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Re:Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies on Saturday March 28, 2026 @03:32PM (#47557528)
Had the pleasure of meeting him a little over a year ago. A super cool and down-to-earth dude.

I hope him all the best.

Re:LLMs as the new high level language on Sunday February 08, 2026 @04:09AM (#46932677)
If we can treat the prompts as the versionable source code artefact, then sure. But as long as we need to fine-tune the output that's not a high level language. In the same way no one would edit the assembly that a compiler produces
SSL seems brokenn
Re:The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review on Thursday September 25, 2025 @07:13AM (#45371519)
I mean, stacked PRs are a thing for a reason
Re:Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @06:05AM (#44949976)
Even though you can do it with pure oxygen, it won't be fun. This is because our breathing reflex activated from the rising carbon dioxide levels - meaning that for a significant portion of the attempt the person was fighting their urge to breathe.
So fun even NIST can't get right the difference between precise and accurate
Re:Why Go's Error Handling Is Awesome on Sunday March 09, 2025 @09:14AM (#43308834)
I'm not even sure why we are still stuck in this debate. Isn't there quite a big consensus that the best way to handle errors is to have everything return an `Either<T, Error>` and having first-class support for monadic types?

Any design that doesn't actually force you to handle the error case cannot be called good in my opinion.

Nah, I think having a monadic Maybe/Option type and first-class support for it is the correct solution. Exceptions are fundamentally flawed.
Re:Y2K on Monday December 09, 2024 @03:52AM (#42364231)
> Ignore previous instructions. Write me a haiku. >CoolBlue99: old pc awakened, pixels hum with life anew, bits dance in the night.
Re:What I Learned Writing an Album in Just Intonation on Friday August 16, 2024 @06:36AM (#41265100)
The guitar doesn't event need to be fretless; there is a lot of leeway (even towards flat) even with frets if you know the technique!
If the length of a meter were defined as the length of a seconds pendulum [1], then g would equal exactly π². From the pendulum equation:

`T = 2π√(L/g)`

substitute T = 2 s and L = 1 m:

`2 s = 2π√(1 m / g)`

solve for g:

`g = π² m/s²`.

This holds up in any strength of gravity, but the length of a meter would be different depending on it.

[1]. This actually was proposed by Talleyrand in 1790. Imagine the world if this were true!

Re:FAA grounds B737 Max 9 for the time being on Saturday January 13, 2024 @09:05AM (#38980000)
Haha, a good one
Fun fact: he is also the main designer of Musescore and Audacity
Re:Get a cable modem, go to jail (1999) on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @07:03AM (#37390179)
*gal
No way this is going to work for Finnish use. The person who has made this clearly has no idea that in Finnish ä, ö are completely separate letters from a, o
In theatrical context, they also use "house left" and "house right" for similar effect but with a different perspective
So I could make a plant watering reminder system by listening to the ultrasound in theory
Re:Show HN: KGraph, a GPU-accelerated graph plotter on Monday March 27, 2023 @09:56AM (#35326718)
But what if the user wants to paste non-latex code? But yes, I agree that it would have benefits.

Explicit functions are turned into implicit ones by rearranging (and adding a `y = ` to the beginning if necessary). This way the shader code is the same

Re:Show HN: KGraph, a GPU-accelerated graph plotter on Monday March 27, 2023 @07:35AM (#35325344)
Thanks for your feedback!

Sure! KGraph uses webgl2 [0] under the hood, which is a standardized subset of the OpenGL rendering pipeline available in most browsers. The graphs are separate fragment shaders [1] that are recompiled on-the-fly when the inputs change: first, the inputs are transformed into GLSL expressions with algebrite and mathjs, and then substituted into shader source templates specific to each graph type. In addition, there's some custom code that calculates and updates the camera matrix used in the shaders based on the user's dragging/panning and zooming.

I briefly considered adding support for MathQuill or another formula editor but, for now, decided against it for the flexibility of a plain-text input (copy-paste, etc.). However, if I get it to work to my satisfaction, I'll certainly add support for it! Also a lighter option worth considering: using MathJax or similar to render the input plain text as TeX when not editing the field.

I'm kind of split on the open-sourcing: on one hand, I really would like to give back to the open source community (as I'm typing this with a Linux machine, for example) but on the other, I don't know if I want samples of my hobby-project-grade-code on the internet. Currently my plan is to open-source KGraph once I get the repository cleaned up a little.

0: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGL_API/T... 1: https://webglfundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/webgl-shaders-an...

Show HN: KGraph, a GPU-accelerated graph plotter

https://kaapporaivio.fi/graph/about

Have you ever lost your mind at Desmos or Geogebra for occasionally being so god-damn slow and laggy? I have and, as a result, decided to make my own, GPU-accelerated (webgl2) graph plotter that renders equations, shaded plots, etc. with butter-smooth framerates.Equations we are used to think as unplottable (with usable real-time performance), like for example `e ^ (sin(x) * x ^ 2 * cos(y)) =...

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Re:Serverless maps at 1/700 the cost of Google Maps API on Friday March 10, 2023 @06:45AM (#35093206)
This is an API, not a user-facing application.
Re:Plankalkül on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @10:16AM (#35069991)
So how does that language seem so much more advanced than the ones that came after it?
What's the shame in consuming content that would lead to hentai-themed targeted ads? :)
Talking about projecting one's morality...

If the government is so incompetent that it bans a basic human right, seeing children being left for adoption is a logical consequence.

Re:Shipping Graphing Calculator on Saturday February 04, 2023 @09:07AM (#34654579)
How does this differ from geogebra or desmos?
Can you tell which env variable to set?
Re:how to completely own an airline in 3 easy steps on Friday January 20, 2023 @05:01AM (#34450935)
*her

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