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New comment by paholg in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

paholg — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 07:29:37 +0000

Some of us would like our expensive hardware to work without hacked third party dongles.

New comment by paholg in "Bird flu viruses are resistant to fever, making them a major threat to humans"

paholg — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 01:04:44 +0000

So we can also fly? Sign me up!

New comment by paholg in "We reduced a container image from 800GB to 2GB"

paholg — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 13:40:20 +0000

You can build docker images with nix, in which case you can have every dependency be its own layer.

That is clearly not what these people are doing, though.

New comment by paholg in "Crossfire: High-performance lockless spsc/mpsc/mpmc channels for Rust"

paholg — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 07:18:53 +0000

Futurelock is not about cancellation safety (cancellation is actually one solution to futurelock), though the related issues that are linked in that post are.

New comment by paholg in "Why I code as a CTO"

paholg — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 16:34:02 +0000

At an early stage startup, shipping a feature should not require "many meetings across product, legal, and engineering". Especially not one that can be mostly built in a day.

New comment by paholg in "J-Link Compact USB-C Issues"

paholg — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 20:04:52 +0000

Ethernet doesn't support 240 W.

I am very happy that I can charge my phone and laptop from the same charger, and don't ever have to worry about whether the cable I'm using will be a fire hazard.

New comment by paholg in "When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order”"

paholg — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 19:35:32 +0000

I think the real issue here is that two Android phones take photos with incompatible naming schemes.

I am sure that at some point someone thought the milliseconds should or should not be separated from the seconds and made that change without thinking through the consequences.

New comment by paholg in "Zoxide: A Better CD Command"

paholg — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 07:31:33 +0000

zoxide stores a rank for each directory based on how often you visit it, but you can manually adjust the scores.

Run `zoxide query -ls thing` to see the scores, and `zoxide add thing -s AMOUNT` to increase the score.

Show HN: A tool to easily juggle sets of environment variables

paholg — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:54:18 +0000

I found myself needing to make the same request repeatedly in different environments, and could not find a good tool to switch between them and (importantly) to make it easy to see what environment I'm in, and I especially could not find one that supports fish. So, I built one and thought it might be useful to others.

I've also now found it useful for other things -- basically anytime you have some environment variables that you want to temporarily set at times, and want to track whether they're set.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44962524

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New comment by paholg in "Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel"

paholg — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:40:49 +0000

I don't think that's true. I have seen R4L folks reiterate time and again that C changes are allowed to break Rust code, and they will be the ones to fix it.

New comment by paholg in "Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX"

paholg — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 08:14:21 +0000

I think they were saying they want a format instead of PDF where the reader can change those things.

New comment by paholg in "I prefer rST to Markdown"

paholg — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 21:32:13 +0000

As you said, it's not static. You can update the content of pages.

You can also reorganize things and keep old links as 302s.

At a minimum, you should be aware of when you're breaking links and it should be a conscious decision.

New comment by paholg in "I prefer rST to Markdown"

paholg — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 20:07:18 +0000

Awesome! You and Carol rock!

New comment by paholg in "I prefer rST to Markdown"

paholg — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:52:31 +0000

Ah, good to know! Is that tooling public anywhere, or was it pretty tailor-made just for the Rust book?

New comment by paholg in "I prefer rST to Markdown"

paholg — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:50:14 +0000

That's what I meant by instructions on automated deployments. MdBook generates HTML, so you don't need anything fancy to host it.

This example shows a fairly short GitHub action to deploy to GitHub pages: https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/wiki/Automated-Deploymen...

New comment by paholg in "Where does the name "algebraic data type" come from?"

paholg — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:44:02 +0000

Okay? I don't know what point you're making.

New comment by paholg in "Where does the name "algebraic data type" come from?"

paholg — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:00:15 +0000

The difference is mostly a matter of perspective, isn't it?

In Rust, if I have

``` enum Foo { A(u32), B(u32), C(u32), } ```

Then the number of representable states is deduced my an "algebra of numbers", but the size is deduced by an "algebra of sets".

For example, the size of Foo is just 8 (4 bytes for u32, and 4 for the tag + alignment).

New comment by paholg in "I prefer rST to Markdown"

paholg — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 18:45:53 +0000

What you see as annoying, I see as a strength. You shouldn't break links; they don't only exist in your site. People will have them bookmarked or shared on the web.

There's nothing worse than finding a post online that seems like it will cover your exact issue, but the link is now a 404.

New comment by paholg in "I prefer rST to Markdown"

paholg — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 18:43:25 +0000

Have you looked into mdBook? I haven't used it myself, but I've enjoyed the documentation of many projects that do and it seems really nice once you get past the point where a single readme file works well.

They also have some nice instructions on automated deployments.

https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook

New comment by paholg in "I prefer rST to Markdown"

paholg — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 18:34:43 +0000

I think a good example is all of the wonderful documentation that's been created with mdBook.

Heck, the Rust book was written with it, and they also made a print edition, so maybe markdown is enough even for that.

https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook