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two_cents commented on Funding Open Source like public infrastructure dri.es/funding-open-sourc... · Posted by u/pabs3

fennecfoxy · a month ago

The public barely want to fund public infrastructure, for the electricity they use, the water they drink. And especially not for the electricity and water that their neighbours, or people across town, or people somewhere else in the country need.

two_cents · a month ago

Isn't that what taxes are for?

two_cents commented on Hotel booking sites overcharge Bay Area customers sfgate.com/travel/article... · Posted by u/ekelsen

lisper · 8 months ago

I mostly agree with this, but with two exceptions. First, I've had surprisingly good experiences with booking.com (no affiliation, just a satisfied user). And second, if you're booking a cruise, it's actually better to book through an agent. The cruise lines all have deals with agencies that forbid the cruise lines from undercutting the agents. If you find the right agent, they will give you kickbacks on their commissions so you actually end up paying less than you would booking direct.

two_cents · 8 months ago

Booking.com or frankly any other aggregator are great until the moment you have a problem and need to talk to their customer service. In that moment you realize that Booking.com does nothing that you can't do by yourself with same effort.

two_cents commented on Web apps built with Ruby on Rails weuserails.com/... · Posted by u/kyrylo

kamikazeturtles · 8 months ago

While I like frameworks like Rails and Django, Golang with AI makes me very productive. Especially because of how Golang codebases don't use too many dependencies so an LLM never recommends code that has an old dependency or mismatched version...

I'm just curious, how well does Ruby integrate with AI tools?

two_cents · 8 months ago

I don't have a lot of experience with Golang and AI, I think Rails can give you different kind of productivity.

From what I know (please correct me if I am wrong) most people use AI to create scaffolding and automate all boring and repetitive tasks in a project. So code still needs to be written, you just outsource it to AI helper.

In Rails you write less code and concentrate on business logic because everything boring like DAL, authorization, caching is already written and tested in production.

edit: syntax

two_cents commented on Can we communally deprecate git checkout? mirawelner.com/posts/chec... · Posted by u/mirawelner

disgruntledphd2 · 8 months ago

The irritating thing about that is that the software git defaults to master, while GitHub defaults to main. I had a lot of confusion a few months back about that.

two_cents · 8 months ago

You can set default branch name for your repositories in settings. Much more straightforward than in GitLab in my opinion.

two_cents commented on Notion's mid-life crisis jjinux.com/2024/09/notion... · Posted by u/krishna2

iforgotmysocks · a year ago

Apple Notes is underrated. There is no flashy features to distract you. Just you and your notes.

two_cents · a year ago

Apple Notes is pretty close to perfect for me - it's just missing Markdown support and backlinks. I did just figure out how to link notes together with the '>>' shortcut, which is a game-changer. I've tried a bunch of other apps, but I always come back to Notes.

two_cents commented on Ask HN: What tools should I use to manage secrets from env files? · Posted by u/TheBigDuck234

two_cents · a year ago

https://github.com/tellerops/teller works good for me.

At work we use Ansible to fetch secrets from Hashicorp Vault.

two_cents commented on Monolith First (2015) martinfowler.com/bliki/Mo... · Posted by u/bubblehack3r

brodouevencode · a year ago

There's the ideal path, then the actual. Most monoliths, unchecked and with enough age, turn into spaghetti due to turn over, changing priorities, entropy, etc.

two_cents · a year ago

In my experience same goes with microservices. Same spaghetti, different abstraction layer,

two_cents commented on A MiniGolf game for Palm OS ctrl-c.club/~captain/post... · Posted by u/capitain

blackeyeblitzar · a year ago

I am not very familiar with Palm OS, but I do like the idea of a smart device that isn’t a full on smartphone. Something like the old Palm devices or the Pocket PCs from 25 years ago. Is there such a thing today? What gets closest?

two_cents · a year ago

BOOX Palma maybe? https://shop.boox.com/products/palma

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