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porise commented on Bash scripts are brittle – simple error handling in bash   notifox.com/blog/bash-err... · Posted by u/Meetvelde
moebrowne · 2 days ago
I believe that Bash scripts should be trivially short and simple. As soon as any complexity is introduced they should be written in another language.
porise · 19 hours ago
Perl was written to write more complicated bash scripts. It's so seamless to call and handle shell commands and the first class regexes make it terse in a way that's appropriate for this use case.
porise commented on How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post   newyorker.com/news/annals... · Posted by u/thm
0xbadcafebee · 4 days ago
To be fair, it's social media and search engines that killed The News. Every news outlet has been gutted by the need for profitability, and editors have always clashed with the interests of their benefactors.
porise · 4 days ago
Just say Google. The need for keywords plastered everywhere (often hidden in the HTML) was their invention.
porise commented on Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown   securelist.com/notepad-su... · Posted by u/natebc
porise · 5 days ago
I guess package managers win in the end. I got two emails from my IT department in the last year telling me to immediately update it.
porise commented on A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks   twitter.com/karpathy/stat... · Posted by u/bigwheels
porise · 12 days ago
I wish the people who wrote this let us know what king of codebases they are working on. They seem mostly useless in a sufficiently large codebase especially when they are messy and interactions aren't always obvious. I don't know how much better Claude is than ChatGPT, but I can't get ChatGPT to do much useful with an existing large codebase.
porise commented on Dutch police have their own car stolen during car theft chase   dutchreview.com/news/dutc... · Posted by u/ohjeez
jacquesm · 25 days ago
You're about as off topic as it gets.
porise · 25 days ago
What kind of comments did you expect other than the one that was borderline racist with plausible deniability? What's a good conversation in this thread?
porise commented on Dutch police have their own car stolen during car theft chase   dutchreview.com/news/dutc... · Posted by u/ohjeez
porise · 25 days ago
Nope. Only nonviolent crimes. Anyways I was just trying to draw a parallel to corporations doing harm.
porise commented on Dutch police have their own car stolen during car theft chase   dutchreview.com/news/dutc... · Posted by u/ohjeez
porise · 25 days ago
Hustle comes in many different forms. Some people just start evil companies in their garage.
porise commented on GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source   blog.greg.technology/2025... · Posted by u/evakhoury
ksec · 25 days ago
> we're moving closer and closer to 8 companies controlling the world.

Which 8? In the control the world domain I see Meta, Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft. In terms of Market Cap you would add Tesla, Nvidia and TSMC, but these three aren't any where close to "controlling" the world category.

porise · 25 days ago
I would put Disney in there. I picked 8 arbitrarily but those companies have substantial pull in governmental regulations and the state of the web. Probably missing some Chinese companies.

imo corporations have more pull on governments than governments have on businesses at this point as far as long term culture goes.

porise commented on GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source   blog.greg.technology/2025... · Posted by u/evakhoury
porise · 25 days ago
I paid 1 buck for WhatsApp back in the day. Better business model than what meta did with it. But we're moving closer and closer to 8 companies controlling the world. Both WhatsApp and github are owned by them.
porise commented on C++ std::move doesn't move anything: A deep dive into Value Categories   0xghost.dev/blog/std-move... · Posted by u/signa11
porise · a month ago
Value categories actually just are confusing in a language as complicated as C++. I'm not willing to bet that even senior C++ developers are always going to be able to deduce the correct value category.

And worse, in typical C++ fashion, there is still little guaranteed as far as when std::move will actually cause a move. The implementation is still given a lot of leeway. I've been surprised before and you basically have no choice but to check the assembly and hope it continues to be compiled that way as minor changes make their way into the code base.

u/porise

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