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pikzel··on Fastpotify
Very promising, but works poorly. Playlists load in ~10s, app crashed after a few minutes. Vibe-coded low-quality app.
pikzel··on GitHub's Historic Uptime
The status page was often down when GH was down, back in the days.
pikzel··on I miss thinking hard
It's all individual. That's like saying writing only happens when you know exactly the story to tell. I love open a blank project with a vague idea of what I want to do, and then just start exploring while I'm coding.
pikzel··on Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
And they're now running all environments on a single machine! The bigger blast radius the better, right? Right...?
pikzel··on (On | No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling
They still haven't solved shadowing.

  a, err := foo()
  b, err := bar()
  if err != nil { // oops, forgot to handle foo()'s err }
This is the illusion of safe error handling.
pikzel··on Why not parse `ls` and what to do instead
"The Macintosh on which I type this has 64MB: Unix was not designed for the Mac. What kind of challenge is there when you have that much RAM?"

Love it.

pikzel··on Please put units in names
Had I seen PT5M I would have never guessed it meant five minutes, so you would need to refer to the RFC then.
pikzel··on Boyfriend-alert – A light based alert system
Yeah, forcing her to use Discord just to get his attention.
pikzel··on Completing a part-time Master's in computer science while working
Did my master's full time while working full time. Never had better grades before or after, but sacrificed a lot and nothing stuck. Can't remember barely anything I learned during my master's.
pikzel··on A submarine's weakness: its software?
This webpage could be a few lines html and css, but uses 172 node modules. 4240 files. The repo is 17.6 MB. We Deserve Much Better.
pikzel··on “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”
Why don't you read the article to find out? https://github.com/QiushiWu/QiushiWu.github.io/blob/main/pap...
pikzel··on Skies went dark: Historians pinpoint the 'worst year' ever to be alive
Every time I think about the climate and events like these, I'm reminded of when it rained for two million years - "About 232 million years ago, during a span known as the Carnian age, it rained almost everywhere. After millions of years of dry climates, Earth entered a wet period lasting one million to two million years." (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03699-7)
pikzel··on Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (2016)
Unfortunately the url gave it away, or it would have been an exciting read.
pikzel··on Based Cooking
This is just so uninspiring. And I grew up with these colorless, times new roman 90's web pages.
pikzel··on Try to guess if code is real or GPT2-generated
Oh you'd be surprised. Here's a few (tld and target market)[0]:

    .kim - Kim (Korean surname)
    .lol - LOL: laughing out loud 
    .organic - organic gardeners, farmers, foods, etc. 
    .plumbing - plumbing businesses
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...
pikzel··on Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe?
I don't get why I would get a smaller cut of the profit just because I save less for my children than Americans do. I should be paid what is reasonable for the work I do, not how much money I spent on education.
pikzel··on Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
For Google, it's better when it's my CPU doing the work, than theirs.
pikzel··on Subversive Computing
"It is, quite literally, a site where millions of people post daily photos of their dinners."

If you follow people who post daily photos of their dinners, daily photos of dinners is what you get. That's certainly not how my IG feed looks.

pikzel··on Three Months of Go from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016)
I really agree with some points. In my project, we moved from Java/Spring because it was just too much magic happening behind the scenes. We wanted something that was just clear and straight to the point. We should be able to read the code and it should do exactly that, not something else because you annotated the class. I just wish it wasn't so bloated with error handling. It's difficult to see the actual code among all the if err != nil (even though GoLand does a pretty good job at hiding them). Something like this?

  f := os.Open("file") or {
      return err
  }
After a couple of years with Scala, I'm also really missing proper FP, pattern matching, optional types, immutability, etc. Still, I'm pretty happy with Go and it has made me more excited about coding again.
pikzel··on Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, Earth’s highest temperature since 1931
Archer: 'cause you never think of those other two as having their shit together.
pikzel··on Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

  jungler
  jun·gler
  an open field used for sports or other contests
  "teens fought some 20,000 jungler, on the ice"
..wut
pikzel··on Goircd: Minimalistic simple IRC server written on Go
Last commit: 6 years ago
pikzel··on Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?
Because of ML...
pikzel··on All Sonos products will continue to work past May
The streaming services they use, e.g. Spotify are more resource intensive today than they were when Sonos first came out. They are not just playing a PCM/Wav file, you know.
pikzel··on Git Internals, Techniques, and Rewriting History
Would have been nice if we could scroll through the pages and not having to use the arrow keys.
pikzel··on Update: Approaching IPv4 Run-out
RIPE, there's this story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Would suggest reading it.
pikzel··on The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)
Agree. To learn all of this as a single developer is not an easy task either. These are real frontend, backend and devops languages, frameworks and tools. It takes time to learn.
pikzel··on I Quit Social Media for a Year
I mainly use social media when waiting for the bus, on the metro, etc. It's nice to get some updates, but I very rarely share anything so I never fish for likes or compare myself to others. But I'm so happy that I grew up in the 80s-90s, I can't imagine how stressful it would be to have social media as a 12-15 year old...
pikzel··on I Quit Social Media for a Year
It's an unpopular opinion here, but you are absolutely right.
pikzel··on People love working remotely
I think it's especially popular in the US where they've always had long commutes. I work remotely from time to time, and it works fine when I have a specific task to focus on, but I've never managed to replace the spontaneous talks or meetings by a whiteboard with any meeting tool (be it Slack, Hangouts, Skype, Webex, you name it).
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