Hacker News: cobby

New comment by cobby in "Nim 2.0"

cobby — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 17:02:17 +0000

Also Nim requires you to use unique field names across all variants.

New comment by cobby in "Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, without symlinks"

cobby — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 17:54:59 +0000

> have them unlocked on login via PAM

Could you please share a general outline for configuring something like this?

New comment by cobby in "Devenv.sh: Fast and reproducible developer environments using Nix"

cobby — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 04:37:17 +0000

> but the startup time is pretty bad (there is a 300ms+ delay) for apps.

Someone has told me that this can be solved with asdf-direnv so I am wondering if this is true and I should actually consider using asdf.

New comment by cobby in "Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones to read their messages"

cobby — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 16:39:16 +0000

First, they were looking if the person is subscribed to specific Telegram channels. It is quite easy to quickly scan list of channels looking for specific logos.

Second, it is supposed to intimidate others and force the to unsubscribe from telegram channels that post alternative view on current events. Hence, effectively blocking people from getting info.

New comment by cobby in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"

cobby — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 03:28:21 +0000

> It’s the regular folks who could wake up from their comfy lethargy and actually protest their government.

The problem is that many of those who use namecheap are already against the regime because they know English, have access to another point of view on actions taken by the regime in Ukraine.

Fucking them up may turn some of them back to the regime because current narrative of the propaganda is "West companies do not care about you and they will do everything in their power to screw you".

New comment by cobby in "Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack"

cobby — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 15:51:43 +0000

> Isn't this going to have some serious economic repercussions for Russia?

Russian economy is in decline since 2014. COVID-19 pandemic has increased its decline even further.

So it seems that the upcoming EU + US economic sanctions will be used by propaganda as the ultimate explanation of the decline. I mean Kremlin actually looks forward to more sanctions in order to have plausible explanation ("we are at war and our enemies made your life worse; we need to stay strong around our leader mr. Putin" shit).

New comment by cobby in "Upwork asking me for a $12.5k refund as the client was using someone else’s card"

cobby — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 14:52:57 +0000

> How is the bank or Upwork the bad guy here when it is Robin who doesn't want to pay?

Upwork takes: * 3% fee on each payment on the client side; * 20% fee of first $500 earnings with the client; * 10% fee of $500-$10k earnings with the client; * 5% fee of earnings over $10k with the client.

So in this case Upwork took at least 8% of this $12.5k or 1000 USD but I think they took even more. If they don't take risks of fraudulent payments then why do they continue to take a cut in each time?

New comment by cobby in "Nim 1.6.2"

cobby — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 10:44:20 +0000

I personally still use Python because I miss list and dict comprehensions.

I know there is a `collect` macro in `sugar` module but it is nowhere close to the python comprehensions. The code is too verbose and basically is just the same multiline for loop :-(

New comment by cobby in "Clever uses of pass, the Unix password manager"

cobby — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 20:00:59 +0000

> missing AGE encryption

I am just curious. What makes AGE backend better than GPG one?

New comment by cobby in "The future of Python build systems and Gentoo"

cobby — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 16:29:40 +0000

> I think this or something similar was posted a week or two ago

I believe you are referring to this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29238700

New comment by cobby in "A notable JavaScript developer shamelessly copied one of my most downloaded nod"

cobby — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 21:15:10 +0000

> sent PRs to replace the original package in other libraries

Would you mind sharing a link to such PR?

New comment by cobby in "Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin"

cobby — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 08:01:24 +0000

iOS version has been removed from Russia App Store only as evidenced by this letter https://twitter.com/ioannZH/status/1438750081402953728/photo...

I would guess the same applies to Google Play

New comment by cobby in "Nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim"

cobby — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 16:01:58 +0000

> it appears there is a bug that's causing the site to reload Google's recaptcha multiple times

I forgot to mention that it is not a bug. See https://github.com/google/recaptcha/issues/335 for example (I believe there are others issues like this in the repo)

New comment by cobby in "Nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim"

cobby — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 14:10:56 +0000

As far as I can see you already have a minification task [1] in your nimble file. May I ask you why you are not using it to save bandwidth both for your sever and your visitors?

[1] https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum/blob/master/nimforum.ni...

New comment by cobby in "Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B"

cobby — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 19:14:04 +0000

Same for Ukraine

New comment by cobby in "Plain Text Accounting"

cobby — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 15:48:49 +0000

Sounds like you need to develop a plugin or take a look at existing ones (for example effective date [1] might be helpful)

[1] https://github.com/redstreet/beancount_reds_plugins/tree/mas...

New comment by cobby in "One Week of NixOS"

cobby — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 15:11:23 +0000

Damn, I was tempted to try it but my laptop needs custom kernel patches [1] in order to work properly.

[1] https://lab.retarded.farm/zappel/asus-rog-zephyrus-g14/

New comment by cobby in "PEP 622 – Structural Pattern Matching"

cobby — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 15:54:02 +0000

How did they implement Point(x, y, _) matching? PEP proposes a special protocol [1] based on __match__ classmethod. Do they do something similar?

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0622/#runtime

New comment by cobby in "Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash"

cobby — Tue, 19 May 2020 21:30:58 +0000

> beancount wants everything to live in One Giant Journal file

Actually, beancount supports include directive. See includes section [1] of the language syntax document

[1]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wAMVrKIA2qtRGmoVDSUBJGmY...

New comment by cobby in "Things about the new Firefox browser for Android"

cobby — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 21:40:47 +0000

No. uMatrux offers way more granular control.