Readit Newsfredrb commented on Root for your friends josephthacker.com/persona... · Posted by u/rez0123
Lets face it once and for all: there are no true friendships anywhere on this planet and there have never been. That's why people read studies and talk about friendships like it was a research topic of an alien species. There is only people, who give more than they get, hoping to one day get a little bit back. Don't chase something that had never been there and won't be there. Thank me later.
I’m sorry that has been your experience. The culture you’re brought up in is hardly representative for 8 billion people’s experience.
fredrb commented on Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now? · Posted by u/alexhutcheson
> And then there is Helm
Right, who doesn't want to template hundreds of lines of code in a language that uses whitespace for logic and was never made neither for templating nor complex long documents(YAML)? What could possibly go wrong ("error missing xxx at line 728, but it might be a problem elsewhere").
It’s not that bad if you need to deploy at least 3 things and for most cases it beats the alternatives. You can get away with a bootstrapped deployment yaml and a couple of services for most scenarios. What should you use instead? Vendor locked app platforms? Roll out your own deploy bash scripts?
Sure the full extend of Kubernetes is complicated and managing it might be a pain, but if you don’t go bonkers is not that hard to use it as a developer.
fredrb commented on Python notebooks for fundamentals of music processing audiolabs-erlangen.de/res... · Posted by u/yeknoda
this one can also be helpful: https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkDSP/
I picked this up as a first reference as someone who had no knowledge in DSP and it was an absolute gem. Really helped with the mental model for sound processing. This repository has some amazing resources too: https://github.com/BillyDM/Awesome-Audio-DSP
Location: Berlin, Germany
Remote: Indifferent
Willing to relocate: not at the moment, but open to discuss depending on the job
Technologies: backend/systems engineer generalist. At the moment I work with Go, Kubernetes and Linux. I’m interested in C, Rust and Python as well. Would work in any programming language.
CV: Upon request via LinkedIn or email. I have a outdated one here [1] without much information about my current employer.
Email: fred.rbittencourt [at] gmail [dot] com
fredrb commented on My personal C coding style as of late 2023 nullprogram.com/blog/2023... · Posted by u/zdw
Why would anyone care what the favorite whatever style of some dude on the Internet is?
I like petunias! Now what? How does that help anyone?
Sharing preferences and opinions on code ergonomics certainly has value for me, and I bet it has to other people too. This is, after all, a developer's forum.
I'm certain your opinion on petunias and your possible distaste for orchids will be welcomed in a flower-news type orange site. :-)
fredrb commented on Beej's Guide to Network Programming beej.us/guide/bgnet/... · Posted by u/mutant_glofish
Open question: in what fields are you working where you really need to work with actual sockets? Most of the network programming I do fall into one of two categories:
1. A library exists to abstract over the bytes-into-sockets layer, meaning I don't need to deal with it; or
2. A library probably exists to abstract over the bytes-into-sockets layer, but I've chosen to ignore it either because I'm truly ignorant of it, or for intellectual stimulation.
(Note that in category 2 I count things like "not using protobuf/thrift/etc. for IPC.)
When are these things not true? Genuinely curious! I'm guessing interfacing with existing obscure third parties, or using obscure language environments, but what are examples of that? And what other usages are there?
I don't work with it either. But I find that learning the abstraction below where you're working at can be quite beneficial to understanding the constraints of your layer, debug, and solve problems.
E.g.: Learn the basics Transport Layer protocols (TCP/UDP) if you work with HTTP