locknitpicker

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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> It's got a maximum size cap, It's ok, it's a kv store. > is trivially introspectable by via any process that can read `/proc`, It's ok, containerized apps are expected to run in isolated environments where y
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> Besides being bad advice, this had the second-order effect of leading devs to believe they could put all their local env secrets in ~/.bashrc files. I don't agree, and I think this is personal belief is unfounded. 12 factor a
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> But there are no maintainer requests. You should really read the comments you are replying to. The whole point of the proposal is to provide actionable feedback to the people operating these drive-by PR bots, and kick out repeat offend
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> I would point out that when you are talking about criminals there is still a layer of judgment from society given the crimes. That's exactly what the citation is about: how a society opts to treat its most vulnerable also shows wh
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> Today's conception of open source is different from the original anyway. It used to be "we made this thing, here's the code" but now it's turned into some kind of weird parasocial thing more akin to Facebook. I
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> I didn’t like the second part though where it starts banning people for “bad behavior”. I think you failed to notice the ban would be a reaction to recurrent bad behavior, such as ignoring maintainer requests. What's your solution
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> Most H1-Bs earn well below market rates for the roles they fill. The problem with visas such as H1-B is not salaries. They are a consequence of the exploitation conducted by US employers. The problem with H1-B-style visas is that in p
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> I think what he's saying is if a corporation has a genuine need of some high specialist in a skill, and no American has that skill - then okay, such is life - bring in a foreign worker. I don't think so, as that would be a si
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> when you treat immigrants like they were not people with lifes, you are just one step away from treating poor people as they were not people and then too treat all common people as they were not people. "The way that a society tre
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> i dont believe ppl are building rag for this What do you actually think people do when using LLMs to build AI coding agents?
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> It is not psychological, it is fully justified: substring search cannot find synonyms, periphrases and mistaken neighbours. It is, if people don't even stop to think if they need synonyms, periphrases, or mistaken neighbours. As t
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> A key problem is upper-level academia is rife with the same sorts of human-scale power dynamics. You are trying too hard to come up with excuses. The paper review process is double-blind, and nothing prevents you from publishing the sa
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> Which is ironic, because self-publishing then should automatically qualify you for a PhD. No. What qualifies you as a researcher is being able to output work that is accepted by your peers. Hence the peer review process is critical. Yo
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> Nope. In fact they accept utter garbage most of the time. Unless you enrolled in a fraudulent, make-believe University of Phoenix style program, no. Any real PhD program only counts publications in a closed allowlist of reputable journ
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> The owner wants the maximum ratio of servers to customers possible. In the typical USA system, being paid primarily in tips means the server is highly incentivized to upsell the customer as much as possible and do everything they can t
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> In an ideal world, sure. In reality, a PhD[1] is about publishing papers in the hope that you learn something along the way. You're being needlessly dismissive of what "publishing papers" mean. Writing down what you lear
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> I think Western people still call this situation “outsourcing” when in reality what is happening is that China is better at manufacturing than everyone else, and they’re starting to be better than everyone else at design and engineerin
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> However I am sad that the world interdependence is eroding (...) That's quite the odd statement. I don't think that it's in anyone's best interests to have a single country control access to chips. It might be in th
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> The age old problem of mobile chips have brilliant performance for about 15 seconds until they thermal throttle. I think this is a trait of all chips. As a general rule of thumb, both desktop chips and graphics cards come with a huge a
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> (...) a byproduct of getting unusually good at understanding and building things A PhD is not about getting good at understanding something, let alone "unusually good". It's about being able to explore an uncharted area
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> I think universities should focus on academic studies, not as a pipeline to YC. I agree. If someone wishes to study business or even management, let them take a specialized degree or elective courses. There is no wisdom in removing foc
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> We're talking about this as if it's some precursor to a James Bond plot, but it really fizzles after learning Nina in the sourcing department skipped the compliance paperwork. That's exactly the sort of thing that James
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by locknitpicker 2mo ago
> There is a reason why Jensen does not want a ban on China for selling his GPUs there: You don't need a conspiracy or a bubble theory to understand why a multinational company doesn't want to arbitrarily exclude itself from a
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Apache Mynewt(mynewt.apache.org)
3 points by locknitpicker 2mo ago|1 comments
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by locknitpicker 2mo ago
> If you check the maintainer X, he's asking Claude for what features to implement next. Not only stabilizing isn't the priority, even the features implemented are random. To me that sort of stunt sounds like blatant attempts t
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by locknitpicker 2mo ago
> Since you don't mention that this migration is basically executed agenticly by Claude, it seems like (...) That's immaterial to the discussion.
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by locknitpicker 2mo ago
> So they are being more cautious and spending more time on polish after a never been done before historical massive rewrite...? That's not credible at all. I mean, after a major release there are tons of low-priority low-hanging fr
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by locknitpicker 2mo ago
> But the major players do seem to be happy to replace their C++ code with Rust. I would be wary of mindlessly referring to appeals to authority like this. Sometimes their rationale is very context sensitive. For example, Microsoft has b
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by locknitpicker 2mo ago
> In 2026, there really needs to be a REALLY good reason for people to use C++ for greenfield projects over using something like Rust, Go or C#. I don't think that professional developers go around mindlessly starting projects witho
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by locknitpicker 2mo ago
> Apart from pro-AI or anti-AI posturing how have the last few months not looked good for Bun, exactly? The blog post states quite clearly that Bun stopped posting any release. During the Zig/pre-Rust days, Bun was posting s new rel

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