robalni

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by robalni 12d ago
That's basically the comment I was just going to write but you made me not need to. We need simpler protocols and formats, especially those that are used over the internet. I want everyone to really start fighting for this. I always us
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by robalni 20d ago
I am working on a project that will be like a whole environment bootstrapped from the smallest possible beginning. I thought a hex-to-binary converter like hex0 was too much like machine code, and I wanted everything to be source code, so I
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by robalni 1mo ago
I wasn't thinking about distractions or being able to concentrate when I asked this. I meant something that exists over longer time, like years. Like, the knowledge that there are so many other things makes it harder to appreciate and
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Ask HN: How can we care more about fewer things?
4 points by robalni 1mo ago|5 comments
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by robalni 1mo ago
I think another reason to write code by hand is that you want to know what you get. If you have an idea, then you can implement it better than an LLM, just like you can implement it better than another person, because you are the only one w
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by robalni 1mo ago
Here is my list: - A server package containing: web server, smtp server, database engine, page generating language and a supervisor that keeps everything alive. All written in C and I use them for all server programming I do. - A file renam
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Ask HN: What programs have you written by yourself that you use regularly?
3 points by robalni 1mo ago|2 comments
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Genkan(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by robalni 1mo ago|0 comments
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by robalni 1mo ago
The article is about only one side of the solution: using AI to make it easier to work with code. I think the other side of it is more important: making software simpler so that people can work with the code without having to use AI. That&#
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by robalni 2mo ago
There are so many formats and standards and people using different sets of them that I feel like we need an organisation that selects some of them and decides that those are the ones that people should use. Everyone could become a member of
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JSON Feed Version 1.1(jsonfeed.org)
2 points by robalni 2mo ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Any New Computer Ideas?
9 points by robalni 2mo ago|13 comments
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by robalni 2mo ago
Interesting, I have had ideas about having that feature in a language: being able to make subtypes, like "this is an integer but on the next level it is a shoe size". Can you give an example of such a language or how they usually
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by robalni 2mo ago
I think the point you missed or don't want to accept is that I think of all layers of memory management as the same thing just on different layers. Where you say that I mix different concepts, I say that it's just different layers
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by robalni 2mo ago
I don't know if there can be any memory safe languages. Programming is always unsafe because you can always make mistakes. The best we can do is to use tools that help us avoid the common mistakes. As an example of that, the rust compi
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by robalni 2mo ago
First, AI is not just a tool like other tools. It's much more random and complex, which makes it very different from other tools. You can't simply say that it's useful. How useful it is depends on what you are trying to do. I
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by robalni 2mo ago
Expect is not what I do but I fight for it.
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by robalni 2mo ago
I don't like treating people like numbers. 98% isn't much and it isn't little. It's just wrong. If I'm one of the 2% then that's everything for me. Maybe I have good reasons to be in the 2%. And maybe, not cari
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by robalni 2mo ago
This is not just a question of browser age. I use a browser that had its last release less than a year ago. It doesn't do CSS, it doesn't do javascript and I love it. I also love to be able to use the websites I need.
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by robalni 3mo ago
Just a general rule of thumb: If I am not able to use any digital service or product on a computer that I could have built entirely myself (or had anyone of my choice build for me), running code I could have written entirely myself (or had
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by robalni 3mo ago
Sorry for nitpicking, maybe you didn't think through the choice of word, but what is a "technical" argument and how is it different from other types of arguments? I think all arguments about a technology like systemd need to
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by robalni 3mo ago
It's time we change the economy for digital products and services. * The current economy is bad: The company that can require or lure the most money from people wins. * This would be better: The company that is liked by most people win
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by robalni 3mo ago
After reading a few answers I still feel like I haven't seen an intuitive answer to the question: why does it take so much more energy to go from 1 to 2 than from 0 to 1? I have been thinking about it and only been able to come up with
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by robalni 3mo ago
It might be a good thing that companies kill games, actually. I want Non-free Software to suck as much as possible to give people more reasons to use Free/Open-source Software, which can't be killed.
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Strengthening Europe's Tech Sovereignty(digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu)
5 points by robalni 4mo ago|0 comments
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Debian must ship reproducible packages(lists.debian.org)
372 points by robalni 4mo ago|169 comments
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W3M: Fork of Debian's W3M(sr.ht)
3 points by robalni 5mo ago|2 comments
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by robalni 5mo ago
Me too with w3m. Wow, look at the page source! It's an insane amount of javascript. I wonder what it does.
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by robalni 6mo ago
Do you think it makes a difference to replace the AI with another human then? If I have an original idea and ask you to do the work, should I get copyright?
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Ask HN: Is AI-generated output copyrightable? Should it be?
6 points by robalni 6mo ago|7 comments

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