zahlman

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by zahlman 3mo ago
No excuse is required, because there's nothing wrong with it.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
The system for managing chat rooms was buggy, but the entire point of the chat rooms was to keep things out of the way long term. If the invitation comment didn't also get deleted, that was a system bug. As someone who comes by "i
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by zahlman 3mo ago
What if I want people to read me without needing a subscription or email disclosure? What's the email for anyway? So that you can get sent notifications of new posts? ... People read those kinds of emails? I always curse myself
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by zahlman 3mo ago
That has not at all been my experience of listening to such people. And, what subsidies ? The fossil fuel companies are just trying not to get legislated out of business, last I checked. In my book the disruptive subsidies are for corn (en
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> I question what is the value or helpfulness of continuing to doubt scientifically proven facts. And I question why you believe that anyone here did doubt them. > I consider dismissing widely accepted scientific results using wor
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by zahlman 3mo ago
FWIW, I'm on desktop but I do have JS disabled (more precisely, I use NoScript). This results in the top and left-side bars staying decorative and unobtrusive, but the concurrent visitor counter thingy is floating well above the bottom
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by zahlman 3mo ago
To be clear, "this text" refers to the link at the end, not to TFA, correct?
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> You don't want to embed the entire email in JSON. Too many parsers past, present, and future tend to want to decode the entire JSON document into memory before doing anything else, and so you'd be forcing entire email documen
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> Imagine randomized control trials where we measure how watching a specific movie impacts its viewer’s empathy, altruism, or motivation. The problem is that as soon as you choose those categories, you encode the assumption that "el
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> IDLE except it didn't suck. Hmm, I put that poorly, and can't edit now. I'm really thinking more about the entire Tkinter stack, and the way that IDLE is used both to demonstrate it and to provide a way to edit the Pytho
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by zahlman 3mo ago
(I have showdead on, but I'm not going to vouch for your reply. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Don't post generated text or AI-edited text. HN is for conversation between humans. "Signi
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by zahlman 3mo ago
What is with this snark? Why do we assume that everyone who says anything even slightly challenging to the narrative directly blaming climate change, is aligned with pro-fossil fuel interests? Instead, why not, for example, show the model o
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> Debating the shapes of clouds points to a fundamental dysfunctional disconnect on multiple levels. No, it points to the HN community exhibiting the exact kind of neurodiversity that would be expected here. Specifically: an ability to c
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
Is this about some kind of sense of "justice", or is it about solving the problem ?
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by zahlman 3mo ago
Where are you seeing such denial?
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by zahlman 3mo ago
Where in the thread are you seeing this?
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by zahlman 3mo ago
The sources I can readily find place the total extent of forest fires in France this year at 40,000 hectares, still less than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949_Landes_forest_fire .
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> libdeflate unsurprisingly blows it out of the water (unsurprisingly because this is a very carefully tuned implementation using architecture-specific SIMD, that we can't touch in Lean). ... But Rust presumably could if someone did
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by zahlman 3mo ago
You said it well. The aesthetic is so much more about building your project within the project itself (like what Jupyter and Marimo did for Python, but more so because you also lay out GUI this way), having built-in components, designing ar
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> too old... to be able to grasp... experience All you have to do is get people to try using it. It's vastly smoother now, because nothing prevents adding colour and Unicode support, or more modern widgets, etc. without really chang
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by zahlman 3mo ago
Am I the only remaining person who enjoys going through a manual rename as an excuse to review the code and refresh my mental model of it?
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by zahlman 3mo ago
Okay, so you are indeed talking about total lifecycle footprint rather than marginal footprint (which is strange to me because discussion of fossil fuels rarely mentions the carbon footprint of building the plants). The electricity generati
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by zahlman 3mo ago
pyenv is a wrapper for something that experienced pip+venv users would find trivial. If you use uv, meanwhile, that is also wrapping venv. It's integrating those tasks under one command prefix, which is the main thing I don't like
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by zahlman 3mo ago
I open this discussion thread and literally the first two top-level comments I see contradict each other: > I find that productivity follows a Pareto distribution (80:20 rule) and that AI is a sharper tool in that it enables the already
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by zahlman 3mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. > When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling name
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by zahlman 3mo ago
This is another instance of a spam attack I first noted over a year ago. New accounts all set up to keep linking to this one particular Stack Overflow question. Ref. https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433930/
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> Poetry, & later Uv, are essential & invaluable milestones in that revolutionary story; Pip is terrible software & should be left in the past. The comparison to other programs is missing the point of why pip is terrible. For
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by zahlman 3mo ago
I just use `git commit --amend` and then there is nothing to squash.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> For example, the solar PV when sited in Minnesota is so inefficient just making the electricity from natural gas would produce less CO2 per watt. How does electricity from solar PV ever make any CO2 whatsoever under any circumstances (

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