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Re:I am worried about Bun on Monday May 04, 2026 @11:46PM (#48017830)
I honestly did not know Node had all of these things now, but that is great to hear. Clearly I haven't been keeping up well enough.

Node didn't have all of these features when I initially went down the path of choosing Bun, so I have a number of existing projects that have Bun baked into them.

Re:I am worried about Bun on Monday May 04, 2026 @01:53PM (#48012279)
There is the SpaceX acquisition rumor, but that's not why.

I only use Cursor through the CLI, and while the UX of the CLI is pretty bad, I've found their harness (the prompts they use and orchestration of LLMs) to be nothing short of incredible. I can't comment on their agent development environment given I haven't spent a lot of time with it.

The reason I'm moving away from Cursor is cost. Unfortunately, if you want to use the SOTA models from both OpenAI and Anthropic you basically have to go direct through their subsidized plans.

Re:I am worried about Bun on Monday May 04, 2026 @01:48PM (#48012197)
The built-in sqlite and testing functionality is the reason I started using it over pnpm/Node.
Re:I am worried about Bun on Monday May 04, 2026 @01:41PM (#48012079)
This is a good take, and I hope you're right.

One favorable way to phrase it for Anthropic is they acquired Bun because CC and other internal tooling depended on it so heavily and they questioned it's future as purely OSS.

It remains to be seen how things will actually unfold.

Re:I am worried about Bun on Monday May 04, 2026 @01:20PM (#48011771)
These are just my opinions man :)
Re:The INTERNET is killing old PC hardware [video] on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @12:40PM (#43269716)
I do—commented on another thread, but:

  On Linux (maybe only certain distros, not sure) the keys are different, 
  but you can enable a Compose key and enable special character keybinds as well.
  
  For example on Mint:
    en–dash is "<compose> <minus> <minus> <period>"
    em—dash is "<compose> <minus> <minus> <minus>"
Re:The INTERNET is killing old PC hardware [video] on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @12:14PM (#43269432)
On Linux (maybe only certain distros, not sure) the keys are different, but you can enable a Compose key and enable special character keybinds as well.

For example on Mint en–dash is "<compose> <minus> <minus> <period>" and em—dash is "<compose> <minus> <minus> <minus>"

Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th on Thursday June 08, 2023 @03:09PM (#36247041)
The post mentions that Reddit calculates a $20M/yr opportunity cost to allowing Apollo to continue running as-is. Apollo is trying to say that $10M one-time is a bargain if Reddit truly believes the users are worth $20M/yr.

I don't think Apollo is using this argument as some sort of leverage. Reading through the post, they seem well aware that they are defenseless. They only have the court of public opinion.

AMD GPUs are not as good as Nvidia's. The other issue that AMD and any other competitor has to face is that much of the new AI software uses CUDA, which as far as I know is limited to Nvidia hardware only.
Re:Legal Use of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms Begins in Oregon on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @11:49AM (#34233933)
What would the punishment for the offense be? If it is prison time, that also costs the tax payer.
Re:The 'Quiet Quitting' Phenomenon on Monday September 12, 2022 @06:26PM (#32817965)
I am assuming you're joking, but in the event you are not I can add some commentary here.

If an employer wants employees willing to go the extra mile, then they should offer compensation for those who choose to go the extra mile. This could come in the form of a performance bonus. The people who simply want to do the work they are paid to do and nothing more/less (i.e. the people the media is calling "quiet quitters") will get no additional bonus.

The name "quiet quitting" is disingenuous, as it leads you to think that it means someone is "quitting" when in fact they are just doing what they are paid to do.

Re:Redis explained on Thursday August 11, 2022 @02:21PM (#32429759)
Not to make this an ad, but you can actually do better with Redis Enterprise using Redis on flash (part of the flexible and annual plans). It stores hot data in RAM and "warm" data in flash. Here is a good 68s video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFQnhPstqLM
There are no shortcuts in the stock market, and this person is clearly selling a shortcut.
Re:Redis Stack on Thursday March 31, 2022 @11:43AM (#30868460)
Here is a video that outlines how to build a real-time stock watcher using Redis Stack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaiQFZ5bXaM

Worth a watch for sure

It has been awhile since I used the GCP admin, but I am intimately familiar with how awful the Azure UI is... is it really better than GCP? I have never liked how Azure seems to be designed as if you're in a virtual machine or something. The horizontal scrolling is a mess.
Re:How to build a HackerNews Clone using Redis on Friday December 03, 2021 @02:07PM (#29433872)
I use the following, in addition to NextDNS.

  - uBlock Origin
  - Privacy Possum
  - DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
  - WebGL Fingerprint Defender
  - Font Fingerprint Defender
  - AudioContext Fingerprint Defender
  - CSS Exfil Protection
Re:How to build a HackerNews Clone using Redis on Friday December 03, 2021 @12:33PM (#29432652)
I have found this to be useful: https://github.com/fpereiro/backendlore

It is more about writing backends generally, but in it he uses Redis as a primary database and walks through durability and scalability.

Re:How to build a HackerNews Clone using Redis on Friday December 03, 2021 @11:08AM (#29431540)
Hmm, I am not experiencing this though I am using FF with some anti-click jacking plugins...
Re:The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger of Crypto on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @01:43PM (#29333547)
> stablecoins subvert the ability of the Federal Reserve to print money and give it to their friends at Goldman Sachs et al

... and now the owners of the stablecoin can print money and give it to friends of the stablecoin.

I don't see how stablecoins are any better than the Federal Reserve. If anything they are strictly worse. The owners of the stablecoin are semi-anonymous and have no governing body. I get that "no governing body" might be a good thing in some people's minds, and I think the OP highlights exactly who those people are.

I'm sure many of the frontend dev Twitter influencers are genuine, but I do get a similar vibe. Some of the conversations just don't feel real at all, very similar to _some_ church circles.
I'm sure outside of my personal bubble this won't be an issue, but I've found the buzz generated from this announcement to be kind of off-putting. The sheer amount of promotion leading up to this announcement has been in my face now for weeks and kind of driving me nuts.

That being said I see no reason to not welcome another competitor in this space... and it's free. I'm sure you are right and this will gain popularity, though the competition is stiff.

Re:The Tinkerbell Griftopia on Friday November 19, 2021 @01:04PM (#29280257)
Please explain how someone can have an ironclad DRM implementation that guards access to download a link to a jpeg on a public blockchain that you want everyone to be able to view.
Re:The Tinkerbell Griftopia on Friday November 19, 2021 @01:02PM (#29280238)
Yes, it is a completely contrived marketplace based on bragging rights. It seems to work, but it is incredibly stupid and eventually people will move on.
We all know that to operate at scale you have to embrace eventual consistency.
Take a trip down memory lane to see the initial sentiment from the few HN commenters about Bitcoin. No mention of energy consumption, but other than that I think HN still holds the same general feelings about Bitcoin.
This is silly. You are paid in USD, so you are just converting USD to BTC. Then you will have to convert BTC back to USD to actually pay for things... I don't get it. This is just a great way to turn some of your paycheck into transaction fees.
Re:Federal Reserve Announces Plan to Slow Bond Buying Program on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @02:52PM (#29098799)
Looks like we have high inflation, but it's transitory. We also have low unemployment, but the labor market hasn't healed. I don't know what to make of these mixed messages.

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