hashhar

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Software Engineer working on Trino (formerly Presto SQL) with an interest in everything open-source and distributed.

https://trino.io/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hashhar

I can be found most places as hashhar.

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Comment · 19 days ago
banks also often have multiple domains - different one for transactional emails, different one for statements etc.

Instead of auto-locking it should be possible as user to configure the list of allowed domains that land there.

Comment · 1 month ago
they should pay you
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
Doesn't help much because even the standard library bitrots after enough Python releases. I have things I write today but can't run on a NAS that has older Python. No issues like that with Powershell for example.
Comment · 9 months ago
Which of those are evolving at the rate of frameworks?

BTW I'm of the opinion that frontend tooling developers should actually try to contribute things to HTML and CSS instead of building "component libraries" on top of them.

If the native controls were good and if the browsers allowed using "uniformly styled" versions of them then there would be no good reason for such libraries to exist.

Comment · 9 months ago
It's both reassuring and frustrating. Reassuring because they decided to secure IPC somehow. Disappointing because this is such an unexpected failure mode.

My scroll direction broke, custom operations that I had apparently "saved" to the mouse also stopped working.

Comment · 10 months ago
Codex for me behaves very junior engineer-ish. Claude is smarter and tries to think long term.

A great example of their behaviours for a problem that isn't 100% specified in detail (because detail would need iterations) is available at https://gist.github.com/hashhar/b1215035c19a31bbe4b58f44dbb4....

I gave both Codex (GPT5-ExHi) and Claude (Opus 4.5 Thinking) the exact same prompts and the end results were very different.

The most interesting bit was asking both of them to try to justify why there were differences and then critiquing each other's code. Claude was so good at this - took the best parts of GPTs code, fixed a bug there and ended up with a pretty nice implementation.

The Claude generated code was much more well-organised too (less script-like, more program like).

Comment · 10 months ago
Redbook is also the Audio CD standard. Lots of redbooks exist.
Comment · 10 months ago
The area I live in has homes that remain empty because the investor doesn't need the capital nor the space and just holds empty units for multiple years when they eventually sell (for even more than they would have sold in the past).

Housing demand will always be > 0 as long as population is growing and hence there can never be a oversupply.

Comment · 11 months ago
It's trivial to enumerate all the phone numbers in the world.
Comment · 1 year ago
Going from -50dB to -44dB is a much louder change than going from -6dB to 0dB.

Human hearing is logarithmic. The dB is measuring ratio of sound pressure level and it's accurate that +/-3dB is almost doubling/halving of the SPL.

Comment · 1 year ago
This is exactly it. The people who get confused by decibels are treating it a unit in it's own right when it's really just a ratio of some unit.
Comment · 1 year ago
You only really need SSH access on a box to use it as a git remote - no server needed.

I learnt this quite late and was not obvious to me so hope it's helpful for you too.

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