overtomanu (u/overtomanu)

overtomanu commented on Hacking India's largest automaker: Tata Motors eaton-works.com/2025/10/2... · Posted by u/EatonZ

sayamqazi · 4 months ago

I am a pretty cookie cutter developer. We just make glorified CRUDs and I have tried to convince the engineering director hundreds of times that "There is no use of encrypting and decrypting localstorage with a key thats sitting right inside the client code." Yet they keep insisting on it in the code-quality checklist.

overtomanu · 4 months ago

I guess they think it results in some kind of security by obscurity... Maybe ward off lazy beginner hackers..

overtomanu commented on US hits $38T in debt. Fastest accumulation of $1T outside pandemic apnews.com/article/trump-... · Posted by u/testing22321

mlsu · 5 months ago

He already has.

Firing Jerome Powell and pushing rates lower, in spite of reality on the ground, is effectively a form of soft default. (That, plus the laundry list of other things, which is too long to fit into a single HN comment)

The US will never stop paying its obligations. But driving away investment by breaking promises abroad and eroding political stability at home very much will cause the trust in the USD as an ongoing institution to evaporate. Sure, the US still pays its bonds on time in USD, but what is USD worth when the US cannot honor its trade obligations, cannot honor its diplomatic obligations, cannot be relied on as a stable partner?

It will be very scary when the US stops being the dominant financial system. So much of the US political economy (and more fundamentally, our way of life) depends on it.

overtomanu · 5 months ago

This is what is happening a bit now, USD is being sold and gold is being brought by various central banks

overtomanu commented on Postgres IDE in VS Code techcommunity.microsoft.c... · Posted by u/Dowwie

jtougas · 10 months ago

I used Azure Data Studio with SQL Server for a while—decent, but still clunky. I believe this plugin is the evolution of that, so it’s probably solid too—but can't beat out what I'm currently using since it targets only Postgres.

It’s going to be tough to beat SQLTools for Sublime Text (https://code.mteixeira.dev/SublimeText-SQLTools/). It’s simple, fast, does the basics right, and crucially, works for many of the usual suspects.

Most IDEs try to do everything and fail, yet only target one db vendor. They’re _all_ bloated and buggy, with endless trees and menus, bells and whistles. Results grids are slow, copy/paste is janky, formatting is never quite right—or outright misleading.

SQLTools stays out of the way and just works.

...also, I don’t want AI-powered nonsense. I’ll reach for that when I need it. Get off my lawn.

overtomanu · 10 months ago

There is also an extension for VS Code from the same author

https://github.com/mtxr/vscode-sqltools

overtomanu commented on I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) code.mendhak.com/gpl-v2-a... · Posted by u/ekiauhce

creaturemachine · a year ago

You're paying that cent, but in the form of endless ads hijacking your consciousness.

overtomanu · a year ago

you can still do some setup and access mail by using applications like thunderbird, which have no ads.

overtomanu commented on The real data wall is billions of years of evolution dynomight.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/walterbell

dboreham · a year ago

> DNA can't contain human culture

Furthermore: My conjecture is that DNA doesn't contain any "training data". There's no data path for information to get from an organism's learnings about its surroundings in generation N, into the DNA for generation N+1. DNA is just plans for how to wire up the I/O devices. Everything we think we see that seems like "instinct" will turn out to be explained by a combination of the wiring to I/O devices, and early training.

overtomanu · a year ago

DNA does not contain the training data, but it can be transmitted to next generation in other ways, like alteration of gene expression.

Reference:

Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_epigenetic_i...

overtomanu commented on COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrote about it wumpus-cave.net/post/2024... · Posted by u/hardburn

tombert · a year ago

You know, one of these days I really need to sit down and play with some of these "legacy" languages, like Fortran or COBOL or Ada or APL; languages that have certainly fallen out of popularity but are still used in some critical places.

It does make me wonder about millions and millions of lines of Java out there; Java has more or less eaten the enterprise space (for better or worse), but is there any reason to think that in 30-40 years the only people writing Java will be retirees maintaining old banking systems?

overtomanu · a year ago

Similar thing applies to SAP ABAP. It is like Java from a parallel world, where the accumulated cruft for maintaining backward compatibility is 3-4 times more than Java. It also like a low code/no code environment where the language, the UI, ABAP IDE etc is tightly coupled to one another. Like Java, it has continued to add more language features with time, but the legacy code using old constructs is still there in the codebase of many of the orgs.

Initially and up to some extent still now, it is verbose and wording wise, very similar to COBOL, then somewhere I guess in the late 90s, OO paradigm wave came in, and it had "OO ABAP" with classes and methods. Now cloud wave is influencing it and ABAP now has a new cloud flavor "ABAP for cloud" where most of the old constructs are not supported.

overtomanu commented on Zed AI zed.dev/blog/zed-ai... · Posted by u/dahjelle

p4bl0 · 2 years ago

> I just want a fast programmable text editor with a native GUI and good defaults.

What would that be for each OS?

Linux: Kate (at least if using KDE; which one would it be for GTK / Gnome?)

macOS: TextMate?

Windows: Notepad++?

overtomanu · 2 years ago

notepad++ without plugins is there for linux

NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++ | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39854182

overtomanu commented on Bold Edit: An editor written by power users bold-edit.com... · Posted by u/thunderbong

overtomanu · 2 years ago