Hacker News: Rompect

New comment by Rompect in "Heathrow tells airlines to stop selling additional flights until September"

Rompect — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 18:52:00 +0000

> Wie viel verdient man als Flughafen in Deutschland?

This literally means "how much do you earn as an airport in Germany". The answer is 2194€. Made me laugh.

New comment by Rompect in "Learn Rust by writing a small OS"

Rompect — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 17:27:54 +0000

Literally my entire kindle library is from there and surprise surprise, I haven't been visited by the police (yet).

New comment by Rompect in "Learn Rust by writing a small OS"

Rompect — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 17:27:15 +0000

Why would I pay for something that I can get for free?

New comment by Rompect in "A record 4.5M workers quit their jobs in November"

Rompect — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 17:43:10 +0000

> Just because productivity has doubled in 40 years doesn't mean that people have been twice as productive.

???

New comment by Rompect in "Z Library"

Rompect — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 13:34:10 +0000

I don't know whether they have a different dataset of books, but the search engine is definitely vastly superior. Not only in looks, but most importantly in terms of results.

New comment by Rompect in "Euler’s number pops up in situations that involve optimality"

Rompect — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 21:00:33 +0000

Also an amazing way are Taylor polynomials, this article explains the process of thought really well:

https://betterexplained.com/articles/taylor-series/

New comment by Rompect in "Euler’s number pops up in situations that involve optimality"

Rompect — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 20:59:10 +0000

I genuinely don't know whether the trick of that question is swapping the `e^x` with `e^y`, so just renaming a variable – or is `y` a function?

New comment by Rompect in "How long does it take ordinary people to get good at chess?"

Rompect — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 09:49:35 +0000

I played one single game once and the opponent used one of these bait openings so obviously I fell for it and lost immediately.

New comment by Rompect in "Hacking YouTube with a MP4"

Rompect — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 12:21:35 +0000

I even saw videos that play something entirely different the second time you play it!

New comment by Rompect in "Death of the Calorie (2019)"

Rompect — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 14:16:50 +0000

I don't know but I know that I LOVE that person deeply

New comment by Rompect in "We don’t need nearly as much protein as we consume"

Rompect — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 14:26:33 +0000

Sadly, I wouldn't trust any mainstream nutrition advice at all. When you see the McDonalds and Coca Cola logos behind footballers, and find out that the food pyramid was made by the Department of Agriculture and unsurprisingly advocates for crops, you become really suspicious.

New comment by Rompect in "We don’t need nearly as much protein as we consume"

Rompect — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 13:51:30 +0000

No. I've been eating beef meat, chicken and a suet that is 99.8% fat for more than a month now and it's great. Nobody needs vegetables or nuts.

New comment by Rompect in "An Afghan minister who became a bicycle courier in Germany"

Rompect — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 14:31:58 +0000

Remember that this guy already has had British citizenship, but he decided to immigrate to Germany despite the language barrier and not being a citizen.

New comment by Rompect in "Most URLs are syntactically valid JavaScript code"

Rompect — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 09:29:00 +0000

I'm more baffled that

    foo: "bar";

is a valid expression. I know, it's the named statement syntax normally used for loops, but I didn't know this worked for any expression.

New comment by Rompect in "When static makes your C code 10 times faster"

Rompect — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 15:53:20 +0000

This is like the easiest thing for a compiler to detect and optimize.

New comment by Rompect in "Language learning with Netflix"

Rompect — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 15:37:30 +0000

Muchas gracias!

New comment by Rompect in "Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’"

Rompect — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 08:31:26 +0000

Oh, they only went through each employee, assessed their specific race and entered it into a spreadsheet. What is the problem?

New comment by Rompect in "China allows couples to have three children"

Rompect — Mon, 31 May 2021 13:48:57 +0000

According to that argument, the capitol riot was justified.

New comment by Rompect in "Use native context menus on Mac OS"

Rompect — Tue, 25 May 2021 14:02:39 +0000

I never understood how people used lodash. Basically every function can be copied and just inserted into ones own codebase and you have one less dependency, which is very pleasant. And they are all so simple that there will never be a problem.

New comment by Rompect in "Bibliogram – Open-source front-end for Instagram"

Rompect — Sat, 15 May 2021 20:42:09 +0000

Improve how? It was already pretty good. The entire user page and even Instagram TV was supported. But the current situation is not Bibliogram's fault.