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Microsoft stole my copy of Minecraft. I had bought Minecraft before Microsoft bought Mojang, and eventually I was forced to migrate my Minecraft license to a Microsoft account. Aft…

I'm glad I'm not going insane... I have also noticed this with Sonnet, funnily enough - it's not as strong, but it's still there. But yeah, I haven't seen this with any other model…

I don't think it's particularly effective to create a new coding agent when there's existing open-source agents (especially extremely extensible ones like Pi) that already optimize…

I'd generally agree about Deepseek being as good as Sonnet - but I have extreme trouble with prompt compliance with V4 Pro in a way that I've never had with Sonnet. I'll tell it "f…

As someone who loves Lisps, I still have to disagree on the value of the s-expression syntax. I think that sexps are very beautiful, easy to parse, and easy to remember, but I thin…

The GP is factually wrong. There's plenty of empirical evidence to indicate that language influences thought, and that syntax is therefore important. Although, I would point out th…

Forget handwriting - I rarely see anything with as much care and effort put into it as this project. I like to think that I put a lot of ~~craftmanship~~ into my code, but the effo…

No-cloning theorem applies to logical qubits too! That "30% of errors" doesn't allow you to read out the logical state. Information is physical.

> A lot of the reason why Lispers may be averse to static types is because of the perceived inflexibility it can induce into the system. This perceived inflexibility is what my com…

For Common Lispers such as myself, who are vaguely aware of developments in the Scheme space: the most important difference between CRUNCH and Chicken appears to be that, while bot…

Thanks for the response! Are there any resources on learning to design simpler layout systems (like flexbox + any other important parts) without having to adjust the design to comp…

Layout is so difficult that it made me quit using Common Lisp and ncurses to build my passion project and become the very thing I swore to destroy (a React developer). I can't be t…

This is super neat - SBCL is an awesome language implementation, and I've always wanted to do CL development for a "real" game console. I'm also surprised (in a good way) that Shin…

I'm currently very slowly making my way through Geometric Algebra for Physicists by Doran and Lasenby. The book is a delight to read, but I'm not a mathematician, and this article …

> It's true that any kind of pay-per-use would be a hard, hard sell, though. Who wants to have to think about whether every click is worth the nickel it's going to cost? I've heard…

> Counter proposal: how about we don't destroy our own planet. How about we not pollute HN with low-effort, content-less, anti-intellectual, flamebait knee-jerk reactions? Let's le…

> My fear for end users is that once an alternative App Store opens or direct side loading is allowed it will reduce users options and harm the users ability to effectivly control …

One of my relatives is in her early 20's and has a large amount of difficulty using Linux (even for relatively simple needs like what you describe above), despite dozens of "suppor…

This is not the case for the majority of people or computers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39130904

I've tried to get multiple non-family members set up with Linux and have failed, with constant bugs from Linux, and confusion from the family members. Windows is far more reliable …

This seems like a reasonable take - there's only one problem: you haven't told us how to draw the rest of the owl. How does one learn how to (1) think in this way (which necessitat…

> Why would someone put ANYTHING on their resume that is not factually correct? Tragedy of the commons and negative externalities. If you're applying for a ton of jobs, then lying …

This is classic goal-post moving - you started out by saying that Intellij was faster than VSCode, then after a commentator said that their experience was the opposite, you moved t…

> Sorry, not even remotely close. I want to see some serious evidence. Funny that you say "not even remotely close" while providing zero evidence yourself, but then ask other peopl…