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by theobeers 4mo ago
What am I supposed to say to that? If you think the argument that you believe I’m trying to make (which I couldn’t guess if you put a gun to my head) would be easy to make, and that I’m just not doing so, then you’d be better off engaging i
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by theobeers 4mo ago
Mr. Ptacek, a) I have no affiliation with OP, and b) do you know what my actual position is (not presupposing that you care)? It's that I don't know anyone who has been inspired by anything that YC has funded in a very long time.
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by theobeers 4mo ago
While I agree that YC appears rotten to the core at this point, it’s almost impossible to sustain a criticism of the accelerator because they make so many little investments. No matter what you accuse them of, they’ll dismiss it by saying y
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by theobeers 5mo ago
Well, that's sort of like what the "sort key" of a given string is: a vector of its nonzero primary-level collation weights, then secondaries, then tertiaries... And once you know what collation options you're using (tai
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by theobeers 5mo ago
Submission statement: Figuring out how to develop a Unicode collator from scratch for a research group that I working with in Berlin was one of my formative experiences as a programmer. Ever since then, I've wanted to write something t
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How Unicode Collation Works (2025)(theobeers.com)
12 points by theobeers 5mo ago|4 comments
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Supply and Demand Are Broken in Programming Education(blog.boot.dev)
6 points by theobeers 10mo ago|1 comments
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by theobeers 10mo ago
Submission statement: This was posted on Monday by the author and didn't manage to cut through the noise on a busy day. Thought I would give it one more chance. It's a post by the founder/CEO of an edtech company offering cou
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by theobeers 11mo ago
“If AI doesn’t literally take all the white-collar jobs over the next few years, we won’t just have a stock market bubble to deal with. We’ll have a drought of educated workers.” Indeed. For me this feels like an “I saw the best minds of my
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by theobeers 1y ago
Perhaps the new "Green Tea" GC will help? It's described as "a parallel marking algorithm that, if not memory-centric, is at least memory-aware, in that it endeavors to process objects close to one another together.&quot
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by theobeers 1y ago
Indeed, many such cases. Our society is full of institutions that functioned only because "no one in a position to participate would be shameless enough to abuse it." Then that assumption breaks, and it's ruined for everyone.
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by theobeers 1y ago
Another record, Name Authority Pointer (NAPTR), has the telephone number of the Johnson Space Center in Houston: > dig where-is-the-iss.dedyn.io NAPTR ; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> where-is-the-iss.dedyn.io NAPTR
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by theobeers 1y ago
As recently as five years ago, the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Ave. in Chicago employed elevator operators. It probably still does.
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by theobeers 2y ago
Watching that video made me wonder whether I should even feel comfortable visiting HN.
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by theobeers 2y ago
An interesting bit, on not making it too easy for people to circumvent the borrow checker: > First, we use a C++ compiler to build gccrs, disabling the borrow-checking pass of the compiler. It is important to ensure borrow-checking cann
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by theobeers 2y ago
In context, those are not shockingly high sums. The real problem seems to be what Woit summarizes in this 2004 (!!) comment on his blog: > It takes a non-trivial amount of time and effort to absorb new mathematical ideas and by so domina
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by theobeers 3y ago
Let’s wait and see what the vulnerability is. Maybe it doesn’t have anything to do with the pitfalls of C. But if it does, expect to read a lot more comments like this.
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by theobeers 3y ago
The screenshot of the DoD recruitment pitch from the conference set off a little "military-industrial complex alarm" in my mind. To be clear, I wouldn't have tagged the guy in a mean tweet. I would have just frowned and gone
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by theobeers 3y ago
She was right to speak out, and her employer was within its rights to fire her. As long as she subsequently found a job at a company that comes closer to sharing her values, it sounds like a win-win.
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by theobeers 3y ago
I like this about Deno (not to suggest that the runtime is without its flaws). Whenever I try to run a script and it tells me I need to allow e.g. read access to the filesystem, I’m more grateful than annoyed. And it lets you choose the gra
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by theobeers 3y ago
I wonder why Cloudflare still recommends a value of 6 months (15552000 seconds) for Max-Age in the HSTS header, when that isn't enough to qualify for Google's preload list. They do acknowledge this problem in their docs, but (afai
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by theobeers 3y ago
No smoking all day is a big deal for many Muslims in the Middle East. One year I was living in Cairo during Ramadan, and each day when it got close to the sunset call to prayer (which heralds the end of the fast), it seemed like all the cab
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by theobeers 3y ago
This blog post is from 2015—which should be added to the title here on HN. See MDN's docs on innerText. It's fully supported in Firefox since version 45 (2016). (Edit: the blog post also has an update at the bottom, noting that, a
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by theobeers 4y ago
I have a library in which I set #![forbid(unsafe_code)]. It relies on a small number of carefully chosen dependencies, almost all of which contain unsafe code. I mean first-rate libraries like bincode, bstr, and once_cell. It feels a bit di
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by theobeers 4y ago
As of last year, Meta recommends internally that CLI tools be implemented in Rust: https://engineering.fb.com/2022/07/27/developer-tools/progra...
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by theobeers 4y ago
I never thought I would see mention of Rogers Orchards on HN. Some of my family members live within biking distance of there, and I love stopping by for a bag of apples or a pie.
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by theobeers 4y ago
When I lived by Lake Shore Drive in Chicago (down in Hyde Park), the noise of nighttime motorcycle races really bothered me. I was surprised because I never thought of myself as being sensitive to such things. But it was so, so loud, and th
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by theobeers 4y ago
Putin has only so long to live, and I doubt that whoever/whatever replaces him will have even his (lately degraded) level of competence.
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by theobeers 4y ago
I’m glad someone did this. I immediately uninstalled the extension when I saw that it had been acquired by Avast.
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by theobeers 4y ago
I’ve been reading Masnick for years; I’ve just gotten really tired of his shtick. It sounds like you’re also bored by this unproductive discourse, albeit from the other side. At least we can agree in one respect, as sad as it is…

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