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by mdaniel 1y ago
The author said "I hope to get around to posting it on F-Droid soon, it doesn't seem like too much work" back in 2023 < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36051011 > but my 3rd-hand experience with F-Dr
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by mdaniel 1y ago
Adjacent: I don't like NumPy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43996431 - May, 2025 (210 comments)
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by mdaniel 1y ago
It likely doesn't help the ObjC part of that story, but they moved the Swift part out into a CLion plugin https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8240-swift Regrettably I didn't see that they did anything with t
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by mdaniel 1y ago
Heh, I think this is a subtle joke, and if so, well done o/ Before I saw the URL, I was expecting "HTTP/2\r\ncontent-length: 0\r\n" as the joke I actually have been trying for the longest time to get access to the Unisys
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by mdaniel 1y ago
> It is exactly two strings that are required It is exactly as I said, it's not just strings $ python3.12 -c ' import re pat = re.compile("who knew") ma = re.match(pat, "who knew types matter&qu
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by mdaniel 1y ago
This response highlights both parts what I was saying: it's not just strings, and "I'm sure there's some extra things that the standard library wants you to duct tape together, good luck"
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by mdaniel 1y ago
Type inference is handy, but as an observation source code is 90% written for humans - I believe that CPython knows what types they are, that's how TypeError even exists, but seeing "def doit(erthang):" doesn't help m
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by mdaniel 1y ago
Also, the Zen of Python is supposed to be one obvious way to do something but ddg "python dependency manager" and have a good laugh. That actually becomes triple lol for when uv steps in and says "uh, your pip requirements.tx
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by mdaniel 1y ago
> but it's a lot easier for me to hack on Rust projects That static typing is nice, I wonder if it's going to catch on one day. The amount of energy spent trying to bend dynamically types languages into being real ones is just
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by mdaniel 1y ago
Wow, go them! https://github.com/databendlabs/jepsen.meta#jepsenmetasrv
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by mdaniel 1y ago
You don't get vendor lock in if you're able to run GHA on any compute you'd like (yes, I'm aware of self-hosted runners, and even that their Packer code is open source. That doesn't make it easy to use GHA outsi
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by mdaniel 1y ago
This is a VFAQ https://hn.algolia.com/?q=what+is+mcp But to save you the click & read: it's OpenAPI for LLMs
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by mdaniel 1y ago
There's some hair splitting here: one may have to reverse engineer the mappings of the can bus for your car if you want to port the Comma to your platform, but I do believe the second clause is correct: it's a MITM system and do
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by mdaniel 1y ago
> They have demonstrated full self driving capabilities with a car driving "itself" to Taco Bell. I have a comma3 and have never had much success I'm surprised you've even had any success. Are you a Comma Prime subscr
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by mdaniel 1y ago
> How can you be confident the system is at least as reliable with the concerns you are less focused on? That's my current heartache with my Comma: it does a stunningly shitty job about decelerating into brake lights ahead, choosi
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by mdaniel 1y ago
Comma.ai uses uploaded video from anyone[1] with a Comma device to train their models, so it is most definitely not just SoCal. I thought they had a few datasets available because they run competitions on them but I didn't have much lu
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by mdaniel 1y ago
The capturing territory part reminds me of Truncate which I absolutely love (and absolutely hate the UI): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39882873 -> https://github.com/TruncateGame/Truncate (
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by mdaniel 1y ago
There's a gist that shows up in these threads https://gist.github.com/cpursley/c8fb81fe8a7e5df038158bdfe0f... But while digging that up it seems there is one with more colors: https://postgresforeveryth
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by mdaniel 1y ago
Submitted quite a while ago, if you wanted to resubmit it for its own discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24789018 Also, for convenience: https://woogles.io
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by mdaniel 1y ago
Nonsense, it's right there in the acronym: Space Reliability Engineer (or I guess one could also just leave "Site" as is, since space is for sure a site). That PagerDuty rotation is gonna be hell
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by mdaniel 1y ago
> so much easier that it’s worth a bit of a learning curve I think you misspelled "vendor lock in"
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by mdaniel 1y ago
> That PDF actually has some weird corner cases. Heh, in my experience with PDFs that's a tautology
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I'd bet https://github.com/brave/brave-core would top FF, since it's both chromium _and_ Brave's extra bits
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the readme is literally 21 lines long, and about 25% of them are blank lines, with the 2nd URL pointing to "how to contribute" and that link has a dedicated "how to build and run" https://firefox-source-docs.m
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This from a company that uses Ruby for their webapp and hosts probably one of the bigger CI build farms probably in the world. I have a very hard time crying because they have to run a beefy search cluster. I would guess that a very non-tri
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by mdaniel 1y ago
AFAIK https://savannah.gnu.org is the "sourceforge" for GNU projects. I was thrilled when they stood up a GitLab instance but recently locked it down so one can't even browse without being logged in https:/&
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by mdaniel 1y ago
I've secretly wondered if the next (ahem) quantum leap in output quality will arrive with quantum computing wherein answering 10,000 if statements simultaneously would radically change the inference pipeline But I am also open to the f
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by mdaniel 1y ago
Or use the abbr (and its title attribute) that was designed for that purpose; no extraneous "flow" breaking required. Mobile people can long press on the indicator to read more, everyone who magically knew what WSC gets to continu
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by mdaniel 1y ago
Sponsored content via a justfucking website. Bold move Anyway, I am firmly in the "self-hosting modern Sentry is crazypants" camp, but https://telebugs.com/alternatives/glitchtip reads like a hit piece, and n
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by mdaniel 1y ago
If you haven't seen it, there are monthly threads you should post into: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43858552 - and I hear that you're not shopping for a freelance gig, but more eyeballs more better IMHO

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