mattmein

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by mattmein 3mo ago
This is the concept of Simple vs Easy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38768107
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by mattmein 1y ago
There's a WKUK comedy sketch that fits this story pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fibDNwF8bjs
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by mattmein 2y ago
A few years ago I set up a ublock filter to hide the next/more buttons on hacker news and reddit. It works great because I can still get my news fix, but I can't scroll endlessly. Ublock Origin: ! 2020-10-11 https://new
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by mattmein 2y ago
I think that particular issue was addressed in the recent Clojure release [ https://clojure.org/news/2024/09/05/clojure-1-12-0 ] ("Clojure developers can now invoke Java methods taking functional inte
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by mattmein 2y ago
Also check out https://github.com/D-Star-AI/dsRAG/ for a bit more involved chunking strategy.
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by mattmein 2y ago
Check out agenix-rekey[ https://github.com/oddlama/agenix-rekey ], it has the ability to set up secret generators.
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by mattmein 2y ago
Reminds me of Planck's principle: > A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar wi
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by mattmein 2y ago
Related: https://yamlscript.org/
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by mattmein 3y ago
>> In practice, they are a niche endeavor used by a bunch of hackers and computer science nerds. I don't know anything about federation, but what you said basically describes the Internet when it started, so I don't see how
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by mattmein 4y ago
My point is that there is nothing about functional programming, specifically the "Data structure + Algorithm" style, that makes it unsuitable for building complex applications like air traffic control system or bank lending system
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by mattmein 4y ago
Data structure + algorithm is a valid way of building large programs. That is basically how Clojure is designed, and it works pretty well for big applications. Functional programming in aviation: https://m.youtube.com/watch?
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by mattmein 4y ago
>> other languages have radically different tools and practices that lead to far fewer footguns Can you share any examples of these different tools and practices?
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by mattmein 5y ago
I've used Tabula for many years, and it works great. Use it for converting PDF invoices from specific supplier for import into our system. Changed a task that took about a day each month, to about 10 minutes each month.
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by mattmein 5y ago
Regarding your long lines issue - from your description it sounds instead like an unicode issue which I also ran into a while back. What happens is that your main programming font does not have the unicode characters, so Emacs falls back to
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Remnants of the Precursors is an open source modernization of Master of Orion(github.com)
3 points by mattmein 5y ago|0 comments
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A small C utility that encodes bytes into whitespace characters(github.com)
1 points by mattmein 5y ago|0 comments
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by mattmein 5y ago
I've used Zerotier for several years now, and it does feel that the stability on mobile has improved in the past couple of months.
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by mattmein 5y ago
The free version of Foxit PDF Reader allows you to upload a signature image and add the signature to PDF documents. There is a Linux version. https://www.foxit.com/downloads/
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Remnants of the Precursors – open-source remake of Master of Orion 1(reddit.com)
2 points by mattmein 5y ago|0 comments
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by mattmein 6y ago
One thing that has tripped me up with this workflow in the past is that you lose context - the code you copy/paste and execute in the repl is not evaluated in its module/namespace, so any other code calling it is not updated. Is t
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Guidance to developers affected by effort to block less secure browsers, apps(developers.googleblog.com)
159 points by mattmein 6y ago|159 comments
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The Silenced Majority(harpers.org)
1 points by mattmein 6y ago|0 comments
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by mattmein 6y ago
This is completely unrelated, but I remember your blog about dotnet development. I followed it about 10 years ago and remember when you started with RavenDb. I haven't done any dotnet development in about 7 years, but you taught me a l
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by mattmein 6y ago
I think it is worth reading his explanation [1] of why he built this. He doesn't really seem to be scaremongering, just that he identified a risk that he thinks has a high likelihood of happening, and he decided to do something about i
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by mattmein 6y ago
I wouldn't classify those emails as spam, as spam is unsolicited bulk email, ie untargeted emails going out to a large amount of people. Personalised unsolicited email or any other type of contact can be an important way to make new co
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by mattmein 7y ago
What does it mean that I have a unique user agent? I just use normal brave browser.
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by mattmein 7y ago
https://pijul.org/manual/why_pijul.html#pijul-for-darcs-user...
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by mattmein 7y ago
I've never understood this advice. To me it just makes a lot more sense to store everything in the database - much less complexity. What I've done in the past is just put a CDN in front of the file url, so the file content is stor
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by mattmein 7y ago
How is this website legal and different from hosting a movie/TV series? It is basically stealing the original website's content.
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by mattmein 7y ago
One of the biggest advantages of ClojureScript (except for all the advantages of using Clojure that you also get with ClojureScript) is the language's stability. Almost all features and enhancements are done in the form of libraries, s

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