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lambda_dn··on Emacs Bedrock: A minimal Emacs starter kit
Emacs is a relic, it can take weeks of configuring to get it anywhere near as productive as something like VS Code or Jetbrains IDEs. If you want to procrastinate for a few months it's the perfect tool.
lambda_dn··on TDD Doesn't Force Good Design
Does your user run your software with stuff mocked out? The reason for testing is getting ahead of issues before the user finds them.
lambda_dn··on TDD Doesn't Force Good Design
I've seen code bases where a lot of the tests are actually testing the underlying framework's code (i.e. dotnet framework) after they mocked out all the dependent services. In my mind unit tests are a waste of time except for testing really complex algorithms where the there are no side effects. Automated end to end QA testing is where the effort should be spent.
lambda_dn··on Elixir saves Pinterest $2M a year in server costs
They could have just used different Java/Python libraries and changed the architecture for the same result. The choice of a Programming Language alone has minimal impact on performance at that scale.
lambda_dn··on Features of Project Loom incorporated in JDK 21
He said server side, IDE's and Android are not server side. Java dropped the ball and MS, Node, Google ate their lunch.
lambda_dn··on My blog about my Dad’s work with Oppenheimer and the new movie
Have you verified your dad actually met him? He is 102 so could be confused, im sure you would have known about this years ago if it happened.
lambda_dn··on Bob Metcalfe wins Turing Award
Wifi/5G guys next? Much more important invention in my opinion
lambda_dn··on Ask HN: Are you surprised that Twitter is just fine despite layoffs?
No, it's actually improving and innovation is rapid. Must have been a lot of people coasting on a big salary.
lambda_dn··on Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (2021)
Office 365, Google Keep, iCloud notes is the answer.
lambda_dn··on Crypto exchange AAX suspends withdrawals
Some of you will lose all your money that's a risk I am willing to take (CEO of random crypto company)
lambda_dn··on Which face is real?
Never got one wrong, pretty obvious to anyone with eyes. What's the point of the site?
lambda_dn··on Meta lays off 11,000 people
Is it immediate or you still working notice?
lambda_dn··on Meta lays off 11,000 people
This is the slow demise of Facebook, if their pivot to AR/VR/Metaverse fails to catch on things will go sideways fast.
lambda_dn··on Autistic children with imaginary friends have better social skills
I think OP meant life will lead to adversities that destroy some people, others overcome it which builds a robust character.
lambda_dn··on Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs
More like tiddlywinks.
lambda_dn··on Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs
Until you can charge from empty to full in under a few mins and get 700+ real range miles EV's will remain a niche product. It's just not worth the hassle of have to plug your car in any chance you get like an old iphone.

2030 is around the year I think they will become an intelligent buy.

lambda_dn··on Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs
Houses last for centuries, a few thousand new builds in Cali is not going to make the slightest difference. I think EV will remain a niche (<15%) until they can charge as quickly as filling a tank and until their (real) range is 700+ miles.

I'd say by 2030 buying an EV would be a viable option for most. The people buying them now are usually early adopting Tesla fan-bois who are happy to pay through the nose to be a crash test dummy for self driving.

lambda_dn··on Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs
Seems like a pain, having to top your car up all the time like an old phone. Prefer one 5 min stop a fortnight to fill the tank up, until an EV can do similar they will remain a niche product.
lambda_dn··on Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs
This is false. In the UK most homes have a driveway, so fitting a charger is a no brainer.
lambda_dn··on Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs
It will also fly so no need for roads anymore, just green fields everywhere.
lambda_dn··on A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page
The Caddy website has it written

"Caddy is a powerful, extensible platform to serve your sites, services, and apps, written in Go"

That could confuse developers thinking they can only develop apps in Go with caddy?

lambda_dn··on Dublin Whiskey Fire
"People drank from the 6 inches (150 mm) deep river of whiskey that is said to have flowed as far as the Coombe"

That's a lot of whisky

lambda_dn··on HN is up again
HN just lost 10% of it's users. Being down for hours is unforgivable in this day and age with cloud providers. Please get with the times, your a tech site for god sake!!!
lambda_dn··on HN is up again
HN was down for hours, no website hosted properly using cloud providers is down for more than a few minutes a year. It's trivial to set up multiple providers, multiple regions. Rather than having a few servers with some admin guy swapping out disks, really embarrassing for a so called tech site.
lambda_dn··on HN is up again
Hackernews, still using ancient tech, what a joke. It's trivial to host on a cloud provider and get 100% uptime for pennies.
lambda_dn··on Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak Fined for Breaking Covid Lockdown Rules
The both must resign or the Conservatives will be routed at the next election.
lambda_dn··on We don’t use a staging environment
You really need to use canary deployments/feature flags with this style. i.e. release to production but only for a group of users or be able to turn a feature off without another deployment.
lambda_dn··on Updated Okta Statement on Lapsus$
My booking.com account was hacked and someone from China booked a hotel using my account (Im in UK). Managed to cancel it for free, changed password, logged out of all sessions, turned on 2FA and removed all cards.

Wondering if this is related.

lambda_dn··on Plaintext Productivity
Org mode does all this but 100x better.
lambda_dn··on Asahi Linux alpha release
It's a Linux project aimed at being a Linux OS to compete with MacOs. As per usual with the linux community it's "if you want it roll your own". That's why the year of the Linux desktop will never come.
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