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dom96

7,046 カルマ登録 16 年前
Currently working as a Software Engineer at Cloudflare on Workers (and particularly on Python Workers). Previously at Meta.

Since 2010 I have been involved with building the Nim programming language, as well as many tools and libraries for it. I have also published a book about Nim called Nim in Action.

These days I'm working on various personal projects- some big, some small. Most recently https://onlyhumanhub.com, https://listifications.app and https://mousetrack.co.uk

Github: http://github.com/dom96

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/dom96.picheta.me

Twitter: http://twitter.com/d0m96

Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@dom96

Website: http://picheta.me, my contact info is here, always happy to receive emails.

投稿

Ask HN: Any point in buying a beefy MacBook Pro for local LLM use?

2 ポイント·投稿者 dom96·4 か月前·1 コメント

The Future of Social Media Is Human

blog.picheta.me
1 ポイント·投稿者 dom96·5 か月前·0 コメント

The Future of Social Media Is Human

blog.picheta.me
1 ポイント·投稿者 dom96·5 か月前·3 コメント

The future of social media is human

blog.picheta.me
1 ポイント·投稿者 dom96·5 か月前·0 コメント

Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow

blog.cloudflare.com
143 ポイント·投稿者 dom96·7 か月前·79 コメント

Ask HN: What were the best books you read in 2025?

22 ポイント·投稿者 dom96·8 か月前·20 コメント

コメント

dom96
·2 時間前·議論
What I don't understand is where are the Starlink competitors. Supposedly the UK government owns a stake of 10% in OneWeb and yet they are planning to use Starlink for trains.

Is it really just too hard to put enough satellites in orbit to be competitive with Starlink?
dom96
·3 時間前·議論
Calling something "slop" is dismissive, vague and not constructive. That's why it's not professional.

If you want to tell someone their code quality is poor, then you better do so with specific things that is poor so that the person you are telling it to can learn and do better.
dom96
·一昨日·議論
And for those interested in Mitchell's take on it: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2075261972061594106?s=20.

TL;DR: No comment.
dom96
·一昨日·議論
Reminds me of another language that I used to know...

For real though, if your goal as a language isn't to become popular then why should anyone learn it? Why should anyone spend their limited time building libraries in it when the language isn't likely to grow (and thus is more likely to disappear)?
dom96
·一昨日·議論
I know you said you don't care to know. But for others wondering: being professional is important because it reduces conflict. Having a leader of the language personally insult someone like this makes the community feel that it is okay to insult others in the community too.

Personally I find it hard to believe that a community isn't toxic when their leader acts in this way.
dom96
·一昨日·議論
That’s a good attitude to have. Any tips for identifying projects which have leadership which does this?
dom96
·一昨日·議論
Calling someone’s code “slop” surely isn’t professional nor courteous.
dom96
·一昨日·議論
Agreed. This article should have stuck to the cold facts, rather than a series of personal criticisms that you wouldn’t see written out in the workplace.

Sadly there are far too many open source developers out there who are far too comfortable writing like this. It’s one reason I have stopped being active in open source. You would be fired (or at least disciplined) from any reasonable workplace if you acted like this.
dom96
·4 日前·議論
ooh nice
dom96
·4 日前·議論
What evidence do you have for this? It doesn't pass the sniff test: why would anyone buy a game for full price when they can get it for far less by just grabbing a cheaper subscription? (that they can cancel any time)
dom96
·5 日前·議論
Nice, thanks for sharing! I'm definitely hoping to make use of the determinism for my netcode, if you have any useful write ups about that I'd be interested to read more.
dom96
·5 日前·議論
I've had the same experience with my PS5. It wouldn't even let me play 007 First Light a few weeks ago because it needed to update the system. Starting to wonder if I should/could just keep it offline to stop it from updating incessantly.
dom96
·5 日前·議論
Could this be due to the games being available on Game Pass? Why would anyone buy them on Steam if they can play them on Game Pass for "free"?
dom96
·10 日前·議論
Funny to see this just a few days after I’ve started building a Tron-like 3D game for the browser using Jolt[1]. So far Jolt is working pretty well but I’ll certainly be taking a look at this.

1 - I’ve been sitting on this domain for years: https://lightcycles.io
dom96
·10 日前·議論
It’s hilarious that I can’t tell if you’re being serious or not here
dom96
·10 日前·議論
If the EU actually mandates each member country implements a ZKP for this then I am all for it.

Can they also provide other ZKPs? Specifically to attest that someone is a unique human being? Humanity verification is incredibly important to fight against propaganda online[1]

1 - https://blog.picheta.me/post/the-future-of-social-media-is-h...
dom96
·10 日前·議論
That’s not how I interpret gamergate. Actually I view gamergate as the staging post for MAGA and Trump getting elected.

It was a great trial run for flooding the zone with lies and outrage to defeat progressives. It worked then and continues to work.
dom96
·11 日前·議論
If you're interested in detail of how it works, I wrote about it here: https://blog.picheta.me/post/the-future-of-social-media-is-h...
dom96
·11 日前·議論
No humanity verification is perfect. 50% of people is already pretty good.

Really governments need to do better here, and make it possible to do this type of verification using zero knowledge proofs.
dom96
·11 日前·議論
This already happened in the iTunes era, didn’t it? My partner bought South Park episodes and songs and lost them all.