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New comment by boltzmann64 in "My Mathematical Regression"

boltzmann64 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:59:31 +0000

or just rotate it by 45 degrees and pretend it's a pascal's triangle.

New comment by boltzmann64 in "Splash Is a Colour Format"

boltzmann64 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:00:03 +0000

then, why does 222 look blue/green and not dark gray?

New comment by boltzmann64 in "Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things"

boltzmann64 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:06:55 +0000

Wait. i am already struggling with 50 columns for the title, now i have add this `[scope]:` bloat to it? How are these people doing both "Conventional Commits" and 50-72 at the same time?

New comment by boltzmann64 in "Why Janet? (2023)"

boltzmann64 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:44:05 +0000

if those are the reason why you love janet, then you will love tcl because you will be able to do all the same things without drowning in parenthesis and weird syntax.

New comment by boltzmann64 in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

boltzmann64 — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:50:49 +0000

I am really curious: what is your definition of a power user.

New comment by boltzmann64 in "Dithering with CSS"

boltzmann64 — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:56:24 +0000

please add atleast one example to demonstrate how the output will look like.

New comment by boltzmann64 in "The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe"

boltzmann64 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:31:26 +0000

how is this a dark pattern? say that you bought a subscription of new york times for a year and put it on monthly installment. can you bail out of paying the credit card company after six months? only here, both the product and credit card company is adobe. in fact adobe is being generous by letting you "cough up" only a half the fee where your credit card company wouldn't. at this rate all credit companies are "dark pattern peddlers" according to you? adobe is pretty clear on the name of the subscription, "yearly subsciption, payed monthly" in big letters at the top of their pricing page.

New comment by boltzmann64 in "Just Enough Chimera Linux"

boltzmann64 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:22:37 +0000

if you want a stable chimera linux as a daily driver, go to voidlinux.org. chimera linux started as a void linux fork until it became it's own thing. they share the same dna. cbuild started as a xbps-src fork.

New comment by boltzmann64 in "Undo in Vi and Its Successors"

boltzmann64 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:21:02 +0000

If you are going to need this, then you should use git instead of relying on the editor's undo tree.

New comment by boltzmann64 in "NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry"

boltzmann64 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 05:51:20 +0000

I hate the trend of moving away from being able to search packages from the command line to searching inside a bloated web browser. It had a happened with PyPI. And now npm. Please stop this madness.

New comment by boltzmann64 in "AI can 10x developers in creating tech debt"

boltzmann64 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 06:03:40 +0000

Non-native speaker here. Is the phrasing of the blog title awkward or am I the only one? Seems like they are using "10x" as a verb and my brain kept parsing "10x" as a adjective to developer, reading "10x developer" which is a already established industry lingo.

New comment by boltzmann64 in "India scraps order to pre-install state-run cyber safety app on smartphones"

boltzmann64 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:18:50 +0000

This is the standard playbook. And the gov just pulled a switcheroo:

Policy that is hard to pass: SIM binding for all messenger apps and automatic log out every 6 hours for desktop apps.

Even more egregious policy: Pre-install spyware that cannot be disabled.

Withdraw the egregious policy on outrage, and people think they have won the battle.

New comment by boltzmann64 in "The current state of the theory that GPL propagates to AI models"

boltzmann64 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 14:08:29 +0000

Google's engineers when they were copying Java API for Davlik (and later ART), they had access to and consulted Java source code. The infamous Oracle v. Google judgement siding Google set precedent at the highest level, SCOTUS that looking at the code is not an issue.

So, it doesn't matter if a AI can or cannot do clean room implementation. Unless it is a patent or trade secret violation, cleam room implementation doesn't matter.

Your ML Logging Stack Should Be Boring

boltzmann64 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:03:31 +0000

Article URL: https://annadapb.substack.com/p/your-ml-logging-stack-should-be-boring

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46033666

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by boltzmann64 in "Drop into REPL when your Python script crashes"

boltzmann64 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:12:09 +0000

Thank you for the usercustomize.py tip.

Drop into REPL when your Python script crashes

boltzmann64 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:49:58 +0000

Article URL: https://annadapb.substack.com/p/drop-into-repl-when-your-python-script

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45668285

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

New comment by boltzmann64 in "Ripgrep 15.0"

boltzmann64 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 15:07:55 +0000

Has it caught up to ugrep in terms of backward compatibility and speed yet?

New comment by boltzmann64 in "Python developers are embracing type hints"

boltzmann64 — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 22:30:39 +0000

I am sorry, but whats wrong with doing something like, `print(type(var)); exit()` and just running it once instead of digging through 5-6 stack frames?

New comment by boltzmann64 in "Jujutsu for everyone"

boltzmann64 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 19:04:44 +0000

I am think you are misunderstanding the entire premise of git. There is no "force push to trunk breaks every other developers' working copy." There is no central repo/trunk where all the commits are pushed. You are probably thinking of svn.

In git, your repo is the canonical repo and that is where you work. You work on a new feature and when you are ready, you "git format-patch" and "git send-email" to the community via the mailing list or other developers. A discussion may happen and people may or may not decide to apply the patch to their own repositories, with "git am." This doesn't break every other developers' working copy because they decide how to apply the patches they got in their email. No central repo, no trunk, guaranteed by the d in git dvcs.

New comment by boltzmann64 in "Commodore 64 Ultimate"

boltzmann64 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 16:03:11 +0000

I am sorry, but people are still using Commodore 64 these days?