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bgwhn

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Website: https://benjam.info/ Email: hackernews@(website domain)

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    Comment #47711410

    > skip some build steps There was a change in Next 16, not Turbopack, that removed `ESLint` during `next build`: https://nextjs.org/blog/next-16#breaking-changes-and-other-u... Thi…

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    Comment #47225100

    Thank you for sharing your experience with Next.js, even though you eventually ended up moving off. > Waiting on Turbopack: Our initial local route loads took 10 to 12 seconds unde…

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    Comment #26919937

    What's more concerning IMO is that despite the fact that I can't find a CLA, their pricing page claims that if you buy their support contract that they'll give you the software und…

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    Comment #26718091

    > Rust could add a `#![forbid(alloc)]` declaration and achieve the same effect. Isn't that pretty much what `#![no_std]` is for? You can still use an allocator with no_std, but you…

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    Comment #24358390

    I worked on this while on the Instagram Server Framework team to leverage LibCST and solve some of Instagram's own problems. We took a lot of inspiration from other lint frameworks…

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    Comment #23885370

    I'm with you, and I prefer "dumb" devices, but you can still buy these blu-ray players and not connect them to the internet. The internet connectivity is sold as an additional feat…

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    Comment #23407731

    Sure, there's probably less exposure from nuking the profiles directory, but I don't think you're being fair to containers: - Containers are a feature built into Firefox, these ext…

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    Comment #23376197

    See if your preferred distribution has a kernel backport available. Most have backports of the kernel because it has relatively few dependencies and is backwards compatible, making…

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    Comment #22006572

    If the data structure has a reference count of one, you can safely mutate the data structure instead. Many persistent immutable data structure libraries use this as an additional o…

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    Comment #21728099

    > I'm surprised that smaller companies have not moved away from static pricing yet. The physical server has a fixed set of resources. If you let customers pick what resource they w…

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    Comment #16398861

    The flexbox implementation that react native uses for layout.

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    Comment #16244949

    > What is the alternative to using Virtualbox Any other hypervisor. QEMU/KVM, Xen, VMWare, and Parallels all have good track records.

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    Comment #16200559

    As others have mentioned, Digital Ocean and Linode would probably be good options here. If you're looking for something even smaller and cheaper than $5/mo, I've had luck with BuyV…

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    Comment #15446996

    A large amount of that 1.5 MB of code is to shim around the incompatibilities between different versions of the shared libraries that ship with Android. The root of the problem is …

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    Comment #15210732

    I've got an old 2013 Moto X, and I've recently started using Messenger Lite on it. You'll likely need to manually install the APK, because it's not available in the Play store for …

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    Comment #14675065

    Blockchains likely scale closer to O(n log n): http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/metcalfes-law-is... The value of the network does go up the more people use it, and there…

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    Comment #14278884

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio... Web search engines: - Outride (2001) - Kaltix (2003) - Akwan Information Technologies (2005) - Orion (2006) - Aardva…

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    Comment #14182249

    I used to work at Amazon, and I liked their leadership principles. They're intentionally contradictory, but that's just an acknowledgement that perfection is impossible. When you c…

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    Comment #13232881

    You can figure out what add-ons are compatible by cross-referencing http://www.arewee10syet.com/

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    Comment #13153718

    Regarding D2: If you're going to go with bcache, make sure you're using a kernel >= 4.5, since that's when a bunch of stability patches landed ( https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/5/38 …

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    Comment #12610448

    Engineers are expensive. Google's research blog probably isn't a very high-traffic surface, and most visitors are probably on modern machines and fast networks. It doesn't make sen…

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    Comment #12396734

    Babel can parse Flow, which is similar to Typescript. However, Babel doesn't have any built-in support for inferring or analyzing flow types. However, some of this type information…