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I used it recently to write a useful utility related to OpenTelemetry file processing. .NET AOT produced a single-file static binary which is similar in size to what Go would produ…

Yuck. I like both Go and C# a lot, and use them both professionally. In my experience the strengths of Go are mostly - Deployability via single-file static binaries - Simple syntax…

I thought the title was clickbait, but no, he really did fix it! Nice

It's a solved problem. The physics is simply such that it's really inefficient. > ... we'd need a system 12.5 times bigger, i.e., roughly 531 square metres, or about 2.6 times the …

Yes, slack is intermittently down for me and the rest of my company. It's intermittently losing messages, failing to load new ones, and showing error pages :-(

Now you understand why this app costs more than 2x the price of alternatives such as diskDedupe. Any halfway-competent developer can write some code that does a SHA256 hash of all …

I can't find a specific EULA or disclaimer for the Hyperspace app, but given that the EULA's for major things like Microsoft Office basically say "we offer you no warranty or recou…

Yep. At a previous job we had a file server that we published Windows build output to. There were about 1000 copies of the same pre-requisite .NET and VC++ runtimes (each build had…

> This is basically only a win on macOS, and only because Apple charges through the nose for disk space You do realize that this software is only available on macOS, and only works…

He "only" saved 30%? That's amazing. I really doubt most people are going to get anywhere near that. When I run it on my home folder (Roughly 500GB of data) I find 124 MB of duplic…

In order to check if a file is a duplicate of another, you need to check it against _every other possible file_. You need some kind of "lookup key". If we took the first 1024 bytes…

I don't know exactly what Siracusa is doing here, but I can take an educated guess: For each candidate file, you need some "key" that you can use to check if another candidate file…

+1. He's not taking anything away because you never had it.

The author is now discovering Ruby and Objective-C :-)

In iOS 17.4 Apple allows you to apply to create an alternative store. Apple can still deny your request and kill your alternative store, and this is exactly what happened. Epic ope…

It looks like to use this product, I have to learn an entirely new programming language (which appears to be a weird mashup of Python and Haskell), a whole set of entirely new API'…

Has this guy ever been on any actual planes? His "Status Quo" model is completely unlike any of the planes I've ever been on. It's easy to improve over a fake strawman

That answer is only there because it's really old, from the early days of S.O. where people were allowed to ask questions that weren't super serious binary yes/no style. It'd get m…

+1 I've owned personally, and used macs for work since around 2009. I've never installed any third party window-snapping or management systems, and I don't consider it a big deal. …

There's a ton of apps now which require iOS15, and some are starting to move to 16. If you're stuck on 14 for jailbreak reasons I suspect you're going to struggle with more things …

There's more to an app than just the UI layer; Catalyst helps with not only the UIKit parts, but other surrounding stuff like app launching, integration with system features (shari…

> > How are you going to build your service network? > Compensate the contractors fairly and act as lead gen. I used to work at a company which makes security and access control sy…

Oh BTW, a small bit more feedback > Better air quality is achieved through a thermostat with PM2.5 and CO2 sensors, as well as an air quality module on the air handler that control…

Speaking here from New Zealand, where central heating/thermostats are basically unheard of, outside of offices and schools. Heatpumps are very common in homes, usually high-wall mo…

Isn't this just "Now you can pay to purchase and operate hardware to compensate for our crappy coverage, so we don't have to improve it ourselves?"