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laveur commented on Amazon Vega OS and Vega Developer Tools developer.amazon.com/apps... · Posted by u/luismedel

znpy · 5 months ago

What is this Vega OS ?

Is it a custom OS (custom kernel and everything) ? Is it a linux distribution?

https://developer.amazon.com/docs/vega/0.21/vega-overview.ht... does not say much...

laveur · 5 months ago

This is exactly what I've been wondering... The developer page doesn't really provide much insight into things either. Other than their development environment is based on React Native...

laveur commented on Why Electric Truck Sales Are Accelerating Quickly bloomberg.com/news/newsle... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

toomuchtodo · 6 months ago

There’s over the road/long haul and end mile trucking. Agree the former will need some logistics around electrical power purchase agreements for stable pricing for mid trip charging between origin and destination, but depots where the trucks are back every night (<~500 miles round trip) are easily supported by depot owned and colocated charging infrastructure.

Still early days in the mobility energy transition (both light and heavy vehicles), so I think there’s a lot of room for electric TCO costs to decline.

(family member was a truck driver for most of their life, so familiar with the operating models)

laveur · 6 months ago

If you want to see what it's like to actually drive an electric big rig, check out the Electric Trucker[1] on YouTube. He's German but has invested a lot of time in documenting what its like.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/@electrictrucker

laveur commented on How the “Kim” dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook dti.domaintools.com/insid... · Posted by u/notmine1337

tremon · 6 months ago

> The dump also revealed reliance on GitHub repositories known for offensive tooling. TitanLdr, minbeacon, Blacklotus, and CobaltStrike-Auto-Keystore were all cloned or referenced in command logs.

What's the rationale for allowing the development of offensive tooling on github? Is this a free-speech thing, or are these repositories relevant for scientific research in some way?

laveur · 6 months ago

I think they get heavily used by security researchers, and other people that do regular Penetration Testing.

laveur commented on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/JustExAWS

jqpabc123 · 7 months ago

He wants educators to instead teach “how do you think and how do you decompose problems”

Ahmen! I attend this same church.

My favorite professor in engineering school always gave open book tests.

In the real world of work, everyone has full access to all the available data and information.

Very few jobs involve paying someone simply to look up data in a book or on the internet. What they will pay for is someone who can analyze, understand, reason and apply data and information in unique ways needed to solve problems.

Doing this is called "engineering". And this is what this professor taught.

laveur · 7 months ago

Same here! I always like to say that software engineering is 50% knowing the basics (How to write/read code, basic logic) and 50% having great research skills. So much of our time is spent finding documentation and understanding what it actually means as opposed to just writing code.

laveur commented on Everyutil-C – A modular, cross-platform C utility library github.com/dailker/everyu... · Posted by u/dailker

dailker · 8 months ago

I’ve been working on a C utility library called everyutil-c over the past few months, and wanted to finally share it here. It's a lightweight but powerful collection of utility functions, designed with performance, clarity, and portability in mind.

A few things we focused on:

Clean, well-documented API

Modular components (pull in only what you need)

Full test coverage

Easy builds: works out of the box with Make, Autotools, or CMake

Cross-platform: Linux, macOS, and Windows (with proper DLL export handling)

New build.sh script for smoother setup, especially in environments like MSYS2

We recently rewrote the array utilities for better performance and maintainability, which felt like a good milestone to share this more broadly.

If you use C regularly (or even just occasionally), I’d really love to hear your feedback. What do you value most in a utility lib? Have you run into issues when integrating small C libraries into larger projects—especially when dealing with multiple platforms or compilers?

Also curious: if you’ve used other libraries like stb, klib, or GLib, what worked for you and what didn’t?

Feedback, ideas, bug reports, feature requests—all are welcome. Repo link is in the comments if you want to check it out or contribute.

Thanks!

https://github.com/dailker/everyutil-js

https://github.com/dailker/everyutil-c

laveur · 8 months ago

The lack of API doc's for the c version is kind of frustrating. It makes it impossible for someone to evaluate whether or not your library is suitable for something they need. Or if it is, how to use properly.

laveur commented on Fast, Simple and Open Firebase Alternative: TrailBase github.com/trailbaseio/tr... · Posted by u/trailbase-alt

laveur · 10 months ago

This is pretty cool. Just needs clients for iOS and Android and it would be a rock solid replacement for a lot of large enterprises, or privacy minded companies.

laveur commented on Too many Mac apps are being built with Electron hyperdiskapp.com/blog/too... · Posted by u/JKCalhoun

laveur · 2 years ago

I couldn't agree more. Yes there is some utility to things like Electronc and React Native. They are great for small startups that don't have the money to hire a team for each platform. Or they just need to get something that they can demo to investors. But really when it comes down to it, they should take some money and hire some people that can write the app natively.

laveur commented on An eruption has begun north of Grindavík ruv.is/english/2024-01-14... · Posted by u/svl

johndunne · 2 years ago

Hopefully, everyone is safe. But what of the homes? I'm interested to know what generally occurs, in terms of insurance, when homes and property are destroyed by lava flow? Is there insurance coverage for such events? Are the homeowners covered to rebuild/buy new homes elsewhere?

laveur · 2 years ago

Yeah they evacuated the entire town from what I heard. So there is no danger to any lives. I'm pretty sure the city has accepted that as long as no one dies, that everything else can burn.

laveur commented on Ask HN: Slowly Losing Interest in Software Engineering, should I be worried? · Posted by u/OulaX

laveur · 2 years ago

I've been a software engineer for nearly 20 years now, and you know what I do when I hav the time? I blow glass. Honestly I enjoyed writing code much more when I was a teen and in college in my free time, but now that I do it 40 hours a week I need something else. Sure I have some programming projects I do outside of work. But they are needed for something else I help run. Besides now that I'm nearly 40, I have a house and family to look after. I barely have time to take care of those with my full time job.

laveur commented on PysimpleGUI github.com/PySimpleGUI/Py... · Posted by u/nothrowaways

siddheshgunjal · 2 years ago

I kinda prefer CustomTKinter, which has a much elegant and material theme-like look. Supports light/dark theme as per system on windows/Linux/MacOS.

laveur · 2 years ago

Thanks for posting about this. I had no clue it existed and I have to say I agree I really like how elegant it looks.