spsesk117

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by spsesk117 2y ago
ulisp is an incredible achievement and has brought me a lot of joy. There is something very fun about writing lisp for an Arduino nano, and trying to golf your intentions into ~300 characters :)
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by spsesk117 2y ago
I'd be interested in hearing an expanded take on GPLs presence in this list. The first and third elements are intuitive and confirm my own biases/believes, but the freedom/GPL entry confuses me, as I do see GPL fulfilling tha
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by spsesk117 2y ago
Thanks to the author for the fascinating and detailed write up. It feels like a lot of the time this level of detail around the specifics of 'blessed' (not homebrew) console porting are only revealed years after the end of the con
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by spsesk117 2y ago
I attempted to write a program once to solve for how annoying it can be to notate modular patches. It's essentially a small DSL that can produce graphviz charts of patches. There have been other attempts to do this kind of thing, but t
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by spsesk117 2y ago
At some point I heard the phrase: "Always be the dumbest guy in the room." I've tried to live by this to various extents, and it's kind of a counter-intuitive phrase, but the more I've thought about it the more it&#
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by spsesk117 3y ago
I would love to have been a fly on the wall at the Beeper offices over the past few weeks. I've had a hard time guessing their intent. To some extent all of this Beeper Mini stuff seems to be almost an elaborate marketing stunt. I don&
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by spsesk117 3y ago
I am a complete layman in the world of complex computer graphics programming and research, but I have an interest in it as someone who enjoys playing computer games. I really enjoyed this succinct YouTube video on the topic, for those inter
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by spsesk117 3y ago
Would you care to elaborate? I'm not an expert in this area so I'm probably missing something, but my thought has always been the 'portability' of storing everything in the backend as UTC is more flexible/less compl
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by spsesk117 3y ago
I'm from South Africa, so I've always been captivated by the South African season/win at the 1995 Rugby World cup and the political context of it. Dramatized in the movie Invictus. I don't know if it's the best spor
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by spsesk117 3y ago
Witch looks awesome, and I think has a killer feature I've been looking for for a while on linux (slightly off topic). I use rofi on linux to surface a dialog that allows me to execute programs, surface an X window, or change to a diff
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by spsesk117 3y ago
I've always felt that $BIG_BRAND_DISTRO+KDE got pretty close. It's still Linux, so not quite the same, but as far as look and feel, it's pretty close I think.
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by spsesk117 4y ago
Disclaimer: I am friends with the founder of log-store. I have been beta testing it for a while for small scale (~50 million non-nested json objects) log aggregation it's working beautifully for this case. It's a no nonsense solut
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by spsesk117 4y ago
Disclaimer: I am friends with the author of log-store and have been occasionally helping test the software. I've been using log-store at work for some time. It has an awesome 'admin' UX. The sysadmin/ops overhead associa
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by spsesk117 4y ago
I wouldn't call myself a security person, but I do have a fair amount of experience implementing things downstream of the security organization, and sometimes outside of that context. I think a reasonable place to start is something li
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by spsesk117 4y ago
Right there with you Urist. Nothing else out there hijacks my brain quite like DF...
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by spsesk117 4y ago
I don't think I implied making a package wasn't simple...from my comment: > With that said, it is a mature, standardized process, and is fairly painless in the self-hosted/non-upstreamed case
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by spsesk117 4y ago
> the solution isn't "well, why don't they just use existing package management systems" Fair enough, I think I was more trying to unwrap the idea of "shell script standardization", which to me feels like a
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by spsesk117 4y ago
> I think what's missing is some standardization around what an installer is allowed to do I don't mean to be facetious, genuinely curios, but to the authors point, isn't that the point of the package management system? It
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by spsesk117 4y ago
Disclaimer: I know the developer of Ntfy and have worked with them in the past. I love this tool because it sits in a very convenient place in the alerting and monitoring stack. At work the kind of alerting pipelines and frameworks needed c
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by spsesk117 4y ago
I feel like you just described Perl, and I use Perl almost every day for this kind of thing, but people seem to hate it these days. The syntax can be weird, but I still think it really shines in cases like these.
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by spsesk117 5y ago
What got you excited about this field in the first place? Try and get back in touch with that maybe. Try exploring another side of the field, like systems programming, or a language like Haskell. Maybe play around with Python ML libraries.
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by spsesk117 5y ago
This is excellent advice. I just wanted to add, don't underestimate the haircut. I've used this strategy several times to make clear dividing lines in between various periods of my life. For me creates a strangely tangible distinc
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by spsesk117 5y ago
I use regex101.com a lot for writing complex regex. It provides a very quick feedback loop for thinking about how I want to struct regex and be performant/safe in my implementation.
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by spsesk117 5y ago
I'm interested in whether the technologists employed by this company will be able to pull it off. I'm by no means an expert, but my understanding is that in order to support a large scale social network, with typical social networ
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by spsesk117 5y ago
I definitely agree with the line of thinking posited, what I'm less clear on is what the discrete implementation of these ideas looks like. I worked at a company once with huge monolith system, mainly revolving around a relational data
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by spsesk117 5y ago
Thanks for the link, I'll definitely check it out! What actually piqued my interest was the surface impression of something like a Lispier Perl/Python.
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by spsesk117 5y ago
Oh awesome, thanks for sharing, I have already been looking at some community examples on there!
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by spsesk117 5y ago
Wow! Some really cool projects, thanks for sharing, I'll definitely check out Freja later this evening! Thanks so much for the info and commentary!
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by spsesk117 5y ago
This looks really interesting, going to check this out later today. Anyone using Janet for anything that would care to comment on their experience?
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by spsesk117 5y ago
Wow. Thanks for all of this info and for your very interesting perspective. I have a passing familiarity from HN and elsewhere with some of these new shells, but am not well informed enough to really comment on their usefulness/etc. Wi

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