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Re:Fractional scales, fonts and hinting on Thursday March 07, 2024 @05:18AM (#39627252)
I feel like youre arguing a different point here. I agree with the other person that hooking a macOS machine to a non-HiDPI monitor makes for an awkward (Id call downright bad) font experience, due to them having removed subpixel anti aliasing a few versions ago. It was so jarring to me that I took closeup pictures of the pixels, and they were all rendered really badly on a 1440p screen, to a degree that you can't claim that typographers would disagree. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17476873
Re:How to Read MySQL EXPLAINs on Friday March 31, 2023 @06:00AM (#35384743)
I personally prefer https://explain.dalibo.com over depesz's version, both from a visualization standpoint (I can more clearly see the hierarchy of operations) but also because I've had some not great experiences with depesz the individual. Great blog, but a really soured opinion of him.
It's pretty much unmaintained, but it does still work!
Re:LastPass: Notice of Recent Security Incident on Thursday December 22, 2022 @04:23PM (#34098919)
There are android apps specifically for this that can fetch from a git repo and you can input your GPG password, with autofill and all
Still would not use V myself, its the prime example of overmarketing of impossible features, silencing of critics online etc
Re:JDK 19 Release Notes on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @08:32AM (#32910781)
> the excellent toolchain and numerous libraries

The same libraries that can be used from Kotlin?

Re:Krunvm – Create MicroVMs from OCI Images on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @02:49AM (#32479904)
Probably more like `weaveworks/ignite`, which creates firecracker microvms from OCI images
Re:Fully Dockerized Linux kernel debugging environment on Thursday August 11, 2022 @08:53AM (#32424918)
Nix and Docker share the same purpose in this context: declaring the dependencies needed for this environment. This can include shell scripts, system-level dependencies etc. If anything I would say Nix would be better here (logical middleground in filesystem separation between having access only to whats in the container vs having to juggle system-level dependency versions for the entire system), while also having better version pinning.
Re:Postgres Indexing: When Does BRIN Win? on Thursday July 14, 2022 @06:15AM (#32094081)
Note that if you delete entries in non sequential order (aka not at the start-only or the end-only) and continue inserting, BRIN index becomes much less effective. Its very much predicated upon the concept of append-only, as postgres filling deleted rows with new rows throws off the physical layout part of how BRIN works
Re:Rust advocacy at a medium-sized startup on Sunday June 19, 2022 @08:58AM (#31798886)
You lost me at saying Go let's you forget to handle errors, when its pretty objectively more vocal at having you not handle them than Kotlin with its lack of checked exceptions, having just said Kotlin (and C#) are better than Go in its class. And I say this as a big fan of both Go, Kotlin and Rust.
Re:Golang Diaries: Generics on Sunday May 15, 2022 @10:20AM (#31387717)
Thats a separate issue from the one being shown here. The syntax here is just invalid
Re:Safer Enums in Go on Saturday May 14, 2022 @10:30AM (#31378263)
Not going to link it anywhere? I have some doubts given how widely it wouldve been shared if the claim is actually true, and your not linking of an example kinda just furthers that
Seeing that for my employer too, it lists tech like Elasticsearch, Kafka, Kibana etc that we're 100% not using and would have no mention of either
Re:Go's Concurrency Examples in Java 19 on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @06:25AM (#31258602)
Its non deterministic on purpose because thats how its required to be to fit the model of CSP (communicating sequential processes)
Re:Kotlin for JavaScript on Sunday March 27, 2022 @06:28AM (#30819179)
That is actively being worked on currently, but is very WIP still
Re:Go 1.17 Release Notes on Monday August 16, 2021 @08:47PM (#28204801)
Ive had a number of python libraries (and Im not talking small, lesser known ones) that would depend on (and break in the absence of) specific quirks in Python versions that made upgrading python an unnecessary hassle.
Re:How Sweden became the Silicon Valley of Europe on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @06:14AM (#28140210)
> Corporate tax rates are the same as other countries in Western Europe

Except for Ireland with its 12.5%

As a heavy discord user, its performance is just nothing compared to a native app (gtk etc). Its notably not native in performance
Re:Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code on Saturday March 06, 2021 @11:25AM (#26368431)
Outside of the JVM space, I share the complete opposite sentiment. Go and Rust support in the past few months (close to a year at this stage) have been vastly better with LSP than with intellij (or the more specific products). Rust-analyzer literally just works for me with the vscode rust-analyzer plugin (intellij wouldn't work after a few minutes of googling etc, not a great experience) and I've consistently seen Goland be outperformed in OOTB experience by gopls, as a highly active member in Go online communities catering to helping many new developers.
How does Sarif compare to LSIF?
Does this use OpenTelemetry/OpenTracing if not, why not?
How does this compare to inlets.dev?
You can do IaC for bare metal home servers as well. And thats coming from a 90s kid. We run a few physical servers for a college society with proxmox on top, and all of our VMs are codified in Ansible
Re:Kitty 0.17 – GPU-accelerated terminal emulator on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @08:57AM (#22684055)
Doing `export TERM=xterm` has worked consistently for me
systemd-nspawn is mentioned as a Docker alternative for running an OS... but what about LXD/LXC?
Re:Oracle Pits GraalVM Against Google Go on Sunday November 17, 2019 @06:10AM (#21557431)
If it didnt have such awkward "support" for reflection and missing support for key methods in Java, GraalVM would be much more likely to be adopted
Re:An Introduction to the V Language on Thursday August 22, 2019 @03:23AM (#20765490)
V for Vaporware. Creator is either fully aware of the scam hes pulling off or is beyond delusional. Just check the sourcecode for the "compiler" (really just a bad C transpiler) and see the atrocities within. Paths hardcoded to his machine, raw C output string concatenation, no AST, it honestly shocks me just how easy it is to pull the wool over the eyes of modern day developers
Teamwork Projects Used across various teams in the company, from support, marketing, HR and developers. Also has Gantt chart but I've never used that much
Re:The Future of APM (2020) on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @07:38AM (#20563888)
And not a single mention of honeycomb.io
Re:Ask HN: Monitoring Solutions for Side Projects on Saturday July 20, 2019 @06:38AM (#20485050)
Sentry for error reporting. If you can host more services, Grafana + Elasticsearch/Loki with the fluentd docker driver pushing to Fluentd to ES/Loki

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