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by srhtftw 1mo ago
The ZeroFS readme says Dual-licensed under the GNU AGPL v3 (fully featured, for open source use) and a commercial license. but the commercial license link https://www.zerofs.net/licensing is a 404 page
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by srhtftw 2mo ago
If you like kuzudb check out https://github.com/LadybugDB/ladybug
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by srhtftw 2mo ago
Approaching an AI version of https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Shoe_Event_Horizon
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by srhtftw 1y ago
All I want from a phone is to make and receive phone calls from people I know. I don't want texting. I don't want photos. I don't want apps. I have a dumb Consumer Cellular Link II burner phone if I need to receive an S
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by srhtftw 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
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by srhtftw 1y ago
For me use or mention of AI is a signal the manufacturer either doesn't care about quality or doesn't know or care that it's no longer special. It's plastic.
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by srhtftw 1y ago
> So many "best practices" are truly repugnant like ...list of things I have my own love/hate relationship with many of the things you list and I currently share many of your preferences. However I didn't always
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by srhtftw 1y ago
This was fun. A kind of engineering MBTI¹. I'm +3 Abstract, +2 Human-Friendly - https://pastebin.com/Y7t4ys3J At the end I would have liked to see how each answer contributed to the final score, perhaps plotted on the
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by srhtftw 1y ago
I prefer to believe otherwise. In the words of the Desiderata¹ You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. ¹- https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html
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by srhtftw 1y ago
As for me I've seen LLM based AI produce bland summaries¹ for a few years. Occasionally they generate something funny². But they cannot yet write anything I would spend my time or money to read. > I'm still needed here, ann
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by srhtftw 1y ago
I use SourceHut¹ to serve git for a few private projects. I wanted to use their pages service as well to serve an SPA but their https://srht.site/limitations prevent SPAs from contacting external services I need. I get wh
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by srhtftw 1y ago
> Many will cheer the likely disappearance of political fundraising texts and robocalls around election season. But not all “unknown sender” messages are created equal. Sorry but I do not pay for cellular service in order to receive unso
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by srhtftw 1y ago
I do not know you, nor did I know your uncle. Nevertheless he was an influence on you and I'm sorry for your loss. May you walk in his light. https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2012...
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by srhtftw 1y ago
Kagi makes me want to learn Crystal¹ ¹ https://crystal-lang.org
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by srhtftw 1y ago
Yes this shift to React is really annoying. Github also stopped working on older browsers. My leisure laptop is an older macbook with firefox 78.15.0esr and a little over a year ago I stopped being able to view github files and issue discu
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by srhtftw 1y ago
For what it's worth the Tree component¹ of Palantir's blueprint.js React library was useful to me. ¹ https://blueprintjs.com/docs/#core/components/tree
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by srhtftw 1y ago
Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls. - Maya Angelou
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by srhtftw 1y ago
> I want to like zed. I keep trying it. ... Ultimately though none of the rendering speed improvements or collaboration ideas make a difference to me. I feel this way as well. I've tried to incorporate Zed into my workflow a few tim
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by srhtftw 1y ago
> It took a few days to produce this library -- it would almost certainly have taken me weeks to write it myself. As mentioned in another comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44162965 I think this "few days&
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by srhtftw 1y ago
Many tools make lesser developers more productive (to a point) but they fail to improve the productivity of talented professionals. Lots of "no/low" code things come to mind. But here's a tool that made kentonv 2x prod
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by srhtftw 1y ago
> It took me a few days to build the library with AI. ... > I estimate it would have taken a few weeks, maybe months to write by hand. I don't think this is a fair assessment give the summary of the commit history https:/&
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by srhtftw 1y ago
If we're going to have laws like these, then people who publish their content should have all the rights and responsibilities big players do. Everyone's content should be protected by laws, DRM and encryption. Organizations pro
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by srhtftw 1y ago
> This post’s title is a little cheeky. Brian Eno does not have an explicit theory of democracy that I know of, although he is visibly and emphatically committed to its practice. But Eno’s arguments about the arts tell us important thing
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by srhtftw 1y ago
My "daily driver" is a dumb Consumer Cellular Link II. SMS based services are useful to me when traveling without my laptop.
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by srhtftw 1y ago
Did not find any of the alt accounts I've used since 2007. Which is good.
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by srhtftw 1y ago
> I guess what you are saying is the problem is the company culture ... sucks. I believe the problem is the way devops is often practiced. I've worked as a developer, a manager and an operator and I've occasionally carried a p
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by srhtftw 1y ago
I believe that too is as the author wrote – like a disheartening number of things in the tech industry, there are no real standards around what on-call responsibilities look like. Each organization is free to set things up in whichever way
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by srhtftw 1y ago
This sounds like a healthy arrangement. Compensate fairly for overtime and those who want it will take it.
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by srhtftw 1y ago
This is an excellent article. I've commented before¹ why "on-call" as described is bad because it conflates roles and responsibilities and robs developers of resources, but this goes quite a bit further and explains why it&#
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by srhtftw 1y ago
> Why are you getting paged? Because you built the system. There are at least two problems with this thinking. The main problem is it's not generally true. The system is created by the entire organization. The people who raise mo

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