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axitanull··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
Perhaps we should start treating them as criminals instead of assuming that they are idiots.
axitanull··on Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise
You can deliberately put comments and descriptions using those language.
axitanull··on SQLite concurrency and why you should care about it
Forgive my lack of knowledge, but how is simply zipping the original file would "defrag" the file?

Shouldn't the file be moved into different disk fragment first, for that to happen?

axitanull··on Windows 10 spies on your use of System Settings (2021)
And with all kinds of telemetry they collected, they managed to create the pinnacle of UI/UX redesign, as shown in the Settings Panels in Windows 11, right?
axitanull··on 96% of climate policy since 1998 failed
So you propose we roll the dice and hope for more accidents to happen?
axitanull··on QtCS2024: Compile once, Run everywhere
> Funding for this project is crowdsourced using GitHub Sponsors and Patreon.

Based on the project github page, it seems that this is their version of weird/fun stuff, that is not done as a part of their job.

axitanull··on QtCS2024: Compile once, Run everywhere
And the file served is of pdf file. The font used is Titillium Web. The color of my bike shed is that of brown wood color.

Did I also contribute to the discussion of the tool?

axitanull··on The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus
Yes, of course there are people who really want to do those. But op was presenting their main point of view related to "the slow evaporation" part.

Like op, more and more people can't get past the idea of starting or contributing to FOSS is no longer worth their time, due to various reasons, such as: their free labor of love was turned into another corporate money making tool.

axitanull··on Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel
I wonder how much % of windows are Surface tablets, that they think going with this decision is wise.
axitanull··on No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and No Meetings Without an Agenda
Having employees unionize is also at odds with the interests of the business.
axitanull··on No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and No Meetings Without an Agenda
Surely the C-suites of the company will employ whatever brilliant ideas that we talk over the water cooler. The water cooler is the fountain of innovation after all.

Perhaps they should put all the water coolers in the executives' offices, so they can listen to all the brilliant conversations that take place at the water cooler.

axitanull··on No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and No Meetings Without an Agenda
Why is it that every time someone tried to push RTO agenda in a thread, "water cooler talk" has always been pushed like it is one of most important thing in a job?

Is "water cooler talk" the new "open office layout"?

axitanull··on AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products
Not sure if this is a sarcasm or "you are holding it wrong" moment.
axitanull··on Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count
In python, you can simply substitute `A` with an iterable or generator object, which can be a of unknown length.
axitanull··on Go Enums Still Suck
I believe back in the Java days, there are packages that are also doing something like this (comment preprocessor for generating code)

Those plugins would try to point out that the comments that they would preprocessed would look somewhat different from regular comment, e.g.

//this is a regular comment

//#while comments that start with '#' would be preprocessed.

It's still an issue that would shoot the foot of the next person who would maintain your code though.

axitanull··on Go Enums Still Suck
So to continue our bikeshedding:

Hacker News has no shortage of resourceful people that can silently handle the issue by themselves (the first comment even said themselves that they could simply use Reader Mode!). But the main point of my reply is: look at the number of replies that focus on the style of the website, and compare that to the number of replies that focus on the point of the post/article.

axitanull··on Go Enums Still Suck
The first sentence literally points out that the post is a continuation of previous post that elaborates on why Go Enum sucks.
axitanull··on Go Enums Still Suck
It just dawns to me that "complaining about the style or minor usability of the website" is a type of bike shedding that happens regularly in hacker news.

Instead of contributing to the discussion related to the post, it's easier to just go "the website sucks."

axitanull··on Gen Z is lonely. Going back to the office may be the cure for some
Because no one ever feels lonely in the office pre-covid/pre-remote work.
axitanull··on Meta wants its open source AI model to be as capable as OpenAI’s best model
Open sources can have a restrictive license, just because a project doesn't use WTFPL doesn't mean it's not open source.
axitanull··on Pixel Tablet
existing software support*

Any hardware issues (mind you, the failure rate is pretty high, especially keyboards), and you're left with a broken device.

axitanull··on Tech’s Offshore Hiring Has Gone into Overdrive
People have been disagreeing with OP in their own link, providing counter arguments and those didn't change OP's opinion a little bit.
axitanull··on LucidVR open source force feedback VR gloves
Oh wow, someone learned something new and exciting today! Instead of celebrating them expanding their knowledge and horizon, let's make fun of them!
axitanull··on Thank You MDN
> Maybe Mozilla should hire more people in those places, if they need to do so to save money.

They did hire from places with cheaper labor cost, such as Taiwan. They still got axed.

axitanull··on Thank You MDN
So maybe until you prove your worth as great leader that gets company from decline into growth, your salary shouldn't keep growing by the millions?
axitanull··on Data centers can slash CO2 emissions 88% or more (2013)
Or recently: why bother wearing face mask at all if it doesn't fully prevent covid-19?

Or: why should I do my part when everyone's selfish?

axitanull··on Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
When you are detained by the police, you don't have to do the guesswork of what you did wrong.

The police should/would tell you.

axitanull··on Horrors of Using Azure Kubernetes Service in Production
That and countless horror stories about once your google account or service is banned for whatever reason detected by their bot, you have no way to appeal with their nonexistent customer support.
axitanull··on Why Is It Taking 20 Minutes to Mine This Bitcoin Block?
Understanding is one thing, explaining in layman or easy to undertand terms is another, and sometimes it takes a lot of effort.
axitanull··on My Python Development Environment, 2018 Edition
>These are pretty big Flask apps too, which have thousands of lines of code, dozens of packages, tons of assets and require running Celery, Postgres, Redis, etc..

I was trying to create a new project last month trying to put all of these together. One thing that I was stuck in was putting these together:

- non-single-thread-Flask

- Redis pub-sub, subscribe to listen to a channel

- and websocket (such as socket.io) upon receiving redis sub message, pushing the message to client side.

I found out that this was a non-trivial thing to do, as redis subscribe is a blocking function, and I was not able to push websocket message from redis subscribe callback. I wonder how did they do that, if any?

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