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radiator··on Extending Emacs with Fennel (2024)
Janet (with one l) is modern because it is, well, new. It doesn't need to carry the historical baggage of Common Lisp. It has many data structures, a concurrency model, it is suitable for functional programming and for object-oriented programming. It has libraries for common tasks and is well documented.
radiator··on XML Summer School, Oxford. 14th to 19th Sept 2025
XML is quite popular today in HN
radiator··on It's the end of observability as we know it (and I feel fine)
Not sure whether it's the systems built there, or the customer bases that they have.
radiator··on The Awful German Language (1880)
in a German newspaper they put their verb away over on the next page; and I have heard that sometimes after stringing along the exciting preliminaries and parentheses for a column or two, they get in a hurry and have to go to press without getting to the verb at all. Of course, then, the reader is left in a very exhausted and ignorant state.
radiator··on What If We Could Rebuild Kafka from Scratch?
"the" node? Kafka is a cluster of multiple nodes.
radiator··on Is it possible to write plain C iOS app in 2025?
Would it also be possible to write in both C and another (small, implementation written in C) higher level language? For example Lua or similar?
radiator··on Unusual Shop Tips [video]
I thought he sounded like a human encyclopaedia.
radiator··on The Guardian flourishes without a paywall
You don't give a shit about your offspring? But even so, aren't you at least able to understand that other people do care about their progeny?
radiator··on The Guardian flourishes without a paywall
Your view about each generation tending to fully 'break' with their parents, in a way (economically, spiritually) strikes me as particularly narrow. Perhaps it is so where you live, but this is simply not true for vast populations all over the world.
radiator··on OpenBSD Innovations
It will not be Rust, since this has not happened after so many years of Rust existing. It will be some other language.
radiator··on BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
there exists nothing else other than a she or a he. Executive Order was signed more than a month ago, have you not heard?
radiator··on What about K?
I think the best today cannot be APL, because it carries so much historical baggage and because commercial implementations dominate it. So start with BQN, it is free, has the tooling and it also has succeeded in building a community.
radiator··on It's not a crime if we do it with an app
> It has no reason to care if its drivers make minimum wage or not

Is the question "are we breaking any laws" not a reason to care?

radiator··on Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?
Germany always was an importer of energy, and a couple of years ago it decided to replace energy imports from Russia with imports from other countries. Many had warned that this would hurt the country's economy. Even those who were, and still are, in charge acknowledged the fact. But they prefer it this way.
radiator··on Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round
In a european democracy, things are pretty clear: Influence from Russia and China is forbidden. Influence from the USA, Germany, France is permitted. There are countless examples.
radiator··on Trailbase: Fast, single-file, open-source app server built using Rust and SQLite
But then how should redbean describe itself? There you have the executable plus any configuration files or other files you might possible need zipped inside one single file (and if you need a DB, also one more file for the sqlite database next to it, OK).
radiator··on Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm
Thank you for publishing your work. Do you know of any similar projects with examples of custom tokenizers, e.g. for synonyms, snowball, but written in C?
radiator··on Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted
You offered nothing to support the theory that Russia is behind this. This reminds me of the Nordstream sabotage, when many jumped to accuse Russia even though that made no sense at all. Perhaps wait for the official investigations. If they like what they discover this time, they might publish it.
radiator··on Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs
Yes, to really prove it, one would need an admission from the employer. But isn't the above comment such an admission?
radiator··on Real GDP (purchasing power parity)
> Economically they're in very rough shape

> What does this even mean?

It means that they have a very low debt-to-GDP ratio of 16.9%, a limited amount of natural resources (due to the small size of their country), plus they have been forced to switch to producing a lot domestically after the western sanctions in 2022.

radiator··on Europe's Banks Launch Wero Payments to Dislodge Visa, Mastercard
In Germany, competition seems to work in this case, so it is free. I believe SEPA dictates that an intercommunity transfer may not be more expensive than a transfer within the same country. So if a bank in country X charges you 4€ to receive money from another bank in the same country X, it may also charge you 4€ for receiving money from Germany.
radiator··on Europe's Banks Launch Wero Payments to Dislodge Visa, Mastercard
SEPA payments are not free between different banks in all countries. There can be charges of 4€ within the same country, even for small amounts.
radiator··on Ask HN: What tools should I use to manage secrets from env files?
Using https://www.gopass.pw, which stores secrets in git, and thus also works for teams. Also possible to access the secrets programmatically.
radiator··on Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing
But Gaia-X is not the article's main focus, is it? I think it is about Schwarz Digits, which is a daughter company of Lidl.
radiator··on Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing
You have a pretty big mouth, calling the majority of the United Kingdom voters idiots. But I am sure you know better than them what is good for them.
radiator··on A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why π² ≈ g
As a physicist? When we did physics at school, and we were solving problems, the answer was always a number together with its unit. pi² might be 10 because it is a pure number, but g can never be 10, because it is an acceleration, a physical quantity, so it must be 10 of some unit.
radiator··on Paper cuttings made by 17th-century schoolgirls discovered beneath floorboards
Yes, I read that, and I obviously disagree with the article as well.
radiator··on Paper cuttings made by 17th-century schoolgirls discovered beneath floorboards
Don't you know that language changes over 350 years? Why do you say it is a misspelling? Why do you judge them by today's rules?
radiator··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
> I hope this sort of thing humbles them a little.

What I hope, is that they stop to exist as a product and as a company. They have caused inconvenience, economic damage in global scale and probably also loss of life, given that many hospitals, ER units had outages. It has been proven that their whole way of working is wrong, from the very foundation to the top.

radiator··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
Very sharp and to the point, this comment. I would like to add that in large companies the audit will, in my experience, very often examine documents only -- not actual configuration or code.
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