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I read the article. After reading this comment I tried to get it summarised. The result wasn't pretty. The summary claimed that there is skepticism over the security of Private Clo…

A “single process” mastodon alternative for who would like to self-host

I find Pyto to be really unstable and it tends to crash a lot even when doing basic things and following the examples provided. In the past I tried to report bugs to the developer …

How do you write code without having a model of the world?

With protobufs you get bytes that you have to parse with defined rules on what to do with unexpected and missing fields. How’s it different from the proposed model where you start …

In some cases interviews are so short that you cannot even show any of these evidence

All the companies have in common a huge budget they can invest on their build systems to overcome the shortcomings of monorepos. They do have some benefits, but they also come with…

Package managers solve it quite well. Just depend on the latest version of your dependencies and tag a new version whenever they change.

While I agree that String parsing in Swift is quite annoying, when I started using Scanner my Advent of Code parsing experience improved https://developer.apple.com/documentation/f…

Is this a follow up to Street Fighting Mathematics, from the same author? https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/street-fighting-mathematics

What would a functional approach be?

I've seen a few people buying drones and using them for photography. While that's a perfectly fine use case, I was wondering what other applications drone could have. I can easily …

I'm not sure. I haven't looked into the issue much. In any case, I would expect web-sockets to work out out the box in a language that is specifically designed to run in the browse…

I would be totally on board with these changes if an alternative way of doing things had been offered. From the philosophical point of view they are exactly what is needed to allow…

The key is not saying "I don't know" and end the conversation. You should give advices on where to find the information needed and who is in a best position to answer. I've done it…

Kudos to Jane Street for giving their inters what seems to be very interesting projects and for publicly acknowledging their work.

Out of curiosity, how often are you using them?

I really like this approach. Currently I'm using Fava, which has all the power of Beancount and a nice web UI https://beancount.github.io/fava/