xylophile

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by xylophile 5mo ago
I love Zellij but it doesn't play well with Neovim. If you try to use both tools heavily (Neovim splits + stacked Zellij panes), your Neovim layouts will get trashed. And if I have to choose between Neovim or basically anything else, N
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by xylophile 6mo ago
If somebody announces that their project is written in Rust but nobody complains, what happens? Writing any non-trivial video game with Rust is (arguably) interesting in itself since developer velocity in gamedev is generally considered par
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by xylophile 8mo ago
Not a popular opinion, but RedHat (now IBM) funds an enormous amount of critical open source. They pay people to contribute to hundreds of upstream projects. And RHEL is 100% focused on stability. Sounds like a good match for your prioritie
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by xylophile 8mo ago
Any optimizations discovered at runtime by a JIT can also be applied to precompiled code. The precompiled code is then not spending runtime cycles looking for patterns, or only doing so in the minimally necessary way. So for projects which
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by xylophile 10mo ago
It is accomplishing something. When 40 different applicants are equally able to do the job, the only selector you have is "culture fit", which is where bias starts to easily kick in (race, age, whatever), and that is a legal risk.
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by xylophile 1y ago
I came to this thread purely to see if I was the only enlightened one. Stalwart is perfect for small self-hosters: a single binary, a single-directory resilient datastore (by default), a UI for every setting, and defaults that guide you to
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by xylophile 1y ago
I'd like to read this but my eyeballs are burning. And since it's only a handful of pages, there's no reason for it to be a PDF.
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by xylophile 1y ago
The executive class is entirely based on personal branding. If you're not changing anything, it's like being a TikTok influencer without posting any new videos. It doesn't matter what you post really, and often the more contr
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by xylophile 1y ago
Docker daemon runs as root, and runs continuously. If you're running rootless Podman containers then the Podman API is only running with user privileges. And, because Podman uses socket activation, it only runs when something is active
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by xylophile 1y ago
Trying to be genuinely helpful here: After many years of "I want stability and evergreen", I finally realized that this is Fedora. Each release is very stable, and they arrive more often than once an eon.
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by xylophile 1y ago
You mean curl?
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by xylophile 1y ago
You can always edit the file in the container and re-upload it with a different tag. That's not best practice, but it's not exactly sorcery.
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by xylophile 1y ago
I know everyone wants "just one more feature", but I've been looking for a tiny kv for a side project that allows you to query by key prefix. I haven't had time to build one yet, and have honestly been hoping to stumble
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by xylophile 1y ago
Just FYI, you may also enjoy systemd-machine. It's essentially the same thing as toolbx but it handles the system bus much more sanely, and you can see everything running inside the guest from the host's systemctl.
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by xylophile 2y ago
Lorin is always on point, and I appreciate the academic backing he brings to the subject. But for how many years do we need to tell MBAs that "running with scissors is bad" before it becomes common knowledge? (Too damn many.)
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Show HN: A TUI to match you with Who's Hiring jobs(github.com)
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by xylophile 2y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean you specifically. I meant, if someone values simplicity above all else, they can choose an init that matches those values (like the one you described). Your approach is perfectly valid given that set of values. Deb
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by xylophile 2y ago
> Why is ordering startup important? This is pretty fundamental stuff. You can't run a program if the disk that it's sitting on hasn't been made accessible yet. You can't start a network service that listens on a cert
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by xylophile 2y ago
> and now we will be able to faster in developing solutions Call me jaded, but when your major re-org announcement has basic editing errors it damages trust that you are competent + engaged + sincere.
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by xylophile 3y ago
It's fundamentally the same as a job queue, but the difference is that the people writing the job are not creating a running OS process. You literally just write a function, and it gets compiled into a process owned and executed by th
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by xylophile 3y ago
> But you would still need a boatload of a hundred unique VMS No, you would have a boatload of generic worker VMs that could all be spun up as needed (autoscaled) from a common base image and deleted without any need to preserve state.
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by xylophile 3y ago
I guess it depends on your definition of "very large". You don't need a large company to have a large tech footprint, e.g. the Internet Archive.
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by xylophile 3y ago
It is literally "worth it" for companies much smaller than Meta due to the reduced infra management costs plus increased hardware utilization. A few hundred unique VMs is a boatload of work (even if you distribute it down to the
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by xylophile 3y ago
The pendulum has swung (is swinging?) for many companies back to on-prem for cost savings. Self-hosted FAAS allows your developers to retain the abstraction over the compute platform (a step beyond what containers provide), and grants thos
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by xylophile 3y ago
> which would draw attention Unless you're disrupting military / police / aviation frequencies, there is virtually no enforcement. The FCC does not routinely police the airwaves - they can be asked to investigate egregious
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by xylophile 3y ago
I didn't look long, but the blog ( https://ebpf.io/blog/ ) is actually an rss reader from other sites, some of which are great.
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by xylophile 3y ago
Do you routinely download unsigned binaries of unprovable provenance and run them? Because if you do, you might eventually find reason to appreciate the additional isolation that namespaces et al give you very conveniently via Docker (or y
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by xylophile 3y ago
"I don't need to know anything about the problems you've solved in order to determine that you've solved them incorrectly, and that I'm smarter than everyone, and I'm going to be rich." Let us know how tha
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by xylophile 4y ago
Even the brightest minds are not immune to the human tendency to force everything through a black/white filter. Buckminster, like Elon, and like many other people/topics, must be either a demon or a saint. Tribalism ensues.
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by xylophile 4y ago
Regardless of which team you're on or why, the base installs of almost every distro includes vi or vim, but many leave out emacs and nano. Since you have to pick one editor to be the first one taught, it makes sense to teach vim to av

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