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New comment by TrayKnots in "How uv got so fast"

TrayKnots — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 10:17:47 +0000

I usually don't see the importance of speed in one-time costs... But hey, same discussion with npm, yarn, pnpm...

New comment by TrayKnots in "Use Inclusive Ranges for PRNGs"

TrayKnots — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:02:27 +0000

Interesting point. But I usually prefer `(lower..upper).choose()`. So, if I want it inclusive, I can simply do `(lower..=upper).choose()`. No downcasting required. And perfectly obvious behaviour thanks to a known API.

New comment by TrayKnots in "Self-Hosting like it's 2025"

TrayKnots — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:31:26 +0000

I am actually worried about the self-hosting pandemic. We self-hosters will stop flying under the radar. Wonder how long it will take until our matrix instances require to be backdoored, our immich are scanning our pictures with AI.

On an unrelated note, an article of how to rent a VPS in China would be interesting :)

New comment by TrayKnots in "Why Is This Site Built with C"

TrayKnots — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 06:21:19 +0000

yep

New comment by TrayKnots in "Why Is This Site Built with C"

TrayKnots — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 21:04:39 +0000

Well, I have in essence nothing against this post. I agree with the notion that too many dependencies are not necessary. That we can keep lots of things simpler.

I have nothing against directly implementing this in C or just writing markdown files and have the auto-translated into HTML.

I just don't like his arguments about it must be fast to recompile everything. I am writing this comment, and this is going to take me a few minutes. After all, I am thinking about what I am writing, typing it out, thinking some more. And then, the deploy is the thing that go the author? Really? Time to server is an important metric?

Let's be real, nothing would be lost if it took 5 minutes. He would send it off and 5 minutes later, his phone buzzes, notifying him that it is done.

Alright, he found a way to do it in under 10 seconds. Cool. Good for him. Now that it is built, there is nothing bad about it. I just don't see how this was ever an important KPI.

New comment by TrayKnots in "Accessible open textbooks in math-heavy disciplines"

TrayKnots — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 19:38:07 +0000

Fair enough. Video doesn't play, but I believe you. I don't know where I heard froodian slip and frood, but I checked a few places where they pronounce it and all agree with you. Bet I will find more example as soon as enough time has passed so it would be weird to post it here. Damn you, Murphy.

New comment by TrayKnots in "Accessible open textbooks in math-heavy disciplines"

TrayKnots — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 18:56:44 +0000

Yea, I hate that. Words are pronounced differently in foreign languages. Do we say Moscow or Moskwa? Do we say ka-tana or ka-ta-na? If Freud is not spoken with the typical Gemran diphthong, then suddenly someone comes along and corrects you. I do speak German, I know how Freud is pronounced and I will pronounce it as it should be pronounced when speaking German, but when speaking English, it is Frood for me.

So, I am with you. We shouldn't learn the pronunciation of 200 different languages. If Kirchhoff's laws sound like Captain Kirk, who the fuck cares. Different languages pronounce stuff differently.

New comment by TrayKnots in "War story: the hardest bug I ever debugged"

TrayKnots — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 09:24:20 +0000

When I heard about abs neg value my mind immediately jumped to abs(INT.min())... But then again, JS...