember using Spotlight and
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by imiric 1y ago
> Older things have died I suppose so, but very few user applications have had the same longevity. There have been numerous text editors and word processors from the same era and after it that have disappeared, yet Emacs has endured. Tha
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by imiric 1y ago
That's true. Although TBH, I'm not a fan of Emacs' key bindings. Some short ones like `C-a`, `C-e` are fine, but more advanced ones are difficult to memorize and force your fingers in unnatural positions. I prefer modal UIs a
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by imiric 1y ago
Well, Emacs has been around for 40 years, and while it's difficult to gauge its popularity, there are many signs that suggest it has only been increasing. So I doubt it's going anywhere anytime soon. Besides, I think there are als
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by imiric 1y ago
That's amazing! It would be very interesting to see what a config spanning 35 years looks like, and what your workflow is. If you could write a blog post about it, I'm sure others would appreciate it as well. I suppose this goes f
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Learning and using Emacs is possibly the activity with the highest ROI over time you can do if you work with text for a living. Maybe even if you don't. Every time you modify it, you are improving your workflow. Those changes compound
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by imiric 1y ago
I'm a big fan of slog, and this is a great overview. The fact it is so flexible and composable, while still maintaining a simple API is just great design. I wasn't aware of the performance overhead compared to something like zerol
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by imiric 1y ago
Well, we're dealing with (near) superintelligence here, according to the companies that created the models. Not only would I expect them to regurgitate the answers they were trained on, which includes practically the entire internet,
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by imiric 1y ago
Yeah, I'm fine with web servers like nginx supporting TLS, ACME, or whatever protocol is required for encryption, since they can be used as proxies. I understood GP to have the opinion that most apps should have this support built-in,
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by imiric 1y ago
From the README: > Scheme/Lisp should not be forced onto the user. It's error-prone and harder to read by humans, compared to Rust/TOML/Lua/... I get the argument of preferring TOML over a Turing-complete languag
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by imiric 1y ago
I understand the risks, but just because they theoretically exist doesn't mean that they pose an active threat in all scenarios, or that they can't be mitigated. The idea of locking the system down completely and preventing anyone
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by imiric 1y ago
Why should every software need to support encrypted connections? That is a rabbit hole of complexity which can easily be implemented incorrectly, and is a security risk of its own. Instead, it would make more sense for TLS to be handled cen
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by imiric 1y ago
Hhmm that seems like a hassle, TBH. One of the things I like the most about GOS is the web installer, and how easy it is to use. If I need a custom build, to run my own server, and sacrifice performance for it, it doesn't seem worth it
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by imiric 1y ago
RSS isn't dead, though some companies would certainly like that. The main reason it isn't as popular as it once was is because of advertising. Companies want you on their sites because they can track you and show you ads. They cou
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by imiric 1y ago
RSS is not an API, though. It's another content type like HTML, typically XML, but in a specific format that makes it easier for programs to consume. Generating it is trivial in most web frameworks and CMSs, and sites that don't o
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by imiric 1y ago
That's interesting. Can you share a guide for doing that?
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by imiric 1y ago
> A root access is a big hole How so? On Linux, I can add an account to the sudoers list, and have the flexibility to configure the level of security appropriate for my use case. I have yet to experience any security issues (that I'
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Great, thanks!
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The way of getting those facts and ideas into your head can be very different, though. You can either mechanically memorize them, which is a boring and mindless activity, or you can be challenged, participate in discussions, projects, and a
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by imiric 1y ago
Agreed. When I last tried to update packages there was a scary disclaimer about it being likely to break the system, and that flashing a new firmware is preferred. I nope'd out of that, and don't wish to go through the hassle of f
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by imiric 1y ago
Thanks for the OpenBSD guide. Do you know whether 10Gb NICs are supported in OpenBSD, and can the link be fully saturated? I'd be interested in building a DIY router on OpenBSD, but I need support for 10Gb SFP+, with an upgrade path be
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by imiric 1y ago
Wait—surely they're dogfooding Claude for infrastructure tasks, making existing engineers 10x as productive, requiring less human engineers overall?
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The Turing test was never meant to measure intelligence, let alone define it. It is an "imitation game" that measures the ability of machines to mimic intelligent behavior enough to fool humans into believing they're interact
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My point is that it would be naive to believe that a company whose revenue depends on exploiting user data has internal measures in place to ensure the safe handling of that data. In fact, their actions over the years effectively prove that

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