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chakkepolja··on Ask HN: Great text based games to play?
Linux
chakkepolja··on Revisiting KDE
You can disable file indexing. KDE is taking <1GB on my old laptop with 4G RAM. Its memory usage is comparable to Lxqt for me.
chakkepolja··on NeevaAI
> if it’s finance show random numbers
chakkepolja··on My Youtube earnings
Doesn't comr up in Google search when I need it, so.
chakkepolja··on Americans duped into losing $10B by illegal Indian call centres in 2022: report
Schools are a money making business like everything else. Illegal school means they didnt follow rules and regulations.
chakkepolja··on Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?
1. I don't get FAANG job.
chakkepolja··on ChatGPT is a ‘code red’ for Google’s search business
I see lot of people appreciating chatgpt. But I feel like it's too verbose, repeating the same things and almost useless when you need in-depth information. It looks like a high school students essay and not great for anything beyond that.

Maybe I have just given wrong queries, or the expectation is much lower these days.

chakkepolja··on WebAssembly: Docker Without Containers
Bro we are hearing about this sufficient smarts compiler for some decades now.
chakkepolja··on Linux Desktop Environments System Usage
Anyone knows how to remove many services (like akonadi) in KDE?

Also, LXQT starts up instantly from login screen, KDE takes 2-10 seconds even if I disable as many things as possible from settings.

Apart from that, I have a generally high opinion of KDE.

chakkepolja··on The best Go framework: no framework?
is there a go-to third-party documentation for spring (eg a book) you would recommend? I find official docs difficult to navigate. (which are either very narrow tutorial or in reference format, with important details omitted).
chakkepolja··on The Rune Programming Language
Interestingly the parser is generated using flex and bison, which I thought was rare these days.
chakkepolja··on I/O is no longer the bottleneck
Still better than obscure question from page 20 of Leetcode.
chakkepolja··on H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home
Doesn't matter. That's the most important thing that helps to get job here. Insane competition and qualifying questions for even low paying jobs are around LC medium.
chakkepolja··on App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps
There's some of these on F-droid.
chakkepolja··on Show HN: Modifying Clang for a Safer, More Explicit C++
Apart from the mutable keyword, can't these be implemented as a clang diagnostic plugin? Then it can be used to enforce a stricter style guide. As another commenter pointed, mutable will be probably of limited use anyway.
chakkepolja··on Programming breakthroughs we need
I think new languages with sufficient popularity (go, typescript, rust, dart) do it pretty well.

Old languages also have gained good tooling, but IMO the problem is that they are not as well documented as in-built systems of newer languages.

chakkepolja··on Programming breakthroughs we need
I find this comment amusing because most tasks the GP mentions are so specialized that you wouldn't actually have time to learn them. If your complaint is left pad and similar libraries, that's not what GP comment is talking about.
chakkepolja··on The Node ecosystem still has tooling problems
Even google languages (Go, Dart) and modern Java, no matter how people here hate them, have excellent tooling.
chakkepolja··on The Node ecosystem still has tooling problems
> Honestly the information is out there to address most people's gripes.

Exactly, but not discoverable. I came to know of esbuild, vite, pnpm etc.. only because of reddit and HN.

chakkepolja··on ‘Fake news’ poses corrosive existential threat to democracy – Study
I am pretty sure these journalists already do lot of targetted harassment against people they don't like.

Karma?

chakkepolja··on Asus Zenfone 9
by 'phone maker', GP probably meant something that normal people can use and not terribly overpriced for the value it provides.
chakkepolja··on ‘Fake news’ poses corrosive existential threat to democracy – Study
The fourth estate continues to fall because it's, ironnically, run by the liberal arts _elite_. These people seem to be the ones who grew up in rich or upper middle class families, took up liberal arts for sake of a degree, spent most of their life in similarly 'elite' bubbles.

The rigour of their study is limited to parroting few often-repeated words here and there.

chakkepolja··on History and effective use of Vim (2019)
I don't use many plugins. But there's 2 plugins I find very useful.

* Use an LSP client plugin, whichever you prefer. It's better than any ctags circus you can do. coc.nvim is more feature rich but also heavier. Vim-lsc if you prefer more barebones.

* FZF.vim; fuzzy searching files as well as lines in same file.

On a related note, does anyone know proper parenthesis / bracket completion plugin? I never got that functionality to work as good as IntelliJ.

chakkepolja··on Slang: The subset of Smalltalk that can translate to C or other languages (2019)
My guess: C underpinning -> easy c bindings my guess. At least th, can easily write bottleneck parts in C. (why python is popular.)
chakkepolja··on Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta
I indeed agree that Go can be used for many systems and adjacent purposes, and is used for many DB engines and network stack stuff pretty well.

But it's relatively more abstract and gives less control than C++/zig/rust. I was just comparing and contrasting the marketing.

Go was once marketed as systems language even if the authors intended it more for systems adjacent stuff. Now everyone advertises their language can write web services it seems. I mean why is it out of fashion to just admit a language is mainly intended for low level stuff?

chakkepolja··on Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta
For someone who understands C++11, I don't think FP concept _in rust_ will be hard.

But someone who understands Haskell, may still find some memory stuff clumsy.

chakkepolja··on Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta
/s because sarcasm
chakkepolja··on Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta
Chasing popularity seems to be a necessary evil these days.

I am disappointed when zig calls itself a general purpose language, and 10 years ago Go called itself a system language.

chakkepolja··on SQLite Internals: Pages and B-trees
There's a bunch of resources on r/databasedesign.
chakkepolja··on Not So Common Desktop Environment (NsCDE)
That's modern windows UI, maybe. I don't have any qualms with KDE UIs and still has most qualities you said.
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