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by aeldidi 6mo ago
I'm gonna use this as an opportunity to get some feedback on mine: https://ayman.eldidi.org/articles/unicode-identifiers/
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by aeldidi 7mo ago
I've had better experience with LLMs translating than any bespoke translation tool, oddly enough. LLMs seemingly have a very good handle on regional varieties. As an example, I've never found a good translator for Lebanese/Sy
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by aeldidi 7mo ago
The withpersona.com URL seems to return 404.
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by aeldidi 7mo ago
The Acid2 test is the benchmark you’re thinking of, for anyone not aware: acid2.acidtests.org
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by aeldidi 7mo ago
> The C compiler that Anthropic created or whatever verb your want to use should prove that Claude is capable of doing reasonably complex level of making software. I don't doubt that an LLM would theoretically be capable of doing th
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by aeldidi 7mo ago
There's an odd trend with these sorts of posts where the author claims to have had some transformative change in their workflow brought upon by LLM coding tools, but also seemingly has nothing to show for it. To me, using the most rece
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by aeldidi 10mo ago
I'm becoming concerned with the rate at which major software systems seem to be failing as of late. For context, last year I only logged four outages that actually disrupted my work; this quarter alone I'm already on my fourth, al
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by aeldidi 11mo ago
Yep, this sums it up perfectly for me. I tend to stay away from the extra stuff since the quality is hit or miss (more often hit than miss to be fair), but really there’s something special about having something like it available. I think a
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by aeldidi 11mo ago
That sounds really promising, maybe my family would be better suited to something like that. I will say though, Nextcloud is almost painless when it comes to management. I’ve had one or two issues in the past, but their “all in one” docker
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by aeldidi 11mo ago
I use my Nextcloud as a general file storage thing, I just emphasized the photo aspect because that’s my family’s main use case. I have heard of Immich though, perhaps I owe it an honest try someday.
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by aeldidi 11mo ago
Nextcloud is something I have a somewhat love-hate relationship with. On one hand, I've used Nextcloud for ~7 years to backup and provide access to all of my family's photos. We can look at our family pictures and memories from an
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by aeldidi 11mo ago
There's some truth to this too honestly. At $JOB we prototyped one of our projects in Rust to evaluate the language for use, and only started using Docker once we chose to move to .NET, since the Rust deployment story was so seamless.
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by aeldidi 11mo ago
Yeah that's becoming increasingly true. I guess it really depends on what your setup is.
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by aeldidi 11mo ago
There's another idea too, that docker is essentially a userspace service manager. It makes things like sandboxing, logging, restarting, etc the same everywhere, which makes having that multi-line build script more valuable. In a sense
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by aeldidi 11mo ago
This is a really nice insight. I think years of linux have kind of numbed me to this. I've spent so much time on systems which use systemd now that going back to an Alpine Linux box always takes me a second to adjust, even though I kno
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by aeldidi 11mo ago
That's really interesting, I might actually use that for mine too. Thanks for sharing.
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by aeldidi 11mo ago
It has downsides and risks involved, for sure. I think the security part is perhaps a bit overblown, though. In any environment, the developers either care about staying on top of security or they don't. In my experience, a dev team th
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by aeldidi 11mo ago
I think the "local maximum" we've gotten stuck at for application hosting is having a docker container as the canonical environment/deliverable, and injecting secrets when needed. That makes it easy to run and test local
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by aeldidi 1y ago
I read it again and understand what you mean. I apologize for commenting like that so quickly, I was on my phone and typed that comment out before I really had time to digest the contents.
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by aeldidi 1y ago
EDIT: I’m leaving the comment up so the replies make sense, but I completely missed the point here. That’s what I get for writing dismissive hacker news comments on my lunch break! I find it kind of hard to take this seriously since the JS
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by aeldidi 2y ago
No kidding. I work with an API at my job that does the following: 1. Instead of omitting optional values or at least setting them to null, optional values are set to an empty string when not present (This is including string fields where an
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by aeldidi 2y ago
No he did say he doesn’t want rust in Linux at all. Now I understand that he didn’t say “I won’t allow rust to be in Linux”, which is a useful distinction to make. But let’s not pretend like he didn’t say “rust shouldn’t be in Linux” at all
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by aeldidi 2y ago
It’s important to note that it’s not a matter of effort for Firefox. They’ve decided that the it’s not something they want to implement[1]. The reasoning is that they think it allows low enough level access to potentially mess with devices
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by aeldidi 2y ago
That seems like a good litmus test question since it has a single correct answer, but a lot of potentially incorrect ones which sound like they might be right (North America has a lot of Hamiltons after all).
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by aeldidi 2y ago
They just mean service managers like SystemD and OpenRC prefer to handle daemonizing themselves, and thus would prefer that your program stay in the foreground and let them put it in the background. From OpenRC’s docs[0]: Daemons must n
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by aeldidi 2y ago
My local university used to teach MIPS, and as of some years ago they’ve switched to RISC-V. The final assignment at the time I took it was to write a program which compiles a subset of ARM machine code into RISC-V machine code, which was a
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by aeldidi 3y ago
Most likely this. I vividly remember reading this the first time I had heard about STUXNET. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-sophisticated-piece-o... edit: someone beat me to it, I just didn't notice since it was
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by aeldidi 3y ago
Nothing is unrepresentable, if I’m not mistaken. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_program_theorem Rather, I think the trade off was more in the realm of “aggressively optimize for what the web does well”. Wit
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by aeldidi 4y ago
Supposedly, usr was supposed to be “user”[0] but was switched after the Unix guys needed more disk space and split the file system into the / and /usr mount points. Then /home was made because /usr was filled up with oth
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by aeldidi 4y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but does Swift actually see any usage outside of Apple’s own hardware? I think Swift’s reliance on such an optimization is justified since the hardware this optimization is applied to is the main target. While Sw

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