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setheron

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About setheron

Software Engineering Alumni from University of Waterloo. https://fzakaria.com

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    Comment #49219311

    I dunno about all this hullabaloo. I'm at https://nix.vegas/ having fun and using Nix. https://imgflip.com/i/aye90c

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    Comment #48995860

    This also can be handled by binfmt_misc; I include a demo of it in a gist.

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    Comment #48994428

    Feel free to email me! (author)

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    Comment #48994426

    I would love to learn more about this; I'm deeply interested in replacing ELF with something either simpler or maybe leveraging sqlite for much of the functionality.

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    Comment #48993842

    (author) YESSSSSSS

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    Comment #48993812

    (author) You did a great job articulating the points!

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    Comment #48883039

    I don't want to curate my own AGENTS file. I'd rather just copy someone else's verbatim similar to code formatting style. Fabien, care to share your whole file? I'll plug it into m…

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    Comment #48872853

    https://fzakaria.com/2026/07/09/who-does-anubis-actually-sto... I wrote about this recently as well.

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    Comment #48722248

    I'm confused -- does this compile it live when the server ships code? How do we resolve dependencies, toolset etc.. Is the idea to just pick an old enough platform toolchain you ex…

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    Comment #48720704

    We also wrote an academic-style trip report at https://fzakaria.com/assets/pdfs/Attention_Nix_and_Tacos_is_... (arxiv submission is pending!)

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    Comment #48550322

    You can still apply. People dropped out. Reach out to me if you want. My email is in my website (see profile). We leave Saturday to hack on Nix !

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    Comment #48545388

    Come join us at https://tacosprint.org/ We have more availability! (Also sponsor maybe )

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    Comment #48544281

    Big fan of exe.dev so the added Nix seems like a solid value add. exe.dev is great but lurking in my mind is: "how will I replicate this if I ever need to move to AWS etc.." for al…

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    Comment #48519443

    The purpose is just to visualize scale. Similar to Jeff Dean's visualization of numbers every programmer should know, visualizing scale is helpful -+ or at least I find it so.

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    Comment #48392677

    (author) thank you for the kind words.

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    Comment #48385699

    Add it to my watch list!

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    Comment #48372695

    amazing transparency, pay and information on the site.

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    Comment #48369111

    The struct can be optimized but if we keep growing it with our features we hit the same problem for the cache line sequential access. Smaller structs help with keeping working set …

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    Comment #48346286

    Is there a design dock or explanation about how it can do incremental linking? It's evaded other linkers in the past: gcc, llvm, mold etc....

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    Comment #48133546

    I miss my Dragonfly I am a big Linux proponent but that Chromebook had me convinced about the platform. Amazing integration.

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    Comment #48133511

    I'm at Meta now but I was at Google as well. I really enjoy contrasting the two toolchains and where they rise and fall short of each other. I must say the debugging experience at …