Hacker News: sproingie

New comment by sproingie in "Borges and AI"

sproingie — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:59:24 +0000

I dunno, there was also awarding the Peace Prize to Kissinger…

New comment by sproingie in "Sudo without a setuid binary or SSH over a Unix socket"

sproingie — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 02:51:08 +0000

It’s a cheeky way of saying that the punctuation is doing a lot of work in making the phrase understandable.

New comment by sproingie in "ed(1) mastery is a must for a real Unix person"

sproingie — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:23:18 +0000

Emacs keybindings are even baked into NSText, the basis of everything to do with text handling in macOS.

New comment by sproingie in "Xorg being removed. What does this mean?"

sproingie — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 23:20:59 +0000

Sure, the average container in fact brings along an entire OS distribution like Alpine or Ubuntu or whatnot, but there’s still no extra layers added (save perhaps for the filesystem). Then again, running an OS at all is not “bare metal” by some definitions… it’s all various amounts of alloys I suppose.

New comment by sproingie in "Xorg being removed. What does this mean?"

sproingie — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 14:47:55 +0000

A container is simply a process with isolated namespaces — an OS does not run within them, and any hardware access they have is mediated by the OS in the same way as any other process. This being from Linux’s POV anyway: once you’re running Docker on other OS’s, there’s a Linux VM in the middle.

New comment by sproingie in "I kind of killed Mercurial at Mozilla"

sproingie — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 04:43:10 +0000

> Plus Atlassian is kind of just an awful company.

How so?

New comment by sproingie in "Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA?"

sproingie — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 03:27:34 +0000

Why would you even dump your loot in Borderlands? Money is absolutely meaningless in that game. You look at the comparison box to see if there are more green arrows and if not you leave it.

New comment by sproingie in "Coding Is Hard"

sproingie — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 14:12:44 +0000

I have been writing JavaScript since JS has existed, and the One Weird Trick I learned to working with JS’s OO system is to use it as little as possible. Don’t get me wrong, objects are wonderful, but you don’t need JS’s barking insane semantics around “this” when static closures work fantastically. It’s not even the prototype model that I’m talking about, it’s having to do things like foo.bar.bind(foo) or having to know that an event handler will re-bind “this” and so on. The Vue and React communities have caught on to this, and writing code for those is so much more pleasant now that there are fewer land mines like that to step on.