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therealmocker··on RIP Low-Code 2014-2025
Interesting article -- my take on low-code has always been less about how much initial development time the application takes to code, and more about how it can ease the long term maintenance of an application. With AI tooling it is going to be easy for companies to spin up hundreds of internal applications, but how are they accounting for the maintenance and support of those applications?

Think about the low-code platform as a place to host applications where many (not all) of the operational burdens long term maintenance are shifted to the platform so that developers don't have to spend as much time doing things like library upgrades, switching to X new framework because old framework is deprecated, etc..

therealmocker··on AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach
I couldn't find a reference to an app on the linked page, could you share more details on the app you use?
therealmocker··on Tesla in self-drive mode slams into police car in Orange County
re: #1, I’m curious how life guards stay attentive.
therealmocker··on Readme.txt vs. README.txt (2015)
You just sparked a memory of FILE_ID.DIZ, a standard file included in zip archives during the BBS era.

Pretty sure the .DIZ stood for “Description In Zip”

therealmocker··on Built-in workaround for applications hiding under the MacBook Pro notch
Could you share some examples of settings you customize with this tool? The description on the website seems pretty fairly broad.
therealmocker··on Ask HN: Good books on philosophy of engineering?
Read through the thread and didn't see references to the translation by Derek Lin, could you point to why you selected that version?
therealmocker··on In OpenZFS and Btrfs, everyone was just guessing
What you are describing sounds like the usual backup strategies. Filesystem bugs that silently corrupt your data will also get synced and backed up.
therealmocker··on OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns
My guess -- Microsoft wasn’t excited about the company structure - the for-profit portion subject to the non-profit mission. Microsoft/Altman structured the deal with OpenAI in a way that cements their access regardless of the non-profit’s wishes. Altman may not have shared those details with the board and they freaked out and fired him. They didn’t disclose to Microsoft ahead of time because they were part of the problem.
therealmocker··on Lima: A nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac
Check out what Mitchell Hashimoto (from HashiCorp) does w/ Nix on Mac for developer setup - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubDMLoWz76U
therealmocker··on ESP32-C3 Wireless Adventure: A Comprehensive Guide to IoT [pdf]
What does AIoT stand for? It is used throughout the document -- Something like "Artificial Intelligence of Things" ?
therealmocker··on Zeal is an offline documentation browser for software developers
Do you have a link? Never heard of cheddar.
therealmocker··on Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake
Post reads surprisingly like an auto generated ad for NordVPN
therealmocker··on Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable
One thing I wish they had done with the much larger address space is make it easy for an individual to get their own block of IPv6 addresses. Letting enthusiasts experiment with their own address space seems like it would help with knowledge / adoption.
therealmocker··on Emacs 29 is nigh
Any chance your configuration is online? Always interested to see how people are configuring emacs, and your typography stuff sounds interesting.
therealmocker··on The Age of PageRank Is Over
> Making money by selling the product doesn't by itself give them an incentive to produce a better product.

Selling more product / continued subscriptions is the incentive.

therealmocker··on Ask HN: Is there other software similar to Vim and Emacs?
For a different application area consider the Minecraft sandbox environment.
therealmocker··on Explaining Code Using ASCII Art
I wonder if Github Co-pilot or DALL-E type work could be expanded to generate ASCII diagrams (or art) based on descriptions provided.
therealmocker··on Ask HN: Imgur Replacement
I use Dropshare (https://dropshare.app) for images / screenshots, may be close to what you are looking for. Point it to an S3 bucket and whenever you clip an image it puts the URL in your clipboard.
therealmocker··on “Before cancelling your subscription, you must agree to the following”
Not sure if reference to Storage Wars or not.
therealmocker··on Waypoint: Build, deploy, and release applications across any platform
Curious if you are familiar with Habitat (https://community.chef.io/products/chef-habitat/) and how this compares?
therealmocker··on Toward a “modern” Emacs
I wonder what the appetite for extending the emacs "server" concept is. Treat it like an API and so that you can maintain core editor compatibility, but offer an easy way to implement UI layers that users might feel are more modern.

Could also lead to dedicated "org-mode" clients, etc.. that could leverage emacs under the hood via the API.

therealmocker··on BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop
Sounds like maybe a SIM swap attack? In addition to password changes I would look into Google's advanced protection program (https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/) and get U2F or FIDO2 setup on your account.
therealmocker··on Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
The first level of Super Mario Bros is a great example of learning by exploration.
therealmocker··on Tulsa Remote
Things can change:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/10/opinion/kansas-laura-kell...

therealmocker··on My Failed Attempt Switching to Linux
I think the parent poster was referencing the Macbook Air purchased in the article, not suggesting it as a base for new Linux installation.
therealmocker··on Ask HN: Good Go codebases to read?
http://exercism.io is pretty good, you solve programming exercise and then can look and see how other users solved the same problem.
therealmocker··on Show HN: Dnote – Instantly Capture Your Coding Wisdom
Beware of keeping notes without properly escaping them. :)
therealmocker··on Launching an Apple TV App: What We’ve Learned So Far
The Channels application on Apple TV (http://getchannels.com) allows watching OTA signal from HDHomerun devices on AppleTV. Nice for a cord cutting solution so you don't have to switch from one input to another. Requires additional device (hdhomerun), but can be done. I've heard beta will allow things like pause, etc.. of live TV.
therealmocker··on To Be Continuous
How similar is this to something like http://riemann.io for processing events from a stream?
therealmocker··on Pixie Pi
There doesn't seem to be a homebrew package for Pixie yet on OS X. I made a quick Brewfile (http://brew.sh) but was bitten by pixie needing to find its standard libraries in a specific location.

I should look again because the project looks like a way to use Clojure style syntax for quick one off scripts instead of making an uberjar.

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