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I love Zellij but it doesn't play well with Neovim. If you try to use both tools heavily (Neovim splits + stacked Zellij panes), your Neovim layouts will get trashed. And if I have…

If somebody announces that their project is written in Rust but nobody complains, what happens? Writing any non-trivial video game with Rust is (arguably) interesting in itself sin…

Not a popular opinion, but RedHat (now IBM) funds an enormous amount of critical open source. They pay people to contribute to hundreds of upstream projects. And RHEL is 100% focus…

Any optimizations discovered at runtime by a JIT can also be applied to precompiled code. The precompiled code is then not spending runtime cycles looking for patterns, or only doi…

It is accomplishing something. When 40 different applicants are equally able to do the job, the only selector you have is "culture fit", which is where bias starts to easily kick i…

I came to this thread purely to see if I was the only enlightened one. Stalwart is perfect for small self-hosters: a single binary, a single-directory resilient datastore (by defau…

I'd like to read this but my eyeballs are burning. And since it's only a handful of pages, there's no reason for it to be a PDF.

The executive class is entirely based on personal branding. If you're not changing anything, it's like being a TikTok influencer without posting any new videos. It doesn't matter w…

Docker daemon runs as root, and runs continuously. If you're running rootless Podman containers then the Podman API is only running with user privileges. And, because Podman uses s…

Trying to be genuinely helpful here: After many years of "I want stability and evergreen", I finally realized that this is Fedora. Each release is very stable, and they arrive more…

You mean curl?

You can always edit the file in the container and re-upload it with a different tag. That's not best practice, but it's not exactly sorcery.

I know everyone wants "just one more feature", but I've been looking for a tiny kv for a side project that allows you to query by key prefix. I haven't had time to build one yet, a…

Just FYI, you may also enjoy systemd-machine. It's essentially the same thing as toolbx but it handles the system bus much more sanely, and you can see everything running inside th…

Lorin is always on point, and I appreciate the academic backing he brings to the subject. But for how many years do we need to tell MBAs that "running with scissors is bad" before …

None of the web UIs for Who's Hiring made it significantly easier for me to find jobs that matched my skillset / experience / values, so I made a tool to score and sort jobs by my …

Sorry, I didn't mean you specifically. I meant, if someone values simplicity above all else, they can choose an init that matches those values (like the one you described). Your ap…

> Why is ordering startup important? This is pretty fundamental stuff. You can't run a program if the disk that it's sitting on hasn't been made accessible yet. You can't start a n…

> and now we will be able to faster in developing solutions Call me jaded, but when your major re-org announcement has basic editing errors it damages trust that you are competent …

It's fundamentally the same as a job queue, but the difference is that the people writing the job are not creating a running OS process. You literally just write a function, and it…

> But you would still need a boatload of a hundred unique VMS No, you would have a boatload of generic worker VMs that could all be spun up as needed (autoscaled) from a common bas…

I guess it depends on your definition of "very large". You don't need a large company to have a large tech footprint, e.g. the Internet Archive.

It is literally "worth it" for companies much smaller than Meta due to the reduced infra management costs plus increased hardware utilization. A few hundred unique VMs is a boatloa…

The pendulum has swung (is swinging?) for many companies back to on-prem for cost savings. Self-hosted FAAS allows your developers to retain the abstraction over the compute platfo…

> which would draw attention Unless you're disrupting military / police / aviation frequencies, there is virtually no enforcement. The FCC does not routinely police the airwaves - …