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I interviewed for Canonical and they pull even worse bullshit later on the process. They asked me to write a x00 page essay on something-something... it's borderline ridiculous how their HR works.

I feel like reading HN daily has given me more opportunities than anything I've ever done for my career (and my general general love for tech). I recurrently apply things to my job that I've picked up reading the amazing articles people post here.

>There’s a never ending number of things I bookmark.

I just read them. I take my time to go through them :-). Every day for the past, I don't know, five years or so, my first hour in the morning is dedicated to reading about things I like on HN. That certainly kept the flame and the passion for tech going, otherwise it would become just a job (and if you're like me, you know how much that sucks).

This is really good!

I generally have a good mental model of my repo and I try to KISS as much as possible, but I can see the value of this in a teaching scenario, for example (as well as on extremely complex git situations).

Check out the quickstart page as well, seems to have more content[1].

[1] https://initialcommit.com/tools/git-sim

I saw the big X-ray at the museum :) I highly recommend everyone to pay a visit.

All clocks from Deutsche Bahn stations are also like this. It's always very amusing.

And to add: the footprint of devices running Linux with the PREEMPT_RT patches is generally much greater than the footprint of a device running something like VxWorks. WindRiver actually has its own PREEMPT_RTed distribution[1].

[1] https://www.windriver.com/products/linux

I was doing some very similar things (gRPC with Alpine containers) and also had the segfault things. `gcompat` solved all of them.

Of course it's Bellard. I wish I had like, a day with him, just asking whichever questions I want.

Who is the designer behind Haiku's icons and general "feel"? It looks really nice.

I'd really like to run my own servers for some of the MMOs I played as a kid. But they're mostly from Taiwanese/Chinese/Japanese companies...

Does anybody have some resources on running your own custom servers? For example, how private WoW servers work, were they reverse engineering?

I know this is a stupid argument from my part, but I see this enormous effort to use tools that work really really well on Linux, but on a Mac. Why not just use Linux and save yourself the effort, performance overheads and whatnot? 99% of the time the loads are being deployed on Linux servers, why not use it in the workstation as well? Is it worth JUST for the hardware?

I don't get it. Can someone kindly explain it to my smooth brain?

So does almost every PR-based workflow tool for (bitbucket, GitHub etc). It's very common.

DeepL is insane. The "literature" department of the company that I work for uses it all the time to translate German to English and I can't barely tell that I'm reading a machine-translated text. It captures nuances and all, even on hardcore Mechanical Engineering texts.

Kudos to the DeepL guys, I'm near Cologne, would love to pay them a visit.

Off-topic, but can somebody recommend me a book on economics? I need to learn how things generally work in the world and how to manage my money. I'm almost 25 and I have zero clue what I'm doing besides "I need a bigger salary and save more".

Arduino, for some God forsaken reason, is trying to appeal to the professional market with the most backward decisions possible. This will be the same thing as the Portenta, which sucks because of the software lockdown (they don't even have an Yocto layer for it and pretty much force you to use Foundries.io).

If you don't add metadata to the README so I can still just open with any editor, I'm all for it.

Yes, I tend to search for bullet holes around the city a lot, which is a weird thing to do now that I said something about it.

If you go town through Krefelderstraße there is a bunch of them on the buildings. The cathedral has some places with grenade shrapnel as well. Some iron gates around the city have little indents from bullets as well. There are a bunch of tanks abandoned in one of the forests to the south, near Brand. Some streets have "gaps" where houses were never reconstructed.

70 something years later and the destruction is still very much visible.

I live in Aachen, Germany, and there are a bunch of these near the tri-border with the Netherlands and Belgium. I think most people don't even know what they are, and some of them are so covered with dirt and vegetation only a keen eye can spot them.

Still a very nice piece of history.

I have a question: why companies like Twitter need so many people? I'm sorry but it doesn't seem that hard to replicated Twitter functionality and scalability (with the right people on team). What are the engineers actually doing the whole day? Why do they need so many lines of code? All mysterious to me.

This looks pretty nice! I had to do a bunch of mocking and magic to mock servers and clients for testing gRPC endpoints, and I think something like this would make it a lot simpler.

This is awesome, we have come full circle.

There are "wells" to tap the components into. You just add successive layers in a very smart way.

Who even is "the radical left and right" hating systemd? It's two or three people screaming on the internet.

Are there any examples of maps generated with this?

edit: https://gitlab.com/wargames_tex/afrikakorps_tex/-/jobs/30824...

Their gitlab has some, looks beautiful!

I would love to hear further explanation. Please, elucidate the topic to us.

It's not him, though.

https://nitter.tiekoetter.com/marcan42/status/15271299617061...

It's so comical to see a literal VTuber developer doing absolutely awesome work on an extremely high technical level, and better yet, on HNs frontpage almost every week.

God bless anime.

Agreed.

Containers... just work? Actually, Docker just works. It is rock solid and I'm very delighted I learnt so much of it.

The only thing I'm missing about Docker is a bigger focus on on-the-fly image editing. Like, I love to have these container development environments. I'd love to give some command inside the container and make it magically appear on the Dockerfile if it was successfully executed, so I don't have to manually copy things over when I want to have reproducibility for later.

I've read all of your comments and I commend you trying to illuminate these people. Some of them seem to be living in the 1990s, spewing the usual hocuspocus about programming languages, the kind of thing you hear once and it becomes a myth. It's like people don't want to reevaluate their choices, and it's insane we keep using this god-forsaken language when we have much better tooling, as you said.