how_gauche

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by how_gauche 3mo ago
Ubuntu loves to mess with upstream by shipping a bunch of vendor patches. It's one of the main reasons I run Fedora, they do this the least in my experience
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by how_gauche 3mo ago
Is leveraging an enormous capital advantage to strip-mine the Internet and sell it back to us cannibalism or not? Confused on this point. I think they are exploiting a loophole in copyright law (and kind of redefining the meaning of "d
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by how_gauche 5mo ago
I love it. It's not quite as good as Sonnet but it's quick, and Minimax 2.5 is like 1/4 the cost of Haiku. With enough of a harness around it, almost any breed of monkey can be coerced into producing excellent typewriter work
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by how_gauche 11mo ago
Side effecting computations that depend on the "real world" go into an IO monad. The game in Haskell is shifting as much of the codebase as possible into pure functions/non-side-effecting code, because it's easier to rea
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by how_gauche 3y ago
We do the same thing but commit to a second git repo that we treat like the "k8s yaml release database".
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by how_gauche 3y ago
I have an extremely similar profile (chess, PBS space time!) and I get non stop Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate in my recommendations. YouTube Shorts are the worst for this, I can't scroll through ten videos without seeing this guy, no
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by how_gauche 4y ago
This was one of my Q4 projects at work last year. We moved CI to 3x hetzner machines, each running four copies of the self-hosted github runner, and drove our build/test times from >20min down to 3-4 min on average. It's ridicu
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by how_gauche 4y ago
Developer velocity has been my project for the last quarter at work: we just switched from GitHub runners to Hetzner machines, and saw similar improvements to average build times. Between self hosting our runners and switching to bazel whic
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by how_gauche 4y ago
Pipewire broke me lots of times during its development and rollout, and that's okay, because new software has bugs and in some of my other use cases "hey it's a lot better than Jack". What I'm not going to do is car
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by how_gauche 4y ago
On GitHub you can add ?w=1 to diff URLs to get the same thing (there's a button for it too?)
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by how_gauche 5y ago
My partner also works in tech. Between the two of us, and between home and work, we've bought or used probably 25-30 of these over the years. I gave her an M1 air this holiday season! We've had pros, airs, and iMacs in four or fiv
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by how_gauche 5y ago
In my case: your employer only gives out MacBooks and expects you to use them.
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by how_gauche 5y ago
I hate my work-provided MacBook SO. MUCH. I begged them to give me a ThinkPad with Linux instead, and it's been a litany of problems in the three months I've been using it. I did all my dev work on MacBooks between 2007-2013, but
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by how_gauche 6y ago
You can also use NOTIFY in your postgrest stored procedure to wake up a hypothetical backend processor with low latency. I really love this project! I recommend it to people all the time.
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by how_gauche 6y ago
It's even better if you force a hardware two-factor authentication before you grant the ssh cert.
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by how_gauche 6y ago
It's mainly so I can "road warrior" to my internal resources from my laptop transparently. IPv6 is a good choice for this since it won't conflict with any NAT address space you're likely to be on.
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by how_gauche 6y ago
Many of us switched to evil mode because we got RSI from incorrectly chording all the time! C-a & C-e I'm looking at you
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by how_gauche 6y ago
Huge skew depending on what platforms you like to work on. Java or Windows people are significantly less likely to use trad Unix tools. Backend or Linux people, it's 30/30/* in my experience between vim/Emacs/everyt
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by how_gauche 6y ago
I don't know dude, I've had new grads recently wholesale switch to Emacs just after watching me work for five minutes. "Holy crap, why are you editing these programs so much faster than me?" Completely agree that out-of-
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by how_gauche 6y ago
You're supposed to use DHCPv6 or Neighbor Discovery -- like everything else in IPv6-land, it's significantly more complicated than it is over IPv4. I don't run the whole network IPv6 -- for hosts I care about having an IPv6 e
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by how_gauche 6y ago
I've done this before (postgREST) for internal apps and it's amazing . You can POST a JSON file to the front end from a shell script with curl and have it show up on a Grafana dashboard immediately. I've used this in the pas
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by how_gauche 6y ago
Worked at a Haskell crypto startup. Your analysis of cause and effect is wrong -- crypto people are attracted to Haskell because it has features that are excellent for the domain, not because they are interested in "copping shine&quo
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by how_gauche 6y ago
Postgres + stolon + k8 is the easiest time I've ever had bootstrapping a DB for high availability. I'm not sure I'd use it for extremely high throughput apps, but for smallish datasets that NEED to be online, it was amazing.
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by how_gauche 6y ago
I mean, they definitely do. They also deploy an army of muppets! (6-yr ex-muppet here)
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by how_gauche 6y ago
Where I'm from we catch rabbits with snares.
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by how_gauche 8y ago
A rational way of explaining it is -- what is my service level objective? If my SLO is for two nines of uptime, then I can be down for 3.65 days a year, and I can get away with single-homing something, or going with a simple hot-failover re
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by how_gauche 8y ago
Martin Moene (my favorite C++ person in the entire universe right now) wrote a drop-in replacement for older standard versions: https://github.com/martinmoene/string-view-lite . He's also backported optional, varia
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by how_gauche 8y ago
Under the hood it's just "std::pair<const char , std::size_t>". It's like an abstract data type or a newtype in Haskell: construction of the aliased type is restricted to the functions that are provided. You are co
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by how_gauche 9y ago
> And we're expected to believe money isn't driving the entire process for you? It's right there in the name, even!!! It's not "First Round Hugs" or "First Round Charity", is it?
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by how_gauche 9y ago
> some people who are in the know about a very specific paper This stuff isn't obscure just because you don't happen to know about it already. Chris Okasaki's publications have been cited over 1000 times, mostly for his Ph

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