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Re:I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file on Monday August 11, 2025 @06:37PM (#44870258)
I can't believe this is what hackernews has become. This kind of stuff is at the top.
Re:Most RESTful APIs Aren't RESTful on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @11:53AM (#44511598)
I recall having to maintain an integration to some obscure SOAP API that ate and spit out XML with strict schemas and while I can't remember much about it, I think the integration broke quite easily if the other end changed their API somehow.
Blood tests can't measure concentrations in other tissues.
Re:Get the location of the ISS using DNS on Sunday July 06, 2025 @09:27AM (#44480631)
It's just an API that utilizes DNS, not that interesting imo.
I'd like to have high speed railways in my country, not some decades long political conversion project. If we need railways that can go across the borders of our neighboring countries, build new ones instead of upgrading existing ones.
Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source on Monday May 19, 2025 @05:28PM (#44035081)
You can run multiple linux distros on linux just fine via KVM/QEMU, there is nothing special WSL offers except that it is a must if you're doomed to use windows.
Re:Rust Dependencies Scare Me on Saturday May 10, 2025 @06:25AM (#43944558)
I think CMake is the perfect balance. You need to write few lines and think about few things before adding a dependency, but usually nothing too crazy. It might not work the first try but that's okay.
Re:Rust Dependencies Scare Me on Friday May 09, 2025 @06:00PM (#43941319)
Sure, there are various dependencies, but it's nothing like "cargo install crate-name". Cargo makes it so effortless to joink the dumbest dependency for the simplest thing.
Re:Rust Dependencies Scare Me on Friday May 09, 2025 @05:55PM (#43941269)
Regardless of language, really? I highly doubt that, you don't generally see such problems with C or even C++ because dependencies are more cumbersome to add, especially in a way that's cross-platform.
Re:docker2exe: Convert a Docker image to an executable on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @01:04AM (#43912430)
Yeah, it feels like nothing but a little trick. Why would anyone want to actually use this? The exe simply calls docker, it can embed an image into the exe but even then it first calls docker to load the embedded image.
Re:I'd rather read the prompt on Monday May 05, 2025 @06:15AM (#43893431)
I'm so tired of generative AI. I can't take anyone who uses them seriously anymore.
Re:Vramfs: Vram Based Filesystem for Linux on Sunday March 30, 2025 @06:45AM (#43523088)
Cool, I love that there are ways to utilize RAM and VRAM as filesystems. Sometimes you just don't need all that pure RAM/VRAM.
Re:Building a Linux Container Runtime from Scratch on Thursday March 27, 2025 @01:22AM (#43490590)
The beginning of the article answers to your question.
Re:I Fear for the Unauthenticated Web on Thursday March 20, 2025 @12:40PM (#43425523)
Screw cloudflare, I rather host my own proxies.
Re:Sunsetting Whois on Monday March 17, 2025 @11:55AM (#43389867)
I can't really understand the desire to be completely anonymous. Isn't GDPR protection or some paid privacy protection enough?
Re:The DuckDB Local UI on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @11:02AM (#43344013)
Yet another web application.
Pardon my ignorance, but do you mean VOR instead of VAR? Or what does VAR stand for in your example?
Russia is like a kid playing with matches. I'm a noob when it comes to aviation, but AFAIK RNAV GPS approaches are quite common? Disrupting that is dangerous.
Re:TypeScript types can run DOOM [video] on Thursday February 27, 2025 @07:11AM (#43193623)
People who downvote me clearly lack any sense of humour.
Re:TypeScript types can run DOOM [video] on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @10:48PM (#43191142)
These typescript fanatics never fail to make me feel disgusted by what they've done...
Re:TypeScript enums: use cases and alternatives on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @06:32AM (#42778986)
Sure, it is optional, but I've seen the unnecessary complexity seep into codebases over time, even though the software was originally elegant and simple.

I'm not sure if such perversions exist, it's been a while already since I touched TypeScript. To me the whole system seems perverted in the sense that an inexperienced developer can easily make things unnecessarily complex.

Re:TypeScript enums: use cases and alternatives on Monday January 20, 2025 @12:20PM (#42770835)
TypeScript is unnecessarily complex.
Re:Don't use cosine similarity carelessly on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @12:35PM (#42714155)
In 3D graphics and physics its importance and accuracy are obvious, but I agree that with ML the vector space represents so many different things that using a dot product feels fuzzy. However I barely have any knowledge of ML, so this is just blind intuition of mine based on assumptions.
Re:Why the Weak Nuclear Force Is Short Range on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @08:59AM (#42710824)
How complex? I'm no physicist nor an expert at this, but AFAIK we aren't really capable of simulating even a single electron at the quantum scale right now? Correct me if I'm wrong.
Re:I Quit the Tsunami of Burnout Few See on Saturday January 11, 2025 @04:59PM (#42669252)
I'm currently recovering from burnout and the trick of not caring just does not work for me. This is my 2nd burnout and even though I learned that trick among other things from the 1st, it just does not work because I think it's a problem that stems from my personality. I care too much about various things that are related to my work.
I wonder how much that wire mesh floor distorts the recording result? I guess it must be insignificant, since the walls, ceiling and floor absorb almost all reflected sound waves?
It looks really good for such a simple algorithm. I love this!
Re:Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner on Monday December 09, 2024 @05:51AM (#42364914)
Well I'm tired of all this bullshit anyways. I don't want to manage multiple versions of the same language on my system in the first place, but I guess it's useful for those who need it.
Re:Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner on Sunday December 08, 2024 @03:19PM (#42360062)
All that complexity, for what?
Re:Quake 3 Source Code Review: Network Model (2012) on Sunday November 24, 2024 @07:11AM (#42227534)
I'm happy for you, I'm working on to get in a similar position.

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