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by nrvn 20d ago
Did the same in 2012 with hp 2510p that had windows vista pre installed on it. I could literally brew a cup of coffee and make it halfway through while this poor boy was booting up. Bit the bullet, installed arch and dwm. I remember my init
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by nrvn 1mo ago
Voyager program and the team behind it will always serve as an example for me. Over-the-space software updates, 50 years support life. Debugging and patching devices with no room for a mistake. How many of 2026 devices connected to internet
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by nrvn 1mo ago
In my uni years bachelors, masters and PhDs required thorough research resulting in a huge opus printed and stitched together but the only thing that really mattered was the presentation of the work in front of the committee and oral defens
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by nrvn 2mo ago
LLVM’s policy is that contributors can use whatever tools they would like to craft their contributions, but there must be a human in the loop. Contributors must read and review all LLM-generated code or text before they ask other project me
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by nrvn 4mo ago
I am the one who had been using g suite before it became google workspace for more than a decade.. Last year I changed my email provider, cancelled workspace subscription and deleted the google account only to create a new one with the same
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by nrvn 4mo ago
This! Unfortunately, the term “reproducible” can be interpreted in many ways because there is no strict and complete definition. People and projects bend it to their liking. Your approach is correct. https://www.bootstrappable.or
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by nrvn 6mo ago
Should I freeze my plans to migrate from `poetry` to `uv` at "${WORK}"?
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by nrvn 7mo ago
Exactly my thoughts immediately after reading the word “just”. Also, PITR.
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by nrvn 8mo ago
The whole article is tongue in cheek. And I struggle to find any comment here that would actually verify and confirm (or not) the results of the author. So here I am, random hacker news links verifier. Scrolling to the image below "So,
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by nrvn 9mo ago
Exactly. You can “have a vision” to accelerate full speed and hit the hard wall and just before going full throttle you are offered an opportunity to enter an open door around the corner which you have never even thought about. And that doo
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by nrvn 11mo ago
Not being able to give granular permissions to folders is not the problem of an app which regardless of being open or closed source may be compromised. Remember that the risk is zero if and only if you avoid the risk, i.e. in this particula
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by nrvn 11mo ago
Website with background-color: #FDDB29 talking about color choices. Irony at its best.
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by nrvn 11mo ago
One of the worst things about Environment variables among others discussed here is the implicit and opaque nature of them. Majority of applications rely on them in the *nix world. Even if more explicit and obvious ways of configuration file
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by nrvn 11mo ago
Design system as any other human-built system requires to be documented and described in order to maintain integrity where the integrity will be described in clear terms via foundational principles that the rest of the system is built upon.
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by nrvn 11mo ago
As they say, YMMV. My personal journey: 2010-2014 - sublime text 2014-2017 - vim and later neovim (bunch of plugins to resemble IDE-like experience) 2017-2024 - jetbrains (intellij idea with language plugins mostly) 2024-now - neovim (with
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by nrvn 1y ago
To honor the memory of this noble man I am using a single bladed razor.
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by nrvn 1y ago
I used the following sources to create an RFC template (and promote the document culture across the engineering documentation): - https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/design-docs-at-googl... - https://git
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by nrvn 1y ago
> The image attached to this blog post is a stock photo of a nude pregnant woman. Absolutely nothing sexual. maiesiophilia (pregnancy fetishism), maschalagnia (armpit fetishism)…
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by nrvn 1y ago
cybersecurity 101: - know your threats - assess your risks based on identified threats - backup 3-2-1 strategy (3 copies of your data on 2 independent storage places with 1 copy offline and offsite) - "build the world from scratch&quot
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by nrvn 1y ago
also a great guide for building production-ready containers using uv: https://hynek.me/articles/docker-uv/
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by nrvn 1y ago
this is my new fav for running small executable scripts: #!/usr/bin/env -S uv --quiet run --script # /// script # requires-python = ">=3.13" # dependencies = [ # "python-dateut
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by nrvn 1y ago
In my org I have enforced linear history, squashing all commits into one in PRs and roughly following the rule from [1]: > If the request is accepted, all commits will be squashed, and the final commit description will be composed by con
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by nrvn 1y ago
Synonym search is rocket science. It will take 20 years after they figure out n-gram search (i.e. “srceen time”, “cellluar”, et al.) and keyword search (“Set charge limit”) And it applies to all apple operating systems. Basic UX is not sexy
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by nrvn 1y ago
I have been using the "bare git at $HOMEDIR"[0] approach for several years. Benefits: 1. no extra tools. 2. one off task for setting up the git repo and alias `dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=${HOME}/.con
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by nrvn 1y ago
exactly. I am surprised by the amount of comments in this and similar threads praying for github to add more complexity to an already over-complicated and fragile solution. CI must be local-first and platform-agnostic.
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My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth(gatesnotes.com)
678 points by nrvn 1y ago|656 comments
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by nrvn 1y ago
you are not alone... https://socket.dev/blog/curl-project-and-go-security-teams-r... I believe there must be some "Murphy's law" or something with a name for that situation. When there is an established
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by nrvn 1y ago
> Bevy is young and changes quickly. Each update brought with it incredible features, but also a substantial amount of API thrash > Bevy is still in the early stages of development. Important features are missing. Documentation is spa
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by nrvn 1y ago
what happened to the "$5 is just a cup o' coffee" argument? Are we heading towards the everything-for-$100 land? On a serious note, there is no clear evidence that any of the LLM-based code assistants will contribute to savin
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by nrvn 1y ago
I can't "shake off" the feeling that this whole MCP/LLM thing is moving in the wrong if not the opposite direction. Up until recently we have been dealing with (or striving to build) deterministic systems in the sense th

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