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zamalek commented on The V Programming Language vlang.io/... · Posted by u/klaussilveira

There are much better designed languages in this niche, that aren't developed by fraudsters.

zamalek · 9 hours ago

A ton of these new system languages can't seem to let go of exceptions (and/or null), which is increasingly being shown to be bad design. I would wager good money that a significant majority of those who disagree have not used exceptionless languages in anger.

Personally, I would learn any of them for a job - but not for joy. Exceptions subtract joy.

V is definitely worth looking at (but I have found the time yet).

zamalek commented on Data engineering and software engineering are converging clickhouse.com/blog/eight... · Posted by u/craneca0

RobinL · a day ago

I think this may be a databricks thing? From what I've seen there's a gap between data engineers forced to use databricks and everyone else. From what I've seen, at least how it's used in practice, databricks seems to result in a mess of notebooks with poor dependency and version management.

zamalek · a day ago

Interesting, databricks has been my first exposure to DE at scale and it does seem to solve many problems (even though it sounds like it's causing some). So what does everyone else do? Run spark etc. themselves?

zamalek commented on God created the real numbers ethanheilman.com/x/34/ind... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

zamalek · a day ago

When I truly grokked complex numbers, I felt as though real numbers were a lie - though I would now say that it was a convenient omission. There are many things that are more naturally described using complex numbers - waves (which much of reality boils down to) immediately come to mind. Even if something does align better with real numbers, it's still just x+0i. Maybe I'll change my mind ~when~ if I finally grok quaternions.

zamalek commented on Data engineering and software engineering are converging clickhouse.com/blog/eight... · Posted by u/craneca0

zamalek · a day ago

One things have seen through my more recent exposure to experienced data engineers is the lack of repeatability rigor (CI/CD, IaC, etc.). There's a lot of doing things in notebooks and calling that production-ready. Databricks has git (GitHub only from what I can tell) integration, but that's just checking out and directly committing to trunk, if it's in git then we have SDLC right, right? It's fucking nuts.

Anyone have workflows or tooling that are highly compatible with the entrenched notebook approach, and are easy to adopt? I want to prevent theses people from learning well-trodden lessons the hard way.

zamalek commented on Expert: LSP for Elixir github.com/elixir-lang/ex... · Posted by u/pimienta

mtndew4brkfst · 2 days ago

It has both a justfile and a makefile at the root, even. Most of us seem to want to use it to throw make away entirely.

That said, I consider `just` very language-agnostic and useful because of that, and I consider mix pretty bad at any workflow needs that isn't directly concerned with BEAM.

zamalek · 2 days ago

It's not technically a make replacement (make does do things like incremental build management etc.), but it just goes to show how bad the DX of make is.

zamalek commented on The “Wow!” signal was likely from extraterrestrial source, and more powerful iflscience.com/the-wow-si... · Posted by u/toss1

TillE · 4 days ago

Space aliens are still kinda the best explanation. It's extremely inconclusive, and it's entirely possible that we'll discover some new natural phenomenon to explain it instead, but for now there's not really any known alternative.

zamalek · 4 days ago

It could just as easily be known, or unknown, physics.

zamalek commented on Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit emersion.fr/blog/2025/usi... · Posted by u/LaSombra

GCUMstlyHarmls · 10 days ago

(I'm a big podman stan)

Last I tried using the .kube files I ran into issues with specifying container networks (https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/12965).

This is sort of "fixed" by using a Quadlet ".kube" but IMO that's a pretty weak solution and removes the "here's your compose file, run it" aspect.

Recently (now that Deb13 is out with Podman 5) I have started transitioning to Podmans Quadlet files which have been quite smooth so far. As you say, its great to run things without all the overhead of kubernetes.

zamalek · 9 days ago

(I'm a bigger podman stan)

I agree about quadlets, amazing.

Docker has one of the most severe cases of not-invented-here. All solutions require a combination of a new DSL, a new protocol, a new encryption scheme, a new daemon, or any combination there-of. People are sleeping on using buildah directly; which OP alluded to with Bakah (but fell short of just using it directly).

Ever wish you could run multiple commands in a single layer? Buildah lets you do that. Ever wish you could loop or some other branching in a dockerfile? Buildah lets you do that. Why? Because they didn't invent something new, and so the equivalent of a dockerfile in buildah is just a script in whatever scripting language you want (probably sh, though).

This will probably give you the general idea: https://www.mankier.com/1/buildah-from

I came across this when struggling and repeatedly failing to get multi-arch containers built in Circle CI a few gears ago. You don't have access to an arm64 docker context on their x86 machines, so you are forced to orchestrate that manually (unless your arm64 build is fast enough under qemu). Things begin to rapidly fall apart once you are off of the blessed Docker happy path because of their NIH obsession. That's when I discovered buildah and it made the whole thing a cinch.

zamalek commented on My boss fired me over WhatsApp while he was on vacation in Honolulu ginoz.bearblog.dev/my-bos... · Posted by u/enemyz0r

zamalek · 14 days ago

I'm guessing this is fiction, but it's not unreasonable. Employers love to harp on about "loyalty," "being family," and "caring for you." Try to remember the last time any employer of yours has demonstrated these traits for either you or a, functionally ex-, colleague.

We need to stop participating in this brouhaha as an industry. If your employer wanted to demonstrate loyalty you would see it in your contract.

Operating a business is hard? Well, yes, so is surviving.

zamalek commented on After losing company stock Philz Coffee baristas get $525 'thank you' payments missionlocal.org/2025/08/... · Posted by u/lando2319

orionsbelt · 17 days ago

Doesn't that just mean the Common was underwater and worthless? It’s another way of saying they are due $0.

Edited to Add:

Yeah, the above seems right. This seems like standard fare. See the below FAQ from https://philzcoffee.com/stakeholderfaqs:

How many employees who invested in your company lost their money and/or stock options as a result of this transaction?

A total of 10 former employees who chose to invest in Philz Coffee by buying common stock years ago at much higher prices than the current price of the shares will unfortunately lose the value of that stock. There are no other Philz Coffee common stockholders or broader group of Philz common stockholders who were affected by the transaction and no current employees are Philz common stockholders who were affected by the transaction. Additionally, out of our approximately 1,500 current employees, 47 were granted stock options (the right to buy stock at a certain price in the future) in 2022 and earlier that are not exercisable based on the current price of the shares. Unfortunately, those options will expire per their original terms, but since the employees did not buy stock, they did not lose any money.

zamalek · 17 days ago

This happened at a previous employer of mine: the Nintex acquisition of K2. Not long before the acquisition, employees were offered the "opportunity" to purchase their vested options. I didn't invest, but my friend did (so I'm not sure what the details are). They had the power to band together and cause major problems for the deal (I want to say they could outright block it, but I might be hallucinating that). Once they began to organize they were quickly bought out - no details on how much, though.

zamalek commented on PCIe 8.0 announced by the PCI-Sig will double throughput again servethehome.com/pcie-8-0... · Posted by u/rbanffy

eqvinox · 17 days ago

They kinda are and kinda aren't, they're just using their own definition…

(I'm accepting it because "Transfers"/"T" as unit is quite rare outside of PCIe)

zamalek · 17 days ago

GT/s is also gaining ground for system RAM in order to clear up the ambiguity that DDR causes for end-consumers.