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New comment by sayrer in "The future of version control"

sayrer — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:11:35 +0000

The joke is there in the name. It is wrong (on purpose): it should be "Mañana". That term means "tomorrow" in your Spanish class, but it can mean "later/future/morning" or even "later this afternoon".

In English, you might think of "procrastination" or "we'll get to it."

In Portuguese, you would say "proxima semana", literally "next week", but it means "we'll get to it" (won't get to it).

New comment by sayrer in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

sayrer — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:26:41 +0000

I don't think this part is correct: "If you distribute modified code, or offer it as a networked service, you must make the source available under the same terms."

That's what something like AGPL does.

New comment by sayrer in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

sayrer — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 23:58:22 +0000

Yes, can't have .unwrap() in production code (it's ok in tests)

New comment by sayrer in "Zed is our office"

sayrer — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:53:36 +0000

Haha: Can't find a good Windows laptop.

It's true, most of them are bad. Galaxy Book5 Pro or Microsoft Surface are OK.

New comment by sayrer in "Show HN: Cuq – Formal Verification of Rust GPU Kernels"

sayrer — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 22:10:37 +0000

Yeah, "coq" is a grade school joke in French class. It just means "rooster" or something in French, but it sounds ridiculous in English. This one has the same problem.

A company with that in the name made the French national team jersey for a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Coq_Sportif

It's Nike now, but it still has a rooster on it.

New comment by sayrer in "Tinnitus Neuromodulator"

sayrer — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 20:48:24 +0000

It is striking that it sounds like Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)

New comment by sayrer in "Greenland is a beautiful nightmare"

sayrer — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 18:41:19 +0000

They used to! Anyway, Iceland is really easy to travel to. Everyone speaks perfect English, and the coffee is good. I know a little bit of Icelandic because they think I am Icelandic for some reason (I can read the signs at least, so maybe I don't look lost). There's a street with hot dog stands and stuff right in the middle of the capitol, which they seem to like. There are good hamburger places too, but they are expensive.

Greenland is another level.

New comment by sayrer in "Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed"

sayrer — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 16:16:33 +0000

No kidding. It is /so/ fast. It has remote development like VS Code, and most of the features I use, so it's my main thing now. Claude Code was the only thing that made me wince, since I wondered if I was living in the dark ages. VS Code of course has many more extensions, but I don't use that many.

New comment by sayrer in "I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs"

sayrer — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 23:55:29 +0000

A lot of them use G or F because that is the biggest bass note you can get in a club system.

New comment by sayrer in "3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec empire"

sayrer — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 22:52:01 +0000

Yep. You can see it on the map in the Museo Nacional de Antropología. El periférico ("the ring highway") and other major roads follow the old causeways. I have been there many times in my life, maybe 30 or 40.

New comment by sayrer in "Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored"

sayrer — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:32:09 +0000

They are using the wrong tactics. They should use the "Kleenex" argument and say it's generic. But what do I know.

New comment by sayrer in "Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help"

sayrer — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 03:22:08 +0000

oh, it is "declaration", yes, but not South America. this guy is even on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/James-Lambert-1758-1847-Elaboration-R...

New comment by sayrer in "Can You Read This Cursive Handwriting? The National Archives Wants Your Help"

sayrer — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 03:14:41 +0000

Yes, that seems right. Not that difficult. This one suffers from some poor penmanship, though.

New comment by sayrer in "Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years"

sayrer — Wed, 22 May 2024 03:59:49 +0000

It helps to avoid timezone details within a day or two. I agree "a month ago" is pretty bad, but I haven't seen that.

But it's good to say "1hr ago" if I send an email from New York to San Francisco.

New comment by sayrer in "Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?"

sayrer — Tue, 07 May 2024 20:52:24 +0000

Oxide computer has a really interesting one. This probably hits all of the big points: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1272104

New comment by sayrer in "The hunt for the missing data type"

sayrer — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 20:57:05 +0000

I think it's because you have to think it through when they get too big for one machine. A lot of those so-called "NoSQL" databases are really meant to represent graph databases (think DynamoDB) in an adjacency list. I've had success with Gremlin and JanusGraph, but it's a really messy space. It's not a programming language problem in my opinion, but a distributed systems one.

New comment by sayrer in "Quairading shire erects signs telling travellers to ignore Google Maps"

sayrer — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 03:54:41 +0000

I sent a correction once, and they did indeed fix it after a couple of weeks. I only knew it was wrong because I had studied the area in non-interactive maps ahead of time.

New comment by sayrer in "Just about every Windows/Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack"

sayrer — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 23:17:20 +0000

I read this comment because I saw some other moderation duty comments and looked at your history. I don't think you should use the word "thither" for transactional comments. It is correct here, I think, but it's somewhat archaic English.

Maybe "over there" or "to that one"? Your way is not wrong, but many will miss the point.

New comment by sayrer in "Apple M1 Pro Beats M3 Pro with Ableton, Logic and Pro Tools"

sayrer — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 20:54:37 +0000

Oh, interesting. I'd probably never use something like Nolly. So, out of my range. I do use the synth stuff, and I can get the Intel mini to like 50% with some effort, but it's never been a real problem.

The SSD matters for picking the sounds, in my experience. So you're going through listening to a bunch of drum hits, for example. If the drive is slow, this stalls.

Plus, isn't he simultaneously playing 70+ tracks with a CPU-intensive filter on each one? That's not a realistic workload.

New comment by sayrer in "Apple M1 Pro Beats M3 Pro with Ableton, Logic and Pro Tools"

sayrer — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:04:12 +0000

Surprising, but you really don't even need an M1 for those programs. You want fast external SSDs, though. I use the last Intel Mac mini for audio things, and it's fine.