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bobuk··on Show HN: I made Confetti: a configuration language file format
I've been a long-time fan of KDL format, so I liked Confetti even more.

I spent a couple hours writing a fully complaint parser in pure Python. It passes all tests, and among other things has a separate "mapper" mode for more pythonic usage.

https://github.com/bobuk/pyconfetti

bobuk··on Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model
I agree with your irritation, perhaps this link will help https://github.com/deevus/zed-windows-builds
bobuk··on Show HN: Wat – Deep inspection of Python objects
Looks like a fancy version of good old icecream. https://github.com/gruns/icecream

If you never heard about it, scroll to the bottom to https://github.com/gruns/icecream#icecream-in-other-language...

bobuk··on Pkl, a Programming Language for Configuration
it's very brave to release a new configuration language with no Python support today.
bobuk··on Ruff: A fast Python linter, written in Rust
I'm a big fan but be careful, Ruff doesn't support current versions of python >=3.11 yet. Instead of direct python parsing ruff uses RustPython, that is still lack of match operator support and other modern 3.10+ stuff. If you're ok with that - go ahead and switch to ruff, you will never get back.
bobuk··on CoWasm: An alternative to Emscripten, based on Zig (demo: Python in the browser)
no questions, but please keep working on that. I'm very impressed with how smoothly the current cowasm implementation is working.

For the future do your have a plans to support WASI and other modern WebAssembly stuff (like WebAssembly Component Model support f.e)?

bobuk··on I Looked into 34 Top Real-World Blockchain Projects So You Don’t Have To
Internet (as ARPANET) has started at 1969. And before 1982 it wasn’t widely adopted. It’s pretty normal to be biased but fact checking is a must for this type of conversation.

Internet “invented” а 1969 and never was used widely till 1982. Neural networks was developed at 1980 but real applications started at 2011. Speech recognition showed at 1962 and still looks like “pretty new piece of tech” for humanity.

We have to admit, we are really slow in adopting tech.

bobuk··on Yandex CEO resigns after being targeted by EU sanctions
Just for clarification: it's illegal to build news aggregator in Russia if you use any sources that is not certified by Russian government. So technically you're right, "source is state_approved_media", and pretty the same for all Russian news aggregation services.
bobuk··on Yandex CEO resigns after being targeted by EU sanctions
I understand the idea of sanctions but didn't get how it works in this case. He is not in Russia. He lived and pay taxes in Israel for last 3 years. He is even not a Russian citizen (changed his passport to Malta and Israel 4 years ago).

I have nothing to say about sanctions against Tigran Khudaverdyan (who is COO and really in charge of Yandex actually), it's pretty logical.

bobuk··on Yandex CEO resigns after being targeted by EU sanctions
That's the difference between us: you're believe in possibility to save the country, I believe that "Carthage must be destroyed" before people can build the new country on top of that. 20 years of dictatorship for Russia, even more for Belarus - it's not something that can be easily fixed.
bobuk··on Yandex CEO resigns after being targeted by EU sanctions
Disclosure: I've worked for Yandex as deputy CTO till 2015, and one of the reasons i've left the company was increased pressure from Russian government. Since then I have lived in Ukraine, now in Kyiv.

We're nervously joking about "ID of Good Russian" inside the Russian community. It's like "somebody from Russia who proves he/she is against Putin's regime." At least a third of them are now in Israel, trying to do something to stop this war. Arkady, who was the founder and CEO of Yandex since the beginning for me, is one of these "good Russians." He's helping to run from Russia for many people who's against the war now, trying to build a startup-asylium for russians with jewish roots in Tel-Aviv. I do not believe that Russia as a country will change soon, so one of the best ways to accelerate the process is to help intelligent people to leave the country, as Arkady does.

Honestly, I think everybody at Yandex, including me is guilty because, indirectly, we helped to build this regime. It is not fair to penalty for Volozh this hard. We all have to be penalized somehow, but give us a chance to fix at least something.

bobuk··on Yandex CEO resigns after being targeted by EU sanctions
That's not true, he's living in Israel since the war has begun.
bobuk··on Yandex CEO resigns after being targeted by EU sanctions
You've meant ex-CEO of Yandex Russia, i.e. subsidiary of Yandex N.V. But yeah, both of them now in Israel, trying to build a new company without Russian money. And it will be problematic because of sanctions now.
bobuk··on Inkdrop: Organizing your Markdown notes made simple
Inkdrop and Obsidian both have the same issue for me - electron. I will not tire of recommending people FSnotes [1]. Native (mac/ios only), opensource, one time payment (if you want it), sync with iCloud, git and TextBundle support.

Not affiliated, just a big fan.

[1]: https://fsnot.es/

bobuk··on Horrible edge cases when dealing with music
quick upvote for examples from Yanka. I thought that I'm the only one who still listening her.
bobuk··on Phantom OS
The author of the concept is a pro-government-minded Russian dude who actively supports Russia in this war against Ukraine, Dmitry Zavalishin.

It is sounds not so important, but I think there's no way to build something new for the whole world (like new OS) with a founder who supports Putin.

bobuk··on Japan has declared today that the southern Kurils is their sovereign territory
it depends on the Japan's proposition. If they will propose to guarantee jobs for every new citizen with typical for Japan salary - it will be enough because the exchange rate of Russian ruble is dropped by more than 100% in the last 5 days.
bobuk··on Japan has declared today that the southern Kurils is their sovereign territory
I heard that in Russia they consider it's natural to separate parts of the country by people's referendum...
bobuk··on I asked GPT-NeoX-20B a hundred arithmetic questions
And now we need to do a contest and compare how humans will answer on this questions, and whose answer is closer to the truth. Take my bet - humans will lose or will be on the same level of guessing.
bobuk··on Dura is a background process that watches your Git repositories
Perhaps you will find it interesting: in Russian, the abbreviated word “dural” is often used for duralumin.
bobuk··on Dura is a background process that watches your Git repositories
Sometimes the word "dura" has the meaning of "something big and an intricate nature," i.e., just a synonym for "stuff." For example, "положи эту дуру в шкаф" (put this stuff in the closet)
bobuk··on Elementary OS 6.1
Honestly, the whole support of Iris Xe in modern linux is terrible painful. You have to carefully pick right kernel number and always use "disable Panel Self Refresh". And after that you have to stick to this exact kernel because "don't touch it while it works" even for Ubuntu now.
bobuk··on Typora 1.0
looks like there's something wrong with your card bc mine zip also from Russia and I have no problem with it.
bobuk··on Higher Math for Beginners (1987)
This very book (but in russian) is the source of all my math skills. Academic Zeldovich was a brilliant physicist and I am glad to know what his works translated to English
bobuk··on Jellyfin: Free Software Media System
I've read the whole thread and am absolutely surprised. Why is nobody telling about plex's ditching of their plugin system? Have invested a lot of time in developing plex's plugin for youtube, twitch, and my favorite streaming services, paid a lifetime fee to plex. And now the whole plugins system is disabled.

That's the only reason why I've switched to Jellyfin. It's not better than plex. It's definitely worse, but it's open, and that's how I am sure it will work forever.

bobuk··on The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
98% of Russian sites uses Yandex Metrika. It's really easy to track bounceback if you control both search engine and web analitics tool :)

Actually Metrika is quiet big even outside of ex-CIS countries, IIRC it's like 15% of GA in terms of number of sites.

bobuk··on Python Best Practices for a New Project in 2021
probably you've meant pypi not pypy
bobuk··on Heroku-style deployments with Docker and Git tags
There's no problem if you use only basic iptables rules but ufw use iptables in a very complicated way. If you want ufw and docker to play well together, you have to disable docker's iptables manipulations or use ufw-docker as the author. More about that at ufw-docker documentation https://github.com/chaifeng/ufw-docker
bobuk··on Show HN: DragonRuby Game Toolkit
Checked the video and wow! Haven't seen FTE editor for years, is it still alive?
bobuk··on Yandex said it caught an employee selling access to users' inboxes
Yandex is a company registered at the Netherlands, 99% of the company's developers are located in Russia. So, technically Yandex is Russian.
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