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New comment by CWIZO in "Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English"

CWIZO — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:35:53 +0000

If you change inputs then obviously you will get a different output. Crucially using the same inputs, however, produces the same output. So compilers are actually deterministic.

New comment by CWIZO in "What is a database transaction?"

CWIZO — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:26:13 +0000

I also think the article glossed/skipped over the xmax/xmin concepts. And they are fundamental to understand how different isolation levels actually work. It's quite jarring to the point I'm wondering if a whole section got accidentally dropped from the article.

New comment by CWIZO in "Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia"

CWIZO — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:17:41 +0000

It's really surprising how many people don't realise where omegas come from and just default to "more fish". Fish get omegas from alge. Simply skip the middle man and all the nasty side effects that has in the form of animal exploitation and harmful substances for humans they contain.

New comment by CWIZO in "Real-time estimates of animals consumed by humans worldwide"

CWIZO — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:59:11 +0000

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/16/most-dam...

Pasture raised animals are the most damaging way to raise animals for food when it comes to the environment. You've got it backwards here.

New comment by CWIZO in "Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation"

CWIZO — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 10:20:43 +0000

Good. We do not need to bring even more animal suffering into this world. Especially when we have much better alternatives available to us.

New comment by CWIZO in "Ask HN: How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act?"

CWIZO — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 12:44:24 +0000

I love how google (youtube) starts immediately showing me ads in the language of whatever country I happen to be on holiday at the time. For that country specific services/products. As if they don't know exactly where I'm from and which languages I speak. Absolutely baffling that they get this so badly wrong.

New comment by CWIZO in "Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network"

CWIZO — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 20:08:14 +0000

That doesn't seem very practical. The issue is that imgur links are everywhere and you wouldn't want to switch browsers whenever you encounter one. Not to mention it requires per device setup. Author's solution is much better than what you describe.

New comment by CWIZO in "Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege"

CWIZO — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:27:22 +0000

Prime example: animal agriculture. By far the biggest driver of biodiversity loss and nature destruction. Yet people justify it constantly with trivial things like taste, convinience, tradition, etc.

New comment by CWIZO in "How can England possibly be running out of water?"

CWIZO — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 14:07:51 +0000

It looks like we will be forever looking for solutions when we keep on ignoring animal farming in these conversations. Not even a single mention of the orders of magnitude more of water that is required for animal agriculture vs just growing plants directly for human consumption.

Would it solve everything? No. But it would solve a whole lot and the fact that someone that specialises in environmentalism doesn't even mention it shows just how far we are from solving this.

New comment by CWIZO in "Intermittent fasting correlated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease"

CWIZO — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 07:51:07 +0000

It'd be surprising if that applies in this context. In the case of the individuals OP mentions, their parents would not have been exposed to ultra processed food (or barely, perhaps only after they've reproduced), so ehatever gens they passed on would not have been adapted. There's simply not enough generations in this case. Especially not for such significant changes.

In any case, it's moot as by and large the westeren diet is not good for the population, exceptions are simply that.

New comment by CWIZO in "Intermittent fasting correlated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease"

CWIZO — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 07:29:29 +0000

Evolution doesn't work over a span of few generations. If humans are evolving to adapt to the modern weetern diet then we won't see that for a very very very long time.

You're just cherry picking examples while ignoring a mountain of literature that shows exactly the opposite of what you're saying.

New comment by CWIZO in "I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors"

CWIZO — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:08:43 +0000

Ine big thing for me is the removal of the reactions & mentions sidebar.

I now have to constantly manually check in a special tab to see if someone ACKed my message.

New comment by CWIZO in "Why does JSON have commas?"

CWIZO — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 08:52:48 +0000

> Coming from this direction, the addition of commas feels like an evil plan to have more syntax errors, with no obvious benefit

It helps to learn your history before you criticise something and claim it is useless.

JSON is the way it is mainly because it is just JavaScript and that meant that every browser in the world already supported it before JSON was even invented. It is THE reason why it is as popular as it is.

New comment by CWIZO in "Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news"

CWIZO — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:00:58 +0000

Great idea. However, the clip I got was spoken so fast that if I was able to actually understand any of it I think I wouldn't be learning Spanish as I'd have already mastered it.

Is there a beginner mode?

New comment by CWIZO in "Show HN: Physical Pomodoro Timer with ESP32 and e-paper screen"

CWIZO — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 18:34:52 +0000

If you put the knob in a different parts studio then you'd probably have a lot less lag.

New comment by CWIZO in "How the U.K. broke its own economy"

CWIZO — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:26:47 +0000

While indeed irrelevant for the original point. I would encourage you to educate[1] yourself on the life these birds have before you make claims we're doing them a favour by bringing them into existence.

[1] https://www.dominionmovement.com/watch

New comment by CWIZO in "Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow"

CWIZO — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 20:05:14 +0000

OP was refering to SO being on a massive decline since then.

New comment by CWIZO in "Common misconceptions about the complexity in robotics vs. AI (2024)"

CWIZO — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 09:55:06 +0000

> Robots are probably amazed by our ability to keep a food tray steady, the same way we are amazed by spider-senses (from spiderman movie)

Funnily, Toby Maguire actually did that tray catching stunt for real. So robots have an even further way to go.

https://screenrant.com/spiderman-sam-raimi-peter-parker-tray...

New comment by CWIZO in "Show HN: FTWA – Turn any website into an app"

CWIZO — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 12:07:21 +0000

Do you have a good summary of why snap is bad?

New comment by CWIZO in "H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread"

CWIZO — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:15:43 +0000

A plant-based diet is cheaper than a regular diet: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-11-11-sustainable-eating-chea...