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tayo42 commented on Go is still not good blog.habets.se/2025/07/Go... · Posted by u/ustad

positron26 · 2 days ago

Count Rust. From what I can see, it's becoming very popular in the microservices landscape. Not hard to imagine why. Multithreading is a breeze. Memory use is low. Latency is great.

tayo42 · 2 days ago

Some language with rust features minus memory and lifetime management and gos gc and stdlib would be possibly the language I've been waiting for.

tayo42 commented on Io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server blog.habets.se/2025/04/io... · Posted by u/guntars

jcranmer · 2 days ago

There is, I think, an ownership model that Rust's borrow checker very poorly supports, and for lack of a better name, I've called it hot potato ownership. The basic idea is that you have a buffer which you can give out as ownership in the expectation that the person you gave it to will (eventually) give it back to you. It's a sort of non-lexical borrowing problem, and I very quickly discovered when trying to implement it myself in purely safe Rust that the "giving the buffer back" is just really gnarly to write.

tayo42 · 2 days ago

Refcel didn't work? Or rc?

tayo42 commented on AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong lastweekinaws.com/blog/aw... · Posted by u/keithly

hnlmorg · 3 days ago

That’s definitely the “correct” way of doing things if you’re writing infra professionally. But I do also get that more casual users might prefer not to incur the additional costs nor complexity of having CloudFront in front. Though at that point, one could reasonably ask if S3 is the right choice for causal users.

tayo42 · 3 days ago

>S3 is the right choice for causal users.

It's so simple for storing and serving a static website.

Are there good and cheap alternatives?

tayo42 commented on The forgotten meaning of "jerk" languagehat.com/the-forgo... · Posted by u/aspenmayer

simondotau · 4 days ago

I went into this thinking it was going to be about culinary spices. But I had just finished watching a video on jerk chicken so my mind was already in the wrong place…

tayo42 · 4 days ago

Don't get what people mean by jerking chicken when they make jerk chicken. Just applying spices I guess?

tayo42 commented on Why we still build with Ruby getlago.com/blog/why-we-s... · Posted by u/FinnLobsien

vindin · 6 days ago

I don’t understand why Ruby and Rails get a reputation for being outdated or “legacy.” Over the last several years both have seen massive numbers of contributions, both in improvements and new features. I’d be surprised if any tool for building a new web app could even come close to what Rails has to offer across the full stack.

tayo42 · 5 days ago

For anything else you might use ruby for you can use python, so you might as well just use python.

If rails is the best at making web apps, and other ecosystems in other languages maybe get you 90% of the way, might as well use something else and not deal with ruby sucking at other jobs.

tayo42 commented on Show HN: We started building an AI dev tool but it turned into a Sims-style game youtube.com/watch?v=sRPnX... · Posted by u/maxraven

saberience · 5 days ago

What's the actual gameplay loop?

I.e. what's the goal, how do you know you're doing well (or not), what makes it fun etc?

tayo42 · 5 days ago

I don't think the Sims had that

tayo42 commented on Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity elliotcsmith.com/linkedin... · Posted by u/smitec

alansammarone · 6 days ago

Id like to believe people have enough agency to do a google search to at least figure out their options, but granted, I might be wrong about that.

Edit: I do agree you should have a google-findable website which lists the objective characteristics of your product. If you call that advertising (I call it a "release", and I reserve the word "ad" for anything that has emotional appeal and caters to the indifferent/uninformed), then I agree.

tayo42 · 6 days ago

Hoping people stumble on to page 3 of Google to find your thing isn't sustainable so you need some kind of advertising.

You need someway to get whatever your selling into a place where people buy things

tayo42 commented on Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity elliotcsmith.com/linkedin... · Posted by u/smitec

alansammarone · 6 days ago

This is... an understatement. I would agree advertising is a useful signal, but I would say that not only can you not trust advertising, you should put negative weight on advertising - i.e. whenever you see an ad, that means the company is putting some amount of money into trying to convince you by means other than an honest comparison/spec table, and therefore is likely to have an inferior product. So personally, I generally avoid any companies/people whose presentations contains no information about the objective characteristics of their work.

tayo42 · 6 days ago

You have to advertise to some degree otherwise no one will even know what your product is

tayo42 commented on PYX: The next step in Python packaging astral.sh/blog/introducin... · Posted by u/the_mitsuhiko

anothernewdude · 10 days ago

I felt like python packaging was more or less fine, right up until pip started to warn me that I couldn't globally install packages anymore. So I need to make a billion venvs to install the same ml, plotting libraries and dependencies, that I don't want in a requirements.txt for the project.

I just want packaging to fuck off and leave me alone. Changes here are always bad, because they're changes.

tayo42 · 10 days ago

You can turn that off and allow global packages again if you want.

Or install it with the os package manager or something simmilar

tayo42 commented on A case study in bad hiring practice and how to fix it tomkranz.com/blog1/a-case... · Posted by u/prestelpirate

rgblambda · 10 days ago

I find the company's hiring process to be a good window into what it's like to work there.

tayo42 · 10 days ago

I wish I could actually confirm this for my self somehow. But I do have a feeling it's somewhat right.

I had a meeting with canonical once, I thought it was kind of weird that everyone on the other side of the call went through their high school information to get that job lol.

Ive had some interesting interview experiences where I wish I could confirm what life is like on the inside. Good and bad

Duck duck go has you write a short essay, then pays you!

Drop box had me do some weird prep and deep dive into a project.Also an hour and half coding screen before even talking to anyone. Felt rude.

Curent company I knew more about the coding question then the guy giving the interview. That was weird, can confirm the engineering level is frustrating

Shopify gave me a timed brain teaser test to do. I didn't think anyone really did those.

I am curious if all the companies that do these expect perfection with rigorous interviews are actually that much better.

I'll have to think of more

Edit to add all the recruiters that don't show up to the interview they scheduled