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vander_elst··on We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines
Do you have a link?
vander_elst··on I was asked to leave an event for female founders because I had my baby with me
Parent of 2. Babies are distracting by design:) they cannot talk and they can only get attention by crying/cooing, and we are wired to listen and prioritize the sound of babies crying/cooing over other activities to guarantee their survival:therefore if there's a baby crying/cooing at a conference the attendees will give priority to the baby over the speaker. I personally didn't think it was rude to ask to go strolling outside as this was from my perspective distracting for the participants.
vander_elst··on QWERTY-Flip: The better keyboard layout your fingers already know
Tried a couple of times to switch to Dvorak, the biggest blocker are the shortcuts. I'm also an avid vi user and I feel it's closer to impossible to use it with a different layout.
vander_elst··on Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing
Has anyone first hand experience with gaia-x? Has anyone interacted with the association? On a very first look it seems like a public fund black hole, more and more money gets in nothing comes out, can anyone confirm/deny?
vander_elst··on Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing
Interesting fact, it seems that their price catalog is a PDF https://www.stackit.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/240814_STA... and not the usual price calculator other providers offer
vander_elst··on Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing
Aren't there already European could providers? Scaleway, OVH, hetzner, what are they missing that only digital schwarz can provide?
vander_elst··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
Working on Grizol: a syncthing compatible client that allows storing data on all backends supported by rclone and exposes the data through a fuse.

https://github.com/mseravalli/grizol

The idea was to leverage the syncthing ecosystem while expanding some of the capabilities.

It's till quote rough around the edges and needs some polish, but the core functionality should be there.

vander_elst··on Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand
Do you happen to have a link?
vander_elst··on Gitlab is reportedly up for sale
I think merge vs pull is a different development workflow, which might appeal different organizations, tbh I never liked much the need of forking the entire repository to be able to contribute. Gerrit also doesn't require you to fork the repo first. Anyway, from my perspective that's s feature that GL provides vs GH, not just marketing.
vander_elst··on Google Drive scans files for copyright infringement
On the other hand if that file is shared publicly, Google might be liable under some jurisdictions IIUC.

I d assume that they check some hashes of the file against a database to check for copyright infringement. If only specific actions are not permitted on the file e.g. sharing it widely, this could seem reasonable?

Curious to learn more, what could be other actions the service provider could take to avoid getting a lawsuit?

vander_elst··on After 12 years of reviewing restaurants, I'm leaving the table
If everyone in the business knows your face isn't the review going to be skewed? Shouldn't the reviewers strive for anonymity?
vander_elst··on Do grayscale images take less space?
I don't understand the point of the article, it seems to me that the point is that non compressed grayscale images don't take a third of the space of a compressed image? If we look at the last example the fist image 4:4:4 is 150KB the one in gray is 50KB (it seems exactly 1/3), the compressed images in-between take less space, but also the quality is much worse, I would say as expected. What am I missing?
vander_elst··on Zig vs. Rust at work: the choice we made
> Memory safety and "no undefined behaviors" (obviously untrue, but that was the belief and part of the conversation we had to have

Trying to better understand this claim, is it because also unsafe rust exists?

vander_elst··on Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem
Not sure how the situation is in Spain, but I think that in Europe in general, if you have a contract saying that you are a tenant, it's quite hard to kick you out, even if you don't pay, at all. If the tenants don't have any papers and they try to game the system, then this is probably a risk that they should take into account?
vander_elst··on It's cheaper to buy ($33) than rent ($44/year) IPv4s from AWS
Where can I buy an ipv4 address?
vander_elst··on Running PHP fast at the edge with WebAssembly
Trying to understand better the solution. Why isn't it possible to restrict the application via process isolation (nsjail, cgroups, docker...) and wasm is needed instead?
vander_elst··on What's New in Neovim 0.10
What's the difference between multicursor and visual block? Genuinely curious, is it that things don't have to be vertically aligned? What's the ux expectation in a pure keyboard based workflow?
vander_elst··on What's New in Neovim 0.10
Every ~6 months I try to switch from vim to nvim, but somehow it never sticks. Not sure why but in my use cases it is slower than vim, the terminal is imo still worse than vim and it s harder to copy and paste to the terminal: in vim I yank and than C_W"0 (or whatever register I need) in nvim I didn't find a solution yet. Nvim always feels more clunky.
vander_elst··on Understanding and avoiding visually ambiguous characters in IDs
Missing in the first part, but In the section "Visually ambiguous dictionary" neither 1 nor 7 is present.
vander_elst··on Features macOS should copy from Linux
> After all, MacOS already has some foundation features (such as similar command line tools) borrowed from Linux.

For me this set the tone of the article. I think that the author in more on the "end user" spectrum rather than on the "dev" spectrum. No harm in that specifically, but some things might not be 100% accurate.

vander_elst··on Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal
I don't have the impression I'm writing too much boilerplate, but I am curious about this as I have heard it multiple times: are there more examples of boiler plate that an LLM is better/faster at generating than a couple of copy/paste? If it's more than a couple than copy/paste and it's time for a rewrite, do you leverage AI for this? how do you usually introduce the abstraction?
vander_elst··on Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal
thanks for the reply! I'll try it for commenting.
vander_elst··on Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal
With all these AI tools requiring a prompt, does it really simplify/speed up things? From the example: I have to write "add a name param to the 'greeting' function, add all types", then wait for the result to be generated, read it carefully to be sure that it does what I want, probably reiterate if the result does not match the expectation. This seems to me more time consuming than actually do the work myself. Does anyone has examples where promoting and double checking is faster than doing it on your own? Is it faster when exploring new solutions and "unknown territory" and in this case, are the answers accurate (from what I tried so far they were far off)? In that case how do you compare it with "regular search" via Google/Bing/...? Sorry for the silly question but I'm genuinely trying to understand
vander_elst··on How (and why) to run SQLite in production
IIUC it does not work, the assumption here is that you can serve all your traffic with a single instance
vander_elst··on Ask HN: How do you use AI for software engineering?
Are there any tutorials you recommend to see how to better leverage AI? I looked at some videos on YouTube and it seemed that the overall workflow was quite slow.
vander_elst··on Stashpad launches Google Docs alternative you can use without any login
Not sure where the data is actually stored, but assuming the last version is stored in the cloud, how can they prevent users from sharing data e.g. music though the docs? And how can they they stop users from doing that?
vander_elst··on Technical Skills Are Overrated. Focus on Your Attitude
Not sure of this is the right comparison but I once saw a presentation about high performing teams which were compared to top league sports teams. In this regard of course you don't want a jerk that ruins the whole team but you definitely want someone who can actively help you winning and that's usually mostly done by technical skills. In my mind I still hope that the "game" is about programming and not politics.
vander_elst··on Cowsay
I use this very often with my kids (3yo twins). It's fun for them to see animals, dragons and other things popping up on the white screen. I usually ask them what they what they want see, prepare it and then let them press on enter to display it. Simpler things e.g. 'gnu' or 'fox' they can type themselves.
vander_elst··on We were not accepted into Google Summer of Code. So, we started our own
In general it seems that organizations that are accepted to the GSoC program are no-profit like associations, that develop a product for the sake of developing it, probably there are also exceptions.

Anyway, it seems that qdrant is more a for-profit organization. So maybe that was the one of the criteria that was taken into account to exclude it?

My understanding might be wrong/incomplete, please let me know if that's not the case.

vander_elst··on Atuin – Magical shell history
atuin is nice, but the search functionality is not on par with fzf, I found myself several times going `cat ~/.zsh_history | fzf`
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