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DauntingPear7

93 karma · joined June 6, 2025

Soon to be graduate with a degree in Computer Sciences.

PL enthusiast and FP enjoyer

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DauntingPear7··on We need a federation of forges
They’re referring to the Jujutsu VCS https://docs.jj-vcs.dev/latest/
DauntingPear7··on Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta
A nontrivial issue is how the app looks, unfortunately
DauntingPear7··on Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta
I will say, with codex/cc access and a free weekend you could make an app that covers like 99% of this app’s purpose. The harder part would be the art/making it cutesy, as some other commenters have pointed out. Plain SwiftUI or compose just isn’t eye catching enough
DauntingPear7··on “Why not just use Lean?”
Hmm like the “new” JS Fetch api with `then` chaining? What about map, filter, reduce? Anonymous functions? List comprehensions? FP is everywhere. Pure FP code isn’t seen very often, as side effects are necessary for most classes of programs, but neither is pure OOP code, as not everything is dynamically dispatched, nor imperative code, as Objects or functions may more cleanly describe/convey something in code.
DauntingPear7··on ChatGPT Images 2.0
You can by changing the view before the gallery
DauntingPear7··on Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
Malformed files that are designed to exploit known (or unknown) parsing vulnerabilities in whatever ebook reading software
DauntingPear7··on Show HN: Tired of logic in useEffect, I built a class-based React state manager
I don’t see how? You can do all sorts of FP in js and it even has some of it in its built in APIs. .then comes from FP
DauntingPear7··on Go Naming Conventions: A Practical Guide
The booms receive regular updates. I got an email about an update to Let’s Go Further on 3/12 for Go 1.26
DauntingPear7··on People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account
People do see a high quality build laptop as a status symbol or a piece of luxury. Not having keyboard flex or general creaks really makes a laptop more enjoyable to use.
DauntingPear7··on Do architects still need to draw? (2020)
I learned about hand drawing low fidelity prototypes in 2/2 UX courses I’ve taken at Uni
DauntingPear7··on Apple Just Lost Me
No. I kinda like it. I can understand people’s dislike for it though.
DauntingPear7··on Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
Have you owned an M-series MacBook?
DauntingPear7··on The MacBook Neo
I also am not a huge fan of the 256GB storage, but if someone doesn’t already know what ram is, they really won’t care and won’t notice much. I’m a tech guy. I bought an M1 air with 256GB storage and 8GB RAM. I was able to do development and mobile development fine. I never encountered RAM related slowdowns. I have an iCloud subscription because I don’t want to manage my own NAS. This is a heavier use case than what, say, a normal college student will do with it, and it worked just fine for me. This is by far the best laptop I have seen in this bracket. If I was just heading to college today, and I didn’t have the money for a Pro or Air, I would 100% get this far before a windows laptop.
DauntingPear7··on The MacBook Neo
This is pretty much a repackaged M1 air from 2020, so it’s a competent machine
DauntingPear7··on Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse
Pretty much all US news is just blindly stating “what’s happening” which lends credence to the current admins (seemingly) illegal/poor behavior. Just accept that the president can start a war, no notes.
DauntingPear7··on SPA vs. Hypermedia: Real-World Performance Under Load
Hence the nextjs app on vercel (bloated mess). Plain react or svelte is performant fun fact, it’s all the cruft added on top that makes it bloated and slow.
DauntingPear7··on Editing changes in patch format with Jujutsu
Iirc there’s a Magit-like tool for jj that released somewhat recently, though I don’t know its name
DauntingPear7··on Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs
You can return function pointers but not first class functions, which means you can’t do closures and other FP things in C
DauntingPear7··on MacBook Neo
I can near guarantee this will perform better than both, especially as the user adds more programs and the OS gains cruft
DauntingPear7··on MacBook Neo
Student at a US Uni here. They still do very much own the space for both tablets and laptops, especially in CS
DauntingPear7··on GitHub having issues [resolved]
Codeberg?
DauntingPear7··on Don't become an engineering manager
> Is it this MBA idea that management itself is a profession, rather than being 'a higher level thinker than the others'?

Yes I believe so. At uni i see soooo many people who are in software to make a startup (before even knowing how to code) and make a quick buck instead of being good programmers

DauntingPear7··on Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning
It’s not electron
DauntingPear7··on Foods destroying rainforests, in one simple chart
People when talking about plant based/better-for-the-planet alternatives often don’t discuss the fact that they’re usually more expensive per unit
DauntingPear7··on Seeing Like a Sedan
Isn’t there always the fact that non-car things happen near and on a road, thus forever requiring high amounts of compute?
DauntingPear7··on Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
What’s wrong with ko-fi?
DauntingPear7··on OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation
How will they make money on their product exactly? To the tune of being worth nearly a trillion dollars? There is no guarantee that inference will go down, we’ve seen some improvement with cheap models, but they aren’t what people want, and otherwise models stay expensive to run and use
DauntingPear7··on Why isn't LA repaving streets?
IMO it’s like that Reddit post from a while back with the subway to nowhere in china. You need the infrastructure to encourage usage and buildout. It’s a chicken and egg problem. I personally don’t bike at my uni bc the state DOT decided it’s fine to have a bike lane between a right turn lane/bus lane and 3/4 lanes of traffic. On a state highway (truck route). Safe to say I don’t feel safe biking there, despite it being at the heart of the university. Plenty of people bike on the other side, where there’s a protected separated bike lane going the other direction.
DauntingPear7··on Why isn't LA repaving streets?
Perhaps it has to do with public-private partnership shenanigans or subcontractor incompetence?
DauntingPear7··on Why isn't LA repaving streets?
Proportionally to road wear
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