Hacker News: DHRicoF

New comment by DHRicoF in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

DHRicoF — Mon, 11 May 2026 06:07:29 +0000

How else are you sure your team does not conflict with itself?

New comment by DHRicoF in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

DHRicoF — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:58:29 +0000

Imagine if they hired those 1111 to do the most massive nine-month-long live coding interview and only 11 pass the bar.

New comment by DHRicoF in "R3forth: A concatenative language derived from ColorForth"

DHRicoF — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:19:17 +0000

I want to learn Forth. Do you have any good reference or know about some good code examples?

Just learned the stack operations and trying to get used to them, but I have some bigger projects in my personal backlog.

New comment by DHRicoF in "Doctors in Brazil using tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims (2017)"

DHRicoF — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:57:08 +0000

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.

New comment by DHRicoF in "Rubik's Cube in Prolog – Order"

DHRicoF — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:53:28 +0000

I don't have enough time now to work out how are the movement described in your representation to evaluate its convenience. If you have worked out something, could you share it?

I don't know anything about the cube world as I'm just a noob in this.

New comment by DHRicoF in "Git Rebase for the Terrified"

DHRicoF — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:16:21 +0000

I don't understand why I would push to origin my local branch. This will (potentially) require multiple push -f. I prefer to share the work in a state I considere complete.

As an alternative, just create a new branch! `git branch savepoint-pre-rebase`. That's all. This is extremely cheap (just copy a reference to a commit) and you are free to play all you want.

You are a little more paranoid? `git switch -c test-rebase` and work over the new branch.

New comment by DHRicoF in "Git Rebase for the Terrified"

DHRicoF — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:10:02 +0000

Then is not rebase your problem, but all your other practices. Long lived feature branches with lot's of unorganized commits with low cohesion.

Sometimes it's ok to work like this, but you asking git not being judgamental is like saying your roomba should accomodate to you didin't asking you to empty it's dust bag.

New comment by DHRicoF in "Huge Binaries"

DHRicoF — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 11:57:38 +0000

False

New comment by DHRicoF in "Patterns.dev"

DHRicoF — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 10:08:52 +0000

For your example, if both lists are small enough, the constant factor on the cost of creating the hashmap eliminates any advantage you could have. Anyway, it's not like most places were I've seen a nested loop used for search the developer had cared. Today I am in a bad mood.

I have to touch some of the most unnerving modules in a legacy project and everything is a trap. Lot's of similar repeated code with ugly patterns and some big brain trying to hide the ugliness with layers and layers of indirections and inheritance, and calling it clean because there is a factory class. The biggest joke? each implementation have a different interface for key methods, so later you to check what instance got created.

I want to keel myself. Anyone could assist me in a seppuku?

New comment by DHRicoF in "Jujutsu worktrees are convenient (2024)"

DHRicoF — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:13:00 +0000

I don't know what JJ brings over git, but what sold me worktrees around 2 years ago was this article: https://matklad.github.io/2024/07/25/git-worktrees.html

New comment by DHRicoF in "How to create accessible PDFs from the start"

DHRicoF — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:16:32 +0000

Heck. I need any replacment to be at least equally capable of PDFs. The minimum I expect is for it to be able to run Linux in them.

https://github.com/ading2210/linuxpdf

New comment by DHRicoF in "The math of shuffling cards almost brought down an online poker empire"

DHRicoF — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 13:04:59 +0000

But most common noises are not white. you had to decolor it before.

New comment by DHRicoF in "Show HN: Diggit.dev – Git history for architecture archaeologists"

DHRicoF — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 05:51:18 +0000

Should Archeologist rebase or merge when new evidence is undercover?

New comment by DHRicoF in "Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy"

DHRicoF — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 21:53:03 +0000

Netflix and to some level spotify drowned piracy for a time. But then a lot of companies tried to rap the same "winings" splitting the ecosystem and trashing the user experience.

- ¿could we watch x movie? - let me see. no, it in this other service beside the 3 we are paying.

New comment by DHRicoF in "Fast"

DHRicoF — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:51:59 +0000

The cost is in the context switching. Throw 3 tasks that came 15, 20 and 30 min later. The first is mostly ok, you finish by hand. The second have some problems, ask for a rework. Then came the other and, while ok, is have some design problems. Ask another rework. Comes back the second one, and you have to remember the original task and what things you asked for change.

New comment by DHRicoF in "Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees"

DHRicoF — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 21:42:21 +0000

Ecosystems are dynamic by nature, so "make them like where 222.22 years ago" is a little meaningless.

But biodiversity is a good target and as unbiased as you can get. More biodiversity means more adaptability and resilience of the system.

New comment by DHRicoF in "Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries (2022)"

DHRicoF — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 15:00:46 +0000

I could try to answer myself, but this will be far better that I could express in english:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiOglTERPEo

New comment by DHRicoF in "Ask HN: What's your favorite little script you've written?"

DHRicoF — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 05:46:11 +0000

The only "real" thing I've done with ruby, many, many years ago. A little script to extract the functions definitions from a FORTRAN project. The idea was to add more data. Later I learned about ctags and never added another feature.

I'm sure there is a copy in an external ssd I lost 2 summers ago.

New comment by DHRicoF in "A glob of 99M-year-old amber trapped a zombie fungus erupting from a fly"

DHRicoF — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:22:51 +0000

I don't know if you are talking about Drunken tree (palo borracho in spanish) but once playing soccer in a field with some of them I ended with around 15 funny parallels cuts. Good old times.

New comment by DHRicoF in "ChatGPT's enterprise success against Copilot fuels OpenAI/Microsoft rivalry"

DHRicoF — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 08:48:14 +0000

I remember reading an article about different behavior between summer and winter. So, working better/worst in business hours doesn't sound completely crazy.

But they turning some knobs based on load also looks razonable.