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develatio··on PHP's Oddities
i think a very big chunk of it is still valid, despite being 15y old
develatio··on PHP's Oddities
I feel like somebody needs to be reminded of “PHP: a fractal of bad design” :D

https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

develatio··on Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster
Thank you so much!!
develatio··on Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster
if the author of this blog reads this: can we can an RSS, please?
develatio··on We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)
I cried. Then I laughed. Then I cried again. I can feel all the pain of the entire thing (don't ask me why). Amazing. Bravo!!
develatio··on Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith
can you add [2018] to the title, please?
develatio··on Blending SQL and Python with Sqlorm
I think this is very similar to Django’s ORM.
develatio··on Apple pushes EU to repeal tech rules over feature delays, app vulnerabilities
How would Meta gain access to my home if i don’t install Meta’s apps on my Vision?
develatio··on RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode
and "that's it"? I mean, it does sound like it might introduce unexpected UI behaviour, but are there any other more serious / dangerous consequences?
develatio··on RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode
I was not able to understand why these code points are bad. The post states that they are bad, but why? Any examples? Any actual situations and PoC that might help me understand how will that break "my code"?
develatio··on Gmail/Google starts disabling features unless you agree to data processing
I’m gonna go ahead and flag this one. This rant doesn’t make any sense (as other people in the comments are pointing out)
develatio··on Containers are available in public beta for simple, and programmable compute
True. Most services (unless your service is a demo/toy project, as I stated earlier) have way more traffic. It might not be evenly distributed though the day, but if you add all the CPU time in a day, I’m sure it will exceed 24h. So that leaves me with the question for who is this? Developers that are starting and want to deploy something small?
develatio··on Containers are available in public beta for simple, and programmable compute
Say I want to deploy a service that is currently receiving 1rps at a constant rate, no upticks, no gaps. Wouldn’t that be the cost? If the answer is “yes”, then no, that is a terrible pricing.
develatio··on Containers are available in public beta for simple, and programmable compute
If my math is not wrong, running a single “standard” container during 1 month (non-stop) would cost ~55$.

This looks extremely expensive for anything other than a simple demo/toy project. I can’t think of a reason I’d use this for heavy services instead of using [anything else]. Maybe I’m not seeing the use-case?

develatio··on Show HN: Container-compose – A Docker-compose like tool for Apple containers
How does networking between several “services” (containers) work?
develatio··on Ask HN: Where Do Seasoned Devs Look for Short-Term Work?
lemon.io :)
develatio··on Canonical announces 12 year Kubernetes LTS
It’s already a huge pain to update once every year, imagine updating it after 12
develatio··on Wealth inequality risks triggering 'societal collapse' within next decade
Exactly. People usually think of “them” as the very wealthy, but they don’t even realize that earning just a little bit over $40.000/year makes you belong to the top 10% of the world measured by wealth. Earning $60.000/year takes you to the top 5%. Chances are that “you” (average reader of HN) belong to the “them” you critique so much.

https://wid.world/income-comparator/

develatio··on Octopus overtakes British Gas as Britain's largest household energy supplier
I did an interview for a Senior Backend role with them. I’m very happy with how they managed the process. The interviews were technical, but in a practical way, not in the “let’s see if you can solve some leet code” way. Loved the guys I interviewed with. Loved the technical challenges they told me I’d be working on. I’m a little bit sad I wasn’t able to join them (despite them offering me the position) because they had a ridiculously restrictive contract (wasn’t allowed to have side projects, not even contribute to open source). I had to reject it :(

Not really sure why companies hurt themselves in this way.

develatio··on Speeding Up SQLite Inserts
This comment is extremely smart! Thanks for sharing!!
develatio··on I'm a neurology ICU nurse. The creep of AI in our hospitals terrifies me
> No matter how many tech bros try to force it through.

Are you sure about that? My wife is a nurse and she has to deal with multiple machines that were put in her unit just because the hospital has a contract with XYZ brand. It doesn't matter at all if these machines are 5x more expensive, x10 slower, x80 less effective, etc... compared with the "other" machines (from other brands).

I'm actually terrified the same might happen with this.

develatio··on We shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size
Can’t we split the packages into logical groups and maybe have 20 or 30 monorepos of 70-100 packages? I doubt that all the devs involved in that monorepo have to deal with all the 2500 packages. And I doubt that there is a circular dependency that requires all of these packages to be managed in a single monorepo.
develatio··on We shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size
Hacking Git sounds fun, but isn't there a way to just not have 2.500 packages in a monorepo?
develatio··on Adding syntax to the CPython interpreter
Can you provide some more info / links regarding the “# coding:” feature? I wasn’t able to find anything.
develatio··on Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS
I'm gonna give this a 10/10 meh. Not up to all the hype that was created around it.
develatio··on Attracting and Retaining Debian Contributors
> You'd think Canonical would contribute more

Context: I have +10y exp with Python, Linux (some packaging, kernel hacking, sys admin / SRE), C, several cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Hetzner, DO, OVH), etc...

Applied to a Canonical position (Senior Python Eng + required Linux exp + nice to have cloud knowledge), got rejected automatically because I don't have a university degree.

Tweeted about it, asking for some feedback. Tons of replies, same opinion: Canonical are plain elitists.

Don't expect them to contribute.

develatio··on We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi
I have the feeling that any day now I’m gonna wake up in the morning and I’ll find out that there just isn’t internet anymore because somebody did something from a hotel room in the middle of nowhere with a raspberry pi connected to a wifi hotspot of a nearby coffee shop.
develatio··on Fortnite app returns to iPhones – but only in the EU
Apple, was is worth it banning Epic?
develatio··on Carles Puigdemont: How I pulled off my daring escape from Spain
The article doesn’t say how he pulled off his escape, just that he got in a car and he got driven north to French administrative territory. Very vague.
develatio··on So you think you know box shadows?
Sorry for the late reply. I just tried and it works perfectly! Thank you so much!
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