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vander_elst··on Show HN: PRQL 0.2 – a better SQL
Congrats for the milestone!! The syntax looks more intuitive than SQL. Great to see viable alternatives to SQL!
vander_elst··on The Helios microkernel
I have some concerns about the future of the OS. It seems that the author in involved in many other ambitious projects (sway, hare, sourcehut...). I am not sure how sustainable it is to keep up with all of them. Anyway congrats for the milestone and best of luck moving forward!!
vander_elst··on Google's AI doesn't understand restaurant menus
Maybe fake prices... It could help lure customers in.
vander_elst··on How big tech runs tech projects and the curious absence of Scrum
Could you share more background? Industry, size of the team, roles within the team, seniority, high level project description, etc
vander_elst··on Legends Solar – Buy operating solar panels on commercial solar farms
> 7% (assuming yearly) returns seems a lot, is it sustainable even in the medium term (~3/5 years)? Sorry for being suspicious but it sounds like a Ponzi scheme.
vander_elst··on A Kernel Hacker Meets Fuchsia OS
But given that's open source shouldn't it be a bit better? If I don't agree with some parts of the OS I can fork the project and remove some stuff. Given that's open source you don't have to fully trust Google, you can check things yourself. I know I'm probably bring native, but I am hoping to see some changes in the space.
vander_elst··on A Kernel Hacker Meets Fuchsia OS
Disclaimer: I made some contributions to Fuchsia and I am clearly biased.

I am not sure why there's so much negativity around Fuchsia. From a technical point of view it's finally a serious attempt to do something new in the OS space. It might not be the right and perfect answer, but it might introduce new paradigms and maybe some fork of the project might be able to provide additional benefits for end users down the road. I know that there are lots of hobby/research projects trying out new stuff, but i think Fuchsia stands out because it might be able to land the innovation and make it accessible for a larger user base.

vander_elst··on TRPC: End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy
How does this compare to gRPC? That the wire protocol is actually http+json instead of binary? I wasn't able to find much on their website
vander_elst··on Code licensed under the AGPL must not be used at Google
IANAL so I don't have much experience here, but I am not sure this hits the spot.

I think that an organization like Google can afford the brain power needed to understand many of the the implications of using such a license. There are probably other legal, compliance and liability reasons behind this rather than just lack of understanding.

vander_elst··on Show HN: A programmer's approach to finding gifts
Do you plan to open source it?

How are the data backed up? What happens if I lose my phone?

vander_elst··on Neovim 0.7 Released
There are issues in how the terminal is handled and the numbering of the buffers. Moving between the buffers (e.g. C-w, C-t) is not configured by default on nvim.
vander_elst··on Neovim 0.7 Released
I really wanted to love nvim, because I think that some philosophies it tries to follow better match my way of thinking. However, I tried several times to configure it to match 1:1 my vim config and to stick to it, but there are several edge cases that vim solves better. Additionally, nvim with my workflow crashes sometimes, while vim doesn't.
vander_elst··on Zim – The Zsh configuration framework
Is there a section where it's explained why i should choose this over something like omz?
vander_elst··on A Bitcoin bust that took down the web’s biggest child abuse site
> define anonymous

I guess like for several security topics: the process to find my identity is too expensive/impractical/takes too much time. I mean, we know it is possible to use brute force to crack encrypted data, it just takes a trillions of years or trillions of dollars so it becomes practically impossible.

vander_elst··on A Bitcoin bust that took down the web’s biggest child abuse site
Is there any real way to be anonymous while using Bitcoin and actually exchanging it to fiat currency? Are there any exchanges that are not regulated and don't require any authentication e.g. an ATM that gives you cash for Bitcoin?
vander_elst··on Pokete: Terminal based Pokemon like game
Some of the terminology might need some review e.g. second attack of this pokete https://github.com/lxgr-linux/pokete/blob/master/assets/ss/s...
vander_elst··on I have no capslock and I must scream
The caps lock key as a key is essential, once remapped to something else. As a vim user, once remapped to Esc, everything makes much more sense, as your keyboard gets closer to the original keyboard on top of which vi was created https://images.app.goo.gl/wZkyxFosFF4jCRCJ8
vander_elst··on I have no capslock and I must scream
I actually don't mind the last form, it's much more unambiguous than the first one. Many languages already adopt 1 letter 1 sound. It's English that is highly irregular (https://books.google.com/books/about/Highly_Irregular.html?i...).
vander_elst··on Google Maps ToS can be summarised as: Don't use it
The tweet mentions "Do not use outside of Google applications, for instance on a non-google app" is this a citation from the TOS or an interpretation of what is saying? I could not find the paragraph where this is mentioned.
vander_elst··on Show HN: EdgeDB 1.0
How does this compare against neo4j? When should I choose one instead of the other?
vander_elst··on Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
Sorry it should be possible now. Anyway, you can drop a line to vander_elst [at] hotmail [dot] it .
vander_elst··on Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
Hi, I have been working on a trading bot for crypto in rust for the last ~18 months. The agent and the infrastructure (collecting and preprocessing data) are up and running. I have been collecting and cleaning TBs (yes TBs) of data for ~1 year now. However, I have way too little knowledge in ML/AI and it is very hard to fill the gap. I am looking for someone that can help me in that area and improve the bot to leverage the data using some ML/AI. I can provide more info. Contact info should be available in the profile.
vander_elst··on Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System
Similar ending for me as well. There were quite often issues with plugins and I ended up sshing in the machine via phone and starting the movies/series that way.
vander_elst··on Apple broke up with me
I thought at first you were referring to September 12th and then February 12th, quite far apart those events XD
vander_elst··on Kubernetes at Home with K3s
Tried myself to go down that road, came back to System V and cron. At most docker compose, but k8s: never again. It is way too complex for small deployments, I need to many levels of abstraction and indirection. If I absolutely need reproducibility I can ln then configurations that I want to track in a repo and that's it.
vander_elst··on The Impending Cloud Reshuffle
AWS is the cloud standard. It's not fancy, it's not cheap, but it does it's job. There is more widespread knowledge around it vs the other clouds => it's easier to hire, imo not the best way to hire but lots of companies do it that way. It's probably what MS Windows is for the desktop.
vander_elst··on German Court Rules Against Internet Security Non-Profit Quad9
I don't know all the details, but I would find it pretty strange that this is the only DNS provider that resolves the domain.

Maybe they file a lawsuit against a weak player so that they can reuse the result against other bigger players.

vander_elst··on The fish shell is amazing
Vi mode was not good enough: first thing I do in a new shell is `set -o vi` and then try to do simple things: replace parts of words, copy/paste, search history. Fish in my experience was way worse than zsh and bash. Maybe things changed in the meantime?
vander_elst··on Vestaboard – A smart display to connect and inspire
Solari [0] was once one of the leading companies in this sector. Their boards were all over the place. They are struggling now to keep it up with the new technologies.

[0] https://www.solari.it/

vander_elst··on The perfect configuration format? Try TypeScript
1. As said in the original comment, it doesn't necessarily have to be protobuf, but just a data serialization system. 2. Protobuf per se is just a serialization system, it does not push RPC "Protocol buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler." [0]. It can be used in combination with RPC systems, but does not have to.

[0] https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers

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