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When I was 11, I pulled a book off the shelf at the nearby library called "Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days". I remember thinking the title was clearly nonsense, but if I could even l…

> Vulkan - I don't even want to know Almost 1000: https://github.com/Overv/VulkanTutorial/blob/main/code/15_he... (From Chapter 15 of the Vulkan Tutorial from vulkan-tutorial.com)

Very happy JamCorder customer here. I've started playing in improv shows since I bought it too, and it's nice to have those on record! It's rare that I come across a product I have…

FWIW I don't think it's pathetic at all, and I have the same reaction as you to a lot of things on HN. There are a wide variety of topics that bring out various biases and other co…

Oh that hit me more than I thought it would, thank you.

> Pop-ups! Pop-ups everywhere! This part, at least, is satire, right? The rest I largely agree with :-)

And their reputation suffered so much that we're calling it out on an internet forum decades later.

> But I can’t help but feel that the effort meant something. Each person that put in the effort is one additional review point. Thinking, Writing, Editing, Proofing, Publishing, Di…

I love(?) that he absolutely predicted a global disaster between 2020-2025, he just got the wrong type. Which is very JavaScript.

Sadly it doesn't quite go away even when you've turned everything off: https://davids.town/dear-apple-please-fix-ios-music

Everyone got real loud when Windows 10 was killed off. And it happened anyway. I expect the same will happen this time, as do Microsoft. Might be time to go back to a second, air-g…

Slightly facetiously, but also completely seriously: I thought the speaker was talking about a "solution" that explicitly frames the students as the "problem" - and the students no…

Not sure I agree with some of your points, but also not sure they're downvote-worthy. As a non-American, the only thing I could probably argue against in good faith with enough con…

Another opportunity to recommend "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45" by Milton Mayer. The audiobook is great too. A critical but empathetic look at how fascism rises…

Assembly for the correct architecture is only one part of getting an executable running on a machine. - Dynamic libraries (e.g. for calling into the kernel, but also user space dyn…

I really enjoyed OP's story, and the way they told it. Knowing the location of Richmond Hill is really not the point.

Who said AI taking your job is "the most likely" case? Even by those extreme estimates of 30% unemployment or whatever - that still leaves ~65% of jobs not lost to AI.

You don't have any idea what job they have, how good they are at it, what their company does, what industry they work in, whether their income is backed by labour, knowledge work, …

I'm seeing a lot of comments like this lately: "Oh well, we were in an anomalous time of social growth, time to go backwards! We won't even need to read or write or think! It's all…

Nope, looks like someone's angling for some sweet domain parking money. Or a lawsuit, given macOS is a trademark.

That is the question society is currently asking with articles like this one. Given that (allegedly) "your salary" won't be the answer for a significant chunk of the population soo…

I am not at all proposing that "people with billions of dollars" somehow directly pay for "the needs of the population as a whole". I'm considering "actual power", rather than "act…

I wholeheartedly agree with and encourage this kind of academic distinction. However... Until people with billions of dollars behind them do something with that money to offset the…

This analogy only works if the toddler buys their own lego and, while assembling it, the neighbour's toddler - whose parents can't afford to buy lego - chokes to death. It is possi…

I agree that being further along the Vibe end of the spectrum is the issue. Some of the other ways I use Claude don't have the same problems. > If the result is something you can't…