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hum3hum3··on Milestone: Write app from scratch rather than manufacturers software
For the first time I bought some new hardware, didn't bother to look at manufacturers site and just wrote what I wanted from scratch.
hum3hum3··on Git hosting that never leaves Europe
I just moved from github to vodeberg then to my own self hosted forgejo on hetzner. I may wait awhile and then try yours.
hum3hum3··on Fractal Jittered Voronoi Partitions
Thank you very much. I have a Voroni Clan map of Scotland which I have improved with this and I now think it looks better https://www.tartandictionary.org/ Making it accurate will take time but this is great.
hum3hum3··on Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
Like others I migrated from github to codeberg. But since lots of my projects are coauthored with Claude I moved to self hosting Forgejo on a small Hetzner instance which also does some static hosting. So far working well. I think some cross platforms stars and search would be good.
hum3hum3··on A desktop made for one
I was inspired by Nicklaus Wirth when he wrote his own language opearting system and CPU. LLM allow many more to do this like you so am seriously impressed. It is also fun.
hum3hum3··on Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people
I have done this with the help of Claude. codeberge first, using static host for my pages and a Hetzner woodpeckr for a tiny amount of testing. working well so far.
hum3hum3··on Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
Me too - I am 65 and coding all hours. At least half the time on tooling to encode the way I want to do things. I have ideas and implement them. I think it is fun as you make more progress. I do think it is a temporary phase and not sure if the next one will be as much fun or once I have drained the accumulated ideas that would be nice to do someday.

I feel selfish in that I am towards the end of my career rather than right at the start.

hum3hum3··on Lectures in London
My son wrote this (no AI), he got the lectures tab (written by the latest Codex 5.3 rampant for 2 1/2 hours) with Codex 5.3 of which ca 70% is written by itself. It feels like the singularity is now. It is remarkable what you can get done.
hum3hum3··on The Synology End Game
It is sad. I liked my Ds with ecc. It has been great but it complains about the non synology memory. So it sounds like it will be my last after about 20 years
hum3hum3··on My Self-Hosting Setup
I am thinking about replacing my Synology BUT I have had three and now ECC over the last 20 years and they have done their job faullessly. There are stupid things now like complaining about non Synology ram modules.
hum3hum3··on My Self-Hosting Setup
Me too. It works really well now that I have a silent version with SSD and passive heat sink. This avoids my son turning it off because the fan noise annoys him. I am thinking about adding kubernetes for failure resilience but that is a work in progress.

I am happy to start digging into Authelia.

Are you using the gokrazy router as well?

hum3hum3··on The Influence of Japanese Archaeology on the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
I know virtually nothing about gaming culture. But eons ago was interested in Japanese pottery. My understanding then was the start of Japanese culture in 300 ad with importation of styles and language from Korea. I have no memory of the Jomon period. But now that long stable period snd uniquely Japanese culture from the Jomon period seems a vital strand of Japanese culture. Do the article is interesting to bring that to life in a gaming context.
hum3hum3··on How I write code using Cursor
OK I have been writing code for 50 years but can only use cursor for home use. From my experience, I echo the authors comments. You do have to be careful with larger suggestions that it makes sense but the syntax will be right. It is just faster.
hum3hum3··on Show HN: Numscript, a declarative language to model financial transactions
You should never use floats for money. In python Decimal works well. TigerBeatle uses 128 bit accounts and amounts which I thought was interesting although more than needed gor many cases.
hum3hum3··on Show HN: Numscript, a declarative language to model financial transactions
You might like https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-compu... which shows it as a directed graph.
hum3hum3··on FastHTML – Modern web applications in pure Python
I have used and liked FastHTML although I was going in a different direction (not very modern and no javascript) https://github.com/drummonds/lofigui. It works well.
hum3hum3··on Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count
The counting/estimstion technique is rather like a floating point number. An integer exponent k and a mantissa of a population.
hum3hum3··on When will computer hardware match the human brain? (1998)
I think the power efficiency is very relaxed as you just need to consider the value of a single performance digital brain that exceeds human level.
hum3hum3··on Building a Scalable Accounting Ledger
1 for a zero amount more realistically commonly 2. End of year may have one for each account do many.
hum3hum3··on Building a Scalable Accounting Ledger
I think the transactions table is misnamed. This is a table of posting legs. Which all must balance for a single transaction. I don't think you should get hung up on +ve-ve versus cr and Dr. When double entry was formalised negative numbers were not common and then thought errant. It is only in the eighteenth century it became normal. I enjoyed the entry. Note that you might you use different minimum fractions eg we use 0.00001p as a discrete value.
hum3hum3··on Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative
I have just been working with photoprism. Ente looks nice but going to stay with photoprism as I like the go binary and can build features I want.
hum3hum3··on The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge
Amazing dedication and I did read to the end.
hum3hum3··on Cardinal/WASM: In-Browser Modular Synth Based on VCV Rack
That was really neat and impressive in Wasm
hum3hum3··on Tom Lehrer has released all of his songs into the public domain
It is not missing but missspelt https://tomlehrersongs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/trotl1...

On the site I think it is a double L

hum3hum3··on Static site hosting hurdles
I used to use Amazon but something broke somewhere and I haven' fixed it. Netlify was very low effort on my part. However I really like the idea of this approach as it helps feed into owning your own data. So I may have another go using this.
hum3hum3··on Accounting for Developers, Part II
I did like Charles Dickens who has Mr Micawber say ‘Annual income 20 pounds, annual expenditure 19 [pounds] 19 [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income 20 pounds, annual expenditure 20 pounds ought and six, result misery.’
hum3hum3··on Accounting for Developers, Part II
Thank you. Those are some interesting references. I do like your reference of state machines at the edges of the accounting model. Definitely the case in payments systems. I don't like how Modern Ledger goes straight to credits and debits whereas Klepmann has a graduated approach. I have been thinking about writing a bit more about this.
hum3hum3··on Ask HN: Anyone working 4 day week here, as an employee?
>Anyone working 4 day week here, as an employee? I do, working at Atom bank in the UK. We switched to a a 4 day week 4 8.5 hours at the end of Covid. It works great - I am also working from home. It is noticiably more focused during the 4 days. Eg not doing meetings unless you need to.

I was lucky and I started on a 37.5 5 7.5 hours a day in the office.