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skrtskrt··on Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes
Scoffing and thinking "hasn't this guy heard of Jupyter" says more about your attitude than it does the tool or its README copy.

Hasn't this guy heard of [old product that is a huge pain and no one likes]? Why would he ever make something that suits his own interests and preferences?

skrtskrt··on A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
> no revenue line to follow, and no market to lose

Two paragraphs later, the topic is:

> Cost

I mean this is just incredibly lazy thinking and writing. There's always a cost line to follow, just because there's "not a revenue line" means absolutely nothing it just sounds pithy.

And if you cut your cost hard enough, you will put platform stability in danger, or hamstring your engineering org's ability to test and iterate, which will make you lose your market.

Again, incredibly lazy thinking and writing.

skrtskrt··on 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds
Not only is this utilitarian nonsense, the "math" here is full logical nonsense.

It shocks me how anyone could string this pile words together and think they sound like anything at all.

> "2 out of every 10 productive dollars"

As if those dollars have anything to do with the time people work, or that they would get those dollars and time back by not caring about health.

As if the tiny portion of those dollars that actually gets spent on patient healthcare isn't dominated by end of life care.

The US healthcare system spend is so far divorced from whatever idea of "productive dollars" anyone has when it's 60-80% admin cost. The US should not even be mentioned in any conversation about the ROI of health spend.

skrtskrt··on Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'”
That system you described is quite rare - it would have to poll N databases of N possible events constantly to see if it should give you a reminder. Which is why none of the common calendar systems do that.

They just create events, which have a time zone and represent and exact point in time. And they don't change the event or when you get notified when you change time zones.

skrtskrt··on Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'"
But there is zero use case difference between these two things you mentioned:

> if a point in time should be sticky to a calendar store a datetime _without_ a timezone

> If you want a point in time which will not "physically" change, store a datetime _with_ a timezone

Both of these things are exactly identical. You are still storing an exact point in time in both cases. The only thing about a calendar use case is the presentation layer.

skrtskrt··on Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'”
You're still just talking about client conversion on the write instead of the read. A Unix epoch is a UTC timestamp. That number is not time-zone-less it's just in the default computer time zone.
skrtskrt··on Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'”
What’s the difference between these two other than how the client would convert to display to a user?
skrtskrt··on Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust
The built-in formatter drives me insane it's always choosing or not choosing to line break in places that make zero semantic sense.
skrtskrt··on What It's Like to Work in One of America's Data Centers
Low-latency fiber interconnects to other nearby data centers are a core feature of datacenters.
skrtskrt··on SAML: A Fractal of Bad Design
OAuth2 is fine, I mean:

1. It's not an authentication protocol, but it was abused as one for until OpenID Connect came along

2. OpenID Connect is the compatible authN protocol, and it actually has a spec unlike OAuth2

Both of those are annoying because they are over-complicated for simple use cases and for a long time there were very few simple open-source providers that weren't hiding all the important stuff behind their enterprise/cloud versions.

Open source options like Zitadel are improving this space somewhat, though they are still sort of painfully complicated if you want to deploy something small and simple that you can understand. In order to be big business they have to support tons of 3rd-party provider plugins with all their out-of-spec wrinkles.

It would be nice to have something like Zitadel that is signficantly less concerned about all those third parties - like let me very easily just host username/password and passkey auth in a small package.

skrtskrt··on Good people refuse to do bad things
Even if everyone had enough financial security (or realized they did), you need coordination, people are never going to independently and spontaneously turn down these jobs at evilcorp en masse - you need coordination, a.k.a strong unions which can actually effect the policies of the employer.
skrtskrt··on What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
That is not true for debit cards in the US, which is my point.
skrtskrt··on Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
Amazon and other clouds already patch the hell out of Linux, but they don't distribute physical devices with that Linux on it to anyone, so they don't have to deliver source code either.

I am not totally sure I see the actual concern here, that a company is going to sell devices with a really great `find` implementation but not contribute it upstream?

skrtskrt··on Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
X11 and everything around it is unfixable security hazard slop, just slop that was painstakingly created by humans.

Also Wayland is it being forced on us? I have plenty of coworkers that run X daily because they are still afraid of the Wayland boogeyman despite the fact that their supposed clipboard and screen sharing problems in Wayland (the only two supposed problems they can name) have been solved for years.

skrtskrt··on Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
In theory there could be a the MIT version relicensed to GPL and this version could be carried as a standard if having MIT software as core utilities was considered enough of a threat - right? You just have to retain original license/attribution.

That would be an awfully awkward move in the realm of Linux-related politics but if having an MIT-licensed coreutils was such an existential thread, at least you can fix it with aggressive license moves and not code.

skrtskrt··on Temporal raises $550M at a $12.55B valuation
How do “stream over an open connection” and things like “sleep for months” play together?

Naively without digging into the code I would look at a “streaming over an open connection” as likely to strictly more brittle.

skrtskrt··on Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
Does this actually matter that much for some tools when the kernel is GPL?
skrtskrt··on What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
In the US there are very strong fraud protections for credit cards, but a debit card is just unfettered access to your bank account.

For safety reasons I never use a debit card for anything but an ATM.

skrtskrt··on A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await
Don’t you need a runtime to do Go/Java style?
skrtskrt··on JetKVM Mini
ArkKVM is a fully open source product now
skrtskrt··on Ask HN: How can DigitalOcean not afford $50, but can afford $3M to Omarchy?
Sweeping Nazi shit under the rug is one thing, sending them free money is even more pathetic.
skrtskrt··on Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master
No don’t worry they said it’s not slop because there’s tests lol
skrtskrt··on Ask HN: How can DigitalOcean not afford $50, but can afford $3M to Omarchy?
Same reason Framework donates to far-right devs. Ideological alignment.
skrtskrt··on Fuck it, make it anyway
Holy projection what a sad small little outlook
skrtskrt··on Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage
It drives me crazy that it shards your photos all over the place in opaquely named directories so you can’t actually find anything without its database index.

Photoprism is the best one I’ve found that will just take and index your folders as they are.

skrtskrt··on OTel isn’t going well
You are conflating the challenges of ingesting and querying at large scale with the what the original comment is about, which is emitting them more easily.
skrtskrt··on AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira
CI is shell scripts as a service. There is no safe way to use it.

AI does it a lot faster and ignores rules even harder than humans do, but it's not the root problem here.

skrtskrt··on F3
Yeah it seems like most of this can be handled by some more dev hours to Parquet
skrtskrt··on Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency
It seems tacked on pretty quickly - I would have expected they try a little more legalese regarding what counts as a "user interface".
skrtskrt··on Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
Love the idea of someone tackling this space in Rust, but please just make a normal UI, I have no idea what I am looking at.
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