cloudfudge

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by cloudfudge 6d ago
The problem with everything being single threaded isn't so much that you want to do a lot of parallel processing, but that you don't want to have the occasional fat loop cause the whole engine to start stuttering. If you want but
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by cloudfudge 6d ago
It's been many years since I talked to him, but he's an extremely by-the-book guy, so I'm sure he has a process for clearing everything he writes. His reputation does probably provide him a lot of leeway, though. He also ha
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by cloudfudge 8d ago
Login and secret key are from memory (especially login for important accounts). Version number is typically pretty small and thus guessable. Like I said, it worked perfectly for critical stuff when my laptop died recently. There is no da
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by cloudfudge 13d ago
This is Hacker News. We're supposed to dislike DHH on technical grounds, such as "he made Ruby on Rails exist."
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by cloudfudge 13d ago
That's on me. I've been giving confident advice that doesn't hold up in practice.
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by cloudfudge 13d ago
Deterministic password generator is the only way to go for me. I have my own that takes the site name, username, and a version number and SHA256 hashes it all with a passphrase, and runs the resulting bytes through a simple transformation
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by cloudfudge 27d ago
I think one thing that has made Go have better dependency hygiene is not merely having "batteries included" in the standard lib, but the early focus on having production-ready implementations of a lot of stuff in the standard li
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by cloudfudge 1mo ago
I think there's money to be made with both, but there's more money to be made by not maintaining two separate models, so ads win.
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by cloudfudge 1mo ago
I had a mixed incredible/horrible experience with Claude's AI support agent. First, I suspected there was a particular problem with the API access, and I articulated it and said, "can you give me a way to test this theory an
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by cloudfudge 2mo ago
12 mini is pretty old. I have considered going to a 13 mini, but I sort of hate the idea of spending money on a phone that is already well on the path to unsupported. Then again, the compact options for grapheneos are limited to old stuff
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by cloudfudge 2mo ago
For that matter, why would you pay $1200 for a phone?
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by cloudfudge 2mo ago
It's not a great option. My "old" phone that I use to install junk apps (e.g. I buy some hardware that requires an app to set up) and which mostly sits in a drawer is a 2nd gen iphone SE, and it's getting to the point wh
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by cloudfudge 2mo ago
Yes please. I can't really believe it but I'm researching android phones because I will not upgrade to something larger than my 3rd gen iPhone SE.
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by cloudfudge 2mo ago
Note that they already do this if you buy a mac on an Apple Card, and they even go so far as to link your AppleID that you may have had for decades. I bought a new mac last year and signed up for the 0% Apple Card financing and if I'd
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by cloudfudge 2mo ago
It's possible they were trying to do something like remote start, which (at least in my bmw) does use the godawful bmw online service. In the retelling, this might have expanded to "couldn't start the car."
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by cloudfudge 3mo ago
This reminds me of an idea that I build a PoC of many years ago (maybe 2013 if I recall) that I always felt was the nugget of a useful idea. You would SSH into a server and processes on the other end would emit data which was then displaye
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by cloudfudge 3mo ago
I don't think it's very common to believe the Chinese people are bad guys. It's the government and its control of the people that's the problem. And no, I don't think the US is immune to that sort of problem eit
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by cloudfudge 3mo ago
A mocha is an espresso drink. A latte is an espresso drink. A cappuccino is an espresso drink. An espresso is an espresso drink. Some espresso drinks have milk in them and some don't. Anyone offended by the question, "did the
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by cloudfudge 3mo ago
You not bending over and opening your wallet is, frankly, a red flag. /s
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by cloudfudge 3mo ago
Some sites that block "+" in email addresses are actually just doing it out of incompetence. My credit union, for example, will actually accept an address with a "+" in it, but nothing will work because some broken bit
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by cloudfudge 3mo ago
There's nothing "fake" about the email. It's just an alias made specifically for each recipient.
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by cloudfudge 3mo ago
I think "he's almost certainly a better programmer than me" is a double form of humility: first, he's assuming that Fabrice Bellard is a better programmer than him based on the evidence and reputation, but he's also
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by cloudfudge 4mo ago
I just poked around in your reference and every county I looked at in california is near all-time highs (higher than or equal to 2022) except for the northern nowheresville counties.
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by cloudfudge 4mo ago
"Tens of thousands of new millionaires" sounds like a disaster tbh.
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by cloudfudge 4mo ago
> Only usable if you only care about your own system. Ahaaa, that clicks. Yes, I tend to build software that only cares about my own systems.
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by cloudfudge 4mo ago
Yes, totally agreed that for a LOT of organizations, relying on a system dependency that will likely get upgraded independent of your service is probably the simpler way to go and the way to make sure your TLS implementation stays current.
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by cloudfudge 4mo ago
Agreed. The fact that .NET has a way to do true static linking is great and I didn't know it existed. The fact that they apparently think it's a weird and undesirable thing is less great and would make me worried that they'
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by cloudfudge 4mo ago
Oh that's good to know. I happen to think Microsoft is chasing a bad philosophy with that declaration, and there is no more danger in statically linking ssl if you're continuously rebuilding and deploying your statically linked s
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by cloudfudge 4mo ago
Lol well I don't know what the trigger is for pulling in libc there, because I've built massive scale services that did a lot of nontrivial stuff and then the deployment was a single-binary docker container that did not have libc.
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by cloudfudge 4mo ago
That isn't truly self-contained. It still relies on libc.

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