aidanhs

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by aidanhs 28d ago
Every single time Claude has confused me and I've asked what it's talking about, it's because it's got something completely wrong and has managed to obfuscate the wrongness behind never-introduced terminology, poor analo
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by aidanhs 2mo ago
I think you've linked to a private repository.
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by aidanhs 4mo ago
Fair enough, would love to see another writeup on the performance you observe even if it fails - in practice numbers are hard to come by.
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by aidanhs 4mo ago
I've recently been going down the rabbit hole of creating a "fast start dev env" and it's interesting to see how this article differs from other approaches (codesandbox has some fantastic blogs, the fly.io blog on sprite
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by aidanhs 8mo ago
I'm super interested to hear more on anything you can share about your projects, or the niche of gov projects you're aware of - I've been doing some work with gov and haven't seen this requirement yet, so want to be prep
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by aidanhs 1y ago
One annoying part of using chroot if you're creating them on the fly is teardown - you have to manually invoke umount, and also take care to get this right for partially created chroots (maybe you detected an error after mounting proc,
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by aidanhs 1y ago
As a number of comments have noted, there are a bunch of different axes that chroot could be 'better' on - e.g. security and sandboxing. I wrote https://github.com/aidanhs/machroot (initially forked from bubb
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by aidanhs 2y ago
Out of curiosity, what would you say the current state of the art is for full compilable decompilation? This is something I have a vague interest in but I'm not involved enough in the space to be on top of the latest and greatest tooli
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by aidanhs 2y ago
Interesting, that's helpful, thanks - so with the eventual arrival of memory64 and assuming I only wanted to target desktop systems and assuming browser implementations permit large allocations (e.g. 8GB) - large 64bit apps could work
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by aidanhs 2y ago
All the emulation of desktop machines in WASM I've seen so far have been for x86 - do you think there are significant additional hurdles for x86_64? Or is it just a matter of time? Separately, one bit of feedback - it's cool that
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by aidanhs 2y ago
Right, because Anyscale found a niche that distributed compute matters in (AI) and built great libraries/hosted platforms/services around that. I would venture that the money they make from people who pare back things to just ray
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by aidanhs 2y ago
The company I work at (Hadean) used to have this as a product - think erlang-like multi machine IPC, with automatic acquisition of cloud resources and language integration for Rust, C, C++, Python. Pretty easy to point it at some machines a
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by aidanhs 2y ago
First a minor quibble: if you're talking about 'Nix data', then starting the conversation by talking about 'Nix-the-language' is rather misleading. That aside, Nix allows you to create infinite datastructures, e.g.
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by aidanhs 2y ago
Can you elaborate on what you're getting at? Syntax-wise it's about as similar to JSON as Erlang expressions are (i.e. superficially similar in some cases). Semantics-wise I've personally found any superficial similarity to J
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by aidanhs 3y ago
Of my series of PRs, I suspect the third (i.e. https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/pull/3043 ) is most likely to have an effect. But if it does it'd only be as a side effect unfortunately - my focus was
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by aidanhs 3y ago
I didn't believe you that it was broken, but you're right - very disappointing. For anyone interested, the bug for it being is at [1] (reported mid 2021). The build failure is easy to fix, so I created a repo at [2] which builds a
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by aidanhs 4y ago
Hadean | Rust Engineer | London (flexible/hybrid) or REMOTE (UK) | Full-Time Hadean are backed by the likes of Epic Games. Our speciality is in spatial compute - we’ve built a massive-scale distributed simulation engine and a connectiv
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by aidanhs 4y ago
(for context - I'm not interested in first class node support) This seems pretty cool. I particularly like how 'gradual' it seems to be relative to things like Bazel, i.e. you can take some shell scripts and migrate things ov
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by aidanhs 4y ago
Readers please note that sccache isn't just for Rust, and isn't just caching! It has a number of features, combining capabilities of ccache/distcc/icecream for C, C++ and Rust...along with some unique things that I'
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by aidanhs 4y ago
I recently refactored some traits that had a lot of repetitive noise in the generic type parameters (which end up being reflected in function signatures etc). I went about this without really being overly aware of GATs and their status, but
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by aidanhs 4y ago
In the context of the GDPR, I just want to remind people of this thread where a HN user invokes their rights in order to make Spotify back down on a change that would have locked user playlists into their service for no good reason - https
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by aidanhs 4y ago
This is exactly what I was hoping for! If you just copied and pasted this into the documentation directly, that'd be more than enough. Thanks for writing it out so clearly and creating the issue.
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by aidanhs 4y ago
First off, I love zstd and thanks for your work - I've used it multiple times with great success. My question is...what's up with zstd compression levels? It seems to be impossible to find documentation on what the supported compr
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by aidanhs 4y ago
(disclosure: I don't use tasker and am not associated with them, I do work on something in the similar space of "compute without servers") First, you're coming at this from the wrong perspective. The OP is about alternat
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by aidanhs 4y ago
In the concrete context of the post you're replying to, you seem to be saying that women are 'vulnerable people'? I'd suggest picking a definition of 'vulnerable people' that doesn't mean pushing away half
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by aidanhs 5y ago
Ad funding would never stop because people wanting to make money off content would never stop - it just becomes more subtle. Think sponsored posts, product placement, added bias. Imagine a plain text blog run by an individual, good quality
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by aidanhs 5y ago
Honestly, I struggled with this overall. For context: I'm mostly unaware of actions of US presidents (beyond the broad sweeps based on left vs right) and I've at most listened to Trump and Biden maybe a couple of times for a total
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by aidanhs 5y ago
This is missing a lot of detail around libc (can't comment on the others), but was published ~1.5 years after musl was first released - I can imagine the subtleties being missed in a glibc monoculture. To expand a bit: 1. dlopen has in
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by aidanhs 5y ago
I've created ~five new projects over the past year using SQLite and I've got into the habit of creating tables like this: CREATE TABLE tIssue ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL CHECK (typeof(id) = 'integer'),
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by aidanhs 5y ago
I've never used or looked at Typesense (I've been perfectly happy as a Meilisearch user), but your characterisation of interacting with Meilisearch is so alien it makes me wonder if we've been looking at the same project. Acr

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