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New comment by TeamDman in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

TeamDman — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:59:17 +0000

I've found LLMs decrease the friction in enabling more pedantic lints and tooling. It is a quantity problem because enabling all the aggressive warnings in the compiler makes a lot of work, and its a quality outcome because presumably addressing every warning from the compiler makes the code better

New comment by TeamDman in "My “grand vision” for Rust"

TeamDman — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 05:58:06 +0000

I use Rust for command line applications.

I find that CLI is a great way to model problems. When I find myself doing something that has graduated beyond a comfortable amount of PowerShell, Rust is there for me.

I have a template I've been evolving so it's super easy to get started with something new; I just copy the template and slam Copilot with some rough ideas on what I want and it works out.

https://github.com/teamdman/teamy-rust-cli

Just today used it to replace a GitHub stats readme svg generator thing that someone else made that was no longer working properly.

https://github.com/TeamDman/teamy-github-readme-stats

Decomposes the problem very nicely into incrementally achievable steps

1. `fetch ` to get info from github into a cache location 2. `generate ` to load stats and write an svg 3. `serve` to run a webserver to accept GET requests containing the username to do the above

Means that my stuff always has `--help` and `--version` behaviours too

New comment by TeamDman in "This time is different"

TeamDman — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:48:18 +0000

I enjoyed Dave Cridland's comment more than the article. The article is dismissive of AI and other technologies in an unsubstantiated way.

New things are happening and it's exciting. "AI bad" statements without examples feel very head-in-sand.

New comment by TeamDman in "Find 'Abbey Road when type 'Beatles abbey rd': Fuzzy/Semantic search in Postgres"

TeamDman — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:11:39 +0000

for 50,000 rows I'd much rather just use fzf/nucleo/tv against json files instead of dealing with database schemas. When it comes to dealing with embedding vectors rather than plaintext then it gets slightly more annoying but still feels like such an pain in the ass to go full database when really it could still be a bunch of flat open files.

More of a perspective from just trying to index crap on my own machine vs building a SaaS

New comment by TeamDman in "LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf]"

TeamDman — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:27:33 +0000

See also: using Mathematica for drawing the circles like in the movie Arrival

https://youtu.be/r8nTifCIr0c

New comment by TeamDman in "How uv got so fast"

TeamDman — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:12:23 +0000

I found https://docs.rs/bstr/latest/bstr/#file-paths-and-os-strings to be useful

New comment by TeamDman in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

TeamDman — Mon, 26 May 2025 02:13:08 +0000

Neat! Have a repo?

New comment by TeamDman in "Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency"

TeamDman — Tue, 06 May 2025 16:01:15 +0000

Python dependency management sucks ass. Installing pytorch with cuda enabled while dealing with issues from the pytorch index having a linux-only version of a package causing shit to fail is endlessly frustrating

A good ecosystem has lockfiles by default, python does not.

New comment by TeamDman in "Careless People"

TeamDman — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:20:04 +0000

Neat link, thank you for sharing.

New comment by TeamDman in "Deterministic simulation testing for async Rust"

TeamDman — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 12:52:49 +0000

Neat! Must be very satisfying for this to be working now. I wonder if it's feasible to get it working on a multi threaded runtime

New comment by TeamDman in "Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?"

TeamDman — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:56:03 +0000

Tried it out, very cool! Fun to see it chugging on a bunch of rows. Had a weird issue where it would recompute values endlessly when I used it in a table, but I had another table it worked with so not sure what that was about

New comment by TeamDman in "Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation"

TeamDman — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:03:29 +0000

If incentives to stay outweighed leaving, people would stay.

New comment by TeamDman in "The "Pfizer Boob Job": A Case of Unexplained Gigantomastia"

TeamDman — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 12:16:24 +0000

I was unable to find any section titled "disclaimers" other than one saying "The authors have no financial interest to declare in relation to the content of this article."

Is there something specific you are trying to point at?

New comment by TeamDman in "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint (2006) [pdf]"

TeamDman — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 14:01:02 +0000

It took much more than 24 words to achieve the final result, and also had to use emojis to convey what I wanted lol

Even still I couldn't quite get the result I wanted

Image link

https://chatgpt.com/share/67769bef-537c-800f-90ac-35a44747f0...

New comment by TeamDman in "App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too)"

TeamDman — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 21:38:07 +0000

I've recently been summarizing entire directories into a single chunk of text for use with Gemini, the other day I overshot and ended up pasting 28 million characters into vscode. It handled it pretty well.

New comment by TeamDman in "Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician"

TeamDman — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:10:29 +0000

Is this the AWS thing you referenced? https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/automated-reasoning/

New comment by TeamDman in "Just: Just a Command Runner"

TeamDman — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:03:52 +0000

very neat but already hitting cases where it doesn't play nice with pwsh scripts, even using the shebang. Back to using a dir full of .ps1 files I guess lol

New comment by TeamDman in "Using Rust in non-Rust servers to improve performance"

TeamDman — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 13:51:04 +0000

Swift does apparently, here's an example from ChatGPT

    enum Animal {
        case dog(name: String)
        case cat(name: String)
        case bird

        func sound() {
            switch self {
            case .dog(let name):
                print("\(name) says Woof!")
            case .cat(let name):
                print("\(name) says Meow!")
            case .bird:
                print("Tweet!")
            }
        }
    }

and another with nesting

    enum Thing {
        case first(x: Int)
        case second
    }

    enum Outer {
        case ok(Thing?)
    }

    let value: Outer = .ok(.some(.first(x: 42)))

    switch value {
    case .ok(.some(.first(let x))):
        print("Matched with x = \(x)")
    case .ok(.some(.second)):
        print("Matched .second")
    case .ok(.none):
        print("Matched .none")
    }

New comment by TeamDman in "History of the Grant Matcher Puzzle – October 03, 1998"

TeamDman — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 05:05:05 +0000

Reading the history of the Grant Matcher puzzle has given names to some concepts that I have brushed against but haven't deeply explored.

https://capnproto.org/rpc.html led me to http://erights.org/elib/equality/index.html led me to http://erights.org/elib/equality/grant-matcher/index.html led me to (the submitted link) http://erights.org/elib/equality/grant-matcher/history.html

History of the Grant Matcher Puzzle – October 03, 1998

TeamDman — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 05:05:05 +0000

Article URL: http://erights.org/elib/equality/grant-matcher/history.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41643867

Points: 1

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