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Re:Design and Implementation of Sprites on Thursday January 15, 2026 @03:41PM (#46638983)
I was trying to copy a directory and used:

Pull from sprite to local: sprite exec -s my-sprite sh -c "tar -czf - /home/sprite/<my_dir>" | tar -xzf - -C ./

Push from local to sprite: COPYFILE_DISABLE=1 tar -czf - <my_dir> | sprite exec -s my-sprite sh -c "tar -xzf - -C /home/sprite/"

Re:Code and Let Live on Sunday January 11, 2026 @12:09AM (#46572861)
This seems cool but maybe not for a production setting requiring concurrency? I just signed up on PAYG which offers 3 concurrent sprites. I only see an option to upgrade to 10 concurrent sprites.
Re:PyTorch Internals: Ezyang's Blog on Sunday March 23, 2025 @09:17PM (#43457157)
He was really nice in Stanford's CS 240h. He helped me better understand Safe Haskell and GHC internals.
Re:Deno in 2023 on Monday February 05, 2024 @03:03PM (#39266344)
I've been using it to build a dynamic blog/newsletter. Local DX with https://github.com/kitsonk/kview has been nice.
Re:MiniZinc on Friday July 21, 2023 @07:50PM (#36821609)
I'm not an expert on MiniZinc, but tried applying it and GPT-4 to a toy problem: https://buttondown.email/aostiles/archive/flight-optimizatio...
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @01:44AM (#36676833)
thanks!
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @05:17PM (#36592595)
https://aostil.es

Just started writing about programming. First post was about implementing WebAuthn.

Re:Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @01:00AM (#23243432)
I made this VS Code extension to help with manually entering Beancount transactions: https://github.com/aostiles/Beanquick
Re:Show HN: Deebrief, a better way to comment on YouTube videos on Saturday September 27, 2014 @08:02PM (#8378530)
Cool idea! This adds a new dimension to YouTube videos. Also, great name!