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by xigoi 5mo ago
> Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by xigoi 5mo ago
You can’t set a different size per site. More width is better for sites that have sidebars and stuff.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
Bare HTML is pretty bad for accessibility. For example, you get no maximum width, making websites painful to read in a wide window.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
This is the result of anthropomorphizing LLMs. People are thinking “I am giving instructions to a human” and not “I am giving instructions to a computer”.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
Why is “hairstyles” written in uppercase? Do we now have clickbait on HN?
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by xigoi 5mo ago
> I will still curse the C designers to my dying day for picking * as the prefix operator for dereference pointer, when the more logical @ character was SITTING RIGHT THERE! And what’s worse, many other languages copied this decision wit
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by xigoi 5mo ago
Are you trying to imply that Bjarne Stroustrup is a sane programmer?
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by xigoi 5mo ago
> WTF is Z? Hopefully a type error, because no sane programmer would implement addition like this. Obviously an insane programmer could, but that’s not the fault of operator overloading. The following code is exactly as confusing:
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by xigoi 5mo ago
I hate the trend of measuring “easy to understand” based on how superficially similar the language is to C/Java.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
> I think operator overloading would be a very bad feature for an enterprise language like Java which needs to be consistent above all else. Operator overloading increases consistency. Instead of having int a = b + c; CustomNumbe
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by xigoi 5mo ago
> Do you not use an editor that permits you perform at least one operation that would alter the indentation level of multiple lines all at once? Yes, but I don’t just randomly perform the operation when I don’t want to change the indenta
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by xigoi 5mo ago
It’s probably aimed at React developers, many of which are probably not even aware that elements other than <div> exist.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
They mean in the Markdown code, not in the output.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
I’d just like to know what kind of workflow you have that causes indentation to randomly change in your files.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
I wonder if the actual reason is that Zig declined their slop PR.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
> You are literally one missing tab away from breaking your entire configuration file. In JSON, you’re one curly brace away from breaking your entire configuration file. How is that different?
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by xigoi 5mo ago
> Or, tokens are more like energy and prices will drop over time until they reach some equilibrium. In that case, AI companies will never get their money back, leading to a huge crash.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
They aren’t, because builders with hammers will get their job done much faster.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
Being in the top 99.9% is not a big achievement.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
It would be more impressive if it wasn’t behind the closed doors of a rich company. For all we know, they could’ve paid some mathematicians to work on the problem and pretend that their results are from ChatGPT.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
> at one ply it has an ELO of around 2300, Stockfish is probably closer to 1800 Nitpick: it’s Elo, not ELO. The name comes from the inventor’s surname and is not an acronym.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
> I can walk up to the counter and say "Big Mac Large Fry Small Coke" In what culture is it normal to just state your order without greeting or saying “please”? You also didn’t include the time taken squinting at the menu and t
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by xigoi 5mo ago
> The point of verifying email is to prove you're not a bot. I thougt it was primarily to verify that the address is actually yours, so they don’t unknowingly spam someone else and can reach you with important information such as pr
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by xigoi 5mo ago
Upper bounds only make sense if you assume that every package uses SemVer and that the author’s idea of a breaking change is the same as yours, which is a giant assumption that a package manager should not be making.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
Terrible analogy. I leave my house locked because I don’t want people to go in. On a website, I want people to read it, but without disturbing others. A better analogy would be that I open a small art gallery with free entrance and someone
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by xigoi 5mo ago
At least with scientific articles, the authors get precisely zero of the money that people pay for them. As for publishers, why should they be getting billions of dollars for putting up a PDF file on a website?
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by xigoi 5mo ago
> If something can be copied infinite times Except it can’t. LLM crawlers DDoS websites so that no one else can access them.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
Since when does Google care about laws?
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by xigoi 5mo ago
Vivaldi for Android does not support extensions, making it a non-starter for me.
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by xigoi 5mo ago
The problem is when you accidentally write an infinite loop. In a different language, you run the code, see that it gets stuck and fix it. In C, the compiler may delete the function, making it hard to realize what is happening.

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