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New comment by asguy in "Scpptool – a tool to enforce a memory and data race safe subset of C++"

asguy — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 12:24:51 +0000

What's rust's C++ interop like?

New comment by asguy in "Compile-time JSON deserialization in C++"

asguy — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 14:08:49 +0000

Holy crap; that's pretty epic. Did you come up with that yourself?

New comment by asguy in "As you learn Forth, it learns from you (1981)"

asguy — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 01:07:41 +0000

There have been some great responses that cover the gist of it, but to add a couple more mundane specifics:

- Build up the thinnest abstraction that lets you express a solution in the problem domain.

- Allow the API user to express their intent, and not be focused on mechanics they don't need to understand to get the job done.

- Focus on getting the interfaces right before the implementation is perfect.

- A clean interface will allow you to make drastic changes to the implementation without the API consumer becoming aware.

New comment by asguy in "As you learn Forth, it learns from you (1981)"

asguy — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 18:04:38 +0000

Programming Forth caused the most massive change in my programming mindset (the LSD of programming languages). Even more so than Lisp. Thinking of the rapid rise of the base language to the problem domain (i.e. it's a DSL construction kit) opened my eyes to how to design useful and extensible APIs.

https://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net is worth reading, even if you have no desire to ever program any Forth.

New comment by asguy in "SPI Flash"

asguy — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 15:49:39 +0000

Something like a Tag Connect would work well, if you can spare the footprint space: https://www.tag-connect.com/product/tc2030-fp-footprint

New comment by asguy in "Nitrogen dioxide exposure due to gas and propane combustion by U.S. stoves"

asguy — Sun, 19 May 2024 16:10:44 +0000

> I have not seen anything that an induction stove cannot do as well as a gas one.

Char peppers for peeling.

New comment by asguy in "How Figma's databases team lived to tell the scale"

asguy — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 04:05:24 +0000

Thousands of directories over thousands of installations? It’s not that far fetched.

New comment by asguy in "The X Files – how Elon Musk's new rules allow hate to flourish"

asguy — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 19:25:20 +0000

> the guy who routinely converses with Nazis

Elon routinely converses with Nazis? Which ones?

New comment by asguy in "The X Files – how Elon Musk's new rules allow hate to flourish"

asguy — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 19:08:29 +0000

This is exactly the problem. Have /you/ contemplated what would happen if you applied that reasoning to any other group (e.g. Jews, Blacks, Oracle employees)?

New comment by asguy in "The X Files – how Elon Musk's new rules allow hate to flourish"

asguy — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 18:31:41 +0000

X is a better experience for me now, than it was before Elon's takeover. If I don't want to see something, I don't look at. If I don't want to allow someone to interact with me, I block them. If I believe something is bullshit/a lie, I participate in the community notes.

I don't need a nanny to pre-chew my information for me.

New comment by asguy in "Ask HN: Is Unlimited PTO a Scam"

asguy — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 17:32:56 +0000

Yes. It's there to keep things unspecified. If you leave the job, you're not paid out unused vacation. If you use too much, you run afoul of an unspoken rule

New comment by asguy in "The Sokal Hoax"

asguy — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 21:07:04 +0000

"We published what we thought was a valid paper on a fat man in red that lives on the north pole and gives presents to children at the end of December. Unfortunately we didn't realize that the aeronautical data on his flying reindeer was falsified. This was clearly data fraud, and has no impact on us being a trustworthy peer-reviewed journal." lol

New comment by asguy in "The Sokal Hoax"

asguy — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 21:03:58 +0000

They found 7 gullible journals that accepted their papers. 4 of which got published before the project was discovered.

New comment by asguy in "The Sokal Hoax"

asguy — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 16:21:45 +0000

Focusing on "fabricating observational data" is a cope for the fact that Boghossian et al made the targets of their papers look like absolute fools. The problem with the paper "Human reactions to rape culture and queer performativity at urban dog parks in Portland, Oregon" wasn't that the data was wrong.

Sokal and Boghossian's work intended (and succeeded?) to accomplish the same thing: they demonstrated the fact that these academic disciplines are full of bullshit producers and consumers.

New comment by asguy in "A suicide crisis among veterinarians"

asguy — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:09:22 +0000

> We have a dog in the white house.

Not anymore.

- https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/bidens-dog-commander-lon...

New comment by asguy in "No way in or out of Burning Man after storm"

asguy — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 19:48:29 +0000

Drowning Man

New comment by asguy in "We put half a million files in one Git repository (2022)"

asguy — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:36:50 +0000

Did you not parallelize your migrations?

New comment by asguy in "A study on robustness and reliability of large language model code generation"

asguy — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 00:06:48 +0000

TL;DR: Treat LLMs like undergrad interns, and you won't be disappointed.

New comment by asguy in "Uncured bacon isn't any healthier in terms of nitrites and nitrates"

asguy — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 18:01:38 +0000

I smoke using a Weber kettle grill; i.e. no explicit smoker required. It doesn't have a huge capacity, but it makes amazing pork ribs.

New comment by asguy in "Uncured bacon isn't any healthier in terms of nitrites and nitrates"

asguy — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 17:58:35 +0000

It does. That's where the pink "smoke ring" comes from.