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New comment by dusanh in "The Mega-Rich Are Turning Their Mansions into Impenetrable Fortresses"

dusanh — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:53:10 +0000

    When a thing seals itself against its own destruction, it merely dies a different death.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Planescape:_Torment#Coaxmetal

New comment by dusanh in "Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production [video]"

dusanh — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 07:59:29 +0000

Building VMs?

New comment by dusanh in "GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation"

dusanh — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:20:54 +0000

I can map most of the list but I can't recall what would be the "review environment setup" What did you mean by that?

New comment by dusanh in "Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug"

dusanh — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 17:26:15 +0000

Any recommendations on a rowing machine?

New comment by dusanh in "Engineer creates ad block for the real world with augmented reality glasses"

dusanh — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 12:10:59 +0000

Came into this thread looking for a mention of Steve Mann! Man was ahead of his time. More on his 'Visual Filter' and more here http://www.wearcam.org/ieeecomputer/r2025.htm

New comment by dusanh in "Bare metal printf – C standard library without OS"

dusanh — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 06:29:29 +0000

This sounds fascinating and absolutely alien to me, a Python dev. Any good books or other sources to learn more you can recommend?

New comment by dusanh in "Show HN: LinkedIn sucks, so I built a better one"

dusanh — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 19:40:30 +0000

I apologize this is not directly related to OP, but if you, like myself, get mad at all the "Suggested" posts LinkedIn is pushing on you, you can use the following ublock filter to get rid of these posts:

    www.linkedin.com##:xpath(//span[text()="Suggested"]//ancestor::div/div[contains(@data-id, "activity")])

Combined with carefully managing who I actually follow, it made it for a much more pleasant experience.

New comment by dusanh in "Why Senior Engineers Should Stay ICs"

dusanh — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:03:54 +0000

> whereas managers are seen as useful in different domains, giving them practical mobility

And this is exactly my problem with becoming a manager. You become fungible, easily replaceable, movable and fire-able.

New comment by dusanh in "Docker Compose Isn't Enough"

dusanh — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 19:12:22 +0000

I worked for a medium size company that served, and still is, ~150 clients (some Fortune 500 included) by deploying prod with docker-compose. It can be done.

New comment by dusanh in "Identifying factors contributing to "bad days" for software developers"

dusanh — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 05:30:42 +0000

> the QA env was not actually setup to mirror the production env

As senior QA, this alone is going to end me one day.

New comment by dusanh in "Ask HN: How do you share and sync .env files and secrets with your team"

dusanh — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 20:39:09 +0000

> Is the ansible vault password in the repo too?

No no, this is one of those secrets we share among the team and save to KeePass or whatever.

New comment by dusanh in "Ask HN: How do you share and sync .env files and secrets with your team"

dusanh — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 17:53:16 +0000

We use Fernet[1] or Ansible vault[2] with the encrypted secrets committed to the code repositories, but I guess we can do that because the code is not public.

The rest we share over a secure, company approved, channel, and save them into local KeePass-es (KeePassXC)

[1] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/vault_guide/index.ht...

[2] https://cryptography.io/en/latest/fernet/

New comment by dusanh in "Why You Should Learn Linux (As a Developer)"

dusanh — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 08:17:52 +0000

There is also Red Hat and SUSE. And I am pretty sure smaller companies like that exist too. I started my career in just one like that!

New comment by dusanh in "Ask HN: What books should I read to improve as a software engineer?"

dusanh — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 06:14:43 +0000

The already mentioned The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition is so far the best I have read. It's not overly specific to one single thing, it tries to teaches general principles and good practice.[1]

I also have a personal recommendation for when you want to better understand testing, QA, or want to/have to work with QA people. [2]

[1] https://pragprog.com/titles/tpp20/the-pragmatic-programmer-2... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Learned-Software-Testing-Cont...

New comment by dusanh in "The Coffee Machine Hiring Test"

dusanh — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 17:48:25 +0000

Trying to service, or even just open up, any appliance at a workplace is against the Occupational Safety and Health regulations in my country.

New comment by dusanh in "Job Application should sound like a ransom note/threat"

dusanh — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 07:05:07 +0000

This has to be satire, right?

New comment by dusanh in "Optimizing Linux for an AMD Xiaomi/Framework Laptop"

dusanh — Thu, 16 May 2024 05:27:01 +0000

Can you share your nixos config?

New comment by dusanh in "IBM Granite: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence"

dusanh — Wed, 08 May 2024 16:47:46 +0000

Thank you again! This is definitely something to start from!

New comment by dusanh in "IBM Granite: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence"

dusanh — Wed, 08 May 2024 15:46:10 +0000

Thank you so much! That sounds surprisingly straightforward. I expected a lot more fiddling to get going.

Where would I start if I wanted to use a model programmatically ? Like let's say I am building a chat bot. I have a large data set of replies I want the model to mimic, and I'd want to do this in Python. Of course, I'd probably use a different model than Granite.

New comment by dusanh in "IBM Granite: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence"

dusanh — Wed, 08 May 2024 13:57:07 +0000

I'm a complete newb when it comes to AI, and I am getting pretty ashamed of it too. How do I take a model like this and use it in my day to day? Can I somehow use in, say, VSCode? How do I point it at my code base, and use it to help me write new code?