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Readit Newsanotherhue commented on Systemd v259 github.com/systemd/system... · Posted by u/voxadam
anotherhue commented on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell · Posted by u/cvbox
I’m still selling Computer Engineering for Babies. And I just launched a new book called Simple Machines Made Simple on Kickstarter a month or two ago.
Both books are basically just simple interactive demos for kids and adults.
Literally the first book I bought for my hellspawn. We had fun working out the mechanisms.
anotherhue commented on Vacuum Is a Lie: About Your Indexes boringsql.com/posts/vacuu... · Posted by u/birdculture
There is a bunch of AI slop in there ... It does seem like the author probably knows what he's talking about, since there is seemingly good info in the article [1], but there's still a lot of slop
Also, I think the end should be at the beginning:
Know when your indexes are actually sick versus just breathing normally - and when to reach for REINDEX.
VACUUM handles heap bloat. Index bloat is your problem.
The intro doesn't say that, and just goes on and on about "lies" and stupid stuff like that.
This part also feels like AI:
Yes. But here's what it doesn't do - it doesn't restructure the B-tree.
What VACUUM actually does
What VACUUM cannot do
I don't necessarily think this is bad, since I know writing is hard for many programmers. But I think we should also encourage people to improve their writing skills.
[1] I'm not an SQL expert, but it seems like some of the concrete examples point to some human experience
Yeah my eyes glaze over when I see the familiar tone.
If it's not worth writing it sure ain't worth reading.
Stallman was right. Thankfully this seems like it should be relatively easy to replace. If anyone knows a friendly hacker collective to point this way...
anotherhue commented on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental lwn.net/Articles/1049831/... · Posted by u/rascul
Safety is good.
I'm not sure the reason then, but they're definitely right; it works fine with zsh, doesn't work with bash. I wrote a test script to try it myself.
I don't have fish installed and can't be bothered to go that far, but I suspect they're right about that as well.
env bash is all well and good for normies, but if you're already on NixOS did you know you can have nix-shell be your interpreter and back flip into any reproducible interpreted environment you like?
anotherhue commented on 'Do not trust your eyes': AI generates surge in expense fraud ft.com/content/0849f8fe-2... · Posted by u/departed
Receipt printers are about $20 so all that's new is that it's easier.
anotherhue commented on OpenAI thought to be preparing for $1T stock market float theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Rarely has the pop been scheduled.
There's also hurl: https://hurl.dev
You define all your requests in a plaintext format and can inject variables etc... plus the name is kinda funny.
Emacs had something like this long ago (of course it did).
https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el
I also like httpie but they seem to have gone commercial.