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New comment by discodachshund in "The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy"

discodachshund — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:52:43 +0000

Using cryptographic signatures from approved signers, like a government

New comment by discodachshund in "Threat to UK Nuclear Deterrent"

discodachshund — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 09:27:55 +0000

This is a point I've been discussing for a while but never to my knowledge gets brought up in the mainstream Trident debates.

Another point is the two test failures in a row recently.

Regardless of the stance on whether we should spend so much on Trident I think most would agree if we are spending we want it to work, and be able to maintain it ourselves.

New comment by discodachshund in "2 years after UK poop-engulfed beaches became national scandals, it's even worse"

discodachshund — Sun, 05 May 2024 06:41:35 +0000

Extremely incorrect. Nationalisation of water polls as a remarkably popular policy with a clear public majority in favour, even among exclusively Tory voters. As does rail.

The lack of movement on the issue is not due to lack of public will, but the lack of desire from a dying government to deliver effective policy.

New comment by discodachshund in "Interview with Yanis Varoufakis on Technofeudalism"

discodachshund — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 13:12:16 +0000

Actually we have both, as this technofeudalism refers to digital capital and not land capital.

New comment by discodachshund in "The C4 model for visualising software architecture (2017)"

discodachshund — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 12:12:57 +0000

I get the points about not needing a formalised system for diagrams, even if C4 is quite light touch in my opinion (I never go down to the code level).

However, I do have to credit structurizr, which outputs C4 diagrams, as a great productivity boost. One model producing multiple views at all specificities is fantastic compared to mermaid, plantuml, etc, where every diagram needs to be self contained and define and redefine the same components over and over. Branching off, editing the model, presenting ideas, has been a very successful workflow for me.

New comment by discodachshund in "Java 21: The Nice, the Meh, and the Momentous"

discodachshund — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 21:43:15 +0000

The Typelevel folks on Discord are of the opinion it's not of much interest to them

New comment by discodachshund in "Tracing: Structured logging, but better"

discodachshund — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 15:57:26 +0000

Isn't that the trace ID? For metrics, it's in the form of exemplars, and for logs it is the log context

Ask HN: Worker Co-Ops in Tech?

discodachshund — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 10:49:59 +0000

Have any of you had experiences with worker co-ops in the tech sector?

How/did you get investment? What was the decision structure like?

I've noticed the trend in tech co-ops I can find is that they lean towards agency work, rather than a specific product. Is that due to needing upfront investment for a product and less so for providing development services?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37554529

Points: 3

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New comment by discodachshund in "Ask HN: Advice from people who strength train from home"

discodachshund — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 12:52:04 +0000

I have never tried a TRX and good luck on your journey.

I would like to add for others, you can go from 0 to pull-ups with just a bar, which I imagine is much cheaper too. I certainly did and my fitness level was minimal.

It's a case of progressions. For instance starting with negative pull-ups:

- Use a stool or just jump to the top position of a pull up

- lower yourself down with control, as slow as you can. At first this might be 1 second!

- Repeat for sets and reps

- when you hit 3 sets of 8 reps, slow down your descent another second or two

- Repeat until you've built up to 10 second reps, 3x8

At that point you should have the strength to be able to do a pull-up. You may need to ease into the technique, if so, introduce a resistance band to help train the motion, and gradually reduce your dependency on it.

New comment by discodachshund in "Dropbox acquires Boxcryptor assets to bring zero-knowledge encryption to storage"

discodachshund — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 21:45:26 +0000

Just today I was lamenting the lack of Document Provider APIs on Cryptomator Android, I'd like to use it to encrypt my Obsidian vault. Alas the issue is locked and the milestone keeps shifting.

Cryptomator has been good to me otherwise!

New comment by discodachshund in "Spaceport Cornwall awarded licence to host UK’s first space launch"

discodachshund — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 11:07:35 +0000

Unless you're aiming for polar or high inclination orbits, which the in progress spaceport in Scotland is likely targeting

New comment by discodachshund in "Application-as-a-Function Thinking"

discodachshund — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 10:21:35 +0000

Scala's http4s is also such a lovely framework. Given the name similarity I don't know which came first

New comment by discodachshund in "Warpd: A modal keyboard-driven virtual pointer"

discodachshund — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 10:13:11 +0000

Excited to try this out! Is it planned to open source? I would love to try integrating this into Raycast

New comment by discodachshund in "We Are Changing the License for Akka"

discodachshund — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 20:44:03 +0000

You can absolutely trust them with production code. Disney Streaming (CE and ZIO) and ITV (just CE) run them

New comment by discodachshund in "Git log is not a changelog"

discodachshund — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 13:08:55 +0000

Alternatively just avoid the `-m` flag and open the message in `$EDITOR`

New comment by discodachshund in "‘Woof’, a pure Scala 3 logging library"

discodachshund — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 19:31:56 +0000

Sadly the effect system isn't granular to narrow down what effect is happening other than "IO", which could be logging, network, disk access, rm -rf /. And without that visibility it doesn't provide you much advantage.

Haskell similarly suffers, I'd like to see IO broken down into composable units of functionality so I can see if e.g. my logging library has some ridiculous network constraint.

New comment by discodachshund in "Vigil: The eternal morally vigilant programming language"

discodachshund — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 12:30:36 +0000

You might enjoy a language with refinement types. I know Scala has a library for this called refined, which I believe is a port from Haskell.

In summary it gives you compile time feedback on types with refinements, e.g. positive ints, negative ints, even ints, etc, and can be based on custom predicates.