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ditsukeon Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges

We're not all in the US or EU

ditsukeon Ask HN: What were interviews like before Leetcode?

A number of new grad loops in the EU had hards this year. Companies starting with U, M, etc.

ditsukeon Show HN: deptry 0.14.0 – detect unused Python dependencies up to 10 times faster

I recently introduced tweag's fawltydeps for this use-case at work, looking forward to try deptry when I run into this problem again..

ditsukeon The disaggregated write-ahead log (2023)

Remember reading this one just last month!

ditsukeon OpenAI Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims

Wild watching the op-ed against Ilya unfold.

ditsukeon If needed, you have a role at Microsoft that matches your compensation

Doesn't the UK have a general skilled-worker visa?

ditsukeon Kagi finally let me lay Google Search to rest

I think you're missing the point: a price barrier regardless how big is good.

ditsukeon Maybe Rust isn’t a good tool for massively concurrent, userspace software

The rust guys are working on this very problem with the keyword generics proposal https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2022/07/27/keyword-ge...

ditsukeon Using LD_PRELOAD to cheat, inject features and investigate programs

Wow, that sounds like a fun place to work at!

ditsukeon The Tao of Go

Only if it came with code to justify the Go in the title.

ditsukeon Git Blame-Someone-Else

That could've been possible if Git didn't use commit metadata hashes, (un)fortunately it's smart enough to do that.

ditsukeon Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes

Concerns aside, automatic structured data is an exciting idea (and one I've been wanting in my workflow). Looking forward to seeing how it turns out!

ditsukeon Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes

Always excited to have more options in the PKM space. I have a couple questions — have you tried Obsidian.md? And what does grugnotes plan to use OpenAI for (besides as a development aid)

ditsukeon Pull request merge queue (public beta)

So, mergify built in?

ditsukeon Ask HN: A Better Docker Compose?

This might end up being my gateway to learning and using k8s. Thank you!

ditsukeon Tell HN: The ThinkPad X1 Carbon is an excellent MacBook replacement

> - trackpad - your two sentences are very vague. Can you navigate with two fingers in a web browser? How is text selection? Or selecting a sentence out of a long paragraph, etc? In my experience nothing matches Apple in terms of precision and accuracy, but maybe Lenovo finally caught up recently.

I use the LG Gram 2022. The trackpad is nothing short of Amazing on Linux -- everything you expect works 2/3/4 finger gestures, panning; the scrolling however can use some tuning on Gnome.

ditsukeon Nixpacks takes a source directory and produces an OCI compliant image

Small world indeed!

ditsukeon GoodbyeDPI: Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility

It's widely employed by Russian and Indian ISPs to censor access to websites. I've had a largely successful run with GoodbyeDPI 's circumvention.

ditsukeon Is social audio already dead?

Not very online enough. But really, i think it's more about your online influence sphere. I've been on the intersection and seen a side where it's big, the other where it's not even felt.

ditsukeon Ask HN: What's your greatest enjoyment in life?

Good food and anime.

ditsukeon Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic

Sorry I couldn't find a reference, what is dogwood?

ditsukeon FormKit: Form building framework for Vue 3

What would you know, today I learned

ditsukeon Ask HN: Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging?

DDG uses Bing (like most other alternative search engines). I believe Brave's new search engine uses its own index though.

ditsukeon Process Scheduling in Linux (2021)

Paywalled.

ditsukeon Actually Using Ed (2012)

Thanks, luckily caught this while I could still edit!