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Experienced it. Sound was very eerie. House shook a little. Was raining and thought it was thunder, but there was no other thunder after. r/boston has a bunch of ring footage of you want to hear the boom
Re:Performance of Rust Language [pdf] on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @01:17AM (#48289971)
kache helps
Re:From Rust to Ruby on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @01:07AM (#48289917)
Or tokei
Love this given my favorite record store is in a basement with bad cell service!
Re:Understanding SPF, DKIM, and DMARC: A Simple Guide on Monday June 17, 2024 @08:24PM (#40712765)
I’m partial to https://gitlab.com/simple-nixos-mailserver/nixos-mailserver

Does require some NixOS knowledge, but is nice for upgrades.

Re:OpenBSD 7.2 on Thursday October 20, 2022 @10:45AM (#33275499)
Oops :) I was so excited for the release I forgot how to read!
Re:OpenBSD 7.2 on Thursday October 20, 2022 @10:27AM (#33275186)
It has IPv6 support

# uname -a OpenBSD xxx 7.1 GENERIC.MP#3 amd64

# ifconfig em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr x:x:x:x:x description: xxx index 2 priority 0 llprio 3 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT full-duplex) status: active inet x.x.x.x netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast x.x.x.x inet6 fe80::x:x:x%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 inet6 2601:x:x:x::1 prefixlen 64 pltime 301996 vltime 301996

Re:OpenBSD 7.2 on Thursday October 20, 2022 @10:25AM (#33275144)
The SMP improvements look interesting. Anyone know of performance results from 7.1 to 7.2?
I chose it due to the type system. Nearly every piece of data is optional. I need to compose these pieces of data to form a full set and apply that set of rules to a system. Haskell made a lot of things work out really well:

* embedded DSL for describing things with minimal syntax * types to enforce my invariants * immutable data + STM to protect my shared data structures * multithreaded/async code is easy to work with * deterministic outputs given inputs

but it was headaches in a lot of ways:

* exceptions - still not sure I’ve handled all exceptions gracefully * culture - most teammates are intimidated by Haskell (and types) * ecosystem is behind (Rust has exponential usb acceleration vs Haskell’s constant pace)

While I’m proud of the outcome I would have chosen differently now that I’ve seen the other side and have the project done. The inertia I was fighting required far too much energy

Re:Akamai to Acquire Linode on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @05:37PM (#30353829)
We failed to build Linode like things internally. We innovate through acquisition.

[ source: I was a part of those failures ]

Re:Ask HN: How to improve my abstract thinking? on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @03:38PM (#23693925)
A different take -- drugs. Especially marijuana and hallucinogens. Helped me better understand how to think about abstract computations vs the nitty gritty details like pointers. Not for everyone, but helped me.
Re:Go 1.14.2 and Go 1.13.10 are released on Thursday April 09, 2020 @08:56AM (#22822051)
Then you've never been bitten by bugs in the runtime. I wait a few point releases (or when I see the runtime bugs stop being fixed) to start using a major version.
I’ll take a little more pollution over attending a drunk driving funeral
Kubernetes.
FWIW, I'm keeping your name in the back of my head for when my current company inevitably fails at their big data revolution. Biggest product produces 10-15 PB/day that must be processed. Our existing solution is 20 years old and relies on navigating C code with function line counts on the orders of 10k. Rust would've saved me a lot of time from living in gdb.

Really enjoyed the article. Keep it up!

Oof. My mobile client cut off the best part. It was supposed to be `sleep 45m && xeyes`.
The most barebones pomodoro for Linux: ‘sleep 45m
We (big internet company) still use Perforce. It works quite well for a 20 year old company that never deleted anything.
For old and painful see Accurev. And yes, I believe it is still used.
Re:Terminal emulators benchmarking suite (2018) on Thursday March 07, 2019 @02:14PM (#19331158)
terminology is another great terminal emulator I use daily on Linux https://www.enlightenment.org/about-terminology.md
Re:Ask HN: How do you make good use of old iPhones? on Thursday September 27, 2018 @12:47PM (#18086264)
1. The security camera to watch your pets while you're away too! I like the Dog Monitor iOS app

2. Shower music player

Great idea! Another idea I've wanted for awhile, setlist.fm based Spotify playlists for concerts I liked.
Re:An opinionated guide to Haskell on Saturday February 10, 2018 @01:27PM (#16348688)
http://haskellbook.com/ is a great modern deep dive catered to folks like you! It is long, but guides you along the way
Re:An opinionated guide to Haskell on Saturday February 10, 2018 @01:26PM (#16348683)
This is really great. I'd love to see a follow up covering other topics. Such as testing (with hedgehog), modeling SQL, etc. Or -- anything that helps open up the world to see how Haskell is a beautiful language to build on.
There is an effort to update the standard with the language extensions https://prime.haskell.org/

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