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evnix··on Compiling to Assembly from Scratch
I really liked how short and concise these chapters are. What took me months of effort has been condensed to these few chapters and It's well worth the read.

Though Why use 32bit instead of 64, why add so much friction for a first time learner.

evnix··on Kubesafe: Never run Kubernetes commands on the wrong cluster again
7 during good times. 8 when things go south.
evnix··on Netflix's Key-Value Data Abstraction Layer
Yeah it's overrated, pornhub has more videos and plenty more free users. They don't seem to boast about their engineering.
evnix··on Kubesafe: Never run Kubernetes commands on the wrong cluster again
Have been burnt by this, I have to deal with close to 8 clusters and it is very easy to make a mistake.

Would highly recommend kubie, it allows you to switch and shows you the name of the cluster in the prompt. It's probably a more visual way of solving the same problem.

https://github.com/sbstp/kubie

evnix··on Show HN: Beautiful Usernames – 18M+ random aesthetic usernames for your project
Wanted to see some examples of "beautiful usernames" in the readme
evnix··on US health system ranks last compared with peer nations – report
There is no stats to what you are speaking. General People not being able to get to doctor in months is a bigger problem than a rare false negative.

This also reduces burden on doctors. If the only thing your doctor does is prescribe antibiotics and orders scans. Why not do it yourself and get treated early.

evnix··on US health system ranks last compared with peer nations – report
Can you name a few services that do this for that price.
evnix··on US health system ranks last compared with peer nations – report
Yeah you need to know the keywords in EU, "pain in chest", "seizures". After which the emergency treatment is quite good.

But for the majority, it isn't great. You go with pain in stomach and it happens to be cancer, you die waiting. I personally have seen so many of these and it's heartbreaking.

evnix··on US health system ranks last compared with peer nations – report
Condition is if "your doctor orders it" and how long does it take to get to that doctor if it isn't an emergency. I don't about Switzerland but it is quite bad in majority of EU countries.

And Why can't you just walk in to a clinic to get x-rays and tests done like it is in done elsewhere. Have clinics compete for price.

The other part no one mentions is the utter cheating that goes on in statistics to show that the health care system is doing good. Things like counting the patients who were admitted but not counting the rest 90% who died just waiting for months.

evnix··on US health system ranks last compared with peer nations – report
The general slowness extends to simple things like x-rays and blood tests too. This is not just US but whole of the west seems to have the exact same attitude.

Most of Asia has same day or next day medical tests. In India you can order something like UberEats where in a technician comes home collects your blood samples and the results are emailed within the next 24 hours or so.

Medicine seems to be commoditzed in the east, easily accessible and cheap. West treats it like voodoo magic or rocket science that only a chosen few are capable of partaking in. There is always a long queue to get to your local voodoo practitioner.

evnix··on Byte Ordering: On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace (1980)
Read it from a tiny screen, you will realise why it is a bad idea.
evnix··on [dead]
The future? The BIOS will be another bloated electron app. your OS will load inside that App ensuring the latest chrome DRM technology to keep our kids safe. Writes/Reads to disk will be over HTTP using micro-services architechture deployed on kubernetes on your machine.

All of this will be slow, so we will have reactLike bros invent new things to speed things up like Edge Micro SSG/SSR Island Hydration Architecture and so on.

evnix··on Shine with Gleam
I would be with you till I experienced South Korea.

Here in South Korea, there is institutionalized racism or something we call as institution enabled racism. People who are not Korean or white aren't even allowed in most clubs or jobs and it isn't illegal to do so.

Labeling deters bringing exclusionary views into tech projects, It could be just words, but I am happy to see the privileged society at least care for the minority in the west. I wish there was more of this in Korean tech websites, but xenophobia is so ingrained that people don't realise that it is wrong. People openly admit that they are xenophobic but don't see anything wrong with it.

In korea, labeling someone a nazi doesn't work as they don't care and can't relate. But the label that works here is calling someone "poor" or "ugly".

evnix··on Ask HN: Writing a Shell in Go, Advice
I think it does it very well.

Had some recent experience trying to write a shell and have it exposed over the web using websockets.

There are some parts where you wish it behaved like C but it does the job and is more than sufficient for a shell.

evnix··on Linux: We need tiling desktop environments
If your desktop environment requires me to click twice instead of once to switch or choose between two instances of chrome. Then I know you only care about the cool factor and is not going to be a great UX.

Stop asking me to use alt+tab and cycle through windows like a caveman or ask me to setup workspaces like its 1980.

"Stinky smelly nerds" seem to forget about large touch screen monitors and VR devices and that all icons can fit in one stretch of wide screens.

evnix··on Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment
How is this better or different from tools like dev which use docker
evnix··on Ask HN: Strategies to rein in or prevent bikeshedding?
For non-US English speakers,

Bikeshedding: Futile expenditure of time and energy in discussion of marginal technical issues

evnix··on macOS in QEMU in Docker
Next time, just get a mac mini and plug in an external ssd
evnix··on Database Design for Google Calendar: A Tutorial
I call it the "Build now, cry later" approach.
evnix··on Database Design for Google Calendar: A Tutorial
Nicely done. This is one of those aspects which is not really touched on in most courses.

Will try to get my company to get a few copies of your book for each of our team member.

evnix··on Ask HN: How do you manage files and backups as an individual?
OneDrive family plan turned out cheaper than having to setup everything myself with Multiple phones, laptops and OSes with elderly parents not living close to you.

I keep an external ssd with some important backups and that's about it.

Take printouts of photos as your digital copies will likely go away with you or when you stop paying.

evnix··on How to test without mocking
He probably meant it takes more effort to create mocks for all the negative cases. In most cases you won't have the time or the bandwidth to do this.

Try mocking DB triggers, views, access rules etc in mocks and you will know why most teams don't bother mocking but use the real thing instead.

And about the comment about him being a CTO. Well he is a CTO and you?

evnix··on Amber: Programming language compiled to Bash
I wish there was a solution for something like

Download(file.gz)

and that gets converted to either a wget or curl based on what the system has.

evnix··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos
Sticking to Google photos because I can search for my driving license just by searching 'license' or first 2-3 digits of my license number and it does it for me or search through photo captures of bills and documents by just entering partial Ids or any text the document might have like 'tax 2023'.

I think its OCR and image search is what keeping me hostage there.

evnix··on Cost of Living Index by Country 2024 – Numbeo
I wish they did a ratio on quality of life over cost of life.

They seem to have both data sets there

evnix··on Experience with SQLite as a Store of Files and Images
Had this exact same idea but I wonder how does it handle deletes.

Is it actually going to release deleted unused space or would be a manual defragmentation after some deletes.

evnix··on 00Key a 75% Keyboard
Good example of form over function. This is nice if you want to impress your YouTube fan followers or get a few likes for when you post on Reddit or other social media.

Split keyboards should be your go to if you are spending considerable time on your computer. A lot of back issues, shoulder pains and RSI issues just disappeared after making the switch.

evnix··on Country and Product Complexity Rankings
You are in for a surprise, most fields have the exact same kind of people in academia.

Computer science is probably the worst as it is actually close to mathematics.

Mathematics too is the same, when you break some of the more recent papers down, you will notice most of it looks like some kind of cover up for what could be explained in few simple sentences.

I wish there was a rule in publishing to including a section called "explained like you are 5"

I notice a pattern, good papers have very little mathiness to them. The more research paper mill'ey they get, the more mathier they become.

evnix··on HCL: Toolkit for Structured Configuration Languages
yeah what they don't mention is that Pkl is based on Java.

you need a 100MB+ runtime to get started with.

But if you are already a Java shop like us, there are even more things to make your complex configs even more complex with pkl gradle plugin.

Of course, you do have to setup and install gradle, and to run gradle you need to install and setup Java JDK.

evnix··on Show HN: ASCII Separated Values (ASV) to Unicode Separated Values (USV)
Is it safe to assume this will also work with WSV

https://dev.stenway.com/WSV/

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