sk1pper

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by sk1pper 2mo ago
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 a simple single-cycle design, it doesn’t end up being super
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by sk1pper 7mo ago
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 lucky to get to do this for work and get paid pretty
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by sk1pper 4y ago
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 slowness. And I’m not running a minimalist WM to accommodate this
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by sk1pper 4y ago
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 for a while, but I've tended to write it o
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by sk1pper 4y ago
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 legitimately don’t have time for, even though I have time to bro
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by sk1pper 4y ago
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 spaces is still bleeding edge; too much so to use wi
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by sk1pper 4y ago
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 was a while there in like 2006 where I had a pretty solid in
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by sk1pper 4y ago
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 any references or links to actual s
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by sk1pper 4y ago
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’t quite true, at least in Postgres. It won’t affect the o
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by sk1pper 4y ago
> 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 more ability to optimize performance, and also lispy with
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by sk1pper 4y ago
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-project, but they're pretty out there for any
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by sk1pper 4y ago
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 in. Spoiler: I did this exercise myself. I found Rust to be m
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by sk1pper 4y ago
Counterpoint: Zig is unstable (as in, <1.0 release) and the docs are still pretty lacking. You’ll find yourself reading source code if you want to do anything nontrivial pretty much. Stick to C++ or Rust, which I won’t weigh in on here.
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by sk1pper 4y ago
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 go away. I guess you don’t have that problem here if the popu
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by sk1pper 4y ago
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 it. I just finished implementing a really basic network stack
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by sk1pper 4y ago
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 before I start hacking my side projects in it again.
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by sk1pper 4y ago
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, which are a kind of extreme case of dopamine detoxing in p
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by sk1pper 4y ago
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 are no stats or levels in The Outer Wilds; there are no upgra
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by sk1pper 4y ago
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 I’d run the risk of being judged as just not really getting
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by sk1pper 5y ago
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 think of the rest of your life while you’re not meditating
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by sk1pper 5y ago
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 doing weird Touch Bar stuff.) It has 3 bluetooth channels so I
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by sk1pper 5y ago
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 stable. I've tried so many times and I d
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by sk1pper 7y ago
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 safety protocol lead to the accident. The graphite-tipp
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by sk1pper 7y ago
You can create indexes on expressions, like mycustomfunction(a), in Postgres at least.
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by sk1pper 8y ago
I used to work at a place that did this and know other people that have too. Not necessarily over job titles, but generally pushing people out over stupid shit to keep salaries low. I just can’t imagine that is more profitable in the long r
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by sk1pper 8y ago
Glad I’m not the only one. I thought something was wrong with my brain. Or that I might be a robot.
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by sk1pper 8y ago
That was great, thanks! Looks like I’m gonna have to pick up The Dictator’s Handbook now.
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by sk1pper 8y ago
It set up the clickbait title pretty nicely, at least.
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by sk1pper 8y ago
Don’t do this. You’ll just feel like shit and it’ll be nothing like cocaine.
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by sk1pper 8y ago
How does this not end up as Flash reincarnated though?

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