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HN is mostly dead to me. The site was billed as a place for curious minds, but there is little curiosity in letting a machine do your thinking.

I've had several instances of Kdenlive corrupting my save file, making them unable to be recovered. So no, that's not always a solution.

Lego's original moat was their patent. This expired in the 80s, and so their new moat became their manufacturing tolerances. None of their competitors could match the quality of th…

Single-handed made me smirk. It was vibe coded.

Don't get hung up on the numbers or scale. The value of the doomsday clock is in the direction it's moving.

You're very correct but I suppose I was really answering why compilers centralize around SSA. It's a bold choice to choose one data structure for everything, and that requires more…

I like this article a lot but it doesn't answer the question of "Why SSA?". Sure, a graph representation is nice, but that isn't a unique property of SSA. You can have graph IRs th…

Hey, this is my project. Cool to see it here again. You might like this article I wrote on the backend: https://pubby.games/codegen.html

Keep in mind that the ruling party has massively powerful surveillance systems at their fingertips. It's hard to say how things will unfold, but being a dissident may not be in one…

Well, they won two branches democratically. The supreme court is a different matter.

I remember playing that game once. The vast majority of the chat messages were some variant of, "I need a boy" or "I need a girl", meaning they were looking for dates. I guess boyf…

I didn't intend for my post to be about rural vs urban, or smart vs dumb. The point I was trying to make was that some people just aren't interested, no matter their background. Yo…

Something I've been wondering lately is how big of a blind spot I have from being habitually online. Like, I'll read the news, and I'll read political discussions on HN and r/polit…

Sorry if this is trite, but I'm looking for life advice. Right now, I'm not making much money, and that needs to change relatively soon. For the past few years I've been applying t…

Take strings for example. In C you have to manually manage memory and there are a million pitfalls. Lots of programmers are lazy and use fixed-sized arrays and "unsafe" functions l…

I mean it depends on the project and scope, but if you just write C-style code but use unique_ptr, vector, string, and , you're already at an advantage.

I've seen a few people/companies do this and it always baffles me. You don't have to use every C++ feature in existence, but a little bit here and there is far more productive and …

So here's the problem: you can buy an older cast-iron table saw with good precision and a large bed for $50-$150 on craigslist, or you can buy a cheap piece of made-in-china plasti…

Trying to write a perfect optimizer is like trying to slay a hydra. Every time you address one weakness, two more are spotted. The overall approach has to run in polynomial time (o…

I'd recommend just googling how a bike works instead of pursuing this argument. There's lots of good articles, like this one: http://www.cyclelicio.us/2011/bicycle-dynamics/ It loo…

Nah, that's not it. Try riding a bike in reverse (or pushing it). It's not at all stable, because the feedback is applied in the opposite direction. You'll fall right away, even th…

I've heard that the gyroscopic effect in bicycles is rather small. The balance instead comes from the positive angle of the front wheel, creating feedback. If the bike leans one di…

Thanks. I might sell some one day, maybe as a physical cartridge release as those have better margins. Mostly though I want people to enjoy my stuff, so a lot of what I release is …