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slekker··on Racket Language
What do you think it is missing for Racket to be more widespread in the industry? Do you think being a lisp is the biggest factor or something else?
slekker··on Stop Doing Cloud
Running with which company?
slekker··on 3rd Edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ by Stroustrup
A more extreme version of this would be COBOL right? Even if people stopped writing C++ today the amount of code that's already written will last many lifetimes.
slekker··on 3rd Edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ by Stroustrup
Sorry if it is a bit off-topic.

If you just started learning C++, why did you choose it instead of another language? (Rust, C#, Go, etc)

I know a bit of C but feel that the sheer "thickness" of C++ is too daunting and scary to even start.

slekker··on An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus
We need an adblock filter for tinnitus
slekker··on Seattle shuts down gifted program for having too many white and Asian students
This will get flagged in 3..2..1.. the comment section is already a cesspool :^)
slekker··on Ask HN: Are there some bad actors in Who is hiring?
Since your account is a throwaway, could you name these companies? I'd like to avoid them if possible
slekker··on Ask HN: What Are You Learning?
I've been considering paying for an LLM to augment my learning, for when I get stuck or can't figure something out.

In terms of courses I am looking at Khan Academy but also https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-01sc-single-variable-calculus... (haven't started so I cant speak for quality)

slekker··on Ask HN: What Are You Learning?
What resources are you using to learn calculus? I am on a similar boat
slekker··on Show HN: Charcoal – Faster utf8.Valid using multi-byte processing without SIMD
Great work! I also liked reading about your journey with sonnet in the Gophers Slack :^)

Do you have any plans on proposing to upstream some of your work?

slekker··on Redis Renamed to Redict
A missed opportunity to named the fork "Redisnt" :^)

Is the new license (LGPL) going to be problematic for infrastructure providers to offer a managed Redict?

slekker··on Fuzzing Ladybird with tools from Google Project Zero
I absolutely loved the JIT series, but fair enough!
slekker··on Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
or https://www.jetpack.io/devbox/ :ˆ)
slekker··on Embedded Swift on the Raspberry Pi Pico
Wasn't the performance and tooling poor in Linux and Windows? Has something changed there?
slekker··on Japan bets $67B to become a global chip powerhouse once again
Genuine question: Japan is in a very bad location geographically speaking: weather events like earthquakes and tsunamis are a reality.

How is this still a good investment, considering the worsening of such events in the coming decades?

Doesn't it make more sense for companies to look for a safer bet?

slekker··on OTP at a High Level (2019)
Congrats on the upcoming v1 release!
slekker··on A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings
What's "Erlang Day"?
slekker··on FreeBSD Status Report 2023 Q4
Sounds exciting, any resources you'd recommend for reading more about jails?
slekker··on FreeBSD Status Report 2023 Q4
How does it work without cgroups? And what are the differences from the Linux containers?
slekker··on Ask HN: Are there any good reasons to use C++ over Rust for new projects today?
Compile time, async, steep learning curve are things that come to mind
slekker··on Ask HN: Are there any good reasons to use C++ over Rust for new projects today?
Tolerant towards what exactly?
slekker··on Sora: Creating video from text
Is there any alternative to Nitter?
slekker··on What it was like working for Gitlab
Another point is taxes, sometimes even though gross is lower, the net is higher (i.e. Belgium and Estonia)
slekker··on Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners
Even though it is a bit of a PITA to maintain self hosted runners, it is the reason we do it.
slekker··on Ubuntu Looking at Applying Low-Latency Optimizations to Its Generic Kernel
Why aren't these changes the default? What are their drawbacks?
slekker··on How different languages laugh online
Don't forget Xd, which I see used in "absurd" but funny situations.
slekker··on Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees
layoffs.fyi says 1000
slekker··on Update tinsel bunting
Curios why the org is named "alphagov"
slekker··on The Curse of Docker
Hadn't heard of Trivy, but glad to see another great product from AquaSec :^)
slekker··on The Curse of Docker
You can use tools like Snyk to scan images for vulnerabilities (even the Docker(tm) cli tool has one now), you can do things like failing your CI pipeline if there are critica vulnerabilities.

You can also use Dependabot (and others) to update your images on a cronjob-like schedule.

This is a solved problem

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