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New comment by thatspartan in "Asymmetric Quantization: Near-Lossless Retrieval with 97% Storage Reduction"

thatspartan — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:50:52 +0000

I think they're referring to "then" vs "than"

New comment by thatspartan in "The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League"

thatspartan — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 12:23:37 +0000

Ahh, half-timbered houses, parties and pirate hunting. It was a nice day when GoG put it up as one of their good old games.

New comment by thatspartan in "Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own"

thatspartan — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 11:38:30 +0000

Speaking of laptop batteries as a UPS source, some laptops come with battery management features that keep the battery healthy even when plugged in full time, usually exposed as a setting in the BIOS/UEFI. I've found that business/enterprise type laptops like Thinkpads and Probooks have this as standard, for example Thinkpads from 2010 already had this, assuming you're lucky enough to find one with a usable battery of course.

New comment by thatspartan in "Show HN: I’m 16 years old and working on my first startup, a study app"

thatspartan — Sun, 11 May 2025 11:42:49 +0000

Congratulations on launching William. There's quite a bit of criticism here that'll help you refine your app I think. I'm working on a something similar and already learning from the discussion here around user experience and privacy. All the best.

New comment by thatspartan in "Vision Now Available in Llama.cpp"

thatspartan — Sat, 10 May 2025 11:50:46 +0000

Thanks for landing the mtmd functionality in the server. Like the other commenter I kept poring over commits in anticipation.

QAT: Speeding SSL with Nginx [video]

thatspartan — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 18:09:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyw9N-k1TaU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38322478

Points: 2

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Learn Like a Pro: Science-Based Tools to Become Better at Anything

thatspartan — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 16:02:58 +0000

Article URL: https://barbaraoakley.com/books/learn-like-a-pro

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27571347

Points: 1

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New comment by thatspartan in "An Intuition for Lisp Syntax"

thatspartan — Fri, 28 May 2021 08:59:22 +0000

As I read this, Greenspun's tenth rule of programming humorously came to mind: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

Generalized by replacing "C or Fortran" with a language where the user wants more power over it's syntax and semantics, to witness the author pull it off in just 44 lines of JavaScript was a joy.

New comment by thatspartan in "Service-Oriented vs. Monolith: Organizational Perspective"

thatspartan — Sun, 09 May 2021 18:27:19 +0000

You make fair points in that micro services are not a silver bullet, the functional wins I perceive aren't automatic and I intentionally build a service in that way to get the functional benefits.

So yes there is a caveat, if a service doesn't return the same output for the same input then some benefits of the approach are lost. I would like to add an additional benefit for teams of programmers, in that each team gets the ability to build out a service using whichever technology they find suitable i.e language, frameworks etc. Something I personally find difficult to do with a monolith.

New comment by thatspartan in "Service-Oriented vs. Monolith: Organizational Perspective"

thatspartan — Sun, 09 May 2021 18:08:44 +0000

TLDR: Micro services offer a REPL like experience for application architecture. The way I see it, micro-services are the architectural analogues of functional programming. They let me build pieces of an application similar to a function, including tests and debugging in isolation without the fear of unintentionally messing up data somewhere. This similarity to functions even extends to how micro services are used, calling their API's with keyword arguments e.g get post name id json etc

New comment by thatspartan in "Docker cannot be downloaded without logging into Docker Store"

thatspartan — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 17:30:36 +0000

This has helped me to view the GNU GPL in a new light. That is, to ensure freedom, we curtail the freedom to limit the freedom of others with respect to software.