yohannesk's comments

On: You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)

[yohannesk]

I don’t think there was any dig implied. And I will second that it will add to self esteem. Specially during discussions if you have more understanding about the code you will have both better contribution and take away

[baobabKoodaa → yohannesk]

Sure, when you succeed in understanding someone else's legacy codebase, it builds self esteem. When you fail attempting to do that, it does the opposite.

[lanstin → baobabKoodaa]

I have inherited projects where I just could never understand what they were thinking well enough to make the service good (not running out of memory and crashing). It was very humbling; I still sometimes wake up in the middle of the night with things I wish I'd tried, but the assumptions of how it all worked was just scattered throughout a bunch of files and the assumptions of everything was just not how I'd do it.

On: Show HN: Anki AI Utils

[yohannesk]

I have a question, do you know of any spaced repetition app that is free for iOS similar to AnkiDroid?

[Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe → yohannesk]

The anki website has some UI so you could do the reviews there. A bit minimalist though.

On: IMG_0001

[yohannesk]

How? Which ever button I press, I only get static. Am I region blocked? I have tried all the keys on my keyboard as well

Edit: It works on Firefox for some reason. Maybe extensions? I am not sure

On: 'NYC doesn't heart you': 80% of heart attack sufferers die due to slow response

[yohannesk]

That’s quite nice. But to put things in perspective, the entire country of Norway’s population is much less than NYC and also it’s not dense. I can’t imagine how you would implement that here

[blcknight → yohannesk]

It is here. AED’s are everywhere in NYC. Whether someone actually stops to help is another story.

On: Redis users considering alternatives after licensing move

[yohannesk]

Is there a language or tool with no runtime? Also Config files can be JSON. I find nothing weird when it comes to .NET on linux vs any other technology

[runako → yohannesk]

The Redis runtimes are colloquially referred to as "Linux" and do not have to be installed by the user.

[FireBeyond → runako]

I think you're really picking at nits.

"apt install redis-server" on my server says that the following will be installed:

- libjemalloc2

- liblzf1

- redis-tools

Garnet requires .NET, so...

apt install aspnetcore-runtime-8.0

Acting like Redis works "out of the box" while Garnet requires a whole other paradigm shift is disingenuous. I have no dog in the fight - I use macOS and I don't use Redis or Garnet.

[neonsunset → FireBeyond]

Just flag+downvote and move on, it's been 8 years already and it never changes.

While on the topic of macOS, Swift Library Evolution ABI support is coming .NET for native integration with Swift (particularly for system APIs). I have not tried it yet but it's an interesting feature AFAIK no other language has, well, besides Swift itself.

On: Redis users considering alternatives after licensing move

[yohannesk]

Couldn’t you do that with self contained dotnet build?

On: Solving the bowling problem with dynamic programming

[yohannesk]

Also a good explanation and analysis on a similar problem is available from MIT https://youtu.be/r4-cftqTcdI

On: Possibly all the ways to get loop-finding in graphs wrong

[yohannesk]

If this article triggers a desire to work on an actual problem with graphs try https://leetcode.com/problems/freedom-trail

[thaumasiotes → yohannesk]

This looks like a dynamic programming problem taking space proportional to |ring length|*|key length|. By that analysis, graphs don't really come into it.

What's the graph-theoretical approach? Does it have nicer characteristics?

On: Commercial Bank of Ethiopia glitch lets customers withdraw millions

[yohannesk]

Ethiopia's biggest commercial bank is scrambling to recoup large sums of money withdrawn by customers after a "systems glitch".

[wulfmann → yohannesk]

Thank you AI, very cool.

[CamelCaseName → wulfmann]

I thought this was AI generated too, but then looking at their comment history, they claim to be from Ethopia at least twice, the most recent time 8 months ago.

[yohannesk → CamelCaseName]

I did not know what to put in the description, so I put the blurb from the article. HN puts that as a comment. I am not an AI. Also I can't edit or delete it. It's not like other comments

On: Dallol

[yohannesk]

I second this. Things seem dire now for my country. I wouldn't recommend tourists to visit now. I am currently an expat and even I fear returning home to visit family in case something bad happens while I am there