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photioson OccupySaaS

You are right on all accounts. You might even be right these folks are naive and even delusional. That doesn't make it impossible to turn out great though. Let's wait and see.

Richard Stallman must have looked almost as delusional when he started a free compiler and an OS in the 80s.

photioson Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament

For the folks out there that remember the USSR, am I the only one getting strong Правда vibes from that headline?

photioson Native Prometheus Integration with Nginx

I didn't mean nginx didn't have these. They are just not in core and require me to jump through hoops to get them.

Modern proxies have these features built in and don't need plugins or sidecar containers.

photioson Native Prometheus Integration with Nginx

> Nginx / envoy should be your default choice for most use cases.

Nginx was there like 15 years ago and it feels it has been stuck there with no progress ever since. No metrics, no ACME certs... I moved to Traefik and never looked back.

photioson All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"

Tbh, it doesn't seem much different than having to watch out for not stuffing PII in logs.

Besides, with wide events, it seems possible to apply data lineage ideas and mark certain fields as sensitive and restrict access to them.

photioson JetBrains Thinkrail

Interested in the SPEC.md format and workflow. Where can I learn more?

EDIT: found it at https://thinkrail.ai/blog/thinkrail-sdd/

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Also... why bun?! I just finished purging it from all my systems, ha! It'd be cool to have plain pnpm support.

photioson Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps

google2shell would have been nice :D

photioson Bringing uv and ty together

> keeping them as standalone tools seems most natural

It's natural to us, purists, but I doubt people care. Everyone wants a single tool that allows them to `uv check` and `uv run` in every project without having to install anything.

photioson The game industry is broken – can we fix it?

Holy slop wall, Batman.

Happy for you, though. Or sorry it happened.

photioson macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL

Why, yes, of course, have all the devs in the world spend $25 and tons of time each, because Apple doesn't care about devs nor users.

photioson The game industry is broken – can we fix it?

Can't agree more. We need more "betting" societal stigma.

photioson The game industry is broken – can we fix it?

Oh, well. I might have a bridge to sell you. :D

photioson The game industry is broken – can we fix it?

The US dollar has lost 20% of value over the past 5 years. You can print money out of thin air, but you can't print industrial output (or good games).

photioson The game industry is broken – can we fix it?

You need the team of 500 to do the "telemetry" and microtransactions parts.

The game industry has merged with the gaming industry.

photioson Unikernels were hard. key word: were

Take this with a grain of salt. I haven't run unikernels in prod, so it's all a figment of my imagination.

> Tools such as `strace`, eBPF, `lsof`, `ss`, etc. have tremendous value.

But doesn't their value lie in getting you access to the core of the OS that you wouldn't be able to touch otherwise? What if your network stack was a library you could instrument just like you do with the rest of your app code?

Also, I don't need a tool to tell me I'm being punished by the IO or CPU scheduler if I am the only one using the CPU and IO :)

photioson Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale

Yeah, people have been advising against DISTINCT for ages. I guess that piece of common wisdom somehow got lost in this age of AI wonders. :D

photioson Show HN: IndexFlow – Open-source indexing infrastructure built with Rust

I have no idea what problem the project solves. Maybe you could add a paragraph at the top.

Right now it reads like "something doing something with AI" which is pretty much any project nowadays.

photioson Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe

B...b...b...but who's going to take care of AML procedures and FATF regulations. We'll get drowned in money laundering! :D

photioson “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers

> Writing code is not hard. Writing correct code is.

Now add the time dimension - keeping code correct as the business and the people in it change.

That's how I explain to people that LLMs will not replace us developers.

photioson As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program

Too bad nobody needs to eject a floppy disk anymore :D

photioson Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books

I've gotten yearly performance reviews that have been obviously ChatGPT-generated. People are just lazy.

Some HR systems even support that and have AI writing/rewording integrated.

Corporate hellscapes intensifying, I guess.

photioson What liberal arts education is for (2024)

Are we reading the same letter?

1 Corinthians 13 has inspired millions. I think I know several movies quoting it.

photioson What liberal arts education is for (2024)

I stand corrected. I probably went through the Freshman list only.

> The Bhagavad Gita

Well memed, sir!

photioson What liberal arts education is for (2024)

St. Paul's writing has this effect on people. It's either a burst of love and joy or seething hatred. Never in the middle. :D

> There are curricula based on the Great Books.

List not including the greatest book of them all... What did they mean by this?

photioson Three Theses on the Literacy Crisis

Literacy and reading used to be cool and kids read because successful people around them did. I remember that being the case as recently as the 80s and 90s in my small post-Communist country.

Then culture changed [1]. Now we have different role models with mumble rap and songs about "muh pu*y". Is it a surprise kids don't read anymore?

All the issues with schools, infrastructure and technology are secondary. The spark is gone.

[1] Well, it didn't change all by itself and people that changed it have names and addresses, but that's not a HN post.

photioson Qwen 3.8

Love the deceleration narrative :)

"No, sir, we haven't reached the peak of this tech... It's those open models! Please, keep pumping dollars into the market!"

photioson Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

It's okay to record everyone around you all the time because:

1. Women do it. 2. The government does it. 3. Private businesses do it.

What?!

photioson European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS

> Roblox made a change where you’re not allowed to share your games with friends unless you do “age verification”

My son had a similar "making games" interests and I just showed him the Godot engine. Roblox bosses are doing you a favor. Act now :D

photioson M/PC – A Concatenative OS

> Unix pipes are basically concatenative, I've often thought how much mileage you could get out of going more in this direction.

You might enjoy the "Shell Has a Forth-like Quality" article. It's changed my shell scripting a lot.

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/01/13.html