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jannesan··on 中文 Literacy Speedrun II: Character Cyclotron
here you go: https://www.chinese-forums.com/forums/topic/61471-mega-manda...

i’ve used this for a brief while, but dropped practicing handwriting completely shortly after.

jannesan··on RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello
Cloudflare can and must decrypt the ClientHello for the sites it serves in order to actually serve the traffic. Using ECH with CF means you use their ECH domain and their keys.
jannesan··on What Dynamic Typing Is For
This is the first time I see a compelling argument for using dynamic languages for writing web backends. Not that I actually write web backends, so maybe this is all obvious to real practicioners. Thanks for sharing!
jannesan··on Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release
Is Immich good at finding duplicates? And generally cleaning up a dump of photos? Or am I better off using Digikam for that before importing to Immich?
jannesan··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
How about writing new things at the top of the file? If you use dates as sections you can still add new things at the bottom of the current day, but you always have current day at top.
jannesan··on Firefox tab groups are here
please do share how you do it :)
jannesan··on The Bitter Prediction
That’s a good point. I do think there still is some space to focus on just the coding as an engineer, but with AI the space is getting smaller.
jannesan··on The Bitter Prediction
this article precisely captures what i have been thinking recently. it’s really demotivating me.
jannesan··on Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI
As a candidate, this sort of test gives me the worst possible impression of the company.

- 0 effort on your side - very stressful for me - completely unrelated to job - ridiculous definition of someone being “smart”

Actually, I would not even do the test most likely and I bet many others neither.

jannesan··on Show HN: Ente Photos – v1.0
The iOS app looks great! I like that you also have a Linux app. Going to evaluate Ente over the next week by using it on those 2 platforms.

The pricing seems very reasonable as well and the free tier is good enough for me to give this a serious try.

jannesan··on Operating System in 1,000 Lines – Intro
thanks for sharing! qemu is very powerful, but it’s hard to discocer a lot of these features
jannesan··on Character amnesia in China
Official standard defines around 8k characters in modern usage. I’d guesstimate native highly educated speaker recognizes maybe 6-7k at most.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Commonly_Used_Standa...

jannesan··on Upgrading Linux with Rust looks like a new challenge. It's one of our oldest
Great piece that takes a step back from the concrete and looks at the situation through a broader lense. Really enjoyed the writing!
jannesan··on A first dip into OS kernel development with xv6 and the 6.1810 labs
I still haven’t settled on what to do next, but for sure I will continue with educational material for now as I don’t have concrete goals to contribute to “real world” projects (yet). I also like having some structured path layed out for me, it makes it easier work on it every other day and not get stuck wondering what best to do next.

As for more serious projects I am interested in and could be a potential follow up to contribute to a bigger kernel, there are SerenityOS and RedoxOS.

jannesan··on A first dip into OS kernel development with xv6 and the 6.1810 labs
I found the instructions for the labs clear and at the right level of detail for me that I did not have questions about what was required for the solution. They have a hints section that really get you started enough in my opinion, sometimes I looked at those a bit too early in retrospect. Then for understanding the part of the codebase that the lab was extending the book was sufficient as extra material for me. There are even lectures online for the 2019 version, but the theoretical side was something I had at least familiarity with before, so I did not watch those.
jannesan··on We have used too many levels of abstractions
While I agree with the sentiment, I also struggle to find the right approach of peeling back abstractions and understanding the lower levels. Learning how something works under the hood takes time and can be a big commitment. How to do decide when to look below the abstraction? I’m most often interested in how things work under the hood, but I can’t always dig deep, which does bother me.
jannesan··on Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
Could you please post your userChrome.css that you use to achieve this? Looks very neat to me, but I don't know how to configure it.
jannesan··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)
Hi, you mention you’re open for remote, but none of the listings on your career page are tagged remote. Does that mean all positions are potentially remote? If not, which ones are? I’m interested, based in Europe.

EDIT: also don’t see any non-senior positions, but you mentioned new-grad?

jannesan··on Martin Kleppmann's Cambridge Lecture Course on Distributed Systems
These lectures are the second half of a two part course, are recordings of the first part on concurrency also openly available somewhere?