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trenchpilgrim··on Open-source Zig book
> it was pushed all at once

For some of my projects I develop against my own private git server, then when I'm ready to go public, create a new git repo with a fully squashed history. My early commits are basically all `git commit -m "added stuff"`

trenchpilgrim··on Open-source Zig book
Do you have any criticism of the content, or just "I don't know the author"?
trenchpilgrim··on The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
I tell it to do something. It changes behavior. Isn't that a way of learning?
trenchpilgrim··on IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs
Started using an Ergodox EZ with a custom map after I shattered one of my wrists in a vehicle crash, have stuck with it since.
trenchpilgrim··on Toyota promises 40-year solid-state EV batteries by 2028
The largest country on the planet is chasing solar and electrification
trenchpilgrim··on The internet is no longer a safe haven
Using AI you can write a naive scraper in minutes and there's now a market demand for cleaned up and structured data.
trenchpilgrim··on Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'
My Apple Sillicon macbooks are the coolest running computers I've had in decades. Something might be wrong with your cooling system.
trenchpilgrim··on IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs
> Which joint issues?

Pretty sure it's rheumatoid arthritis.

> Have you tried evil mode?

This was like fifteen years ago and I just went back to my working Vim setup I was already using for all my other classes.

trenchpilgrim··on Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'
The big banks (unless they do fraud again), health insurance companies in the US, the major telecoms, Airbus, Bayer, Tyson, JBS SA, Nestle, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Anheuser-Busch, Cargill
trenchpilgrim··on IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs
This would have been great when I was learning Lisp in school! I tried emacs but due to joint issues the keybinds were painful to use, so I gave up and did the course in vim+SBCL's REPL instead.
trenchpilgrim··on Go's Sweet 16
> better nulability checks

In development: https://github.com/uber-go/nilaway

trenchpilgrim··on Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring
> Where would one take a machine to dynamically reconfigure envoy? How would one configure it?

When I worked in this area a while back - Ingess Controllers and Ingress / a custom type we made because Ingress was too limited.

We didn't use nginx because it would drop requests and mess up connections during certain config reloads. With a custom controller, Envoy never dropped a connection or request we didn't explicitly tell it to (excepting network reliability of course). For context a slow day for us was many billions of requests.

trenchpilgrim··on I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
Thanks, I'll try this in Zed!
trenchpilgrim··on Go's Sweet 16
My group's repos enforce strict rules, theirs does not.
trenchpilgrim··on Go's Sweet 16
I'm still trying to convince the scientists I work with that they should format their code or use linters. Making them mandatory in Go was a good decision.
trenchpilgrim··on SSL Configuration Generator
TLS is basically SSL 4. They only changed the name to signal the backwards incompatibility.
trenchpilgrim··on I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
Being able to e.g. hook up Claude Code to any webpage would be killer for both web development and task automation.
trenchpilgrim··on Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring
If you had a really good team, hours. At most companies, days to weeks. At worst, months.

With a well managed Kubernetes, around 5-15 minutes. Not a theoretical time, I have personally had thousands of devs launch that quickly on clusters I ran.

trenchpilgrim··on Why do voice transcription apps charge monthly when Whisper runs locally?
Whisper runs so well locally on recent hardware, I've embedded it directly into hobbyist applications to provide STT-based commands.
trenchpilgrim··on Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring
Envoy is designed with the intent that a machine is dynamically reconfiguring it at runtime. It is not designed to be configured directly by a human.

The tradeoff is that you can do truly zero downtime configuration changes. Granted, this is important to a very small number of companies, but if it's important to you, Envoy is great.

trenchpilgrim··on Denx (a.k.a. U-Boot) Retires
Looks like the founder passed away a few years ago, perhaps this was easier for his inheritors.
trenchpilgrim··on Kratos - Cloud native Auth0 open-source alternative (self-hosted)
Do you have a repo or example somewhere I can look at? Thanks
trenchpilgrim··on Kratos - Cloud native Auth0 open-source alternative (self-hosted)
Ironically, their hard dependency on Docker is a showstopper for me - none of my systems run Docker Engine, they use containerd and Podman, neither of which are supported.
trenchpilgrim··on Ask HN: Could Microsoft replace its CEO with ChatGPT?
The main responsibility of the CEO of a large company is to set the company's culture and make top-level decisions about what the company does and does not choose to do. Depending in the company they may bring relationships with executives, investors and experts inside and outside the company.

Everything else is delegated to lower level executives and staff.

trenchpilgrim··on Helm 4.0
There are some features of Kubernetes that are only available in the Go client like Informers. So Go is a much more natural fit (you can move between JSON and Go structs with one function call + error check)
trenchpilgrim··on Helm 4.0
I wrote Go and Python programs that constructed the manifests using the native Kubernetes types and piped them into kubectl apply. Had to write my own libraries for doing migrations too. But after that bootstrapping it worked great.
trenchpilgrim··on Steam Machine
On her website it says she is working on GPU drivers there - I wouldn't be surprised if that's something she greatly enjoys and Intel gave her then opportunity to work on official, production shipping drivers instead of reverse engineered third party drivers.
trenchpilgrim··on The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed
Also the DoE having to figure out how to make Fogbank again (a classified material used in weapons which they lost the manufacturing documentation for)
trenchpilgrim··on Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage
> My understanding is that refurbished GPUs from e.g. crypto mining are something people are warned away from, because they've often been run into the ground.

No, this wasn't the case. While there were never comprehensive studies various tech media purchased these cards to run testing and found that, other than scammers, they all performed to expectation.

trenchpilgrim··on Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
Yeah, it's pretty much to support backwards compatibility with old smart TVs and the like. They already enforce stricter rules on new hi-res content, and once those old devices cycle out of service you can expect the support to go away.
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