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by xantronix 8mo ago
(Principal Skinner voice) Ah, it's a Bash expression!
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by xantronix 8mo ago
Open source developers should be paid for their efforts, and for their contributions to LLM models, past, present, and future, rather than be enticed into paying to participate six months down the road.
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by xantronix 8mo ago
The licensure of the code generated by LLMs is not a settled matter in all jurisdictions; this is a very valid pragmatic concern they address.
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by xantronix 8mo ago
Amen comrade
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by xantronix 8mo ago
It is technically! I sent you an email. It's very POSIX-y, unfortunately, but if you were to make some sort of shim for file descriptors (big ask heh) you would be able to use it just fine.
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by xantronix 8mo ago
Serious question, outside of the Bay Area, are there therapists whose specialty is in catering to the needs and concerns of developers? Obviously AI therapy is not a serious suggestion here. This is going to be a burgeoning corner of the
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by xantronix 8mo ago
Have you any idea what you have just done? You have uttered his name and now he has been summoned. You have doomed us all.
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by xantronix 8mo ago
You must not say his name. If you say it, you will summon him.
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by xantronix 8mo ago
Sure, it's a pain in the ass, but why should we scare people away who WANT to self-host? Pro tip for people with low mail volume or those who can spare a few packets on extra DNS traffic: Validating that a host has a non-provider PTR r
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by xantronix 8mo ago
Curious, which part is reinventing the wheel? If you're referring to the /bin/login hack, imagine instead, it's BBS software. (I had a lot of fun accessing my home computer from across town with a Psion 5mx and a Kenwo
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by xantronix 8mo ago
lol yeah I'm pretty sure that if the UXN people were calling the shots, Curtis Yarvin and his adherents would be among the first to, let's say, receive a complimentary package at a French Revolution-themed day spa.
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by xantronix 8mo ago
This analogy baffles me. I don't think anybody here is making the argument that we must know how all of our tools work at a infinitesimally fundamental level. Rather, I think software is an endless playground and refuge for people wh
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by xantronix 8mo ago
But having to know how a specific ORM composes queries targetting a specific database backend, however, is where the magic falls apart; I would rather go without than deal with such pitfalls. If I were to hazard a guess, things like this a
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by xantronix 8mo ago
To me, it's much less of an issue when it works, obviously, but far more of a headache when I need to research the "magic" in order to make something work which would be fairly trivially implemented with fewer layers of abstr
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by xantronix 8mo ago
Fuck. Yeah. Bud. I have a userland AX.25 stack I wrote as my pandemic project, and pairing that with MeshTNC will be a dream come true for me. My stack has a few utilities for bridging KISS interfaces together, and exposing APRS-IS as a
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by xantronix 8mo ago
Howso? I can understand why there may be some parallels when it comes to ensuring agency and sufficiency, but in a much broader context, these ideas and movements seem to come from opposite sides of the same coin.
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by xantronix 8mo ago
Predicated upon the definition of "magic" provided in the article: What is it, if anything, about magic that draws people to it? Is there a process wherein people build tolerance and acceptance to opaque abstractions through lear
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by xantronix 8mo ago
My apologies. It's so hard to tease apart irony from genuine mouth frothing on HN these days. C'mon, bubble, burst...
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by xantronix 8mo ago
> Tcl, however, requires a function call to access an array index, resulting in nested function calls with magic numbers for the simplest expressions: I do understand how that one can be frustrating to a newbie, but I can't fault th
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by xantronix 8mo ago
Is this an inevitable future? The amount of people ready to cede their computational resources, thinking, digital sovereignty, to centralised platforms, all in the name of progress, is truly shocking to me, especially in the current politi
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by xantronix 8mo ago
> but it's very slow The process of replacing Tcl, or Python itself?
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by xantronix 8mo ago
I'd be curious to know what your experiences with Tcl have been, to better understand why you feel this way.
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by xantronix 8mo ago
You're not wrong; mainly this is an exercise in coming up with a solution that can evolve with the needs of a modestly-sized community with decentralisation. (Oh fuck I hope I didn't just accidentally propose a blockchain, I&#x27
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by xantronix 8mo ago
That's a great question; it's something I still need to explore, but it would involve some sort of distributed public key database and IP address directory, then a routing table on top of that as people add more resources to the m
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by xantronix 8mo ago
I've been looking into building some sort of Wireguard mesh service since many of my friends are distributed all across the world. I wish you the very best in your endeavours!
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by xantronix 8mo ago
I hadn't made more solid connections between the current state of software and industry, the subjugation of immigrants, and the death of the American neoliberal order until this comment thread but it here it lies bare, naked, and essen
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We are, after all, in the holy temple of the adherents of the Great Disenfranchisement Machine.
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by xantronix 8mo ago
The gravity well's pull toward a management track, or in the very least the desire to align one's sympathies with management, is simply irresistible to some people. Unfortunately I do not think Hacker News is the best venue to di
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by xantronix 8mo ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/media/washington...
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by xantronix 9mo ago
> The software world is not monolithic. Pleas for everyone to stop building for the way the world works and start building for highly unusual and specific use cases isn’t reasonable. This expressed expectation of "how the world work

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