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New comment by elitepleb in "Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban"

elitepleb — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:50:43 +0000

that's easy with https://hexdocs.pm/pythonx/Pythonx.html and https://hexdocs.pm/lua/Lua.html and works well too

New comment by elitepleb in "Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua"

elitepleb — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:45:36 +0000

it has a feature to output such files, see https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake?tab=readme-ov-file#generat...

New comment by elitepleb in "Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua"

elitepleb — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:25:08 +0000

the command file generator is usually last to blame for a slow compile, making it output a cmake/ninja/make project would not speed up a poorly structured compilation tree at all

New comment by elitepleb in "WebDAV isn't dead yet"

elitepleb — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 21:23:23 +0000

consider versitygw or s3proxy

New comment by elitepleb in "Forth: The programming language that writes itself"

elitepleb — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 03:45:16 +0000

frankly it's a miracle any of them scaled at all, such popularity mostly comes down to an arbitrary choice made decades ago by a lucky vendor instead of some grand overarching design

New comment by elitepleb in "How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs"

elitepleb — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:50:45 +0000

Any of them will work just as well, but only with many datacenters worth of drives, which very few deployments can target.

It's the classic horizontal/vertical scaling trade off, that's why flash tends to be more space/cost efficient for speedy access.

New comment by elitepleb in "About the BLOBs in Ventoy"

elitepleb — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 12:44:10 +0000

citation needed

New comment by elitepleb in "Welcome to the IPv4 Games"

elitepleb — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 09:21:40 +0000

a simple proof of the opposite is that no one's yet to exploit any of the untaken ranges that way

New comment by elitepleb in "Leveraging Elixir's hot code loading capabilities to modularize a monolithic app"

elitepleb — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 08:42:04 +0000

queued messages stay around in the mailboxes, so no state is lost, but don't get migrated/transformed/versioned via the appup mechanism, unless you opt back into it via libraries for it like https://github.com/ausimian/castle

New comment by elitepleb in "Leveraging Elixir's hot code loading capabilities to modularize a monolithic app"

elitepleb — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 08:25:50 +0000

Elixir removed a jankier https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/sasl/appup.html mechanism that defined how state is upgraded or downgraded, while watching a directory and recompiling a module automatically or manually from the repl is still common

New comment by elitepleb in "Berry Script: lightweight embedded scripting language for microcontrollers"

elitepleb — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 19:46:55 +0000

This Nil is not a Null, and is only used as a sentinel value to return an error value. And unlike lua, indexing into an unasigned value will not return nil, but throw an exception like index_error.

New comment by elitepleb in "Berry Script: lightweight embedded scripting language for microcontrollers"

elitepleb — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 09:12:23 +0000

Running arbitrary user code in IOT systems safely like https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Berry/#rules

It's still receiving maintenance from contributors, but these sort projects reach a stable maturity and stay there for years fulfilling their use case.

New comment by elitepleb in "Game publishers respond to Stop Killing Games claim it curtails developer choice"

elitepleb — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 15:00:09 +0000

There's fewer games to vote on every year, as conglomerates like Microsoft out vote your wallet a billion times over every time they buy a game studio to embrace, extend and then extinguish.

New comment by elitepleb in "Binfmtc – binfmt_misc C scripting interface"

elitepleb — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 13:35:10 +0000

New comment by elitepleb in "IETF setting standards for AI preferences"

elitepleb — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:05:49 +0000

DNT: AI

For-Profit (Creative) Software [video]

elitepleb — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 08:55:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4mdMMu-3fc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43409600

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by elitepleb in "Migrating Away from Bcachefs"

elitepleb — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 23:26:16 +0000

Debian would compile dependencies with versions lower than specified in the project, reintroducing bugs that users would blame upstream for, https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Orphans-Bcachefs-Tools

New comment by elitepleb in "Button Stealer"

elitepleb — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 05:13:22 +0000

reminds me of https://adnauseam.io/ 's clicked ad view https://adnauseam.io/img/adnauseam_vault.png

New comment by elitepleb in "Xpra: Persistent Remote Applications for X11"

elitepleb — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 13:57:55 +0000

https://github.com/kaueraal/run_scaled

New comment by elitepleb in "FrankenPHP: Modern PHP App Server"

elitepleb — Thu, 30 May 2024 07:39:05 +0000

this runs caddy (another famous reverse proxy) for you