mmaniac

17 ms·

151.
by mmaniac 2y ago
It's interesting to observe how foreign writing systems fit the needs of the languages they are were designed to record. Korean Hangeul is the gold standard here. Letter shapes represent their articulation and harmony and modify in reg
152.
by mmaniac 2y ago
Exposure to microplastics, forever chemicals and pesticides is a frequent topic of open conversation and criticism. Those remain politically intransigent because of competing economic interests. By comparison, it's hard to even approac
153.
by mmaniac 2y ago
Would that not complicate function prologues & epilogues? I suppose hardware support (e.g. dedicated call/ret instructions accessing a second stack pointer) is also desirable if you want to do this sort of thing. I recall that Itan
154.
by mmaniac 2y ago
It's not only the trans phenomenon, everything you mentioned there is politically radioactive. Are you really allowed to worry about environmental endocrine disruptors if hormonal contraceptives are a substantial contributor to that pr
155.
by mmaniac 2y ago
> I forgot which historian said it, but he described the last 200 years of european history as 'anglo-russian meddling to prevent a franco-german unity ( aka 'the united states of europe' )'. Please let us know if you
156.
by mmaniac 2y ago
Buying TSMC silicon just like Apple and AMD.
157.
by mmaniac 2y ago
While it's deeply frustrating that S3 standby is increasingly unsupported on laptops with new firmwares, I find that hibernate works perfectly instead. It's been my preferred option whenever I stop using my PC for a short while an
158.
by mmaniac 2y ago
Intel's big promises are starting to get stale. Alder Lake is the only time in recent memory they've been able to make good on their claims. Meteor Lake was disappointing and expensive.
159.
by mmaniac 2y ago
I found it to be painfully slow, so I'm sticking with 7zip. Explorer integration is excellent in 7zip already anyway.
160.
by mmaniac 2y ago
Still paywalled :c
161.
by mmaniac 2y ago
I've been mulling over using an ARM Mac mini as a media server and TV emulation box lately. It seems to fit the bill quite well. - Quiet and compact - Excellent single threaded performance - Ryujinx supposedly runs extremely well due t
162.
by mmaniac 2y ago
Was just going to post this myself! Exactly the kind of trivia I like to idle my time with :)
163.
by mmaniac 2y ago
Repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40389199
164.
by mmaniac 2y ago
Maybe I'm crazy or maybe I'm too used to functional programming, but I don't see anything wrong with this.
165.
by mmaniac 2y ago
Explanations of monads are vastly more complicated than monads. Any Javascript programmer will recognise what .flatMap() is and does - you don't even need to know design patterns for that.
166.
by mmaniac 2y ago
Mac OS, especially in the olden pre-OSX days, was at least consistent here. Files autosave invisibly and frequently, to give the impression that the file in memory and the file on disk are the same thing. So long as the rules are simple and
167.
by mmaniac 2y ago
The other day I managed to nuke an hour or so's work from a Jupyter notebook because I didn't realise that VS Code would immediately sync the open contents with the disk after a git reset. Dunno if this would have helped me then,
168.
by mmaniac 2y ago
Most people don't consider themselves to be unscrupulous or to be morally wrong in general. Anyone who would intentionally choose to be compared to Oppenheimer should sooner be scrutinised for his own ethical dubiousness rather than hi
169.
by mmaniac 2y ago
C syntax is only better than Rust's because of its simplicity. If C were as semantically rich as Rust it'd be more of an unreadable mess. That said, C's syntactic missteps appear to be accidents, while Rust delights itself in
170.
by mmaniac 2y ago
90% of desktop users use an OS which supports DPI scaling and doesn't have this problem. The remaining 10% have intentionally chosen to buy a computer where ordinary peripherals like monitors or mice don't quite work right by desi
171.
by mmaniac 2y ago
Another pointless change which only breaks stuff.
172.
by mmaniac 2y ago
The most beautiful part of open source IMO is the fork. Free riders don't (and shouldn't) get a say in any case, but contributors who have disagreements about the direction of a project can rightly split off and take things in the
173.
by mmaniac 2y ago
C type declarations (and array decays, for that matter) seem to be baggage from B. In B the only type is the machine word, which can perform arithmetic and be dereferenced. Arrays the only special kind of declaration and are declared like
174.
by mmaniac 2y ago
Even before the explosion of AI in 2022-2023, the quality of Google searches has been noticeably declining.
175.
by mmaniac 2y ago
This is also bullshitty, just in a different way.
176.
by mmaniac 2y ago
Why is the Hyper-V backend so much slower?
177.
by mmaniac 2y ago
Dell will put almost anything but Ryzens in their laptops.
178.
by mmaniac 2y ago
Old New Thing rarely disappoints, that article is worthily entertaining of a HN post by itself.
179.
by mmaniac 2y ago
The first handheld console I owned was a Game Boy Advance SP with a copy of Metroid Fusion. It's still one of my favourite games and the namesake for my handle. I remember distinctly that the instruction manual for the game contained b
180.
by mmaniac 2y ago
Like most things in C++, forwarding references are one of these things that seems to really confuse people. This article seems to think it's another magical rule implemented by the compiler only for templated contexts, but it's re

More ›