ditsuke's comments

On: Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges

[ditsuke]

We're not all in the US or EU

On: Ask HN: What were interviews like before Leetcode?

[ditsuke]

A number of new grad loops in the EU had hards this year. Companies starting with U, M, etc.

On: Show HN: deptry 0.14.0 – detect unused Python dependencies up to 10 times faster

[ditsuke]

I recently introduced tweag's fawltydeps for this use-case at work, looking forward to try deptry when I run into this problem again..

On: The disaggregated write-ahead log (2023)

[ditsuke]

Remember reading this one just last month!

On: OpenAI Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims

[ditsuke]

Wild watching the op-ed against Ilya unfold.

On: If needed, you have a role at Microsoft that matches your compensation

[ditsuke]

Doesn't the UK have a general skilled-worker visa?

[odiroot → ditsuke]

There's a special talent visa that's general but it has much higher requirement than skilled worker visa.

On: Kagi finally let me lay Google Search to rest

[ditsuke]

I think you're missing the point: a price barrier regardless how big is good.

On: Maybe Rust isn’t a good tool for massively concurrent, userspace software

[ditsuke]

The rust guys are working on this very problem with the keyword generics proposal https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2022/07/27/keyword-ge...

On: Using LD_PRELOAD to cheat, inject features and investigate programs

[ditsuke]

Wow, that sounds like a fun place to work at!

[ahoka → ditsuke]

Almost any workplace is like that if you can, want and allowed to create value.

[rewmie → ahoka]

> Almost any workplace is like that if (...)

Most people aren't that fortunate. There are good reasons why the word "job" is not synonymous with "fun".

[ahoka → rewmie]

I have assumed a software development workplace here.

[alex_smart → ditsuke]

It was, and great colleagues too! Although this wasn't "assigned" work. Just me being curious/bored.

On: The Tao of Go

[ditsuke]

Only if it came with code to justify the Go in the title.

[rob74 → ditsuke]

Try this instead (which probably was the inspiration of this article): https://the-zen-of-go.netlify.app/