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Re:A Road to Lisp: Why Lisp on Thursday July 09, 2026 @12:18PM (#48848377)
one way to see it is that it's a function that runs at compile time. for instance instead of dumping magic numbers/tables in a codebase you could put the code and substitute to their value at compile time.

but also it can change your code, so you get to do all the java annotation magic stuff.

Re:PostHog Open Sourced on Thursday July 09, 2026 @11:43AM (#48847795)
money?
factorio got me spitting blood from lack of sleep...
kids go to school using public transport. i mean. lots of people don't have a driving license in the first place.
It is hurting Japan pretty bad too.
java has had profiles for an eternity and multiple jvm implementation. it can get really really thin.

also has modules now.

get your carpenter a circular saw, a drill, a router, a hand planner and an orbital. on many jobs you ll get your 10x.

you don't need much experience. the tools make you insanely faster with much much less physical strain and maintenance time. they're simple, predictable, reliable, and obscenely powerful.

an experimented carpenter would take a few minutes to be decent at using then.

- stable and "slow" is best - don't ever let the blade get pinched (by wood) - be mindful of the cords - keep the flesh out of the way - goggles up and don't breathe the dust

you got 95% of it there

i am honestly puzzled as to why germans, with all the educations they have received during decades, are letting this rock as is. or maybe disillusioned would be a better term...
societally having children is not a choice
Re:John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists on Friday March 20, 2026 @03:57AM (#47451741)
> Everyone already owns captial [...]

That's a wild statement.

Italy has a lot of employee-owned business. Apparently it works well for them.

meanwhile japan has special train cars for women only.

you gotta stop thinking "low/high-trust" everywhere you put your eyes on.

Re:1B identity records exposed in ID verification data leak on Thursday March 12, 2026 @09:11PM (#47359536)
force nationalization of the business for egregious cases.
i suspect your "enough protein" is too much.
Re:Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers on Saturday March 07, 2026 @11:47PM (#47294489)
I'm always puzzled by these comments because my personal experience (and those of my foreigner dev friends) is kinda the opposite.
the rich has the monopoly on violence
Re:Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring on Saturday February 21, 2026 @07:57PM (#47106921)
when i pass my writings through ai the output is generally only marginally bigger than the input, and it derisks things a lot making my prose a nice beige.
Re:Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring on Saturday February 21, 2026 @07:54PM (#47106896)
you cannot write well if you do not read a lot (you need to develop taste). this disqualifies most people. i included.
there is a 2nd order effect with ubi.

you have less of an incentive of having everybody in the same overcrowded cities (reducing rent and making ownership easier).

you can also do rent control and/or maintain an oversupply of housing by law.

rent control and/or maintain an oversupply of housing by law

(if you have ubi, you also have less of an incentive of having everybody living in the same overcrowded cities)

very easy.

nationalize. the people own the AI and the profits go to them.

these days the us government (well trump) will let you speak when your speak is inconsequential but will repress when you have a little bit of reach (universities, research, tv shows etc.). and he is modifying the system in order to reinforce his ability to do so (putting his people everywhere he should not).

but yes, you can criticize as much as you want as long as nobody is listening to you (for now).

in europe we are getting close to parity with china in this aspect though.

honestly if you use speakers 90% of the sound quality is in your room and where you put your speakers, not the speakers themselves. the room is where your money should go.

for the speakers, get active speakers, as big as you can, and connect them to a dac that costs more than 100usd, and you're good to go. after that it's diminishing returns land.

also by virtue of you having 2 spaced ears, stereo speakers will have sound cancellations (in the ~1k hz region? i dont remember very well) for mid signal.

Re:What dating apps are optimizing. Hint: It isn't love on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @11:11AM (#47062562)
forsaking what you enjoy just to impress women seems extremely sad and counter-productive (do you really want to be with that woman?).

i play games with my wife and kids, life is good!

Re:Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse on Friday February 13, 2026 @08:22PM (#47010347)
famines and wars. very real at the individual level. if you're rich you might insulate yourself from that to some extent.
Re:The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline on Friday February 13, 2026 @10:13AM (#47003617)
since i had kids my friends come more often to my place since i can go less often to theirs. and we have a great time, because we are friends...

really depends on what you call friends. i am not very social and have very few friends (i don't have a "contact list"), but these are strong friendships.

Re:The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline on Friday February 13, 2026 @10:01AM (#47003470)
have kids because i wanted to.

and life is beautiful.

Re:The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline on Friday February 13, 2026 @09:53AM (#47003395)
in my case i made money to not have to think about it, the whole managing money thing was/is repulsive to me.

i only started learning about that when i had kids, so i have something to leave them when i die.

how is it obviously false?

it seems simply unproven, but plausible to me.

Re:Ask HN: Do you still physical calculators? on Sunday February 01, 2026 @06:46PM (#46850600)
wish i still had my hp48g, the emulator apps are the most used apps on my phone/ipad, they re glorified calculators*ipod by now with worse buttons.

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