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Re:Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser on Friday October 09, 2026 @05:48AM (#50018270)
I'm still getting blown to pieces, how is it safe?
bad consumer
Actually as a proud new owner of SuperCollider and a breadboard (and Taobao account) I'm not very far from getting a few rotary encoders myself ...
I don't understand why, if you want to use this, would you run it on RPi instead of just on your computer? Is it for realtime guarantees (ie. no OS updating in the background)?
Usually it takes less than 5 minutes to review the shell script that downloads stuff.
Re:Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer on Friday February 20, 2026 @08:26AM (#47087772)
Do you guys remember the smalltalk toolkit posted here a while ago which their creators made specifically for help understanding new codebases?
Re:Why software stocks are getting pummelled on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @10:58PM (#46881282)
yeah but it doesn't :)
Re:All it takes is for one to work out on Sunday November 30, 2025 @10:02AM (#46097190)
My dumb ass read it as "all it takes is that you workout", just with the more fancy pronoun 'one'
Re:Beads – A memory upgrade for your coding agent on Saturday November 29, 2025 @10:39AM (#46088335)
yep lol one of the rants was how strong typing sucks and slows everything down another one about Haskell
Re:Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio on Sunday September 07, 2025 @05:35AM (#45156740)
same on Firefox macos
It's possible it worked in the past and doesn't work any more.
Re:Gemini 2.5 Flash Image on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @11:55PM (#45035301)
Me and you are but that guy over there isn't
This means even more influence to Chinese phone makers which don't bother themselves with compliance to Google's platform ideas
Re:How I build software quickly on Monday July 14, 2025 @09:33AM (#44560050)
while i'm currently using sqlite, since it has only one write transaction at a time, if I understand correctly, opening a tx and doing outside requests while in the transaction could potentially block your whole application if the outside requests keep timing out... so you kinda need to watch out for that
Re:Introducing tmux-rs on Friday July 04, 2025 @12:38AM (#44461166)
you cultivated your interest in programming languages and techniques

other people use the stupidest possible javascript to launch product and really focus on product and marketing

yet other people stay as far away from computers as possible and focus on more human activities

you just do what you're drawn to naturally

Microsoft is working on it
Why do people believe humanities education would make people act ethically?
Re:The Frontend Treadmill on Monday March 31, 2025 @09:57AM (#43535140)
I liked it in the Jurrasic park
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2025) on Sunday March 09, 2025 @12:06PM (#43310399)
This seems really nice to me. Of course people are going to click it away to get their dopamine but that's just reality.
Re:Falkon: A KDE Web Browser on Saturday March 08, 2025 @07:34AM (#43299729)
yeah but Chromium is just the web engine from KDE with a bunch of things on top :P
How much of it was because you didn't go through TCP/IP with sqlite?
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2025) on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @09:39AM (#43183993)
Back on dial up we used browser plugin (or even separate windows app) download managers which did a lot of that
Does it also handle (let you pick) when opening a web link from another app?
Re:Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner on Monday December 09, 2024 @01:51AM (#42363611)
I've been using nixpkgs on macos (and without brew) for 3 years now and not sure what kind of split brain problem you're talking about? I also have no idea about the problems with multiple anaconda and other python builds complain about.
while your app gets rejected when there is a button that does nothing :D
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) on Friday November 01, 2024 @08:30AM (#42016294)
apparently that will be soon required in Malaysia. And they use a OASIS standard
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) on Monday October 28, 2024 @09:50PM (#41978568)
You should add another use to it which is exploring live in-memory object graphs of applications. Make some adapter library to allow getting those objects from apps that want to use and then you can fly through the data being processed. For debugging, exploration and education. I'm using a basic version of this idea for debugging: https://github.com/Quiark/overlog
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) on Monday October 28, 2024 @11:43AM (#41972299)
I was just watching with my young kids YT videos about casting metals into objects and how steel is made, sometimes modernity is great
Quantum computer is a (sort of) practical application of entanglement. At least it's useful for breaking cryptography.

As explained elsewhere, entanglement cannot be used for faster than light communication because even though change in one particle affects the other particle, without additional information observer sees only a random change.

"This alien super-computer made from entangled iron atoms clearly is not thinking because it doesn't have neurons"

you mean like this?

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