allochthon

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by allochthon 9mo ago
I have a hobby project on the side involving radio digital signal processing in Rust that I've been pure vibe coding, just out of curiosity to see how far I can get. On more than one occasion the hobby project has gotten bogged down in
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by allochthon 11mo ago
I've had some success with a multi-threaded software defined radio (SDR) app in Rust that does signal processing. It's been useful for trying something out that's beyond my experience. Which isn't to say it's been e
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by allochthon 2y ago
> Me too, but a more optimistic view is that this is just a nascent form of higher-level programming languages. I like this take. I feel like a significant portion of building out a web app (to give an example) is boilerplate. One bene
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by allochthon 2y ago
Overall I like the list. Some of the bullet points were stated a little more strongly than I was comfortable with. > People who stress over code style, linting rules, or other minutia are insane weirdos I feel like programmatically enfor
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by allochthon 3y ago
As someone who used Windows 95 when it came out, it struck me at the time as an off-brand Macintosh, making it feel kind of cheap (a feeling that never went away). I had also been using X Windows by way of SGI's workstations around th
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by allochthon 3y ago
I think there's plenty of scope for improvements like this. I haven't had the energy to pursue further improvements along these lines, but I suspect they could make it a better app.
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by allochthon 3y ago
My own purpose in using it is to be able to get back to any link that I've read or have potentially wanted to read at a later point in time. You scan see screenshots here: https://github.com/emwalker/digraph .
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by allochthon 3y ago
It's pretty manual at this point. The indexing is done by hand. The idea is kind of crazy, but I think it can be made to work, in the same way that Wikipedia is maintained by hand. https://digraph.app/ https:/&
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by allochthon 3y ago
I built a web app that keeps track of every link I ever find to be interesting. It allows for fine-grained topics (e.g., individual academic papers, or topics more specific than that). It groups the topics in a DAG, so that you can get to
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by allochthon 4y ago
A little depressing to see GitHub join the zeitgeist. Probably mandated from above by Microsoft. The next time I'm on a job search, I'll be de-prioritizing, and possibly even excluding, those tech companies that laid people off
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by allochthon 4y ago
I'm an experienced Ruby web developer, and I'm starting to learn Rust. You mentioned Java and Nodejs, but I still wanted to chime in on the topic of languages in web development more generally, and the applicability of Rust to we
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by allochthon 4y ago
Over the last decade I've had a similar thought and hope. Or at least the idea of working for an employee-owned and directed tech business (maybe on the model of REI?). Curious whether anyone knows of any successes in this area with r
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by allochthon 4y ago
I recently watched this intro to the topic, which I found really interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnnacleqg6k
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by allochthon 4y ago
The kind of company I'm on the lookout for has definitely shifted over the years. When I was younger, the thought of working at Google and Amazon was very enticing. Then Amazon adopted some fairly regressive HR and business strategies
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by allochthon 4y ago
I had a similar reaction. Acquisitions can be a signal that there's a go-to-market strategy being pursued.
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by allochthon 4y ago
> That being said I never understood why would anyone want to use this language for web development On the backend, at least, Rust would be a significant improvement over Ruby, for example, once a business has gotten past the initial pro
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by allochthon 4y ago
I have the same habit and wrote a web app to catalog the links I come across: https://digraph.app/
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by allochthon 4y ago
> I do expect that even unreliable versions will be very useful tools for practicing lawyers, though. Agreed. It's like being able to call up a map on Google Maps for an area that you're already familiar with. The map can hel
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by allochthon 4y ago
Yeah, that's actually related to what I'm thinking of. The idea is a crowd-sourced and well-executed iteration on the old Yahoo! directory. https://blog.digraph.app/2020-06-13-democratization-of-searc...
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by allochthon 4y ago
I'm hoping that eventually we'll get around the idea of a crowd-sourced search engine (mostly manually curated) maintained in the manner of Wikipedia, backed by a solid user reputation system to dissuade spammers. This will import
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by allochthon 4y ago
For this reason, I have tended to rely more and more on recommendations from obviously real people these days, e.g., as found in comments on Reddit, or in the New York Times's Wirecutter. The challenge with this approach is that Reddi
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by allochthon 4y ago
I tried helmfile, but helm state weirdness became enough of an issue that I investigated `kubectl apply -k` (which uses `kustomize`), and after I got it working it felt like a significant improvement over helm+helmfile. (But I still use `h
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by allochthon 4y ago
I recently discovered `kustomize` and the `kubectl apply -k` flag (which uses `kustomize`), which makes keeping full manifests pretty straightforward. There's only one or two things I dislike about `kustomize`, but those are things th
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by allochthon 4y ago
Sometimes the New York Times editors have fun with the titles of lighter articles, in a good way
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by allochthon 4y ago
I am waiting for services to give up on purely algorithmic approaches and start exploring recommendations based on other users whose tastes the user likes. Even better if you could have different clusters of selected users for different occ
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by allochthon 4y ago
Typically there's a way to suppress specific warnings in systems like these. In your company's situation, I would look at moving away from a scanning system if it didn't allow overrides like this.
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by allochthon 4y ago
My Gmail account is an early one, and several times a month, emails intended for other people with the same name end up in my inbox. Some of them are from actual people; a lot of them are from services that don't do a proper email ver
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by allochthon 5y ago
There's definitely a contingent in the HN comments with a bit of an antisocial streak. I wish people approached comments they take issue with with more of a pedagogical approach, starting with interpretive charity and trying to help t
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by allochthon 5y ago
This was kind of the idea behind a side project I started a few years ago: https://blog.digraph.app/2020-06-13-democratization-of-searc... In that post, I don't address the reputation management aspect as much, but it&
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by allochthon 5y ago
There's disincentives for Google to do the right thing, for sure, e.g., ignoring quotation marks. I assume this is so that you never see a blank page (and so ads can be shown, which would be weird to see if there were no other results

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