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New comment by adamwk in "Is The Economist Always Wrong?"

adamwk — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:32:11 +0000

The Economist is a British journal, so why would you use US definition of right wing to evaluate their centrality?

New comment by adamwk in "Resetting Xbox"

adamwk — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:05:24 +0000

She’s been in her position for less than 6 months. All of the problems were under Phil, so I don’t understand what you mean by course correcting her own actions

New comment by adamwk in "Road to Elm 1.0"

adamwk — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:13:18 +0000

I can’t think of a worse announcement for your road to 1.0. Who cares? Without localization or accessibility support, it doesn’t make sense to call your UI framework production ready with a 1.0 version. I think limiting what third-party contributors can bridge from browser APIs killed Elm’s momentum for anything but toy projects. It now seems more like a sandbox for Evan to play around with compiler ideas than something meant for production use.

New comment by adamwk in "Have You Restarted Your Computer This Week?"

adamwk — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:58:34 +0000

Is it really different from that short time ago? It feels like this has been the normal for much longer than 5 years. I do remember there being fewer restarts to update, but I feel like that was way back in the snow leopard days.

As to why, I assumed it’s because security fixes are in basically every update these days. And it’s easier to change core systems with a restart than live

New comment by adamwk in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

adamwk — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:12:46 +0000

Does it? I’ve seen Ezra Klein talk about his book and he talked about how bureaucracy is frequently a scapegoat for getting things done. Europe is very bureaucratic yet is able to build. The issue he called out is red tape yes but more so litigation by the private citizen. That any individual can stop an apartment being built because it blocks morning light into their flower bed

New comment by adamwk in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

adamwk — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:11:11 +0000

Where do you see the word ‘Evil?’ I don’t see the word in the title or anywhere in the article itself.

New comment by adamwk in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

adamwk — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:03:50 +0000

This is what I understood as well, but it sounded like GP had success doing it; so I was curious if there was a trick I didn’t know about

New comment by adamwk in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

adamwk — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:10:50 +0000

Maybe there’s a git trick I don’t know, but I’ve found making small branches off each other painful. I run into trouble when I update an earlier branch and all the dependent branches get out of sync with it. When those earlier branches get rebased into master it becomes a pain to update my in-progress branches as well

New comment by adamwk in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

adamwk — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:55:13 +0000

As someone who used phabricator and mercurial, using GitHub and git again feels like going back to the stone ages. Hopefully this and jujutsu can recreate stacked-diff flow of phabricator.

It’s not just nice for monorepos. It makes both reviewing and working on long-running feature projects so much nicer. It encourages smaller PRs or diffs so that reviews are quick and easy to do in between builds (whereas long pull requests take a big chunk of time).

New comment by adamwk in "Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go"

adamwk — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:01:07 +0000

Right but recursion is only a smaller part of why the optimization is important. It means tail-called functions still build on the stack and long function chains—as is common with fp—can overflow

Musk on Mars

adamwk — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:22:23 +0000

Article URL: https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/musk-on-mars

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462179

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by adamwk in "Don't become an engineering manager"

adamwk — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:51:50 +0000

You don’t think companies look at your past titles when you apply for a job?

New comment by adamwk in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

adamwk — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:22:59 +0000

I am also surprised, but not because I believe Meta to care about the ethics of the whole thing. After all their privacy scandals, I’d assume they’d have policies in place to prevent something that can so easily be leaked. But here we are

New comment by adamwk in "Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs"

adamwk — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:52:11 +0000

The subject of the function coloring article was callback APIs in Node, so an argument you need to pass to your IO functions is very much in the spirit of colored functions and has the same limitations.

New comment by adamwk in "Go beyond Goroutines: introducing the Reactive paradigm"

adamwk — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 23:49:44 +0000

I think this article does an alright job selling ro over RxGo, but doesn’t really explain why using a reactive library is better than plain go. The channel/goroutine example is fine, as they say, but they hand wave how this will fall apart in a more complex project. Conversely, their reactive example is mapping and filtering an 4 item array and handwave how the simplicity will remain no matter the size of the codebase.

I’ve worked in a few complex projects that adopted reactive styles and I don’t think they made things simpler. It was just as easy to couple components with reactive programming as it was without.

New comment by adamwk in "I see a future in jj"

adamwk — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:46:37 +0000

I joined the sapling/subversion company this year, but haven’t had the chance to use jj. But given its resemblance I must say sapling has been great. Much more intuitive than git, and I find commit stacks much easier to follow than branches. I do wonder how it will work without the level of support of Meta, since you won’t have the same commit stack review UI (basically a series of pull requests being reviewed at the same time). So something like what this author is working on is needed.

New comment by adamwk in "Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)"

adamwk — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:55:39 +0000

What he calls import highlighting is something I only find reliably setup in Xcode, but is probably one of the most useful things to highlight for me. To be able to tell at a glance whether I’m looking at a library function or an internal was very useful. Probably doesn’t matter for languages that enforce calling with the module (eg, module::foo()), but in C/Objective-C and Swift it’s annoying when it’s missing.

PlayStation 3 Architecture (2021)

adamwk — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 05:21:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation-3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45576536

Points: 202

# Comments: 61

New comment by adamwk in "PanamaPlaylists – Leaked Tech CEOs Spotify Profiles"

adamwk — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 18:02:19 +0000

That’s what children listened to 15 years ago. I doubt that’s what they listen to now

New comment by adamwk in "Superfunctions: A universal solution against sync/async fragmentation in Python"

adamwk — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 02:50:52 +0000

I don’t think this implements anything monad shaped