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1. 1981.▲
   by sph 1y ago

   Now Reddit results are translated as well in Google, Kagi, so you think you have found a relevant response in your language, but it's just a machine translation from an English post.
2. 1982.▲
   by sph 1y ago

   I'm fine with public records of stuff I have posted, I'd not be fine if you were impersonating me, nor I am if it's a piece of software doing that. Can we take the ethics of AI seriously? I feel it's about time.
3. 1983.▲
   by sph 1y ago

   Data is unable to regurgitate a comment in my style and pass it for something I have written. If a person were to do that, that'd be quite rude, but if it's AI it's perfectly fine? I do not think so.
4. 1984.▲
   by sph 1y ago

   Uh, how do I opt out from AI impersonating myself? Is the goal of these products that I stop contributing to the Internet? Also I find quite distasteful that you get free data without explicit approval and try to sell it back to the same au
5. 1985.▲
   by sph 1y ago

   How could you forget about career politicians?
6. 1986.▲
   by sph 1y ago

   Obligatory video from Jon Gjengset “Crust of Rust: Atomics and Memory Ordering”: https://youtu.be/rMGWeSjctlY?si=iDhOLFj4idOOKby8
7. 1987.▲
   by sph 1y ago

   I have built a production Javascript library with decent amounts of users that incorporates the following hack to deal with float error (avert your eyes if you're sensitive): // 1.2 - 1.0 === 0.19999999999999996 /&
8. 1988.▲
   by sph 1y ago

   I had no issues running these kind of monitors on crappy single-core Pentium 3 laptops, yet these days I avoid monitoring widgets because I feel they're too heavy and unnecessary bloat. To be fair, these days they're probably writ
9. 1989.▲
   by sph 1y ago

   Soderk (Southwark), Marlibon (Marylebone), Reding (Reading), Bister (Bicester), Sozbery (Salisbury), Frum (Frome), Worick (Warwick), Noridge (Norwich), Darby (Derby), and the various Gloster, Lester, Wooster
10. 1990.▲
    by sph 1y ago

    Then you can proudly put “C++ initialization consultant” on your resumé and get paid $1000 a day fixing class constructors at Fortune 500 companies.
11. 1991.▲
    by sph 1y ago

    Also, English has the 5 vowels of the Latin script representing some 25 vowels sounds , to the point that consonants can turn into vowels with no rhyme or reason. The best way to learn that English is nonsense is to live in Britain and lea
12. 1992.▲
    by sph 1y ago

    > Borrow checker wouldn't get off my damn case - errors after errors - so I gave in. I allowed it to teach me Bondage driven development.
13. 1993.▲
    by sph 1y ago

    Rust feels like an excellent language paired with a beta-quality borrow checker. The issue is that the more they fix the paper cuts, the more complex the type system grows.
14. 1994.▲
    by sph 1y ago

    I was afraid AI and vibe coders were gonna steal my job, but looks like I haven’t got much to worry about, least of all AI-assisted dementia.
15. 1995.▲
    by sph 1y ago

    I started with VB6, but I was not a great fan of the language. Soon, I moved to MSVC++6 with MFC, and even though it had its own RAD system for designing dialogs, it was so half-arsed and limiting compared to Visual Basic. You couldn't
16. 1996.▲
    by sph 1y ago

    Yeah, they have openly disregarded copyright law, it's not a puny robots.txt file that's gonna stop them.
17. 1997.▲
    by sph 1y ago

    > It is my understanding that there is ongoing work to create an import/export standard I have heard this so many times that, given the big names behind the standard who benefit from vendor lock-in, it’s no wonder they are dragging
18. 1998.▲
    by sph 1y ago

    There is a proven association between hand-writing and memory retention. Taking notes on a computer is like leaving fingerprints on a handrail. I wish OCR technology got so good that I could only write by hand and have perfect storage and s
19. 1999.▲
    by sph 1y ago

    > So you could say that higher-level languages are just a way to make tedious/nasty assembly coding more palatable. Well, the point of scripting languages is mostly dynamic typing and dynamic binding, which means resolving bindings
20. 2000.▲
    by sph 1y ago

    > It's better to guarantee we encounter all type errors before the program even runs. This is only valid if you either are writing mission-critical software, or have infinite time. Your argument doesn’t consider the case that you ha
21. 2001.▲
    by sph 1y ago

    > quite affordable The commute to there is the real problem
22. 2002.▲
    by sph 1y ago

    There is a lot of difference about random Twitter posters sharing cynical opinions and multi-billion military systems actually sensing the collapse of a sub thousands of miles away from a secret location. It feels weird having to explain th
23. 2003.▲
    by sph 1y ago

    Skip “Simple made easy” because I cannot stand hearing that talk quoted by basically every single conference speaker in the last decade. It’s become its own cliché. (Joking of course. I much prefer “Hammock driven development” but it’s not
24. 2004.▲
    by sph 1y ago

    I love this! I have done a lot of CS research lately, and some of these I haven’t come across yet. Let me share some of my favourites not listed here, off the top of my head: - Ian Piumarta’s “Open, Extensible Object Models” ( https:/&
25. 2005.▲
    by sph 1y ago

    I have shipped half a dozen projects based on Phoenix, Ecto and Live View. I love them all, and the language itself the most. What does Ash Framework offer me? What pain points that I don’t think I have does it solve for me? This I still do
26. 2006.▲
    by sph 1y ago

    Looks ergonomic enough at first sight. The important thing for new languages is mindshare, so keep at it, post a Show HN when you feel it’s ready and perhaps it’ll pick up steam. (Personally I have spent my weekend evaluating C-like languag
27. 2007.▲
    by sph 1y ago

    Call it a niche use-case, but every time I had the chance to evaluate Rust, I had to write a function taking a callback, sometimes across to a C library. Every time I have to deal with an Fn/FnOnce/FnMut trait signature, remember
28. 2008.▲
    A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003)(web.archive.org)

    2 points by sph 1y ago|0 comments
29. 2009.▲
    by sph 1y ago

    > Are you fine with the quality of all the software out there? This is the kind of generalisation I'm ranting against. It is not constructive to extrapolate any kind of discussion about a single, perhaps niche, programming languages
30. 2010.▲
    by sph 1y ago

    A Show HN post works really well, if you win the front page lottery.