Gábor Nyéki @gabornyeki.com · 29/07/2025Git is the ANSI C of version control. It is flexible and has low overhead but to get most things done, you need to manage raw pointers. CVS is BCPL. It works if everything you do fits neatly into a one-dimensional array. #jj-vcs is … I’m not sure? 000
Gábor Nyéki @gabornyeki.com · 07/07/2025Ways to prove you’re human: iNVERT THE CASE OF YOUR SENTENCES. Add em-dash in the wrong—places. {Use} {more} {curly} {braces.} Replace punctuation with smiley faces🙂 000
Gábor Nyéki @gabornyeki.com · 13/05/2025When writing prose, it makes sense to move around in the file character-by-character. But when reading, it is nice to move sentence-by-sentence. I wrote a little #Emacs minor mode to do that: github.com/gn0/sigh-mode 010
Gábor Nyéki @gabornyeki.com · 04/05/2025CLI tool to check if an executable uses your CPU's rare extension sets. Think AVX-512. Rough around the edges but it works, for now only on Linux: github.com/gn0/lsx86fea...github.comGitHub - gn0/lsx86features: List x86 extension sets used by a compiled binaryList x86 extension sets used by a compiled binary. Contribute to gn0/lsx86features development by creating an account on GitHub. 000
Gábor Nyéki @gabornyeki.com · 12/04/2025The first 10 prime numbers in R, calculated with a regular expression: > Filter(function(x) !grepl("^.?$|^(..+?)\\1+$", rep(".", x) |> paste(collapse = "")), 1:30) [1] 2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 Totally straightforward. 000
Reposted by Gábor NyékiOwen Ozier @owenozier.bsky.social · 10/04/2025🚨New paper alert!🚨 How do different disciplines use statistical software? We looked at 10,000 papers. We all know a lot of economists use Stata and a lot of statisticians use R. But... 44512
Gábor Nyéki @gabornyeki.com · 05/04/2025The realization that rational numbers aren’t rational because “it’s only rational to model fractions as ratios of integers” but because they are ratios of integers Why they are called racionális számok in Hungarian when they could be arányos számok is a mystery 000
Gábor Nyéki @gabornyeki.com · 02/04/2025Sway is great but this is the time when I really wish that it was written in Rust or Go instead of C. 130
Gábor Nyéki @gabornyeki.com · 11/03/2025On why Go instead of C#: “… the TypeScript to Go move was far more automatable and more one-to-one in its mapping. Our existing codebase is all functions and data structures - no classes. Idiomatic Go looked just like our existing codebase …” github.com/microsoft/ty... 000
Gábor Nyéki @gabornyeki.com · 09/03/2025It seems that Guido developed Python 1.0 on an SGI workstation. Honorable mentions to Linux and, since it's Jan 1994, 386BSD, as desirable porting targets. Around this time, software developed on expensive workstations was becoming accessible to the broader public. ftp.ntua.gr/mirror/pytho... 110
Gábor Nyéki @gabornyeki.com · 05/03/2025When two dogs meet, do they say to each other, “I’ve smelled a lot about you?” 000
Gábor Nyéki @gabornyeki.com · 27/02/20257,000+ people being forced into working at scam call centers is a huge number www.npr.org/2025/02/27/n...npr.orgOver 7,000 from scam centers in Myanmar are awaiting repatriation after crackdownTrapped in virtual slavery, many are lured to work in scam centers where they exploit people around the world through false romances, bogus investment pitches and illegal gambling schemes. 100
Gábor Nyéki @gabornyeki.com · 21/02/2025And here’s Linus weighing in on the Rust/DMA kerfuffle too: lore.kernel.org/rust-for-lin...lore.kernel.orgRe: Rust kernel policy - Linus Torvalds 000
Gábor Nyéki @gabornyeki.com · 20/02/2025Hello world in 12 bytes of tail code: $ cat a.tail #!/usr/bin/tail -1 hello world $ ./a.tail hello world $ But it’s wasteful because it uses an entire byte to represent just one letter. 010
Gábor Nyéki @gabornyeki.com · 09/02/2025Dwitter is like Twitter but your 140 character message is a JavaScript function body that draws an animation in your browser. Instead of likes, it has awesomes because of course it does: www.dwitter.net/top/month 020
Gábor Nyéki @gabornyeki.com · 06/02/2025Unusual life hack: making Vim emulate Emacs. Saving files in insert mode by pressing ^X^S and replaying macros by pressing F4 are creature comforts of the day. 030
Reposted by Gábor NyékiSteve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 04/12/2024This is only partially true any more blog.cloudflare.com/harnessing-o...blog.cloudflare.comHarnessing chaos in Cloudflare officesThis blog post will cover the new sources of âchaosâ that have been added to LavaRand and how you can make use of that harnessed chaos in your next application. 7868
Reposted by Gábor NyékiAstronomy pictures @astronomers.bsky.social · 27/11/2024What you would see if Andromeda was brighter in the night sky 673065182
