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lovehashbrowns commented on Accenture dubs 800k staff 'reinventors' amid shift to AI   theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/n1b0m
throwaway290 · 22 days ago
Most of people here think "I will be fine, only the other guy gets fired, programmers always will be needed". And we are tempted by new shiny stuff or we think using llms will help us keep the job but really by agreeing to what is happening and not being skeptic and standing against we dig our career graves. Kind of tragedy.
lovehashbrowns · 22 days ago
Should’ve gone the art-industry route instead of this. Posting any kind of ai-generated art in an art community gets hostile pretty quickly.
lovehashbrowns commented on Two recently found works of J.S. Bach presented in Leipzig [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=4hXzU... · Posted by u/Archelaos
lordleft · a month ago
Sure! When I think of why I love Bach, I often think of works where he demonstrates an ability to express often conflicting emotions at the same time. For example, in St. Mathew’s Passion, there’s a famous piece entitled “Mache Dich, Mein Herze” — it’s sung at a part where the followers of Christ are laying his body to rest, and somehow merges genuine despair with hope, representing the promise of resurrection. I think his ability to represent despair and hope at the same time is pretty extraordinary.

Other pieces I love are the 3rd and 5th Brandenburg concertos, as well as “Wachet Auf”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgXL_wrSPF0

No shade if he still doesn’t click with you. I’m just particularly ardent on the subject of Bach and baroque music!

lovehashbrowns · a month ago
This piece is my favorite: https://youtu.be/Piw53UPooYU?si=WJIjWDKJUJ8HrDPO Können Tränen meiner Wangen

Karl Richter’s version is my personal favorite but there’s lots of different recordings. IMO Bach’s St Matthew Passion is the best piece of musical art, maybe art in general too idk.

lovehashbrowns commented on Helm 4.0   github.com/helm/helm/rele... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
mkroman · a month ago
> I wish Docker Swarm survived.

I heard good things about Nomad (albeit from before Hashicorp changed their licenses): https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad

I got the impression it was like a smaller, more opinionated k8s. Like a mix between Docker Swarm and k8s.

It's rare that I see it mentioned though, so I'm not sure how big the community is.

lovehashbrowns · a month ago
I’d wager that like half the teams (at least) using kubernetes today should be using Nomad instead. Like the team I’m on now where I’m literally the only one familiar with Kubernetes and everyone else only has familiarity with more classic EC2-based patterns. Getting someone to even know what Helm does is its own uphill battle. Nomad is a lot more simple. That’s what I like about it a lot.
lovehashbrowns commented on Strudel REPL – a music live coding environment living in the browser   strudel.cc... · Posted by u/birdculture
lovehashbrowns · 2 months ago
I'm not very musically inclined but this is what I was able to make:

$: arrange( [4, "<sh09_bd>(4,8)"], [4, "<sh09_bd>(4,8)"], [1, "<sh09_bd mfb512_sd>(6,6)"] ).s().fast(2).layer(x=>x.add("0,2")).gain(".4!2 .5").phaser(2).phasercenter("<4000 800 4000 4000>")

$: s("gm_tinkle_bell").distort("<1 2 1 2:.5>").crush("<8 8 8 6 6 8 8>").chop(4)

$: arrange( [2, "<c4 e4 g4>(3,8)"], [1, "<f4 a4 c5>(3,8)"], [1, "<c4 e4 g4>(3,8)"] ).note().chop(4).fast(4).distort("<3:.5>").phaser(4).phasercenter("<800>").fm(4).fmdecay("<.05 .05 .1 .2>").fmsustain(.4)._scope()

I don't know what half this stuff does but it was still so much fun and this is probably one of my favorite projects ever. What made it most fun for me is that the reference docs are in the page so it's really easy to pick something at random and just see what it does.

lovehashbrowns commented on Qualcomm to acquire Arduino   qualcomm.com/news/release... · Posted by u/janjongboom
nunobrito · 3 months ago
It is basically the same thing, don't understand either why it would harder.

The only thing is to add the ESP32 module on the addons since it doesn't come enabled by default. Arduino isn't good for projects with more than 5 source code files, it is an awful IDE beyond the basic things you can pack on a single source code file.

Always had so many difficulties handling the IDE defects, basically it can crash when starting and every now and then will just refuse to upload the firmware. The other part are libraries, really difficult to setup all the needed libraries for larger code bases.

On that sense, Visual Code with PlatformIO went far beyond. Just open the project there and the libraries are taken care. The connection to boards is more robust. I'm not so sure how to feel with this sale to Qualcomm, it just feels that it is going there to die.

Quite the difference from the early days where Arduino had such energy and the tools would bring almost anyone into microntrollers with such ease.

lovehashbrowns · 3 months ago
As a complete beginner to hardware stuff, I do find the Arduino Cloud thing to be pretty compelling. Being able to push out updates over the cloud is nice! Buuuut.. once I'm mostly done with a project, there's just no need at all for it anymore. The Arduino I'm using for a receipt printer is just sitting there and now the cloud bit doesn't do anything for me.

And the problem I have is that ESP32s aren't much more difficult to set up nowadays, are wildly cheaper, and I'm soso excited to start messing around with ESP-NOW which I don't think Arduino has? But having like 10 ESP32s for messing around freely is more valuable than the cloud thing for me. And there are some super fun projects for ESP32 also like the Cheap Yellow Display thing. I ordered what I thought was one display, except it was 3, and I thought I would have to provide my own ESP32s but nope, they come with them. And these three CYDs were cheaper than a single Arduino it's actually crazy.

lovehashbrowns commented on Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI   research.google/blog/lear... · Posted by u/FromTheArchives
amluto · 3 months ago
I agree with your point in general, but I do find myself actually using trigonometry for fairly basic real-world purposes more often than one might expect. For example: how big of a piece of material fits in a particular position if it’s not parallel or perpendicular to the stuff around it? If a rope supports a load in the middle, how much tension does the rope need? How much of an angle should be cut into a door to comfortably clear the jamb? (If you’ve never contemplated this before: a door with a rectangular cross-section will have less clearance to the jamb when almost closed than when fully closed.)
lovehashbrowns · 3 months ago
I think for me personally although I don’t use maths often enough in any practical sense, the one thing I think has stopped me progressing in life how I feel I want to has been my lack of maths knowledge. I don’t mean in a career sense but in an enjoyment sense. I watched a video about proving that the square root of two is irrational and that made me irrationally happy, and I’d love to keep going but a lot of the maths in other proofs or concepts gets absolutely insane. I don’t know how to express that to kids learning maths for the first time, though. It also almost feels like the world of math is so vast there’s something for everyone to enjoy casually. That feels like a video game analogy to me with all the different genres built around basic fundamental concepts.
lovehashbrowns commented on We all dodged a bullet   xeiaso.net/notes/2025/we-... · Posted by u/WhyNotHugo
scotty79 · 3 months ago
Is there a tool that you can put between your npm client and npm web servers that serves package versions that are month old and possibly also tracks discovered malware and never serves infected versions?
lovehashbrowns · 3 months ago
I'm looking at Verdaccio currently, since Artifactory is expensive and I think the CE version still only supports C++. Does anyone have any experience with Verdaccio?
lovehashbrowns commented on DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised with malware   github.com/duckdb/duckdb-... · Posted by u/tosh
lovehashbrowns · 3 months ago
I guess it's hands off the npm jar for a week or three 'cause I am expecting a bunch more packages to be affected at this point.
lovehashbrowns commented on Nginx-CGI brings support for CGI to Nginx and angie   github.com/pjincz/nginx-c... · Posted by u/jesprenj
lemcoe9 · 4 months ago
Absolutely. For me, OpenResty combined with a custom Lua script solved an incredibly complicated business problem that I ran into a couple years ago, and now that arrangement serves thousands of complex requests per day. With Nginx and that custom code combined into a single configuration, not requiring a separate backend service, we turned a complicated problem into a very simple one!
lovehashbrowns · 4 months ago
I used OpenResty + Lua + Redis to implement a quick blacklist for an ad platform like 10 years ago. It really does make everything so simple and it's pretty fun to work with.
lovehashbrowns commented on SSL certificate requirements are becoming obnoxious   chrislockard.net/posts/ss... · Posted by u/unl0ckd
dark-star · 4 months ago
> I am responsible for approving SSL certificates for my company

What does this even mean? Does he check the certificates for typos, or that they have the correct security algorithm or something?

I'm pretty sure such an "approval" could be replaced by an automatic security scanner or even a small shall script

lovehashbrowns · 4 months ago
Sounds so similar to something we had set up when I worked for a major retailer a few years ago. In order to get a cert you had to email the security team or some junk like that and THEY would go through the digicert UI. I stopped reading the absolutely giant and incredibly confusing certificate support document and swapped everything I was responsible for to ACM.

Side note, at some point I got an email telling me to stop issuing public certificates and only issue private certs. I had to get on a call with someone and explain PKI. To someone on the security team!

u/lovehashbrowns

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