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New comment by smw in "Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1"

smw — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:17:06 +0000

Why would it go to Meta?

New comment by smw in "What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)"

smw — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:09:32 +0000

Even the 'worst' of the ORMs (according to the people in these threads) makes this very easy:

  users = User.find_by_sql(<<~SQL)
    SELECT users.*,
           COUNT(posts.id) AS posts_count
    FROM users
    LEFT JOIN posts ON posts.user_id = users.id
    GROUP BY users.id
    HAVING COUNT(posts.id) > 10
  SQL

  users.first.posts_count
  # => 17

New comment by smw in "What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)"

smw — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:00:24 +0000

I'm firmly on the ORM side of things, despite knowing SQL very well -- but your IDE/editor can fix this with bare sql. Try using Jetbrains Datagrip or the DB integration in Idea or one of the other language-specific IDEs.

New comment by smw in "Functional Programming in hica"

smw — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:24:59 +0000

Any concurrency / parallelism?

New comment by smw in "Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries"

smw — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:10:23 +0000

I'm not defending anything about this, but it does have a telescoping torso so it can get to 'human height' when needed.

New comment by smw in "Xsnow "protestware" in Debian"

smw — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:15:02 +0000

The maintainer and upstream are the same person

New comment by smw in "Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all"

smw — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:19:31 +0000

Sure they do. All the time! For example, if you want to use a script in Google Docs these days, you have to go through an oauth flow to give that script's app permission to do certain actions in your Docs.

New comment by smw in "A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding"

smw — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:51:10 +0000

Need to mention sshuttle [0] here, as it magically solves a bunch of these problems without constant reconfiguration

[0] https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle

New comment by smw in "In praise of memcached"

smw — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:59:05 +0000

Can do fantastically weird stuff with Lua scripts in Redis/Valkey

New comment by smw in "AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost"

smw — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:52:15 +0000

> The reason pvp doesn't work in a persistent world like an MMORPG is because there are no stakes.

See Eve Online

New comment by smw in "SpaceX Drops 14% in One Day, Price Now Below IPO Launch"

smw — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:15:37 +0000

A lot of them are heavily invested in index funds that added SpaceX at IPO due to market cap.

New comment by smw in ".gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git"

smw — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:19:49 +0000

Why would you expect something in your home directory to affect other users?

New comment by smw in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

smw — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:52:11 +0000

The article talks about using --mlock

New comment by smw in "Lombardy increases charges for the construction of data centres in green areas"

smw — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:33:43 +0000

I think we need a citation about the libertarian / capitalism thing? I know a lot of leftist engineers. Look how blue the bay area votes?

New comment by smw in "Italy region: +200% tax on datacenters built in green/agricultural areas"

smw — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:27:55 +0000

I think the idea that they raise outdoor temps over a wide area is a myth spread on facebook. The physics doesn't work out.

New comment by smw in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

smw — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:23:10 +0000

USB sticks are infamously unreliable, not a great backup plan

New comment by smw in "Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)"

smw — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:30:28 +0000

It's mentioned elsewhere, but check out DeskFlow (oss) https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow

New comment by smw in "Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app"

smw — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:39:35 +0000

Or just ask if you might want to do something productive while you wait for a train or sit in a taxi? Better than doom scrolling. Maybe you're working on a fun side project.

New comment by smw in "RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?"

smw — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:59:28 +0000

docker on macos runs in a linux vm

New comment by smw in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

smw — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:02:21 +0000

goroutines make building scalable network (web) servers trivial and fast. I'm not a big fan of the language, but the runtime is fantastic.