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by borland 2mo ago
I used it recently to write a useful utility related to OpenTelemetry file processing. .NET AOT produced a single-file static binary which is similar in size to what Go would produce, and can be dropped into any target system and run withou
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by borland 2mo ago
Yuck. I like both Go and C# a lot, and use them both professionally. In my experience the strengths of Go are mostly - Deployability via single-file static binaries - Simple syntax that anyone can learn (no exceptions, no classes or inherit
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by borland 7mo ago
I thought the title was clickbait, but no, he really did fix it! Nice
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by borland 8mo ago
It's a solved problem. The physics is simply such that it's really inefficient. > ... we'd need a system 12.5 times bigger, i.e., roughly 531 square metres, or about 2.6 times the size of the relevant solar array. This is
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by borland 1y ago
Yes, slack is intermittently down for me and the rest of my company. It's intermittently losing messages, failing to load new ones, and showing error pages :-(
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by borland 2y ago
Now you understand why this app costs more than 2x the price of alternatives such as diskDedupe. Any halfway-competent developer can write some code that does a SHA256 hash of all your files and uses the Apple filesystem API's to repla
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by borland 2y ago
I can't find a specific EULA or disclaimer for the Hyperspace app, but given that the EULA's for major things like Microsoft Office basically say "we offer you no warranty or recourse no matter what this software does" I
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by borland 2y ago
Yep. At a previous job we had a file server that we published Windows build output to. There were about 1000 copies of the same pre-requisite .NET and VC++ runtimes (each build had one) and we only paid for the cost of storing it once. It w
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by borland 2y ago
> This is basically only a win on macOS, and only because Apple charges through the nose for disk space You do realize that this software is only available on macOS, and only works because of Apple's APFS filesystem? You're ess
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by borland 2y ago
He "only" saved 30%? That's amazing. I really doubt most people are going to get anywhere near that. When I run it on my home folder (Roughly 500GB of data) I find 124 MB of duplicated files. At this stage I'd like it to
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by borland 2y ago
In order to check if a file is a duplicate of another, you need to check it against _every other possible file_. You need some kind of "lookup key". If we took the first 1024 bytes of each file as the lookup key, then our key size
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by borland 2y ago
I don't know exactly what Siracusa is doing here, but I can take an educated guess: For each candidate file, you need some "key" that you can use to check if another candidate file is the same. There can be millions of files
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by borland 2y ago
+1. He's not taking anything away because you never had it.
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by borland 2y ago
The author is now discovering Ruby and Objective-C :-)
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by borland 3y ago
In iOS 17.4 Apple allows you to apply to create an alternative store. Apple can still deny your request and kill your alternative store, and this is exactly what happened. Epic opened a developer account under their european subsidiary comp
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by borland 3y ago
It looks like to use this product, I have to learn an entirely new programming language (which appears to be a weird mashup of Python and Haskell), a whole set of entirely new API's, I can only host my stuff on their for-pay cloud infr
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by borland 3y ago
Has this guy ever been on any actual planes? His "Status Quo" model is completely unlike any of the planes I've ever been on. It's easy to improve over a fake strawman
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by borland 3y ago
That answer is only there because it's really old, from the early days of S.O. where people were allowed to ask questions that weren't super serious binary yes/no style. It'd get moderated and deleted in a heartbeat toda
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by borland 3y ago
+1 I've owned personally, and used macs for work since around 2009. I've never installed any third party window-snapping or management systems, and I don't consider it a big deal. I do use window snapping on Win10/11 per
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by borland 3y ago
There's a ton of apps now which require iOS15, and some are starting to move to 16. If you're stuck on 14 for jailbreak reasons I suspect you're going to struggle with more things than Wavelength.
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by borland 3y ago
There's more to an app than just the UI layer; Catalyst helps with not only the UIKit parts, but other surrounding stuff like app launching, integration with system features (sharing etc) which differ between mac/iPhone, and other
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by borland 4y ago
> > How are you going to build your service network? > Compensate the contractors fairly and act as lead gen. I used to work at a company which makes security and access control systems (swipe cards, electronic locks, etc). They cr
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by borland 4y ago
Oh BTW, a small bit more feedback > Better air quality is achieved through a thermostat with PM2.5 and CO2 sensors, as well as an air quality module on the air handler that controls HEPA filtration, fresh air intake and modification of t
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by borland 4y ago
Speaking here from New Zealand, where central heating/thermostats are basically unheard of, outside of offices and schools. Heatpumps are very common in homes, usually high-wall mounted ones like this: https://www.mitsubis
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by borland 4y ago
Isn't this just "Now you can pay to purchase and operate hardware to compensate for our crappy coverage, so we don't have to improve it ourselves?"
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by borland 4y ago
Diagram 1 has the comment "What I think it should be". It's easy to interpret that as "stackoverflow should change to be like this", but I think it was meant to be more like "If I had to guess how stackoverflow
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by borland 4y ago
Tech Pundits: ZOMG ChatGPT is going to make Google Obsolete tomorrow even though it makes up false answers constantly. Google Investors who know nothing about tech: Hey Google. Why U No AI? Stock Market: Google ⬇ Google: Look we have some b
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by borland 4y ago
This seems silly. Any company that is in the business of storing tons and tons of DNA data will probably be recompressing it for archive purposes using better algorithms already. If they're not, their loss. For smaller players where ma
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by borland 4y ago
Why are there ads on HN now?
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by borland 4y ago
Leap seconds are a "problem" in that they represent work and effort. That doesn't mean we need to discard them; they serve an important purpose. I agree with gmiller here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=

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