knighthack

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by knighthack 2mo ago
How you started completely disqualified whatever the author of the article argues next: "...The recent fiasco involving Linus Torvalds running Linux like the privileged man that he is and entirely missing the central points of the argu
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by knighthack 2mo ago
I leaped to Linux a few years back. One of the best moves in my life. The speed, the reaction time, the lack of bloat. I side-car'ed a Mac for some apps that could not go through (e.g. for audio work, which Linux has some difficulties
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by knighthack 4mo ago
The post is aggressive. I was about to dislike it, then I realized: the author's aggression comes off as... human. I don't know if the aggression itself is an intentional mockery of the cool, dispassionate, pseudo-poetic tone that
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by knighthack 4mo ago
I really don't get having a ton of MD files lying around. And the possibility of having to edit a thousand MD files when the metadata frontmatter changes. A single SQLite database implements columns/metadata handling, and comes ba
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by knighthack 5mo ago
> AI music appears to be reasonable music, but it carries no human emotion, it has no intent to exist and stand up on its own. The 'lack' of human emotion does not make anything less musical, at least on the composition side. B
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by knighthack 5mo ago
> LLMs are terrible at accurately summarizing anything. They very randomly latch on to certain keywords and construct a narrative from them, with the result being something that is plausibly correct but in which the details are incorrect
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by knighthack 11mo ago
One other thing - latency. The newest Macbooks have insanely powerful hardware (I have an M4 Macbook Max). Yet they do not feel as speedy or instant on my machines with i3. There's always a perceivable milliseconds of latency, with res
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by knighthack 1y ago
The one interesting thing (as a heavy user of both OSes) is that since the past decade there now are plenty of high-quality games (if those count for apps) on the Linux, that still don't work as well or as plentifully on Mac. Linux i
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by knighthack 1y ago
I use CopyQ. Love it because it's so cross-platform, and consistently works across my Mac and Linux machines with minimal fuss; it handles images really well too.
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by knighthack 1y ago
I have some doubts about your statements. If you can't get a job at FAANG or the major startups, sure - that makes absolute sense. Competition is crazy. If you can't get a job at all , that makes no sense, and probably speaks mor
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by knighthack 1y ago
While I love this insightful analogue, your statement seems exactly like the kind of text you copy-pasted from some LLM, which you then regurgitated to Hacker news with some modifications. It even ends with that trademark conclusion-style s
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by knighthack 1y ago
I'm not sure why allowances are made for Zig's verbosity, but not Go's. What's good for the goose should be good for the gander.
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by knighthack 1y ago
What "ugly things" exactly did he say?
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by knighthack 1y ago
I find it ridiculous how "writing scripts to keep things working the way I want" can be a source of frustration. To me, that's a source of pleasure. I've never expected Windows or Mac to work exactly how I want them to.
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by knighthack 1y ago
Swift's become so feature-heavy, and complex, whilst the documentation is all over the place. That's not even counting things like SwiftUI, or its rather arcane CLI tooling. Out of curiosity, I put in more than 150 genuine hours
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by knighthack 1y ago
I'm willing to bet there's a dragon in that egg.
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by knighthack 1y ago
What exactly do you write, where your Python+C is faster than Nim which compiles to optimized C?
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by knighthack 1y ago
> "...I am a psychologist of software environments and that is something of an anomaly." Right. Translation: "I'm actually incompetent. I have no technical abilities, and I'm lazy to learn." Her entire blog
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by knighthack 1y ago
I really wish there was more of a discussion on Nim.
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by knighthack 1y ago
I've always thought the word 'bricked' as more akin to 'turning the phone into a useless brick'.
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by knighthack 1y ago
Somehow an anti-DEI push is "ridiculous", but the prior pro-DEI push isn't? There are those who were successful without merit, achieved renown/success only because they were DEI tokens. Therefore if they didn't dese
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by knighthack 1y ago
Lack of passion and enjoyment for an art form generally correlates with a mentality of doing 'just-enough', rather than a keen desire for craftsmanship. I think those who enjoy paychecks but don't enjoy coding are likely to b
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by knighthack 1y ago
I really don't get how this can't be emulated with the F5 key, or something like Sublime Text's InsertDate package, or a text expansion software. What does this note taking provide that's any different?
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by knighthack 1y ago
This is so fascinating. I would totally read it if you expanded this into a full blog article on your specific experience at the time.
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by knighthack 2y ago
Rustaceans, the over-engineers. I haven't read the code, and I wonder if there's excessive focus on performance, safety, and modern programming paradigms for a fake productivity app such as this.
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by knighthack 2y ago
I lost confidence completelythe moment I saw that the example code was with React.js. Immediately felt like one of those disposable framework ideas.
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by knighthack 2y ago
The underground lizard people doing their thing, of course.
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by knighthack 2y ago
This is a great article on decorators! Sad that it's not gotten more comments. Love the gradual shift between using decorators for functions, wraps, classes, decorators with parameters.
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by knighthack 2y ago
"...women do spend more time on dating apps than men" How is that statement even true, when there are often more men than women on dating apps, by a significant factor? There are also studies showing just how difficult women are t
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by knighthack 2y ago
I'm happy for Zig to gain support for one major reason: Zig does not engage in "woke" culture the way Rust does. Zig seems to take a neutral, technical-first stance, while Rust has a strong focus on inclusivity, strict modera

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