<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: adalacelove</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=adalacelove</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:59:20 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=adalacelove" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adalacelove in "NASA Force"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's like 4 times the ESA budget, and still insignificant compared to the money poured into AI. Several companies could cover that budget with quarterly profits.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:26:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47814484</link><dc:creator>adalacelove</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47814484</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47814484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adalacelove in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, it has the authority. There are plenty of EU regulations that states must obey, from fundamental rights to taxation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:07:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47769074</link><dc:creator>adalacelove</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47769074</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47769074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adalacelove in "Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everything is OK. I love looking at desktops, but I became old to put the effort. I think you are a bard more than a wizard.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:21:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46193238</link><dc:creator>adalacelove</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46193238</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46193238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adalacelove in "Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apple makes excellent hardware (laptop, phone, mini...) to the point I'm willing to pay more for it, but I would prefer a lot to customize my SW. And so I avoid their hardware.</p>
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<p>Most screenshots for these well known guys are quite boring. Coincidence? I think if you want to be good at something you need focus.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 01:51:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178484</link><dc:creator>adalacelove</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178484</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adalacelove in "Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You cannot uninstall Apple Music. That alone is alienating.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 01:05:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178278</link><dc:creator>adalacelove</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178278</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adalacelove in "Control structures in programming languages: from goto to algebraic effects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everybody chooses a favorite depending on their domain.<p>A function executes, and some error happens:<p>- Return error value: try to handle the error ASAP. The closer to the error the more detailed the information. Higher probability of recovery. Explicit error code handling throughout the code. Example: maybe you try again in one millisecond because the error is a very low probability but possible event.<p>- Exception: managing errors requires a high-level overview of the program state. Example: no space left on device, inform the user. You gather the detailed information where the error happened. The information is passed as-is or augmented with more information as it bubbles up the stack until someone decides to take action. Pros: separate error handling and happy path code, cleaner code. Cons: separate error handling and happy path code, unhandled errors.<p>Worst case scenario: you program in C. You don't have exceptions. You are forbidden to use setjmp because rules. A lot of errors are exposed directly to the programmer because this is a low-level language. You return error codes. Rules force you to handle every possible return code. Your code gets incorporated as an appendix to the Necronomicon.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2025 08:00:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45863782</link><dc:creator>adalacelove</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45863782</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45863782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adalacelove in "What Julia has that Rust desperately needs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One reason in Julia for having an organization with multiple repositories is how unnecessary is in Julia to have big packages. It is better to have smaller more focused packages and combine them as necessary. Julia needs to improve some things but I don't think I have found a more modular language.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 06:53:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45488361</link><dc:creator>adalacelove</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45488361</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45488361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adalacelove in "Python developers are embracing type hints"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In some fields throwing away and rewriting is the standard, and it works, more or less. I'm thinking about scientific/engineering software: prototype in Python or Matlab and convert to C or C++ for performance/deployment constraints. 
It happens frequently with compilers too.
I think migrating languages is actually more successful than writing second versions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 08:35:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45402733</link><dc:creator>adalacelove</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45402733</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45402733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adalacelove in "Python developers are embracing type hints"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People adapt to the circumstances. A lot of Python uses are no longer about fast iteration on the REPL. Instead of that we are shipping Python to execute in clusters on very long running jobs or inside servers. It's not only about having to start all over after hours, it's simply that concurrent and distributed execution environments are hostile to interactive programming. Now you can't afford to wait for an exception and launch the debugger in postmortem. Or even if you do it's not very useful.<p>And now my personal opinion: If we are going the static typing way I would prefer simply to use Scala or similar instead of Python with types. Unfortunately in the same way that high performance languages like C attracts premature optimizers static types attract premature "abstracters" (C++ both). I also think that dynamic languages have the largest libraries for technical merit reasons. Being more "fluid" make them easier to mix. In the long term the ecosystem converges organically on certain interfaces between libraries.<p>And so here we are with the half baked approach of gradual typing and #type: ignore everywhere.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 07:12:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45402351</link><dc:creator>adalacelove</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45402351</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45402351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adalacelove in "Asif Aziz: The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From TFA:<p>"There is no legal responsibility for a landlord to enforce the payment of taxes by their tenants, nor any suggestion that Aziz should be paying the bill."<p>This usually makes some sense. But in this case it is obviously being abused. I guess that a police investigation would need to track the flow of money back to the landlord. Or put in place better legislation. Banks for example cannot claim ignorance about their clients and are required to deny access to their services if something does not look good.</p>
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<p>Same here. I just use<p><a href="https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm">https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm</a><p>and<p><a href="https://github.com/suonlight/multi-vterm">https://github.com/suonlight/multi-vterm</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2025 09:50:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44479261</link><dc:creator>adalacelove</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44479261</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44479261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adalacelove in "Now might be the best time to learn software development"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm a developer and:
- I hate ORMs, they are the source for a lot of obscure errors behind layers and layers of abstractions.
- I prefer analytical APIs for technical reasons, not just the language.<p>Reasons:
- I can compose queries, which in turn makes them easier to decompose
- It's easier to spot errors
- I avoid parsing SQL strings
- It's easier to interact with the rest of the code, both functions and objects<p>If I need to make just a query I gladly write SQL</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 04:10:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44306587</link><dc:creator>adalacelove</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44306587</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44306587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adalacelove in "Can Earth's rotation generate power? Physicists divided over controversial claim"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>According to Wikipedia [1] we consume 9717 Mtoe or equivalently 408 TJ (per year, although it is not explictely stated, which I find annoying).<p>The earth moment of inertia is about I=8e37 kg m2 [2]<p>The energy extracted by a slowdown of angular speed from wa to wb would be 1/2 I(wa2-wb2).<p>Approx wa=2pi/86400 and wb=2pi/86401. Energy extracted: 4.9e24J=4.9e12TJ.<p>We would have energy for about 12 billion years.<p>If I double check with Kagi's assistant with Claude 3.7 (I'm in my phone and I could easily have made an error) it starts with my exact reasoning and figures but messes up final numbers (so close!!!) to give a total of 40 billion years, which nevertheless is the correct order of magnitude.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_supply_and_consumption" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_supply_and_cons...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/MomentofInertiaEarth.html" rel="nofollow">https://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/MomentofInertiaEart...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 20:37:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527413</link><dc:creator>adalacelove</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527413</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adalacelove in "Rediscovering Quaternions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's because the quaternion is part of the state of the Kalman filter.</p>
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<p>Sometimes I wonder if we are going to be the unkillable plague that takes over the universe. Or maybe we will dissappear in a blink. It's hard to know, we don't have any reference point except ourselves.</p>
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<p>True. I was citing from memory and only recalled the most famous author.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2024 07:19:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42557095</link><dc:creator>adalacelove</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42557095</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42557095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adalacelove in "“A Course of Pure Mathematics” – G. H. Hardy (1921) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nice book. For another old but excellent math book I recommend Geometry and the Imagination by David Hilbert. No gutenberg remake I'm afraid, maybe because of the numerous (and incredibly high quality) illustrations.</p>
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<p>I guess because mathematical formulas usually use single letters for symbols. It is so common that you end using several different alphabets, lower/upper case and even calligraphic variations. Of course it doesn't scale when you need thousands of symbols and your variables doesn't have well established meanings like "magnetic field" or "pressure". However they are used to it and it's hard to break some mental models after several years of using them everyday. For good or bad some scientific computer languages (like Julia) encourage you to use the Unicode alphabet to align your code with your paper/book.</p>
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<p>From TFA:<p>While the focus has been on olives, the bacterium’s ability to infect such a broad spectrum of plants makes it an agricultural nightmare, particularly in regions where multiple crops are grown in close proximity.</p>
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