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Re:Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @10:43AM (#46887202)
Knowledge is understanding that tomatoes are a fruit. Wisdom is understanding that they don't belong in a fruit salad.

Or...

Knowledge is understanding that ketchup is tomato jelly. Wisdom is refraining from putting it on your peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Re:Odin, a Pragmatic C Alternative with a Go Flavour on Friday May 09, 2025 @10:36PM (#43942804)
That's a method from Raylib, a C library which has Odin bindings. For all libraries, Odin follows the original library's style.

The Odin convention is Pascal case (lower_case_procedures, Capitalized_Enums_And_Structs).

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @07:39AM (#43545559)
You should also be proud of the name!
Re:Ask HN: Are people still using Pascal in 2023? on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @07:46AM (#34968664)
HROT[0] is a retro shooter using a custom engine written in Pascal.

(Not mine at all, I'm just a loving player)

*[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/824600/HROT/

Re:Hg Init: A Mercurial Tutorial on Friday July 22, 2022 @10:48AM (#32192431)
It's built in to the Mercurial CLI, whereas tab autocomplete is an additional feature to the user's shell. Thus, by default, every user will have access to the Mercurial shortnames, while only users with autocomplete enabled in their shell (or with autocomplete available for their shell) will have the autocomplete available.

Also, autocomplete is still an additional keypress...

Re:The illusion of evidence based medicine on Friday March 25, 2022 @09:15AM (#30801743)
What you're saying is technically accurate to the intended definition and purpose of science, but if you're seriously asking why these people didn't question or contradict, I'm not sure where you've been for the last several years. So many pandemic response items, in particular, have been "Trust the science"/"Follow the science", and any questions or possible alternatives to the prescribed Method Of Treatment are not only dismissed, but actively persecuted.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? on Friday July 05, 2019 @02:04PM (#20364448)
The idea OP is working to combat or disprove, though, is not that "People can succeed without effort". Rather, they are working to prove that software development is a skill which can be learned by most/all people, and not some highly intellectual undertaking out of reach to all but the most mentally elite.
Re:A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics on Monday December 03, 2018 @11:48AM (#18590198)
May I ask what the "different text" was that you switched to? I have Rosen, and I'd like something more approachable and clear.
Should, but apparently don't, given the number of false alarms they respond to blindly and violently...
Re:Introducing Twitter Lite on Thursday April 06, 2017 @08:37AM (#14049952)
Definitely did not. Top tweet when I logged in just now was a T-Mobile promoted...