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by distcs 3y ago
Do you realize how you took a kind and genuine comment, made the worst possible interpretation out of it and completely derailed an otherwise interesting thread. From the HN guidelines - > Please respond to the strongest plausible interp
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by distcs 3y ago
> If any kind of automatic memory isn't possible/allowed, I would be reaching out for Rust I have come to the same conclusion but then I also fear that Rust will continue to expand in scope and become a monster language like C+
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by distcs 3y ago
> Some languages (e.g. lisps) are deceptively small by relying on macros that form a "second-order" language that interacts with the "first-order" language, but Zig doesn't have that. What are some other examples
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by distcs 3y ago
> If I use the general purpose allocator then my edge case is PC out of memory What does PC mean in this context?
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by distcs 3y ago
Glad you picked on pydantic. There is no reference doc whatsoever. The expectation is that you are supposed to learn by reading examples! Back in the days of yore, software engineering teams led by greybeards used to be conservative in what
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Zeal is an offline documentation browser for software developers(zealdocs.org)
348 points by distcs 3y ago|108 comments
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Language Pragmatics Engineering(borretti.me)
15 points by distcs 3y ago|0 comments
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by distcs 3y ago
For the Rust ignorants like me can someone be kind enough to explain who jntrnr is? The only info I can find is that he worked on Rust core. Can't find an about page or any other information about this personality? Is his role signific
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by distcs 3y ago
I hear some nationals have to wait for 20 years or more. which countries are those? any info around that?
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Names are not descriptions; descriptions are not names(lists.gnu.org)
3 points by distcs 3y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Why is curl | sh so frowned upon?
11 points by distcs 3y ago|14 comments
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by distcs 3y ago
I wouldn't call it exactly "easy to follow". If you run this, you just get a long list of lessons named usr_01.txt, usr_02.txt, ... The lessons look "clickable" but if you put the cursor on them and press enter, not
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by distcs 3y ago
Do these vim tutor web apps provide any advantage over learning with the real Vim with the vimtutor command? Do learners not worry that the web apps might not emulate Vim accurately and the inaccuracies might make you pick up bad habits at
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by distcs 3y ago
> that's never going to be a seamless transition. Why not? It is not obvious to me why a seamless transition is impossible? Isn't the whole point of TCP that individual packets can take different paths over different networks a
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by distcs 3y ago
Good UX is very subjective though. I mean for me the way Emacs looks by default and how it allows me to customize it the way I see fit is good UX. Others don't see it as good UX. Can I customize the status bar to include my contextual
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by distcs 3y ago
The author of the article is also the person who wrote the HN headline.
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by distcs 3y ago
A few things odd about this post: 1. The poster of this post is also the author of this post. No clarification from the author yet about why the HN title does not match the actual title. 2. Current title on HN: An evidence-based guide to ex
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by distcs 3y ago
Interesting to see UK and Germany taking the 2nd and 3rd spots. Is there any easy explanation for why UK and Germany are at the next two spots? Is UK the next hotspot for IT after US? Is Germany too? What about China and India? Does it not
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by distcs 4y ago
I don't see how this is relevant or even correct. English speakers certainly can pronounce R.
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Why aren't incorrect close voting discouraged with technical measures?(meta.stackoverflow.com)
4 points by distcs 4y ago|0 comments
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by distcs 4y ago
Are they all available as tiles to be dragged and dropped? Or can I type it out too with a keyboard?
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by distcs 4y ago
Not a Scratch user. Also not a child here. A grown up software programmer. But I did try Scratch and I could not make much sense of it. Maybe I am missing something. So read this comment as a request for help. The last time I tried, I remem
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Bloomberg sponsors curl with 10K USD(mastodon.social)
222 points by distcs 4y ago|74 comments
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by distcs 4y ago
Also https://mastodon.social/@bagder/110102954036946925 > Bloomberg sponsors #curl with 10K USD. Thank you!
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by distcs 4y ago
I think the current LLM and GPT overdose has really affected the quality of discussions here. Write a long and thoughtful response and be immediately accused of being a GPT! What is happening to this forum! I mean how lazy these commenters
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by distcs 4y ago
> It feels so utterly helpless and pointless working on mitigating my own CO2 emissions when I learn there are people like you taking 100-150 international flights in 10 years. That completely dwarfs any savings I could reasonably expect
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by distcs 4y ago
> It's weird to see a forum for hackers, with hacker in the name, and with a line about encouraging curiosity in the charter, be so hostile to someone who hacked something together. I guess people are getting tired of too many topic
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by distcs 4y ago
> I am surprised that the post about that have not gained any traction on here Unfortunately which posts get traction is very much a game of luck on HN. Some good samaritans have to hang out on the 'New' page and upvote interes
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by distcs 4y ago
For people like me who are not very familiar with some of these corporate terms, can someone explain exactly what "back office" means? Is it IT? I understand sales, delivery, etc. Dev is software development teams? So I presume ba
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by distcs 4y ago
The original article has a perfectly sensible title. Why mangle the original title into something so confusing? What has OP not speaking English as the first language got to do with deliberately mangling the title? From the site's guid

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