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New comment by zanecodes in "Have you restarted your computer this week?"

zanecodes — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:47:14 +0000

So I don't have to spend 10-15 minutes saving all my open files (including the scratchpad ones I haven't named) and then later reopening all my applications, recreating all of my tmux windows and panes, setting up my vim splits and tabs again, and starting all of my stopped Docker containers?

New comment by zanecodes in "Coreutils for Windows"

zanecodes — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:08:51 +0000

Not that it detracts from your point, but PowerShell defined Linux-like aliases for PowerShell commands, not the old CMD.exe binaries.

So ls would actually match the behavior and accept the flags for Get-ChildItem, not dir.

New comment by zanecodes in "Can we have the day off?"

zanecodes — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:22:04 +0000

If only there were some kind of third party we could all collectively agree to delegate enforcement of cooperation to...

New comment by zanecodes in "Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run"

zanecodes — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:17:03 +0000

>MinIO

I have some bad news for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000041

New comment by zanecodes in "Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance"

zanecodes — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:18:55 +0000

I'm pretty sure that if you need ubiquitous surveillance to ensure that your citizens don't commit crimes, you don't have a high-trust society, by definition.

New comment by zanecodes in "Parse, Don't Validate (2019)"

zanecodes — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:36:33 +0000

Ah yeah, I guess I assumed by the use of the term "contructor" that GP meant a language like Python or Java, and in some cases it can difficult to prevent misuse by making an unsafe constructor private and only providing a public safe contructor that returns a sum type.

I definitely agree returning a sum type is ideal.

New comment by zanecodes in "Parse, Don't Validate (2019)"

zanecodes — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:37:56 +0000

Given that the compiler can't enforce that users only enter valid data at compile time, the next best thing is enforcing that when they do enter invalid data, the program won't produce an `Email` object from it, and thus all `Email` objects and their contents can be assumed to be valid.

New comment by zanecodes in "Court Filings: ICE App Identifies Protesters; Global Entry, PreCheck Get Revoked"

zanecodes — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 03:12:41 +0000

The far right are largely the people voting against robust safety nets and low inequality...

New comment by zanecodes in "You did no fact checking, and I must scream"

zanecodes — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:06:31 +0000

You might be interested in IPFS [1], and content-addressed storage systems more generally.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System

New comment by zanecodes in "MAML – A new configuration language"

zanecodes — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:47:52 +0000

You can directly pass JSON to Terraform by putting it in a `.tfvars.json` file [1], as far as I can tell this has been supported since v0.5.0 which released in May 2015.

Terraform doesn't have a built-in deep merge function, but it will merge `.tfvars.json` files in the order given on the CLI, if you specify multiple `-var-file` arguments. For what it's worth, as of Terraform 1.8, you can also use functions from third-party providers like isometry/deepmerge [2] to perform a deep merge.

[1] https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/parameter... [2] https://registry.terraform.io/providers/isometry/deepmerge/l...

New comment by zanecodes in "Pixel 10 Phones"

zanecodes — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:54:01 +0000

I look forward to the news stories about people getting lost because they used 100x "zoom" to read a distant sign.

New comment by zanecodes in "Pixel 10 Phones"

zanecodes — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:36:56 +0000

The -a models are typically released in the spring, the Pixel 9a was only just released in April of this year, so I wouldn't expect to see a Pixel 10a until March or April of 2026.

New comment by zanecodes in "Union Pacific to buy Norfolk in $85B mega U.S. railroad deal"

zanecodes — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:27:23 +0000

Among many others:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/09/...

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/10/...

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/06/...

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-ftc-accuses-intuit-decep...

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/06/...

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/08/...

New comment by zanecodes in "Union Pacific to buy Norfolk in $85B mega U.S. railroad deal"

zanecodes — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 12:55:12 +0000

We were making great progress under the previous administration until six months ago, yes.

New comment by zanecodes in "Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say"

zanecodes — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:19:43 +0000

Nothing was compromised. A bunch of Windows systems were unable to boot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike-related_IT_ou...

New comment by zanecodes in "Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say"

zanecodes — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 21:38:55 +0000

Well, I hate Microsoft as much as the next person, but I'm not sure "writing a buggy kernel module can crash the kernel" is much of an indictment of Windows in particular...

New comment by zanecodes in "Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say"

zanecodes — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 21:31:24 +0000

CrowdStrike is not made or owned by Microsoft.

New comment by zanecodes in "Europe has more heat deaths per year than the United States loses to gun deaths"

zanecodes — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 01:24:24 +0000

The first sentence of that paywalled article links to TFA.

New comment by zanecodes in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

zanecodes — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 01:50:10 +0000

The Dell Streak (shoutout to the other 3 people who bought one) had a 5 inch screen in 2010, a notable jump from contemporary phones like the iPhone 4 which was still 3.5", and other Android devices like the HTC Droid series which were around 3.7" and slowly starting to creep upwards to differentiate themselves from the iPhone. I think the largest Android devices you could get at the time were still smaller than 4".

New comment by zanecodes in "Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories"

zanecodes — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 21:54:55 +0000

I thought all the cool kids were on Pijul, or was it Darcs? Maybe it was Fossil? No wait, it was definitely Jujutsu.