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nitsky··on Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
True, but it makes the specific collision the post observed completely impossible.
nitsky··on M4 MacBook Pro
I'm waiting for OLED. Will purchase as soon as they do it.
nitsky··on Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment
What is?
nitsky··on Helix: A post-modern text editor
To replace inside single quotes, you can do `mi'c`. There's nothing to restrict it to the current line, but you will see the selection before you hit c. That's the big benefit of the noun-verb model that Helix uses.
nitsky··on Helix: A post-modern text editor
Helix is my daily driver. I love it! Kakoune's editing model, built in tree sitter and LSP, works great with zero config. My only gripes are I wish it had Kakoune's client-server model and collaborative editing.
nitsky··on Social Security now expected to run short on funds in 2035, one year later
What action could be taken to fix it?
nitsky··on Cloudflare R2 IA storage tier
Is the “data processing fee” any different from an egress fee in practice? Seems a little deceptive.
nitsky··on Launch HN: Moonrepo (YC W23) – Open-source build system
Are you sure you can't have your cake and eat it too? You can have many configuration options, but give each one a sane default.
nitsky··on Rust went from side project to world’s fastest growing language
> I optimize directly for the hardware I'm running on, which typically gives me 10-100x performance improvements. Controlling how memory is managed is critical.

What makes you think you can't control how memory is managed in Rust? Rust doesn't have "automatic" memory management, it has a compiler that can help ensure you are managing memory correctly, and force you to type "unsafe" when you are doing things it doesn't understand.

nitsky··on Mold linker: targeting macOS/iOS now requires a commercial license
Anyone who writes C/C++/Rust, like I do, can benefit tremendously from Mold. I use it daily. Each time I hit save and need to run my program, Mold saves me about 10 seconds in linking time. That time adds up quickly, and prevents me from getting distracted.
nitsky··on Fermyon Spin JavaScript and TypeScript SDK
I wonder how using a typical isomorphic React app performs on Fermyon using JS running with QuickJS vs on Vercel, Cloudflare Workers, or Netlify. Has the Fermyon team tested this?
nitsky··on Ofcom letter on restrictions on internet services for “designated persons” [pdf]
No, in law the term “person” refers to both “natural persons” and “corporate persons”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_person.

Remember the political fight over the phrase “corporations are people”? Well, they certainly are “persons”.

nitsky··on Show HN: A tiny WASM compiler and runtime for demonstration purposes
Check out the component model proposal, which adds a stable ABI for rich types like strings, arrays, structs, etc.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model

nitsky··on Postgres WASM
Using IndexedDB, the forthcoming SQLite support in Chrome, or the browser filesystem components all might be good paths. Either way, what do you think about using WASI instead of Linux? I think it would reduce the overhead significantly.
nitsky··on Postgres WASM
This is a really exciting milestone for WASM! Has anyone tried compiling postgres for wasm32-wasi and implementing a wasi-compatible interface for the file system and other OS bits postgres needs? I think that would be a big improvement.
nitsky··on Hacking anything with GNU Guix
What in particular did you find strange and unconventional?
nitsky··on Ruff – a fast Python Linter written in Rust
The goal of this project is to demonstrate that python can tooling can be made faster by writing it in Rust instead of Python. C++ and Haskell could be reasonable choices, but Rust has a strong combination of speed and type safety that make it a good choice for this application.
nitsky··on Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers
I think this attempt at clarification is just proving xvector’s point.
nitsky··on Big changes ahead for Deno
Thanks. Any plans for supporting monorepos of first party NPM packages that teams already have?
nitsky··on Big changes ahead for Deno
Hi Luca, can you provide a bit of detail on how this will be accomplished? Will Deno be analyzing an entire project’s npm imports simultaneously, rather than individually?
nitsky··on Big changes ahead for Deno
Will Deno’s approach to NPM compatibility support peer dependencies? https://nodejs.org/en/blog/npm/peer-dependencies/

Furthermore, will it support unifying transitive dependency versions to minimize bundle sizes?

nitsky··on Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions
Conservatives love deadlock, it means the federal government does less, and power remains at the local level.
nitsky··on Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions
Yes, it's ambiguous and there are no good answers. Conservative justices say "unless the Constitution says it plainly, it's a no". Liberal justices say, "even if the Constitution doesn't say it plainly, they kinda imply it, so it's a yes".
nitsky··on Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions
Alternatively, a simple majority in Congress could enact the regulations that were deemed not enforceable by the EPA alone. If a majority in Congress won't authorize it, should they be enacted? I guess it depends on your level of commitment to democracy as an ideal.
nitsky··on Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions
The deal is that Congress can delegate administrative authority to agencies like the EPA, but answers to "major questions" must be backed up by legislation. Where is the line? Wherever the Supreme Court decides it is.
nitsky··on Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions
> That may even be "constitutionally" correct... but it makes the US completely incapable of operating in the modern world.

The Constitution was designed to be amended to adapt to a changing world. Let's amend it! However, it is the role of the Supreme Court to apply what the Constitution DOES say, not decide what it SHOULD say.

nitsky··on Stripe Financial Connections
I wonder why it took so many years for Stripe to start competing in this area.
nitsky··on Stripe Financial Connections
Is this good news or bad news for Plaid?
nitsky··on Stanford gets $1.1B for new climate school from John Doerr
Is investing in a university endowment the best way to put $1.1B to work combating climate change? How about investing in companies developing clean energy technologies?
nitsky··on Tailscale raises $100M
I'm a huge fan of Tailscale and the team I work with uses it daily, for free, to connect to our servers and each other's computers. Thanks!
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