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Re:Self-host your mail server on Sunday July 26, 2026 @07:55PM (#49063611)
I find the price jump at 5gb for Migadu pretty steep. I’m carrying around 2 decades of emails so I’d need the next size up for sure and that brings it in Fastmail territory without providing all the bells ans whistles Fastmail has. (E.g. 1Password masked mail integration, iOS push)
Re:Why Today's Python Developers Are Embracing Type Hints on Sunday September 28, 2025 @08:02AM (#45403714)
At least in ruby theres mayor code bases using stripes sorbet and the official RBS standard for type hints. Notably its big code bases with large amounts of developers, fitting in with the trend most people in this discussion point to.
this sounds so different from rubys new JIT that - i think - came in around the same time and is bringing huge performance benefits.

team size sounds similar but it's mostly full time people from shopify and other interested parties (see https://railsatscale.com/2025-01-10-yjit-3-4-even-faster-and... and similar)

I agree. It seems like an effort to criticize issues of late stage capitalism without sounding like a socialist.

There’s also strong overlaps with Varoufakis’ “Technofeudalism”, I.e. construction companies living in autodesks fiefdom.

Re:Ruby's Hash Is A Swiss-Army Knife on Monday August 21, 2023 @11:49AM (#37211196)
While is share the praise for Ruby's hash I find the argument that it might be daunting for a developer (of any persuasion) to pick between a `SortedList` and `Dictionary` worrying.
Looking forward to the CCC talk of somebody using a homemade low powered xray machine to retrieve the code without cutting the note.
Besides the badly written smart contract I'm also struggling to grok what exactly is Dutch about this auction. It's not that the price of something keeps dropping until somebody makes a bid.

Instead everybody pays the lowest bid? Does everybody get a token as well? Why would anybody bid more than the reserve im this model?

Re:Ruby Is Still a Diamond on Thursday September 02, 2021 @09:48AM (#28391944)

  Many systems using other “preferred languages” also
  implement some form of GIL (e.g., Javascript’s V8 machine,
  CPython); we don’t hear complaints about it, because these
  languages have a rapport for heavy lifting and parallel tasks.
As a python developer i almost fell off my chair when i read this section. We don't hear complaints about the GIL in python? I love the article's tone in general but that's some heavy Gell-Mann Amnesia or filtered news sources :)
Re:Numerical Linear Algebra for Programmers on Friday June 26, 2020 @09:26AM (#23651688)
weird game theory view here, would you not be incentivized to never finish the book because people might be waiting for that 1.0 moment to cancel their subscription?
Re:Linux Sucks 2020 on Friday May 29, 2020 @09:09AM (#23349504)
As much as i like lunduke usually, i find it a bit unreflected to just say "we are stupid for banning our founders" without acknowledging anything they might have done wrong. I do agree that the pitchforks approach to public disagreements should not be our (or anybodies) default. But "leave our founders alone" is not a policy I'd personally subscribe too either.

Also vaguely poking fun at therapy as if it was a punishment for something is just plain immature.

Re:CircleCI unveils per seat plus per usage based pricing on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @05:38PM (#21276102)
They avoid mentioning it in the blog, but besides the charge per usage (minutes), there's also a flat 15USD fee per user/month: https://circleci.com/pricing/
what's missing to bring my private t470s on par with my work macbook is "hybrid sleep". the macbook seems uncannily smart of sleeping when i close the lid, then eventually hibernating, so that even after a whole weekend unplugged it has an almost full battery when i open it on monday.

meanwhile the sleeping t470s drains the battery by keeping the RAM alive and eventually runs out. the arch wiki has some content on this, but it did not make me hopeful to get it to work

Re:Things nobody told me about being a software engineer on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @05:11PM (#18445412)
Re #18: It exists, it's called mutation testing, and it's awesome (I only know the Java variant called http://pitest.org)
hope the space dust does not wipe off the writing on the front: "this is not a laser powered bullet to destroy your planet, should totally just fly past, we did the math"
Re:Oracle Java SE 8 Release Updates on Saturday August 18, 2018 @10:04AM (#17788498)
Isn't 11 a LTS again?
Re:Pik – a new lossy image format for the internet on Monday July 24, 2017 @04:45PM (#14842509)
thanks for the info and the edit :)
I think you're right, when actually using it for production software it's probably wise to not be a trailblazer :)

For me this wish for a comparison (that I'd love to be objective and in god spirit of course - naive?) is probably coming more from "shopping around" between projects. Or just when seeing a new thing on HN and wondering if I should investigate adding this particular thing to my toolbox.

Obviously no OS developer owes anybody an explanation, but man would I appreciate if more projects had a "why you should use this over related projects" (like e.g. pendulum does https://github.com/sdispater/pendulum/blob/master/README.rst...)
Re:Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do? on Friday January 06, 2017 @11:02AM (#13337313)
something in the lines of fitness coach + nutrionist + physiotherapy (aka "actually helping people") OR lumberjack in the far north (aka "i've had enough of all this" :))