Hacker News: rattyJ2

New comment by rattyJ2 in "Abstraction, not syntax"

rattyJ2 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:13:25 +0000

Merges and anchors are some of the least maintaineable and most error-prone config i've seen.

Doesn't help every yaml parser has their own opinion on what a merge or an anchor should do, exactly.

New comment by rattyJ2 in "Show HN: Recall: Give Claude memory with Redis-backed persistent context"

rattyJ2 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 07:12:10 +0000

Tokens are already compressed. That's what tokenisation is.

New comment by rattyJ2 in "ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps"

rattyJ2 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 07:42:55 +0000

What is this Brexit talking point? The EU president is elected by the EU parliament/comission, whose members are directly elected by the people.

New comment by rattyJ2 in "We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that"

rattyJ2 — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 08:29:43 +0000

Define "direct political action"? Like, murder yes. But belgium has (too many) popular local initiatives that get picked up by The Government in some form.

New comment by rattyJ2 in "Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification"

rattyJ2 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 07:11:22 +0000

I could be one of the people running an ungoogled phone, but my bank refuses to have an app that runs on an ungoogled OS for "security"

New comment by rattyJ2 in "Levels of configuration languages"

rattyJ2 — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 15:58:12 +0000

This is basically how pulumi and tfsdk work. You write go/ts/python/... that generates a bunch of config files to a temp folder, and then reconciles those.