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harha_··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
I can't believe this is what hackernews has become. This kind of stuff is at the top.
harha_··on Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful
I recall having to maintain an integration to some obscure SOAP API that ate and spit out XML with strict schemas and while I can't remember much about it, I think the integration broke quite easily if the other end changed their API somehow.
harha_··on Vitamin C Boosts Epidermal Growth via DNA Demethylation
Blood tests can't measure concentrations in other tissues.
harha_··on Get the location of the ISS using DNS
It's just an API that utilizes DNS, not that interesting imo.
harha_··on Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge
I'd like to have high speed railways in my country, not some decades long political conversion project. If we need railways that can go across the borders of our neighboring countries, build new ones instead of upgrading existing ones.
harha_··on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
You can run multiple linux distros on linux just fine via KVM/QEMU, there is nothing special WSL offers except that it is a must if you're doomed to use windows.
harha_··on Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me
I think CMake is the perfect balance. You need to write few lines and think about few things before adding a dependency, but usually nothing too crazy. It might not work the first try but that's okay.
harha_··on Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me
Sure, there are various dependencies, but it's nothing like "cargo install crate-name". Cargo makes it so effortless to joink the dumbest dependency for the simplest thing.
harha_··on Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me
Regardless of language, really? I highly doubt that, you don't generally see such problems with C or even C++ because dependencies are more cumbersome to add, especially in a way that's cross-platform.
harha_··on docker2exe: Convert a Docker image to an executable
Yeah, it feels like nothing but a little trick. Why would anyone want to actually use this? The exe simply calls docker, it can embed an image into the exe but even then it first calls docker to load the embedded image.
harha_··on I'd rather read the prompt
I'm so tired of generative AI. I can't take anyone who uses them seriously anymore.
harha_··on Vramfs: Vram Based Filesystem for Linux
Cool, I love that there are ways to utilize RAM and VRAM as filesystems. Sometimes you just don't need all that pure RAM/VRAM.
harha_··on Building a Linux Container Runtime from Scratch
The beginning of the article answers to your question.
harha_··on I fear for the unauthenticated web
Screw cloudflare, I rather host my own proxies.
harha_··on Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS
I can't really understand the desire to be completely anonymous. Isn't GDPR protection or some paid privacy protection enough?
harha_··on The DuckDB Local UI
Yet another web application.
harha_··on Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?
Pardon my ignorance, but do you mean VOR instead of VAR? Or what does VAR stand for in your example?
harha_··on Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?
Russia is like a kid playing with matches. I'm a noob when it comes to aviation, but AFAIK RNAV GPS approaches are quite common? Disrupting that is dangerous.
harha_··on TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]
People who downvote me clearly lack any sense of humour.
harha_··on TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]
These typescript fanatics never fail to make me feel disgusted by what they've done...
harha_··on TypeScript enums: use cases and alternatives
Sure, it is optional, but I've seen the unnecessary complexity seep into codebases over time, even though the software was originally elegant and simple.

I'm not sure if such perversions exist, it's been a while already since I touched TypeScript. To me the whole system seems perverted in the sense that an inexperienced developer can easily make things unnecessarily complex.

harha_··on TypeScript enums: use cases and alternatives
TypeScript is unnecessarily complex.
harha_··on Don't use cosine similarity carelessly
In 3D graphics and physics its importance and accuracy are obvious, but I agree that with ML the vector space represents so many different things that using a dot product feels fuzzy. However I barely have any knowledge of ML, so this is just blind intuition of mine based on assumptions.
harha_··on Why the weak nuclear force is short range
How complex? I'm no physicist nor an expert at this, but AFAIK we aren't really capable of simulating even a single electron at the quantum scale right now? Correct me if I'm wrong.
harha_··on The Tsunami of Burnout Few See
I'm currently recovering from burnout and the trick of not caring just does not work for me. This is my 2nd burnout and even though I learned that trick among other things from the 1st, it just does not work because I think it's a problem that stems from my personality. I care too much about various things that are related to my work.
harha_··on A Billion Pixels a Second: Rare Look Inside Apple's iPhone 16 Camera Labs
I wonder how much that wire mesh floor distorts the recording result? I guess it must be insignificant, since the walls, ceiling and floor absorb almost all reflected sound waves?
harha_··on VoxelSpace: Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code (2020)
It looks really good for such a simple algorithm. I love this!
harha_··on Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner
Well I'm tired of all this bullshit anyways. I don't want to manage multiple versions of the same language on my system in the first place, but I guess it's useful for those who need it.
harha_··on Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner
All that complexity, for what?
harha_··on Quake 3 Source Code Review: Network Model (2012)
I'm happy for you, I'm working on to get in a similar position.
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