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I went through Turing Complete up to a working CPU and found it incredibly fun. I then went on to build my own RV32I (simplest RISC-V instruction set) core in Verilog - if you keep…

I haven't been on HN in years and wandered here to the Ask section with something similar on my mind. I really, really love programming. I love learning about computers. I'm so luc…

I’m still rocking my 2015 MBP. I have no issues at all. The battery says it needs to be serviced, but the battery life is still plenty good for my uses. I have no issues with slown…

My fiancee has ADHD and sends me memes and videos and such about it. And I'm always like, these videos are dumb, doesn't everyone do those things? I've been wondering about this fo…

Man, yeah, I feel that; I just don’t have enough time to do everything I want to do. - me, laying on my couch and mindlessly browsing HN There are things I want to do that I legiti…

Hmm, I think that's a little heavy-handed. Just off the top of my head: CUDA (maybe other gpgpu stuff too), gamedev, most projects with a UI. The tooling you'd be using in those sp…

I want this to be true very badly. I’ve been a Linux user for nearly 20 years and I’ve never had an install that “just works” to the level of macOS or even Windows. Although there …

We can make a pretty good guess. I found this link on her website: https://justmeat.co/docs/health-dangers-of-a-plant-based-die... A cursory review of her website doesn't reveal an…

Nitpick: > when a nested query is refactored into a common table expression (CTE), this kind of change doesn’t have any functional impact on either a query or its outcome This isn’…

> Julia is very specifically a general purpose programming language I’ve been trying to figure this out recently - because I love Julia’s features. Readable like Python, but with m…

Do you mean for production? Zig isn't production-ready. Nim is extremely niche. I'm kind of puzzled why I see these thrown around so much on HN. Sure, they're fine for a side-proje…

Here’s a fun way to decide. Do Raytracing in One Weekend[1] in one of them. Then rewrite it again in the other. That should give you a good sense for which one you want to invest i…

Counterpoint: Zig is unstable (as in, Stick to C++ or Rust, which I won’t weigh in on here. But both are much more mature.

Autocomplete usually drives me crazy in IDEs - often it covers up nearby code that’s relevant to what I’m currently typing, so I end up hitting ESC all the time just to get it to g…

In the vein of learning how computers work, osdev has got to be pretty high up there. It’s so much fun - it has become my hobby. I’m surprised no one else seems to have mentioned i…

Hmm, I didn't find that quite to be the case. I wrote a toy GPU-accelerated (using OpenGL via C) terminal emulator in Zig. My take is that I'll probably wait for at least a 1.0 bef…

I know (or, my sense is that) the whole dopamine detox thing causes a lot of folks to raise eyebrows, myself included for the most part. But, I’ve done multiple meditation retreats…

The commentary around organic learning reminds me of The Outer Wilds. Imho it’s an even more extreme case of what the author is getting at here: (very mild spoilers follow) there a…

Me too. If I wear a simple blue button down, there’s a 100% chance it gets commented on. And I work full time remote… I feel like if I wore that to a software engineering interview…

A great counterpart to this book might be Everyday Zen by Charlotte Joko Beck. The Mind Illuminated is a technical manual for meditation practice; Everyday Zen is more about how to…

Logitech K380. I can type faster on that thing than any mechanical keyboard. It feels like the old gen MacBook Pro keyboards to me, but more crisp. (The gen before they started doi…

Not parent commenter but I've had the same experience - and I'm sure this comment will be received just as poorly as theirs, but I've given up on Linux desktop. It just isn't stabl…

n=1, but my general takeaway from the show wasn't that nuclear is fundamentally flawed, it was that a series of pretty questionable choices by management and egregiously eschewing …

You can create indexes on expressions, like mycustomfunction(a), in Postgres at least.