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Hi, I sent a connect request on LinkedIn! Would love to know more.

I think a choice between standard/relative line numbers would be nice to have because that choice potentially affects your chosen motions

>that the math done for its own sake is just not as beautiful to me as math that has applications. The point that the person who you're replying to is making is that you dont know …

>So I'm wondering yet again: why do people find C pointers so difficult to grok? For me, understanding pointers to data types was not the hard bit(int* or some_struct*), but wrappi…

I'd like to offer a single datapoint(mine) on this too, I'm going to university soon and in the last few years, the fact that the internet exists has allowed me to solve interestin…

>From anecdotal memory, I think what happened was a shift from real problems to abstract concepts Funnily enough, I am the exact opposite; I struggle with statistics and mechanics …

>Part of the problem is that people don't know what they want. Another part of the problem is that people ask about really advanced things that they are not ready for, and where th…

Oh thanks for reminding me of SOME, I might try participating for sure. The reason I asked B) is because I need a starting point since there's so much I could talk about, so e.g. "…

So with my exams coming to an end and a rather long summer beginning, I wanted to put my time to good use and work on something that people find useful. I've come across various HN…

Just wanted to say that I loved the analogy :)

I still think it's marketing because if it really is dangerous, why talk about it in the first place? (I don't doubt that it may be 'dangerous' if used for nefarious purposes, but …

I think you're giving too much credit to the average user, empirically, we as humans tend to question less and believe more about things that are beyond our understanding, and LLMs…

The problem is the average worker is more likely to blindly trust an "advanced chatbot"(from a layperson pov) than a random google result. (edit) how many people do you think are a…

>What do you know that Reddit's investors do not? The experience I get as a user of the app? Is it that hard to believe that people at the very top can be out of touch with the ave…

Make the API reasonably priced instead of making it effectively impossible to run 3rd party apps, make 3rd party apps a reddit gold only feature, make reddit gold better in general…

>but not that disruptive I remember watching a lot of popular minecraft creators make detailed videos on why it's bad and long story short, it seemed pretty disruptive(although tha…

So there's this pattern I've observed in the last few months in regards to big companies(tech or otherwise) which seems to have become more and more clear recently. If a product/se…

Funnily enough your description of your issues makes me think you're more likely to have ADHD than you think. >don't think this is ADHD as I can focus on things I'm more interested…

Yeah they're just taking away access from the exact set of people who'll benefit the userbase most(mods, indie devs etc.) and still reserving it for corporations with the money to …

It's anecdata but I certainly understood the value of money enough to not blow off 64 grand(or really any money without asking always my parents) when I was 13(which was not very l…

The issue goes far beyond just alternate frontends, mods of a popular subreddit for discussion of esports related to a game I play said that the API changes would greatly impact ho…

>classic underestimating a domain you have no understanding of to be clear I'm not a hw eng myself so I don't have a deep understanding of hw eng, but I have a friend who's studyin…

I always thought it's to prevent people from taking any advice and actually acting on it in a legal case they're involved in(as in IANAL so don't actually use my advice in a court …

Only thing I can really see is mabye go/zig gaining more adoption but I don't think we're even close to that point yet, what's worrying is even discussing something like this happe…