nananana9

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by nananana9 7mo ago
> You are just swapping a package manager with security by obscurity by copy pasting code into your project You should try writing code, and not relying on libraries for everything, it may change how you look at programming and actually
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by nananana9 7mo ago
Package managers are a failed experiment. We have libraries like SQLite, which is a single .c file that you drag into your project and it immediately does a ton of incredibly useful, non-trivial work for you, while barely increasing your ex
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by nananana9 7mo ago
spellcheck.cpp:1:19: error: unexpected character <U+201C> 1 | assert(spellcheck(“Friednly”)); | ^
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by nananana9 7mo ago
Template bloat, terrible compile errors, terrible debug build performance, 1 second of extra compile time per cpp file when you include ranges, and you can't step through it in a debugger.
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by nananana9 7mo ago
Yep. There's tons of others as as well. 16-bit x86 enjoyers will be happy to know there are `near` and `far` macros whose primary purpose in 2026 is to break my projection matrices. And of course every Win32 function that takes strings
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by nananana9 7mo ago
Oh, rm failed, since we're running in a weird environment! Let me retry with `bash -c "/usr/bin/rm -rf *"`!
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by nananana9 7mo ago
This would be fine too if there wasn't a legion of unhinged "designers" in position of power throughout the entire industry that mimic every bad decision apple makes. Apple design is only different on release, after a few mon
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by nananana9 7mo ago
I had to make one to download Xcode from the store. I couldn' figure out a way around it, but admittedly I have about 4 hours of macos experience.
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by nananana9 7mo ago
Very few artists or aspiring artists make enough money from their art to make a living -- even now, when the average person has a job and at least some disposable money and can support artists. This % will not get higher if we get 1000x mor
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by nananana9 7mo ago
If the issue is that large entities are using the software without contributing back in a way that goes against the "spirit of the law", the only solutions I can see license-wise are ones that restrict usage, which marks them squa
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by nananana9 7mo ago
Please, just pick a side. "I want to be the selfless craftsperson giving away work for free to anyone, but I'll also pressure profit-maximizing evil mega-corporations to give me money from the good of their heart, despite the fact
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by nananana9 7mo ago
You can roll stackful coroutines in C++ (or C) with 50-ish lines of Assembly. It's a matter of saving a few registers and switching the stack pointer, minicoro [1] is a pretty good C library that does it. I like this model a lot more t
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by nananana9 7mo ago
Unity has async too [1]. It's just that in a rare display of sanity they chose to not deprecate the IEnumerator stuff. [1] https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReferenc...
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by nananana9 7mo ago
Don't overthink it. Shut up and buy some ARM stock.
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by nananana9 7mo ago
What happened is that they make no money, because people use it an masse to generate videos that they then post on TikTok and Instagram, nobody actually doomscrolls Sora.
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by nananana9 7mo ago
That most programmers are not that great at programming, and wouldn't be able to produce high quality software even if that was their stated goal.
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by nananana9 7mo ago
My definition of AGI hasn't changed - it's something that can perform, or learn to perform, any intellectual task that a human can. 5 years ago we thought that language is the be-all and end-all of intelligence and treated it as t
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by nananana9 7mo ago
Even if we don't agree on a userspace ABI, this is still fine-ish, as long as you can statically link everything you need. Unfortunately the nerds maintaining the core libraries REALLY don't want you to do that, and the answer to
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by nananana9 7mo ago
Programmers and designers thinking the average person is a moron is one of the two reasons almost no good software is writren today.
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by nananana9 7mo ago
Purpose: > That way you can be certain whether or not you entered a character
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by nananana9 7mo ago
Surely there's no way that's true. The logical conclusion of that would be that every random ToS is a law that everyone must abide by, regardless of whether or not they've agreed to it.
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by nananana9 7mo ago
I've been begging left and right, and I've yet to see a single example of this agent-written high-quality quickly-shipped code.
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by nananana9 7mo ago
That's great, but if I hire a random person from this thread and let them decide, chances are they would build an agent orchestrator.
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by nananana9 7mo ago
I'd pretty much always store pitch/yaw for a first/third person controller. This makes it trivial to modify the values in response to input - `pitch += mouse_delta.y` and to clamp the pitch to a sane range (-90 to 90 deg) aft
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by nananana9 7mo ago
We don't do measurable metrics to evaluate our processes, ever. We pick up a trend and go at it for 10 years, until we have a 1,000,000 line monstrosity that's impossible to work on. Unfortunately people need to experience a 1 mil
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by nananana9 7mo ago
I may start using LLMs to filter out these kinds of posts. At this point it's worth considering a permanent, pinned "HN Flamewar: Will LLMs turn you into the next Ken Thompson or are you just a poser who can't write code&quot
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by nananana9 7mo ago
I should've worded this better. By "non-verified accounts" I mean basically mean "accounts that haven't been verified by an ID check". This is the only means that I consider an actual verification, face/ph
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by nananana9 7mo ago
1. Kids under 9 can use chat with parent consent, for kids over 9 don't even need that. After 13, there's no option to even disable it for parents [1]. 2. Suing multiple youtubers who come to you with evidence of child abuse on yo
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by nananana9 7mo ago
Yes, but given a feature that should take say 100 lines of code, the average programmer will write in the order of 100 to 500 lines. If they're a heavy OOP user, maybe they'll write 10 classes that total 2000 lines. Regardless, wo
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by nananana9 7mo ago
Please don't make excuses for literal evil p*dophile megacorporations. There is plenty of low hanging fruit, and even if there wasn't, this issue is important enough that if they can't fix it they should go out of business. 1

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