po1nt

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   by po1nt 5mo ago

   I used to love react of old with redux/flux and little to no hooks and weird side effects. It had super sound software design at the cost of being bulky. I think we should return back to that with the era of LLMs. We don't write t
2. 92.▲
   by po1nt 5mo ago

   That would be a strawman. I am not living in US and don't care about US politics other than they are rising my diesel prices. I'm just pointing out that historically this is the most DEI friendly we have ever been. If americans wo
3. 93.▲
   by po1nt 5mo ago

   I don't believe there was an era in history more DEI accepting than nowadays.
4. 94.▲
   by po1nt 5mo ago

   We used it for payment processing. We got huge CSVs from various APIs and used string decimals for computing to avoid overflows/underflows and rounding errors.
5. 95.▲
   by po1nt 5mo ago

   This the most hackernews post I've ever seen. Doing something in 50 hours that could have taken 20 minutes because vibe. I love it. The peak irony is that most of us work in a field that exists so that people don't need to do that
6. 96.▲
   by po1nt 5mo ago

   I just find the picture of turbo tucked between shirts and pants in a holiday suitcase hilarious
7. 97.▲
   by po1nt 5mo ago

   Car engine turbo? Can I get a photo of that packing?
8. 98.▲
   by po1nt 5mo ago

   I admire your work, but at the same time I have to ask: Why?
9. 99.▲
   by po1nt 5mo ago

   Memory management is pain. If you want to optimize, you're forced to 4k pages. Runtimes are fragmented. Wasi is a mess. Async and threading is awkward. Whenever you need to integrate with hardware you need platform specific adapters. I
10. 100.▲
    by po1nt 5mo ago

    Even if AI generated, the arguments look solid
11. 101.▲
    by po1nt 5mo ago

    Yeah but building a datacenter in colder wetter climate will hopefully bring the water somewhere else, usually to somewhere dryer. At least that's my logic
12. 102.▲
    by po1nt 5mo ago

    That's not the fault of datacenters though. Not even a local heavy industry.
13. 103.▲
    by po1nt 5mo ago

    I agree but then using a volume of water as a measure without provided context is just fearmongering. Draining oasis in a desert might have much higher impact than one of the thousands of lakes in canada but still, it's a renewable res
14. 104.▲
    by po1nt 5mo ago

    I don't see the point of measuring how much water we use if we're not poluting it. It's water. It will evaporate and rain down again. It's renewable resource.
15. 105.▲
    by po1nt 5mo ago

    Safety is almost never functional requirement (unless for OpenSSL and such projects). You can always focus just on the happy path expecting users will behave. Even in Rust you can unwrap on unexpected value instead of handling it properly.
16. 106.▲
    by po1nt 5mo ago

    As a drone pilot I used this before davinci studio implemented something similar. I highly recommend.
17. 107.▲
    by po1nt 5mo ago

    Thanks! Now I will procrastinate the whole day.
18. 108.▲
    by po1nt 5mo ago

    I do use a lot of EU services. But help me understand what is the hype about moving to EU cloud services? Is it any different? Wasn't internet supposed to break the international borders and bring us together?
19. 109.▲
    by po1nt 5mo ago

    I wouldn't jump to conclusions. Instructions aren't so big anyways and they are optimized JIT by CPU.
20. 110.▲
    by po1nt 5mo ago

    Well my original idea was to show that in a future anyone could code for MCUs in any language. I actually changed my mind in the process. Now we got LLMs and people just prompt anyway.
21. 111.▲
    by po1nt 5mo ago

    I do take pride in my work. Keeps me from going insane and switching careers to take on leatherworking. Even if I have to fight the uphill battle with incompetency.
22. 112.▲
    by po1nt 5mo ago

    Quake III was widely successful. John Carmack (probably not author of the algo anyway) later open sourced the game 6 years later which is admirable. Regarding his VR achievements, he made VR viable and not just a military project. I actuall
23. 113.▲
    by po1nt 5mo ago

    Removing null pointer guards would improve readability, not safety. Removing hashing on passwords would also improve readability and made the program easier to debug.
24. 114.▲
    by po1nt 5mo ago

    You can't fix faulty management as a developer. You can structure a code base around it.
25. 115.▲
    by po1nt 5mo ago

    WASM sounds great in theory but it's so much pain in practice. Once as a presentation demo I made it run on ESP32 but in the process of digging deep into runtimes and WASM spec, I wanted to disclose pros vs cons and it killed my presen
26. 116.▲
    by po1nt 5mo ago

    It would be hard to argue that throwing money at the problem would make it worse. I'm just saying the correlation is weak. Compare with Switzerland which is not in EU.
27. 117.▲
    by po1nt 5mo ago

    I was on social media since sharing Zynga game invites was majority of the posts. I've seen countless of magic bullets attempting to fix the polarization issues. Algorithm adjustments, fact checkers, community notes. I feel like the re
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    by po1nt 5mo ago

    Author fails to acknowledge that there are many fields where we ship only once and we should strive towards that if we want to avoid running firmware updates on our ultrasonic knives. While we talk about maintainability, we all admire Fast
29. 119.▲
    by po1nt 5mo ago

    If you account for PPP comparing 2006 and 2026 and also take into account cost of living, Slovakia is not that much richer. Ukraine saw similar rise of PPP per capita as Slovakia and Slovakia wasn't even invaded in 2014. Switzerland&#x
30. 120.▲
    by po1nt 5mo ago

    Per capita Slovakia gets more EU funding than Poland yet the results are poor.