the_alchemist
Re:Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads
on Monday September 07, 2026 @10:18PM (#49605007)
And sugar is dollars :'D
Re:Walgit – a Git server that is one binary in front of an object store
on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @12:29AM (#49429076)
I'm confused by the usage of the word consensus in the explanation, to me it seems like a last-write-wins strategy, no consensus involved?
Re:Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"
on Sunday February 22, 2026 @01:33AM (#47108775)
It's 'de jour' , which means 'of the day' in French
Re:Production-Grade Container Deployment with Podman Quadlets – Larvit...
on Sunday November 16, 2025 @12:36PM (#45946834)
Please elaborate
Re:N8n added native persistent storage with DataTables
on Thursday October 02, 2025 @03:32PM (#45454334)
Slightly off topic question , but do you pronounce it n eight n, or Nathan ? I got blank stares when saying Nathan from my colleagues :')
Re:Is sound gradual typing dead? Performance problems in Typed Racket
on Saturday September 27, 2025 @12:31PM (#45397248)
Should add (2016)
Re:Nixie Tubes
on Saturday November 16, 2024 @07:15AM (#42156032)
I love how Petzold's Code went over the details of switching segments for a clock using these tubes.
Re:Tiered support is an anti-pattern (2013)
on Saturday October 05, 2024 @03:04AM (#41748196)
Isn't this tiered support a necessity when operating at scale? How can you help thousands of customers where faqs and getting starteds don't cut it? You need a filtering mechanism (L1) to help users directly without overloading the product team with a standard reply rtfm.
Re:BirdLingo: A birdsong learning game
on Saturday February 10, 2024 @05:21AM (#39325072)
I like Merlin better, it is the 'live match' version. With birdnet you have to record and submit. Both are from the Cornell Lab for ornithology.
Re:Study: Water spritz before grinding coffee yields less waste, tasti...
on Thursday December 07, 2023 @02:43PM (#38560867)
Lance Hendrick has a nice deep dive on this paper as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuqVUsMPs-U&
Re:Show HN: Coerce – Distributed actor framework in Rust
on Saturday February 18, 2023 @10:50AM (#34847747)
But then the main contributor, Lightbend company, decided to change the license from Apache 2, to BSL.. Now Apache Pekko is the fork that should continue the implementation :)
Re:Show HN: tere – A Faster Alternative to cd+ls
on Friday July 15, 2022 @05:36AM (#32106357)
> "Tere" means "hello" in Estonian. It also feels nice to type.
On qwerty I think that's the case :)
Re:I won free load testing
on Sunday May 01, 2022 @11:47PM (#31231247)
What a great post-mortem write-up! Thans for sharing
Re:Eastern Antarctica sees record temperatures 70 degrees above normal
on Saturday March 19, 2022 @09:17AM (#30733482)
Without paywall on archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20220319112653/https://www.washi...
Re:IBM open sources fully-functional Lego microscope design (2020)
on Sunday March 06, 2022 @06:00AM (#30576641)
*Cost will vary by location between $300–$400
Re:Sudden cardiac death in young people with apparently normal heart (...
on Sunday November 28, 2021 @08:43AM (#29368838)
Title could use a 2001: Cardiovascular Research, Volume 50, Issue 2, May 2001
Re:Faster Maven Builds
on Monday October 04, 2021 @02:36AM (#28743742)
Nice write-up, and good to see that maven also evolves. The use of the daemon is really significant for the build time. Is there any clue what would take 90 seconds everytime you execute the maven process? Is it the creating of the build graph and its dependencies? What would happen when I change my dependencies or module structure, does the daemon still stay on 30 seconds?
Re:Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems
on Monday April 13, 2020 @01:45PM (#22858052)
In the readme it's mentioned.
brew bundle dump
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle/blob/master/READ...
Re:Pwning your web server the easy way or why exposing –/.ssh/ is a ba...
on Friday January 17, 2020 @02:40AM (#22072678)
As long as you keep the public part private, there is no issue ;)
Re:Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake
on Saturday January 11, 2020 @09:29AM (#22020042)
Scala happily accepts null as it is the bottom type for AnyRef and needed for jvm compatibility. Kotlin has a compiler check that enforces it, Scala does not.
Re:Dutch Telephone Outage Takes Out Nation's Emergency Number
on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @02:28AM (#20271658)
This might be your first instinct, but a new contractor would have to gain the knowledge KPN did on preventing these outages, there is no guarantee any other company would have better uptime.
Reminds me of the quote or story that someone rather hired an ops engineer that accidentally dropped a database than someone who didn't. As the first one would go at more length preventing to do it again.
Re:Autodraw – Fast Drawing for Everyone
on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @02:12AM (#14095214)
That tool saved me many times. It's hard to do obscure symbolic searches in Google :')
Re:Time Series, the new shiny?
on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @06:15AM (#11666124)
> Riak uses the SHA hash as its distribution mechanism and divides the output range of the SHA hash evenly amongst participating nodes in the cluster.
Wait, Riak uses SHA as distribution hash? Why use a cryptographic hash for distribution and not something like Murmur3, if you're talking about high-performant[0] ?
[0] http://blog.reverberate.org/2012/01/state-of-hash-functions-...