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by hxtk 29d ago
The point isn’t that the HEPA filter won’t work under those conditions, it’s that if you can get away with not separating the clean and dirty air, you can achieve better filtration overall with a higher flow, lower resistance filter at a lo
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by hxtk 1mo ago
The LSP is one of the subcommands provided by the buf binary. My LSP configuration for protobuf is `buf lsp serve`.
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by hxtk 2mo ago
It’s also a fairly traumatic thing to people through and I can imagine it does a lot of damage to people’s faith in law enforcement. Personal anecdote: when I was a teenager some cops gave me a list of fabricated evidence that I’d committed
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by hxtk 2mo ago
Someone in the thread about the Ruff update ingenuously said they wished Go had something like Ruff, being unaware of this framework. In that thread, someone seemed to take it as a sign that many people who might care to know about this don
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by hxtk 2mo ago
Personally I love it for cache invalidation. I used it on an older especially on project originally built without caching in mind that then added caching for immutable data without caching for mutable data in mind. It fell to me to add cach
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by hxtk 3mo ago
That number, incidentally, is the entire NATO military budget. Which scares me because I can imagine someone planning on taking action that would result in the dissolution of NATO thinking they can make up the difference that way and choosi
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by hxtk 4mo ago
When I read what someone has written, I learn things beyond its literal text from the fact that I’m reading it, which implies it was worth effort for them to put into so many words and send to me through the medium they chose and put the le
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by hxtk 4mo ago
I don't know if the intent was to deceive, but the comments certainly had the effect of deceiving me. I came away from that first thread thinking, "Ah, so the 'story' here is that someone on the project tried an experime
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by hxtk 4mo ago
I think relatively few people are probably running Bun in production, but as a dependency management system and bundler for the JavaScript ecosystem, it's similar to `uv` from the Python ecosystem in how much faster it is compared to t
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by hxtk 4mo ago
I made a Python tool to build distroless container images for projects managed by uv. It draws inspiration from Ko from the Go ecosystem and works with/depends on uv from the Python ecosystem, so I smashed them together and called it K
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by hxtk 4mo ago
When I read some written content, before AI, I learned a few different things in order. First, just by its mere existence, I learned that someone had found an idea worth expending some effort to express. Next, I would learn the words of the
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by hxtk 4mo ago
The missing status page [1] treats it as downtime any time any component of the system is down, and calculates the overall uptime based on the time that doesn't overlap with any individual category outages, and the overall downtime as
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by hxtk 5mo ago
This analysis yields very different results under utilitarianism vs rule utilitarianism. Under the former, you could argue, "What I'm doing is a science or useful art, so if copyright exists to advance those things then taking a m
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by hxtk 5mo ago
Cloud is more cost effective the less of it you have because it doesn’t cost 3x more to maintain a kubernetes cluster with thrice the nodes, but it does cost 3x more to rent one. This is even more true for serverless. I can imagine a lot of
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by hxtk 7mo ago
The Nightmare Course [1], so named because someone with that skillset (developing zero-days) is a nightmare for security, not because the course itself is a nightmare, and Roppers Academy [2] are both good for learning how to reverse engine
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by hxtk 7mo ago
When I look at historical cases, it seems different from a case today. If I’m a programmer in the 60s wanting async in my “low level language,” what I actually want is to make some of the highest level languages available at the time even m
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by hxtk 7mo ago
It’s surprising to me how much people seem to want async in low level languages. Async is very nice in Go, but the reason I reach for a language like Zig is to explicitly control those things. I’m happily writing a Zig project right now usi
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by hxtk 7mo ago
Apparently there are lots of people who signed up just to check it out but never actually added a mechanism to get paid, signaling no intent to actually be "hired" on the service.
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by hxtk 7mo ago
I've actually been experimenting with that lately. I did a really naive version that tokenizes the input, feeds the max context window up to the token being encoded into an LLM, and uses that to produce a distribution of likely next to
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by hxtk 7mo ago
Even that functions as a sort of proof of work, requiring a commitment of compute resources that is table stakes for individual users but multiplies the cost of making millions of requests.
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by hxtk 7mo ago
It’s gotten easier of late because Bazel modules are nice and Gazelle has started support plugins so it can do build file generation for other languages. I don’t like generative AI for rote tasks like this, but I’ve had good luck using gene
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by hxtk 7mo ago
I’m not a fan of generative AI for the use case because it’s rote enough to do deterministically, but deterministic code generation is getting better and better. Gazelle, the BUILD file generator for Go, now supports plugins and several oth
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by hxtk 7mo ago
I’ve been experimenting with this today. I still don’t think AI is a very good use of my programming time… but it’s a pretty good use of my non-programming time. I ran OpenCode with some 30B local models today and it got some useful stuff d
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by hxtk 8mo ago
Even with the ellipsized link I knew you were talking about one of a few things because the link shows up as `:visited` for me... had to be either BigTable, MapReduce, or Spanner. All good reads.
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by hxtk 8mo ago
There's some real science there for a couple of reasons. Protein is a macronutrient you can be malnourished if you don't get enough of even if you eat enough calories and the right micronutrients, and if most of your calories are
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by hxtk 9mo ago
This goes further into LLM usage than I prefer to go. I learn so much better when I do the research and make the plan myself that I wouldn’t let an LLM do that part even if I trusted the LLM to do a good job. I basically don’t outsource stu
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by hxtk 9mo ago
As I've gotten more experience I've tended to find more fun in tinkering with architectures than tinkering with code. I'm currently working on making a secure zero-trust bare metal kubernetes deployment that relies on an immu
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by hxtk 9mo ago
The latter sounds like a reimplementation of AIDE, which exists in major Linux distributions’ default package managers. Did you ever compare what you wrote to that?
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by hxtk 9mo ago
If you did that, Bazel would work a lot better. Most of the complexity of Bazel is because it was originally basically an export of the Google internal project "Blaze," and the roughest pain points in its ergonomics were pulling i
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by hxtk 9mo ago
It's how code is written in Google (including their open-source products like AOSP and Chromium), the ffmpeg project, the Linux Kernel, Git, Docker, the Go compiler, Kubernetes, Bitcoin, etc, and it's how things are done at my wor

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