shmolyneaux

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by shmolyneaux 23d ago
For reference, the glut of Erlang posts was due to pg posting "Why HN is slow lately": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 > it would be better to have posts about the innards of Erlang than women who c
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by shmolyneaux 3mo ago
Here's a follow-up video by Ben Felix posted more recently about the case for home ownership: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16eA5ebWMQQ In the end, home ownership is more based around the kind of life you want to liv
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by shmolyneaux 3mo ago
I definitely appreciated your post about Nano Banana Pro. It's also a genuinely useful time-capsule for how these systems evolve and where they fall short. I've preferred the output of ChatGPT Image 2. I think a post would be very
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by shmolyneaux 5mo ago
There is a bit more to the story than a 1% wealth being "equivalent" to a 20% income tax. The primary difference is that unrealized gains are taxed by a wealth tax. We need a mechanism for assets to be sold by the richest in socie
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by shmolyneaux 5mo ago
I think more people need to see this. This is how the creator of C++ thinks we should be writing code. This is what he thinks code should look like. To split a string by whitespace we should use `while (cin >> s)`. We should have a `t
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by shmolyneaux 5mo ago
It's true that it's shorter, but I suspect that the if-return, if-return pattern compiles down to much faster code. Separately, this code was originally written in C then ported. There are reasonable explanations for why Matz has
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by shmolyneaux 6mo ago
Github Copilot changed to token pricing earlier this week
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by shmolyneaux 6mo ago
Opus was the reason I paid for GitHub copilot, but they had the pricing model completely wrong. I could assign copilot to a substantial issue using Opus and have it handle 30 minutes of work with many subagents with iterative testing. With
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by shmolyneaux 6mo ago
If you want an architectural overview of the DS, this is a fantastic overview: https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/nintendo-ds/
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by shmolyneaux 7mo ago
That seems like a GDPR violation waiting to happen. It shouldn't be possible for them to store an email address like that forever and be in compliance.
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by shmolyneaux 7mo ago
That's noted further down the page: - `_*` = any string
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by shmolyneaux 8mo ago
This was a fun read, but it's a shame it hasn't gotten more attention. I wouldn't have guessed that Bun was using a custom fork of Zig. Since the feature has been closed, I strongly suspect that they'll eventually need t
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by shmolyneaux 9mo ago
Are there output formats that are more reliable (better adherence to the schema, easier to get parse-able output) or cheaper (fewer tokens) than JSON? YAML has its own problems and TOML isn't widely adopted, but they both seem like the
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by shmolyneaux 9mo ago
While people can nitpick, the article is pretty clear that there isn't a single answer. Everything depends on how you constrain the problem. How much experience does the developer have? What time constraints are there? Is it idiomatic
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by shmolyneaux 10mo ago
I would encourage you to give it a try anyways. Unfamiliar syntax is off-putting for sure, but you can get comfortable with any syntax. Coming from Python, I needed to work on some legacy Perl code. Perl code looks quite rough to a new user
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by shmolyneaux 1y ago
Instant startup times are really nice. You definitely notice the difference. It also means that you can be a bit lazier when creating wrappers around those tools (running 1000's of times isn't a problem when the startup is 1ms, bu
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by shmolyneaux 1y ago
I don't really do much in the web ecosystem, but I'm surprised how many people have a strong dislike for tailwind. I've had a lot of success using it. I'm really suspicious about the performance concerns brought up in th
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by shmolyneaux 1y ago
The problem for newcomers is something I faced when trying to use Zig, particularly for the build system. I heard a lot about how much nicer the build system is in Zig compared to other tools. However, as someone unfamiliar with C/C++
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by shmolyneaux 4y ago
Blender is licensed under GPL, which makes it incompatible with most commercial game development.
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by shmolyneaux 5y ago
What do you think of the Screen Actors Guild? That seems to have been a huge win for workers in the industry, seemingly without the negatives you describe.
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by shmolyneaux 6y ago
I'm not in a position to help get you an interview at the moment, so I'd feel uncomfortable asking for your resume. Participating on Hacker News and GitHub is an avenue for networking. Without linking to information about yourself
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by shmolyneaux 6y ago
If you're willing to associate your username with your personal identity, you could link to your projects/CV in your profile. Other commenters may be able to identify what recruiters are looking for and why your resume was dismiss
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by shmolyneaux 6y ago
The Jetson Nano[0] seems like it would be better for students, it's only $99. [0]: https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-nano-developer-...
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by shmolyneaux 6y ago
Python runs the gamut. You can make small scripts that automate simple tasks and you can make huge websites that service millions of people a day. As projects get bigger, they can adopt tools to help them manage the complexity of the projec
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by shmolyneaux 7y ago
Thanks for the reference. Just so it's clear, the definition of "malware" used here is in-browser crypto mining and obfuscation. Only 1 in 600 of the top 1 million sites use WebAssembly. WebAssembly doesn't actually prov
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by shmolyneaux 7y ago
An important thing note is that the weights that go into the rankings can be fully customized: https://spectrum.ieee.org/static/interactive-the-top-program... The ranking shown on the linked article shows a weighting t
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by shmolyneaux 7y ago
One issue that isn't capture by that quote is that an escalator cannot be used while being repaired. If the maintenance person is away while the escalator is part-way through being repaired it's very reasonable to see a "Temp
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by shmolyneaux 8y ago
I suspect that most new college grads have never used cash to buy gas (myself included).
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by shmolyneaux 8y ago
The content of this article is based on the 2018 The Global Competitiveness Report which you can find here: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/GCR2018/05FullReport/TheGlobalC...
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by shmolyneaux 8y ago
While supported, list comprehensions that are multiple levels deep isn't considered good style. There is an example of this in Google's python style guide: https://github.com/google/styleguide/blob/g

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