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kunley··on Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
That commenter's idea clearly wasn't about desktop application on a local machine. That is why I asked.
kunley··on Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
What is a "local application"?
kunley··on Google is dead. Where do we go now?
Where do you go know - maybe realize that ads make everyone around miserable and with this bitter understanding go through painful but necessary process of finding other means of earning money.

PS. Seriously.

kunley··on Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
"Kidnapped", c'mon
kunley··on Deliberate Internet Shutdowns
To be exact, it takes more time than 0.3s to type it, even for a fast typer.

I don't know why people can't not exaggerate things? Doing it is certainly making their message less reliable, not more

kunley··on Go ahead, self-host Postgres
Psql (lowercase) is the name of the textual sql client for PostgreSQL. For a general abbreviation we rather use "Pg".
kunley··on AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'
The fact it's repeated behaviour doesn't seem to make it less harmful.
kunley··on I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero
..backed by xml?
kunley··on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
My point is to have an evaluation of the cynicism behind that guy's words; so it's not about ignoring what he says - in fact, the opposite
kunley··on AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'
Btw, it's funny that certain kind of people tend to believe in common sense only when it comes from the mouth of the AWS CEO or a similar persona, and one can be ridiculed when saying the same thing as an anynomous commenter.
kunley··on AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'
Cargo-cult in relation to programming exists since late 80s.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/cargo-cult-programming.htm...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming

kunley··on Rust GCC backend: Why and how
A perhaps naive question: does it have a chance to be faster than LLVM backend?
kunley··on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
Except that expressing loud doubts about something ethically dubious is often a sign that an opposite action will be taken. So many business people want this moral excuse "but I had doubts" while being totally cynical
kunley··on Chat-tails: Throwback terminal chat, built on Tailscale
Looking at the go.mod, tailscale lib seems to be the offender
kunley··on Rob Reiner has died
> Just realize your personal experience isn't generalizable. Surveys I've seen report that about a third of homeless have drug problems, which means that the other two thirds may very well benefit from "give them homes to live in".

non sequitur

kunley··on Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres
OK got it. I was thinking about SQL client, not about client of a REST service. With that distinction in mind, the reasoning makes sense; thank you.
kunley··on An attempt to articulate Forth's practical strengths and eternal usefulness
Thank you.

PS. Didn't realize the existence of 8th, looks cool

kunley··on Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake?
Please, de-gamify the universe of digital education, by all means.

There's no evidence that gamification is strengthening performance in any activity, other that creating a cheap dopamine effect.

Please, do it your own way.

kunley··on Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres
Ehm.. so you're saying that INSERT ... RETURNING id is not atomic from the client's pov because something terrible could happen just when client is receiving the answer inside its SQL driver?
kunley··on An attempt to articulate Forth's practical strengths and eternal usefulness
Do you have any references to a quick and powerful Forth examples of responding to a web request or manipulating text; you know, typical stuff we deal with every day
kunley··on Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres
What are these certain problems, if I may ask?
kunley··on Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres
Wasn't choosing uuids as ids falling for the deceptive argument in the first place?
kunley··on Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
I see I am dealing with people treating the topic in a religious way.

OP explains his enormous and ridiculous struggles yet you say it is irrelevant.

kunley··on Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program
Hi! Great article.

I guess also one of the points of using Go was the fact it has own memory management for obtaining memory pages it interacts only with the kernel.

I mean, had you used C, it would be better to compile it statically, otherwise you'd need to put also glibc and ld.so and what else into the initrd, I guess

kunley··on Size of Life
Yes, you are not the only one.
kunley··on Size of Life
Not on mobile..
kunley··on Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
Thank you. Seinfeld reference does it.

About the "hard way", everything in the article is screaming that OP's new way of coding is the hard way, not the other way around

kunley··on Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
> I was fifteen minutes into writing some code by hand like a Neanderthal

Tell me this isn't classism. Tell me this kind of narrative isn't a new norm

kunley··on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
It's not by a llm. Written by hand and faked to be an ai output.
kunley··on No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me
Disrupt the subscriptions hoax.

Buy the books! Even better: physical, paper books. They are a pleasure to read

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