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by srhtftw 3y ago
Well over a decade or so ago I hit some problems syncing large filesystems. I think it could fail if it didn't have enough memory on the server to hold all the file metadata because it did all the metadata comparisons before examining
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by srhtftw 3y ago
I use Stylus to override design choice that don't work for me. Generally things like colors, fonts and hard-coded page widths. Sometimes I'll use Tampermonkey to alter content a bit. Here is one I use to improve my experienc
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by srhtftw 3y ago
NO SMOKING. NO SPITTING. THE MGT.
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by srhtftw 3y ago
You make a good point: since "pairs" returns all the values as it should, calling the table "corrupted" may be too harsh. It's been so long now I can't recall why the original code I found this problem in used
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by srhtftw 3y ago
Just tried it online¹ to see how it deals with a long standing problem² I have with Lua and I'm pleased to see actual improvement in the form of a warning: script.pluto:1: warning: function was hinted to return string but act
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by srhtftw 3y ago
Sounds like something with similar goals as Hashicorp Otto¹ 1- https://web.archive.org/web/20190506063632/https://www.hashi...
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by srhtftw 3y ago
As I mentioned in a previous reply¹ to a post of yours, 15 years ago I hit one of Lua's many footguns when I mistakenly used Lua as an alternative to JSON. To my knowledge no version or variant of Lua has made any progress on addressi
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by srhtftw 3y ago
To me this is a serious flaw and I simply refuse to accept that it's beyond criticism. No language should allow its collections to be corrupted this easily. Especially when a key use of the language is configuring other software. For
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by srhtftw 3y ago
I had the pleasure of working with Lua 5.1 back in the late noughties. For me it replaced Tcl whenever I wanted something I could configure above a C library. At the time I used it I found it quite nice but I'll also not forget the h
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by srhtftw 3y ago
> In 1990 we had drag and drop UI creation, double-click on the button and write the code behind it. Where did we go wrong? Many of us grew tired of being locked in to Microsoft's platform, their simple yet stifling assumptions and
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by srhtftw 3y ago
Perhaps it's because it's not my field that I found the After Piketty ¹ collection of shorter essays easier reading. 1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Piketty
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by srhtftw 3y ago
The article left me wondering about the cost of the new and old servers and the difference in their price/performance.
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by srhtftw 3y ago
BerkeleyDB also improved on things like dbm¹, ndbm, qdbm and cdb. > I would consider SQLite, itself 20+ years old now, the intellectual heir of BDB. Indeed. I've worked on projects that only use the btree part of SQLite. If all y
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by srhtftw 3y ago
The NLnet Foundation supports organizations and people that contribute to an open information society. It was influential in spreading the Internet throughout Europe in the 1980s. In 1997, the foundation sold off its commercial networking o
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by srhtftw 3y ago
> As for the line, I invite you to download books3 and try reading one of the books. I'm not going to and I suspect anyone who values their time won't either, especially when my public library meets my needs. But the line I&#x
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by srhtftw 3y ago
I largely agree. I would also like to see more research into how to give authors incentives to license their works for transformative purposes such as training and ways to credit them when the results of inference draw disproportionately o
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by srhtftw 3y ago
> I love ML for the sake of ML. I wanted to prove that individual researchers can contribute in a way that matters. Sounds like someone so focused on "if they could" but not giving much thought about "if they should".
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by srhtftw 3y ago
This looks interesting. Can this be easily embedded? Could I let my users do some minor customization of my app by giving them an Imba editing window? Currently thinking about something like Workerbox https://news.ycombinator.c
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by srhtftw 3y ago
Anyone evaluating them should be very cautious given their history. e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36657829 . I'm sorry to say I don't have much good to say about InfluxDB. I first considered them arou
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by srhtftw 3y ago
> Because in the last 30 years I've not run into a situation where I needed to have clients execute SQL queries on tiny, static databases let alone still need to potentially update them also. It was not uncommon in the early 2000&#
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by srhtftw 3y ago
Thank you for the recommendation. I will look into building my own tree sitter grammars using https://github.com/casouri/tree-sitter-module as you suggest. Some time ago I followed this guide https://vxlabs.
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by srhtftw 3y ago
He never got the hang of programming but he did eventually transition into a nice job in finance at a small startup called Sun Microsystems.
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by srhtftw 3y ago
Back in the 80's a friend and I took a COBOL course at a community college in the evening when we were in high school. Most students were much older than we were. We wrote our programs on special pads of paper, transferred them to pun
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by srhtftw 3y ago
> https://medium.com/really-learn-programming/setting-up-tree-... The author made this story available to Medium members only. Sign up to read this one for free. /sigh
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by srhtftw 3y ago
For reference, here are my versions ________________ M-x emacs-version GNU Emacs 29.1 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0, NS appkit-1671.60 Version 10.14.6 (Build 18G9323)) of 2023-07-30 ________________ M-x describe
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by srhtftw 3y ago
I'm not really happy with the number of times I have recently had to resort to sending it SIGUSR2 to force it to stop whatever it's doing when I re-indent some code in a file of Typescript. It happens about once a day. When it d
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by srhtftw 3y ago
Make it run, make it right, make it fast, make it small.
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by srhtftw 3y ago
> Please do not mistake this for me claiming that running this pool with three disks is anything other than a situation to remediate immediately. About a decade and a half ago I setup a 48 drive Sun 4540 this way. The OS needed 2 dedica
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by srhtftw 3y ago
I've been hoping to see alternative targets to JS for TS as well. WASM makes a lot of sense but TypeScriptToLua¹ also looks interesting. 1: https://typescripttolua.github.io
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by srhtftw 3y ago
I spend too much time on HN to read or watch the news but when I do I generally limit myself to a quick skim of these sites https://theconversation.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

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