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low_tech_punk··on Ask HN: Learning Functional Programming in 2022?
Thanks! I saw ReScript's compiler is written in OCaml, so there is definitely a lineage. Will check it out!
low_tech_punk··on FauxPilot – an attempt to build a locally hosted version of GitHub Copilot
Bravo! I'm so glad this is born. I'm curious about its model, SalesForce CodeGen. Does it train on all the public repos on GitHub? Does Copilot have access to private repos that CodeGen cannot access?

Also, it would be really cool if I can personalize FauxPilot by feeding it with all my repos on GitHub. Sometimes I just need to reimplement a function I've written before but it's really hard to find where my old code is.

low_tech_punk··on I regret my website redesign
hurry! Ask the WebAgency for a 50% refund or their name will be the HN frontpage.
low_tech_punk··on RSS is back as an underpinning to SlackOps
Never underestimate the resilience of "low" tech. Rule of least power still holds true.

Prior HN discussions: Turn GitHub into an RSS Reader (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27010144)

low_tech_punk··on Nyxt 3 Pre-release 1 (a Lisp powered web browser)
How did Tauri (Rust) solves the rendering engine problem? Maybe Nyxt can borrow some of its magic.
low_tech_punk··on Nyxt 3 Pre-release 1 (a Lisp powered web browser)
I'm down if this supports a Chromium backend.

Also, how does developer experience look like, e.g. DOM inspector, source code debugger?

My job requires heavy debugging so it cannot be my daily driver unless there is comprehensive developer tools.

low_tech_punk··on Ask HN: Has anyone here worked on the Windows kernel?
MIT 6.033 Computer System Engineering, Spring 2005 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6535748F59DCA484

MIT 6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Fall 2018 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63VIBQVWguX...

I feel what is underpinning this thread is a job dissatisfaction issues from the ratio between "using other people's software" vs. "writing software for others". The former is inevitably frustrating as I'd become a consumer of software, rather than a creator. Kernel programming, and low-level system engineering in general is more aligned with the latter where you have more creative freedom and less constraints from other people's abstractions. It's like driving an automatic vs. manual car. The latter is just more fun, despite its inefficiency.

Enjoy the courses!

low_tech_punk··on Ask HN: Has anyone here worked on the Windows kernel?
Feeling the same. Tired of web stack. Don’t want to do Kubernetes. Don’t want to do ML. All I want is descending to lower level programming. Rust would be nice. C would do too. LLVM IR might be my ultimate language. I don’t waste time on Leetcode. I spend most of my free time on side projects on GitHub which helps me build up a portfolio for my next job. I also watch MIT courses to learn system programming. I don’t care about earning a degree. Just watching it for the pleasure of it.

Have you considered applying for entry level jobs of a different domain? As long as you are ok with a pay cut, there is not such thing as over-qualifying.

low_tech_punk··on New MacBook Air with M2
Air M2 and Pro M2, one of them should just crash and burn, and you know which.
low_tech_punk··on GTK 5 might drop X11 support
GTA 5 would never drop support for DirectX 11.
low_tech_punk··on Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
I use a browser extension to store bookmarks in GitHub https://github.com/osmoscraft/osmosmemo

Pros:

1) Hostless, GitHub is the backend

2) works in multiple browsers

3) Has tagging

Cons:

1) No mobile client

2) Search is primitive

low_tech_punk··on GitHub Copilot is generally available
IMHO, it's still far from GA quality/usability. A must-have feature that's missing is a toggle switch that lets you temporarily turn it off. Without a feature, it can get really noisy.
low_tech_punk··on Turn GitHub into an RSS Reader
Reminds me of https://zettelkasten.de/ except they focus on note-taking while you have some emphasis on reading as well.
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