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Daviey··on Show HN: Microsoft Office running with Wine on Linux with no virtualization
The recruiter wouldn't compile anything, they'd just tell me "this guy sent me a GitHub repo instead of a CV", or more likely just not mention your application. A recruiter who reliably funnels screened people to me is worth far more than any single application, so that's how it plays out logistically - you get dropped and never hear about it. "As far as I am aware" is carrying a lot of weight there.

The arrogant bit is "here's a link to the source and instructions on how to compile it, feel free to do what you need". A recruiter asking for an editable version wants something they can drop their letterhead on and forward to the client. Handing them a build task assumes they have both the skills and the inclination to meet you on your toolchain. Nobody expects you to be their typesetter either; the difference in skills isn't the problem, assuming the difference away is.

That mismatch is the part I'd actually be screening for. A company is mostly non-engineering people: sales, support, HR, PMs who can't read a diff. The recruiter is the one non-technical person in your hiring pipeline, and how you handle them is a sample of how you'd handle the fifty you'd work alongside. If the instinct is to make them come to your toolchain rather than meet them where they are, that plays out in every meeting and every "quick question" from sales for as long as you're employed. The CV is the one document whose entire purpose is to sell you to a non-technical audience, and handling that poorly is telling.

I've maintained my own CV in LaTeX for ~20 years and would never dream of sending a recruiter a Makefile and telling them to work it out.

Sent to me directly? Fine, I'd read the repo, probably be impressed, might even see if I could improve mine from it. That was never the scenario though.

Daviey··on Show HN: Microsoft Office running with Wine on Linux with no virtualization
If you did this to me, fine.

If you had done this to a recruiter that funnels screened people to me, I'd make sure to not interview you. It shows total lack of awareness of how to deal with non-tech people, verging on arrogance.

Daviey··on Show HN: Microsoft Office running with Wine on Linux with no virtualization
When I need other people to continue editing it.

I also prefer LaTeX, I've written hundreds of letters, multiple papers, a few thesis and my CV (maintained for the last ~20 years). But the defacto for business documents sadly isn't LaTeX.

Daviey··on Show HN: Microsoft Office running with Wine on Linux with no virtualization
The biggest blocker for me is having confidence my output renders the same with people using MS Office, pdf output isn't always sufficient.
Daviey··on How GLM built its own inference infrastructure
Most of them are not public, but a fun thing I did was a mario cli game - https://github.com/Daviey/mario/ (or `ssh mario.baby`).

I now exclusively use https://omp.sh/ as my harness:

I set it up so it never works in the main branch so subagents etc don't step on each others toes, and only merges back when complete: https://github.com/Daviey/mario/blob/main/.omp/hooks/pre/wor...

A good AGENTS.md is essential: https://github.com/Daviey/mario/blob/main/AGENTS.md

I then provide specifications for what I want, making sure it is unit tested.

Daviey··on GLM Built Its Own Inference Infrastructure
I have 3-5 agent harnesses with large context windows working on different applications concurrently.
Daviey··on How GLM built its own inference infrastructure
I paid $360 annual for Max plan and currently averaging about 1BN tokens a day with their frontier GLM-5.3 model. This was clearly unsustainable for them and they've dropped this package.
Daviey··on Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ads
Most companies I think now make you accountable for the card, and unless you provide a receipt showing it is a company expense then you are accountable.
Daviey··on I refuse to let SPICE die
and insecure by default
Daviey··on Flights cancelled at UK airports due to ATC issue
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20150415-the-buttons-th...

There's also placebo buttons in many offices for aircon/heating.

Daviey··on Flights cancelled at UK airports due to ATC issue
Delays yes... But once an airline cancels the flight, they become liable.
Daviey··on Flights cancelled at UK airports due to ATC issue
Because nobody in this situation is accountable. I agree the airline may not be to blame for the cause, but SOMEONE is... but NATS do not carry the same responsibility.

It blows my mind that consumers have lots of protection from the airline, but we have no protection from ATC failures.

As it happens, flight just got cancelled.. so airline is responsible for hotel and rebook. Which is also unfair on them.

Daviey··on Flights cancelled at UK airports due to ATC issue
My wife is currently at Gatwick, supposed to have taken off 2 hours ago, but no update.... The frustrating thing is the complete lack of information. I cannot comprehend how nobody knows what the situation is. I mean, is aircraft on the tarmac yet? Has it left it's previous destination yet? etc.

Worst part is, likely no compensation as it isn't the airlines "fault".

Daviey··on Hackers have withdrawn ~4k BTC (~$320M) from the Liquid Federation wallet
https://xcancel.com/Liquid_BTC/status/2096696272447218108#m
Daviey··on Don't Use a gmail.com Address
I had websites state that the address was invalid because I didn't have an MX record, despite it not being an RFC requirment.

Also, a lifetime ago, had Hurricane Electric (https://he.net) refuse to accept a sign-up because... I only had one MX record. I added an additional record pointing the same IP, but they weren't happy.. So I allocated an additional ipv4 address to the same server, just to satisfy them.

It's a losing battle.

Daviey··on A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]
Having made`ssh mario.baby` and https://mario.baby (visa was) from the same code.. I'd choose https any day.
Daviey··on Show HN: Super CLI MARIO – a Mario clone for your terminal in zero-dependency Go
Author here. Fastest way in is `ssh mario.baby`, no account needed or install etc.

Browser build at https://mario.baby (using WASM)

A new level daily, with the date as a seed.

Feedback issues and patches welcome, https://github.com/Daviey/mario

Daviey··on Just Fucking Use Neovim
Real devs use `ed`.
Daviey··on Canonical backs new project to translate large C codebases into safe Rust
As a former Canonical employee, where I was the leader and engineering owner of Cloud and Server products, you are pretty off the mark here.

In my >25 year career, my team were the best engineers I have worked with and I'd work again with any of them in a heart-beat. Most of them have moved on to other impactful roles at other organisations and delivering amazing things.

None of them were "sysadmin" people.

Daviey··on Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating
I'm quite impressed with the Hungarian system, for 18-19 year old school leavers, where every subject is split 50/50 between:

  - Írásbeli (written) - standardised written exam, centrally set and marked
  - Szóbeli (oral) - the panel interview
The oral (szóbeli) has:

  - A committee of 2-3 teachers sits as a panel
  - The student draws a topic at random from a list
  - They get prep time (usually 15-20 mins)
  - They present their answer to the panel
  - The panel asks follow-up questions and probes understanding
Daviey··on How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
They drive the TUI from the same thread that actual does stuff.. causing frequent freezes.

No GUI developer would ever put this on the same thread.

Daviey··on Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike
Well done for scoring 2nd place. :)
Daviey··on Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf]
The writes are insanely fast.
Daviey··on Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn
Been using GLM-5.2 in OpenCode since Saturday, what are you waiting for?
Daviey··on Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
Can we update the title, should be, "Google Chrome's next update will mark the end of me using it"
Daviey··on Hetzner Price Adjustment
A better analogy is renting a car, and then jacking up prices for existing rentals, rather than just new ones.
Daviey··on Hetzner Price Adjustment
As a long term metal customer, I understood the need to raise prices for energy usage.... but for disk/ram I'm struggling to be sympathetic. The hardware I am using is already procured by them, and until such time there is a hardware failure I cannot support a price rise, because were is their justification for existing hardware?
Daviey··on Making Claude a Chemist
Will each part be a 1.44mb rar/ace file?
Daviey··on Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates
Really enjoyed this and it brought back many memories of the Amiga, great job.

Two suggestions,

  - The sailing is a bit too nimble, it's possible to turn naturally.
  - It's currently possible to sail over/under the other ship.
When will it be possible to intercept and have a sword fight? :)
Daviey··on DoD Officially Drops 180 Faiths from Military's Recognized Religion List
Why do you feel it is outsiders role to tell them they are not Christians, surely it's their role to self-determine?
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