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Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by omgmajk »

imadethis wrote: post #78
omgmajk wrote: post #66

I explored the programming language nim a bit deeper for use in game programming with SDL3 bindings, but I came to find out that compiled nim code on Windows often triggers anti-virus because, from what I hear from people, nim is used a lot in malware development currently. Which is a shame because I really like that language. I haven't tested it myself, it's just things I have heard and read. Someone on r/gamedev to…

I don't have any nim experience (sorry!) but I'm also exploring SDL3 with odin. I was able to get a naive battleship clone up and working very quickly, pretty neat. Next step is the new SDL3 GPU API.

I haven't looked into Odin that much but I hear it's swell, so maybe I should!

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by q-base »

I have started exploring Seneca/stoicism again. Prompted partly by a recent submission here, partly by personal reasons. Instead of consuming other peoples interpretation of stoicism I decided to go as close to the source as feasible for me. I have read Letters from a stoic a number of times before and my copy is filled with highlights, but this time I think I will try to limit myself to one or two letters a day and then really think about them properly.

The first one really hit me hard and prompted me to write out my own thoughts (https://jesperreiche.com/seneca-letter-2/) whether I will keep doing that I am a little unsure. It feels on the border of how personal I want to be/share on my blog.

P.S. I can see the irony in writing about me going to the source instead of consuming other peoples interpretation and then sharing a link to my own interpretation :)

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by nurettin »

hahahahhaah wrote: post #76
nurettin wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean you discovered parallel arrays?

Whats a good place to see parallel arrays defined. I have no data lake expetience. Know how relational db works.

I mean,

    Table1 = {"col1": [1,2,3]}
    Table2 = {"epiphany": [1,1,1]}
    for i, r in enumerate(Table1["col1"]):
      print(r, Table2["epiphany"][i])
He's really happy he found this (Edit: actually it seems like Chang She talked about this while discussing the Lance data format[1]@12:00 in 2024 at a conference calling it "the fourth way") and will represent this in a conference.

[1] https://youtu.be/9O2pfXkCDmU?si=IheQl6rAiB852elv

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by smilbandit »

setup a desktop with n8n, ollama, open webui, comfyui, and aider. work is dragging it's feet on AI orchestration and workflow tooling so figured I learn it a bit to get ahead of things. just need some personal projects that are interesting enough that I'll pour time into them.

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by TZubiri »

dr_dshiv wrote: post #75
ilinx wrote: post #16

I’m reading Domain Driven Development and learning why so many of my projects have been tough to maintain. I also recently learned that you can get ancient coins for very little money if you don’t care about resale value or need them to be in pristine condition. I bought some coins from kingdoms that I’d never heard of. Many are thousands of years old! It’s fun holding a piece of history like that.

Ancient coin collecting is an awesome hobby! I have one that scholars think was made by / designed by Pythagoras himself. For a few hundred bucks! Recently I learned that only 3% of Latin works from 1450-1700 (including renaissance and scientific revolution) have been translated. Secondrenaissance.ai

No way

At this point just learn latin

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by datahack »

I’m learning about the “era of the nations” thinking from Hungary’s Balázs Orbán, via an episode of a podcast called the Winston Marshall show. YouTube just randomly suggested it to me.

I just rebuild a speed queen dryer that broke with spare parts from Amazon, which revealed a remarkably simplistic engineering. Very surprised by how simplistic the mechanism was. It’s incredible how over engineered most laundry systems have become.

Also spent some time digging into the integrations between Tesla FSD and rideshare services today. It’s remarkable how much progress has happened.

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by 4mitkumar »

I found just now that my telecom operator - Airtel - randomly subscribed me for OTT services and charged me for it. But upon calling them and contesting, they just asked if I want to unsubscribe and then reverted the charges. No threats, pleading, or back-and-forth involved from either side. Mildly surreal.

I wonder that's a new corporate strategy - charge randomly till someone goes through the pain of IVR and spends 15 mins with support. Must generate quite an upside for them if it is indeed a strategy.

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