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All of my gamer friends exclusively play Java edition and so do I. Also minecraft's most active speedrun category (any % glitchless, random seed) uses version 1.16.1 on Java editio…

Haskell, OCaml, Erlang lead the way and Rust, Zig and Go get all the mindshare. I feel like its a common pattern for more experimental languages to pioneer features and other langu…

Mac minis are particularly suited to running AI models because they can have a pretty good quantity of RAM (64GB) assigned to the GPU at a reasonable price compared to Nvidia offer…

Just here to point out that the actor’s name is Bob Odenkirk not Odendirk. In a statically typed language this would be an error at compile time not hacker news comment time.

Safe rust can leak memory, so a better question is "If someone wrote C code that made an invalid read or write, would rust do the same?" I can't answer the question, but ideally if…

for when not to use a spreadsheet, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34968457 tl;dr when it involves automated processes

I also got nausea from this game and I've never gotten nausea from a video game before. The style is amazing, but the camera controls need some work. I don't know what the camera n…

I think I agree. I’m curious what software would be in places 2-10. If we’re talking about HN, maybe excel/google sheets? Maybe C++? Recent versions of macOS always seem to get hat…

Fil-C seems interesting, and I didn’t understand the details of how multi-threaded garbage collectors worked before reading it (I still don’t but I’m closer!). The tradeoff between…

> Disable spotlight for everything except what you want to use it for My friend's mac would "take off" (fan spun up crazy fast) after every boot/login and I disabled full-text sear…

Do you think an eventually open style spam filter could work? One where the implemntation is released say 2 years after it was first written (including modifications)

The funniest part of this article (in the context of being posted on HN) is that the author separately mentions engineer and software engineer in her list of client professions. Th…

Cloud gaming would lose practical consumers' control much more than Netflix did. At the very least, one could always point a video camera at the screen to copy video (suppose for o…

Memory hole is from 1984. It is where they put papers to be incinerated and forgotten. Spotify removed a few Joe Rogan episodes IIRC.

I'm not sure if the author of this blog visits hacker news to read this, but your code blocks are unreadable without javascript. They're black highlighted black text.

Unsurprising, since the creator of rust, Graydon Hoare now works for apple on swift[0] in "a non-leadership position". [0] https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/7qels2/i_wonder_wh…

Most non-copyleft (permissive free software and proprietary software) tries to stay as far away as possible from the GPLv3 license. Because of this, macOS ships gnu nano 2.0.6 wher…

Display Data Channel generally doesn't work through dongles. I'm not really sure how usb-c dongles work (block diagram, etc.), so I don't know why this is the case.

I like rust, but don't use it for embedded. Here's a blog I read on how to make GPIO access safe https://www.ecorax.net/macro-bunker-2/ . In that article, they have three goals: ve…

I haven't found a good solution to a fallible constructor without exceptions. You might want this if you have a C++ wrapper around a file or some other OS primitive. I would love s…

The way tinder dealt with it, as I understand, is by dividing the world into a coarse grid. Users were placed in the grid, then distances calculated from the centers of the grid sq…

"Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element — direct observation." The Machine Stops, page 18

I had the same reaction. I decided that those were examples that subverted the author's expectations instead of examples of contradiction.

This article suggests a weird anti-synnergy between Google products. If android app makers knew that an adsense/admob ban led to a play store ban, they would use some other adverti…