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by nindalf 9mo ago
SQLite made and makes a lot of money from a lot of the people who use them. It's free for us to use, but it wasn't free for Motorola and AOL and Nokia (and later Google, Apple and Adobe) who contracted the team to build it out, ad
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by nindalf 9mo ago
I’ve used Astro on Cloudflare for a few years for my personal website (username.com). They’ve both been absolutely fantastic, I can’t say enough good things about both of them. My website has all 100s on PageSpeed/Lighthouse, and that’
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by nindalf 9mo ago
Honestly I don't have an idea. I guess the stuff I write about I know enough to get a good first draft out, preserving my voice. But if I read a first draft by an AI I think I would be influenced.
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by nindalf 9mo ago
https://nindalf.com . I've written a few posts that have made it to HN [1]. I strongly oppose writing with LLMs and think it's more important than ever to write with our own words. If my writing is to be better than LLM
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by nindalf 9mo ago
I just saw GPT 5.2 do something absurd. It has a crazy amount of money ($26k) but folded with a 4-pair before the flop. That's insanely conservative, when it would have cost just $20 to see the flop. But even worse, on the very next ha
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by nindalf 9mo ago
Night Watch is my favourite book of his, as it turns out. He is capable of exploring serious themes while still maintaining some whimsy. That's why I love him so much.
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by nindalf 9mo ago
Sqlite's test suite is closed source, so no one other than the Sqlite authors can attempt that. That said, you may be interested in this attempt by Turso to rewrite Sqlite in Rust ( https://turso.tech/blog/we-will-r
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by nindalf 9mo ago
I miss Terry Pratchett. Just a good guy, writing joyful books. None of that "gritty realism" here. There's only about 40 books by him, so I read 2 a year. By the time I get to 40, I figure I would have forgotten the first few
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by nindalf 10mo ago
Yes, that's right. I mainly read on the kindle and I make a lot of notes and highlights while reading. These notes are synced to Amazon's cloud, which I can access by scraping read.amazon.com. I read paperbacks too, but I just add
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by nindalf 10mo ago
Which part? I have a python code base ( https://github.com/nindalf/kindle-highlight-sync ) that scrapes read.amazon.com for my book highlights. It then exports the data into markdown files that are imported by my website
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by nindalf 10mo ago
This is such a coincidence. I had the same idea a few days ago and also vibe coded a library using Claude. https://nindalf.com/books . The original version of this was meant to encourage me to read more, and I'm pleased
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by nindalf 1y ago
Incredible that you’ve managed to bring this conversation to immigration. In fact, it sounds like you’re saying the root cause of this crappy policy is somehow immigrants. Far fetched and not cool.
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by nindalf 1y ago
It’s interesting to see both kinds of drones in Ukraine as well. Ukrainian drones are built for €300 or so and they’re staggeringly effective. “Western” drones as made by Helsing and other companies cost several thousand. While they may hav
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by nindalf 1y ago
> There was no real standing Army until WW2 since it's against the Constitution. This isn’t true. Firstly it isn’t against the Constitution to maintain a standing Army. What the Constitution says in Article I, Section 8, Clause 12 i
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by nindalf 1y ago
Controlled in the sense that most of the maintainers are Google employees. But how does that make a difference? The tool chain is available as FOSS, there’s no possibility of a rug pull.
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Making GNOME's GdkPixbuf Image Loading Safer(blogs.gnome.org)
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by nindalf 1y ago
Could you give some examples?
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by nindalf 1y ago
These guys are fine, but they can’t drive broader societal change if the words “sexual assault” or “rape” is scrubbed from mainstream discourse. Imagine if HN autodeleted any comment with these words, we couldn’t even have this conversation
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by nindalf 1y ago
Who is going to join a forum dedicated to discussing rape? Absolute weirdos, that's who. But you're not going to enact any kind of broad societal change by talking only to those weirdos. You need to reach a broad audience and conv
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by nindalf 1y ago
This is why I like the Economist. They don't assume the reader has background knowledge.
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by nindalf 1y ago
Economist for me. I don't know of any other sources that can reach the same level.
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by nindalf 1y ago
Even today YouTubers and TikTokers go out of their way not to use certain words that lead to being demonetised or having their reach limited. They use euphemisms like unalive or grape instead of suicide and rape. These are terrible things w
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by nindalf 1y ago
I think it’s easy to implement this, but the flip side of making platforms responsible is that they become much more restrictive in what’s allowed to be discussed. They start banning topics preemptively, just to limit their exposure. And if
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by nindalf 1y ago
Pro tip from an absolute rando: don’t bother with any source of breaking news. Read a weekly paper that summarises the important stuff. If something is truly pressing, you’ll hear about it from friends or coworkers.
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by nindalf 1y ago
That's the kind of optimistic attitude I'd expect from Emperor Vespasian, builder of the Colosseum. You're role-playing your persona really well!
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by nindalf 1y ago
Let’s not pretend he was hosting the software. Npm was. No software developer or organisation will use a software repository that allows deletion of packages. That’s why it’s not a thing anymore. If you think this “right” should exist, that
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by nindalf 1y ago
He had already given everyone a license to use his software. That’s what FOSS software is - the users are granted a license to use the software and it can’t be revoked, even if the author is throwing a tantrum.
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by nindalf 1y ago
Look mate you're a fan of this writing, that's fine. I respect your opinion. Let's agree to disagree.
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by nindalf 1y ago
The author made an implicit assumption, and you're making the same one, that they're filled with wisdom received straight from al-Ghazali. Firstly, only wankers act like they're wise and their audience isn't. Secondly, t
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by nindalf 1y ago
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