habibur · HackerTrans

6개월 전discuss

I am on the opposite side. For the last few months I don't listen to music unless it's AI generate. I can feel the difference.

habibur

7개월 전discuss

LGPL allows compiling the whole of ffmpeg into a so or lib and then dynamically linking from there for your closed source code. That's the main difference between LGPL and GPL.

But if you change or add something in building ffmpeg.so that should be GPLed.

Apparently they copied some files from ffmpeg mixed with their propitiatory code and compiled it as a whole. That's the problem here.

habibur

7개월 전discuss

After the year 2000. dot com burst.

An tech employee posted he looked for job for 6 months, found none and has joined a fast food shop flipping burgers.

That turned tech workers switching to "flipping burgers" into a meme.

habibur

8개월 전discuss

    Backticks as an alias for shell_exec() are deprecated

Used that a lot in shell scripts. using php-cli.

like in `mkdir $dirname`;

habibur

8개월 전discuss

    On 18 November 2025 at 11:20 UTC (all times in this blog are UTC), Cloudflare's network began experiencing significant failures
    As of 17:06 all systems at Cloudflare were functioning as normal

6 hours / 5 years gives ~99.98% uptime.

habibur

8개월 전discuss

    5 million Rust LOC 
    One potential memory safety vulnerability found 
    Rust is 0.2 vuln per 1 MLOC.

    Compared to 
    C and C++ : 1,000 memory safety vulnerabilities per MLOC.

Key take.

habibur

8개월 전discuss

Windows still has Active Desktop, doesn't it?

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8개월 전discuss

I think it's ok. When wikipedia arrived, everyone was up in arms that people are learning from something that's open for anyone to edit.

But it rectified itself.

The same thing happened when Internet arrived. "Don't believe anything you read on the Internet."

I guess the reaction was same when printed media arrived.

But the thing is, things get better over time.

habibur

8개월 전discuss

Previous post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45503560

which points to the actual blog of the author on github, instead of a news coverage of it.

habibur

8개월 전discuss

I was pretty much looking for this info. Thank you.

habibur

9개월 전discuss

Is mmap still faster than fread? That might have been true in the 90s but I was wondering about current improvements.

If you have enough free memory, the file will be cached in memory anyway instead of residing on disk. Therefore both will be reading from memory, albeit through different API.

Looking for recent benchmark or view from OS developers.

habibur

9개월 전discuss

How's "memory" different from context window?

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9개월 전discuss

Looking at the graphs, I would recommend it would have been better to market it as "just as performant as nginx and htproxy" instead of "faster than all ...". While highlighting the simplicity as the added benefit above those all.

habibur

9개월 전discuss

Last I checked, Erlang strings were represented internally as a linked list of integers, one int for every character.

That worked, but I felt like not every efficient, as web is very text heavy.

Has that changed in the later versions?

habibur

9개월 전discuss

Might be related with what the article was talking. AI can't cut-paste. It deletes the code and then regenerates it at another location instead of cut-paste.

Obviously generated code drift a little from deleted ones.

habibur

9개월 전discuss

> when I ask why they do SSR

What are the reasons for not doing SSR?

habibur

9개월 전discuss

> Lua also essentially got lexical scoping of local variables correct from the beginning while js blessed us with the nightmare of var.

That was not my experience when I was working with lua. Did anything change since? Asked google. Answered :

> In Lua, if a variable is assigned a value inside a function without being explicitly declared with the local keyword, it will automatically become a global variable. This is because, by default, all variables in Lua are global unless explicitly specified as local.

habibur

9개월 전discuss

Configure google to forward mails to your self hosted server.

When replying reply from your self hosted server.

That way you can gradually shift over.

I had been self hosting like this for years.

habibur

10개월 전discuss

I don't know what others are reading.

The article basically says that when you have multiple suppliers or consumers, the "order" of the queue loses meaning. It turns into an "unordered" pool of data. Therefore focus should be shifted from maintain a "queue of data" to a "bag of data".

habibur

10개월 전discuss

I read "slow" and "fast" in the article as comparative term. "slower than" what the writer has seen in other cases.

Absolute ms doesn't prove much unless you put it in comparison with other best.

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