alecthomas

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by alecthomas 1mo ago
What an oddly arrogant post, there's been a Protobuf LSP available for years: https://github.com/lasorda/protobuf-language-server
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by alecthomas 3mo ago
That doesn't seem likely, given that there's a reference from February 2025 documenting the pattern.
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by alecthomas 3mo ago
What was wrong with it?
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by alecthomas 4mo ago
> There is a vast, hugely funded, and incredibly adept propaganda machine aimed at about half the country. There are propaganda machines directed at everyone. > And no, I don’t think “my side” would be immune to a similar machine spea
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by alecthomas 4mo ago
I found it very amusing :)
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by alecthomas 4mo ago
I've never seen Prolog used at all in the wild, but OPA (and its ancestor, Datalog) are fairly common.
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by alecthomas 5mo ago
Unfortunate! I have a bunch of keyboards and a FILCO is my favourite, my daily driver. It just feels ... solid.
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by alecthomas 5mo ago
From skimming the linked PR it looks like it's all been open source, but has been tightly coupled to their deployed instance. The PR appears to be decoupling things completely by making all hard coded values configurable.
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by alecthomas 6mo ago
Oh this page is great! I just released AIM [1] which is a tool that generates verified SQL migrations using LLMs, and I tested a bunch of models manually. I think I'll just link to your page too! [1] https://github.com/
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Show HN: Procfile-compatible tool with hot reload, readiness, dependencies, etc.(github.com)
2 points by alecthomas 6mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Aim – AI-assisted verifiable SQL migration generator(github.com)
2 points by alecthomas 6mo ago|0 comments
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by alecthomas 6mo ago
Someone else said this below... > Go designers distinguish between Go language as defined by Go spec and implementation details. > //go:fix is something understood by a particular implementation of Go. Another implementation
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by alecthomas 6mo ago
These are called directives [1], and are treated as metadata by the compiler. [1] https://pkg.go.dev/go/ast#Directive
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by alecthomas 9mo ago
That is...disturbing.
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by alecthomas 1y ago
https://hazelengine.com/ is another
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by alecthomas 1y ago
Which $600 model has an OLED screen?
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by alecthomas 1y ago
Why is GIF worse (I'm not a frontend developer, so I'm genuinely curious)?
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by alecthomas 1y ago
They were not. The daughter is 31 and her father went missing 22 years earlier.
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NPR, PBS Headlines in to End Taxpayer Subsidization of Public Broadcasting [video](youtube.com)
4 points by alecthomas 2y ago|0 comments
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by alecthomas 2y ago
Preach!
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by alecthomas 2y ago
Peak enshittification.
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by alecthomas 2y ago
This is probably what you want: https://github.com/planetscale/vtprotobuf
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Show HN: "mk" – one-liner make rules on the command-line
1 points by alecthomas 2y ago|0 comments
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by alecthomas 2y ago
Connect [1] is one and it's fantastic. The Go implementation in particular is much nicer than grpc-go. [1] https://connectrpc.com/
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by alecthomas 2y ago
And that's why we pay AWS the big bucks.
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by alecthomas 2y ago
This was an illuminating comment because I think I finally understand why people have wildly varying experiences with CoPilot. I think if you regularly use CoPilot to write entire functions or use its prompt mode, you will spend more time v
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by alecthomas 2y ago
For those unaware, gosec (and by extension golangci-lint) will warn about uses of `math/rand` https://github.com/securego/gosec/blob/d3b2359ae29fe344f4df5...
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by alecthomas 2y ago
Damn, that second one is excruciating to read. I wonder if they're aware of how they put people off the Rust ecosystem with their rabid defensiveness.
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by alecthomas 2y ago
I would be absolutely stunned if anyone, ever, has described OpenAPI as "beloved". It does its job, but that's about the best you can say about it.
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by alecthomas 2y ago
Manhattan has a population density of 28,154 per sqkm according to Wikipedia?

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