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Re:Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap on Friday September 18, 2026 @01:17PM (#49757380)
>I don't want to change that sentence

>but I have added a note to the top

you know what's the least you could actually have done instead? no, you don't need to retract the blog post at all, keeping it up was the right choice. Now slap a big ass apology for being an unaware snob on top of it instead of leaving a link to the author's reply, like an after thought.

Re:Hanoi's humble beer glass and the memory of a nation on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @05:01PM (#48199584)
I grew up with these glasses (they're used for other street beverage too, the second most common behind beers in HN would be iced tea), and now I'm growing old with them. They're an integral part of who I am at this point, I guess I'd tell my kids to bury me with a few so I could have beers down there with my friends too lol.
Re:A Brief History of Fish Sauce on Monday April 20, 2026 @06:36AM (#47832438)
Vietnamese here, no we add this to almost everything, especially things that don't contain fish in the first place. We have techniques to remove the fish smell where we don't desire it, but to be honest highest grade nước mắm would smell more like pure umami than fish so removing the remaining fish smell isn't that hard, usually just some peppers would be enough.
Re:"McKinsey in a Box": The End of Strategic Consulting? on Monday August 11, 2025 @02:34AM (#44861304)
but can your models make slides as fancy as mckinsey's
>a single executable is both the package manager, LSP and the compiler

oh my i just know you're going to love unison

Re:Going declarative on macOS with Nix and Nix-Darwin on Monday January 15, 2024 @03:20PM (#39005566)
Despite how the learning curve keeps the Nix community relatively small (it's grown a lot since 2021 actually) nixpkgs has assimilated like 90% of OSS. Learning Nix is hard, but once you know enough Nix to be productive it's a huge enabler.
Re:Cold-blooded software on Friday December 29, 2023 @02:04AM (#38802409)
This is literally the only reply that hit the core of the article's problem and of course no one on this site upvoted it lol. The only thing I dislike more than software development posts that use inappropriate analogy from nature to shallowly jump to conclusion, is software development posts that use inappropriate analogy from nature to shallowly jump to conclusion with absolutely flawed understanding of the supposedly analogous natural phenomenon.

And of course, painted turtles (among a few other species) can survive being frozen not because of their cold-bloodedness, but thanks to special antifreeze protein they have. Other lizards (and cold blooded animals for that matter) would just rupture their own tissues upon thawing.

Re:The Most Important Coding Habits on Saturday July 22, 2023 @03:58PM (#36829280)
I found my neck and shoulder a lot less tense since I started using split keyboards, and my overall posture also improved. The downside is trying (and building!) new split keyboards starts to become an addicting hobby, and I keep finding my next keyboard with fewer keys than the previous. Settled with a 36-key Skeletyl for now.
Re:Do, or do not. There is no try on Sunday June 25, 2023 @07:36AM (#36467152)
> But the impression the community gives is very much that you can always rollback and everything is in its own sandbox

I've never got that impression from the community, since day one I have the impression that it's rollbackable in a revision-control way instead of sandbox-like. The dependencies are actually global instead of sandboxed, Nix just makes it explicit which exact instance of which depends on which exact instance of which. That's not sandboxing at all.

Well to be honest it's actual only occurred to me that you could have that sandboxing impression after reading your comments and yeah I can understand you point.

Re:Why don't more languages offer flow typing? on Monday April 04, 2022 @03:04PM (#30910715)
Feels like type refinement via pattern matching on GADTs is more expressive than this
Re:Go mod’s lesser known features on Friday April 01, 2022 @05:24AM (#30876477)
Modules = Lego bricks used to build bigger Lego artifacts

Package = Lego bricks (probably share a theme and are meant to build something concrete together), shipped with instructions and media and whatnot, in a, well, whole package.

Re:Go mod’s lesser known features on Friday April 01, 2022 @02:15AM (#30875637)
I'm the opposite: I'm writing Go for a living and I hate everything about the language itself, but I found the de-facto toolchain ok-ish and probably the least obtrusive thing about the whole thing.

Imho, many languages would massively benefit with the kind of tooling Go has out of the box. I heard Rust's tooling has some great stuff too and it's in my immediate plan to learn some Rust.

Re:Dagger: a new way to build CI/CD pipelines on Thursday March 31, 2022 @02:40PM (#30870791)
Are you guys aware of Nix, both the language and the build system? Nix at its core is a build system, but the community pushed the boundary of what a "build" means so hard, now Nix could also be used as one definition language for everything in a CI/CD pipeline (also with a canonical collection of "building blocks" in nixpkgs), from (reproducibly) building artifacts to running automated testing/integrating tasks to automatically deliver the artifacts to whatever the "infrastructure" is. After all in a very general sense the whole CI/CD pipeline could be seen as just another build artifact, which I think resonates a lot with your idea. How do you think your project and Nix would overlap and/or (or both) complement each other?