jay-barronville

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by jay-barronville 1y ago
> You might be surprised how often multi-language programs appear. Basically all of modern day Python for starters. But also a number of important numerical libraries for C are actually written in Fortran. In my experience, the most comm
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by jay-barronville 1y ago
This comment is so relatable. For years, I made the conscious decision to focus entirely on enjoying moments instead of taking photos and recording videos. I now regret having been so strict about that. Before I got married and settled down
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by jay-barronville 1y ago
This type of project is why I love HN. This work is brilliant! Almost every question I had, you already answered in the comments. The only one remaining at the moment: How long exactly have you been working on PyXL?
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by jay-barronville 1y ago
> They did provide funding to dnsmasq: https://nlnet.nl/bluehatsprize/2024/1.html You just reminded me that I need to make a donation to `dnsmasq`. I rely on it every single day (including for a couple critical
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by jay-barronville 1y ago
I appreciate you writing the post and I enjoyed reading it. Congratulations for ending up on the front page! (I hope the server hosting your blog is okay!)
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by jay-barronville 1y ago
Impressive work, @juecd!
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> > npm install ai > How is this allowed/possible in npm? Don't they have mandatory namespaces? No, scopes ( i.e. , namespaces) aren’t mandatory for public packages on npm. If a name is available, it’s yours. Sometimes, s
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> Your assumption is that the challenge or concern about regulation is the difficulty of dealing with vagueness. As I pointed out, this is not the case, but the hesitancy and destructive power of imposing your will on others. > […] &g
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
Like many C hacks, this is a fun one, but hacks like this should absolutely be avoided for any serious C code–the magic is simply not worth the potential bugs!
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> That said, as a parent to teenagers, I don't know that I believe that age verification is such a terrible idea. The reality is that there's a lot of fucked up porn out there and blocking it effectively across all networks and
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> Or in Hong Kong. Time zones are a conspiracy. George is living in the future.
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> It ain't March 8 either I didn’t even notice that. That obviously means George is living in the future.
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> Imagining that there's anything "normal" about that knucklehead is why "masculinity" is such an easy target for parody. You’re certainly entitled to your opinions and ad hominems. Many folks, including myself,
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> Maybe, but the gold chain, million dollar watch wearing CEO talking about masculine energy doesn't help the brand. Why not exactly? Between Meta’s great contributions to the open-source ecosystem and Mark behaving more like a norm
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> What always surprises me is how "sleep" is the ingredient I need here. Yes repetition helps. But space out the repetition with sleep and "woah! i get it!" is often uttered. I really relate to this. In fact, a lot of
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> If it doesn't align with the HN groupthink it gets hammered out of view. Yup. The following is a concrete example… HN commenter [0][0]: > If things keep going the way they are going, [a country with an authoritarian government
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
It’s so interesting that here on HN, on virtually any political topic, virtually the entire commentary is one-sided, and virtually all comments providing dissenting views are simply downvoted and/or flagged out of existence (often wit
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> When are people going to stop accepting North Korea stole your money, we're innocent? What are you suggesting here? Can you elaborate?
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> Reminds me of the Alphasmart, it was such a great device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart Agreed. I own one of the early AlphaSmart devices (I own and collect some old-school software and devices) and I p
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> I like it as is, a piece of art on how corporate speak is unrealistically obtuse. Definitely obtuse. Why unrealistic though?
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> Is there a way to poke for bus speed and vram amount? Unfortunately, I’m not aware of any way to reliably get this type of information browser-side. If you really want to see how far you can get, your best bet would be via fingerprinti
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
I was a Laravel user for years and I was a speaker at the very first Laracon in 2013. Although I don’t really use PHP/Laravel professionally anymore (with the exception of a project at my job a couple years ago, a few personal projects
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> If things keep going the way they are going, that could describe the US just as well in a few short years. Why do you think so?
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> I've now rebuilt the tool from the ground up, switching from a Puppeteer-based crawler to an invisible iframe approach. Where can I go to learn more about your invisible `<iframe>` approach/implementation?
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> Even if I don’t get any customers I’ll continue developing it for my own needs! That’s the spirit! A buddy of mine created a tool/API to solve his own problems, opened it to the public and launched it, but he got very few sign-ups
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> can you make it detect the device somehow, maybe with some additional permissions, instead of user selecting from a dropdown? Detecting CPU and GPU specs browser-side is almost impossible to do reliably (even if relying on advanced fin
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> No, this is what Actual Life looks like once you get past 30. This made me chuckle.
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> I reckon a single loud motorcycle could disturb tens of thousands of people, potentially waking or startling them, raising blood pressure etc. in a single 10 minute trip. What absolutely grinds my gears is when a loud motorcycle or spo
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> sidenote - is NextJS really the best “convention over configuration” approach for react? I’d love to just use ember, but most of the community has moved to react, but I really enjoy the opinionated approach You might like Remix [0] (I
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Short and Sweet JavaScript/TypeScript Style Guide(github.com)
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