Hacker News: bowsamic

New comment by bowsamic in "Inkscape 1.4.4"

bowsamic — Thu, 07 May 2026 11:30:58 +0000

No, I don’t want to name and shame. It was a few years ago

New comment by bowsamic in "Inkscape 1.4.4"

bowsamic — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:37:36 +0000

Inkscape is the only software that I see people get so defensive about when criticised. I even had the lead dev appear in my mentions and try and start fighting me on twitter when I complained on my own timeline about the performance on macOS. Weird culture

New comment by bowsamic in "We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G""

bowsamic — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:15:35 +0000

Solipsism is wrong.

New comment by bowsamic in "We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G""

bowsamic — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:57:50 +0000

This is why I don’t use this site. Low IQ discussions and insults from morons

New comment by bowsamic in "We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G""

bowsamic — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:37:13 +0000

You don’t need any observations at all to build up a complete knowledge of the entire universe. Hegel showed this

New comment by bowsamic in "We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G""

bowsamic — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:36:36 +0000

It can resolve them though

New comment by bowsamic in "We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G""

bowsamic — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:51:42 +0000

> Nobody can ever know an ultimate why, for obvious and well established philosophical reasons

Yes we can, you are just presupposing that philosophy is ultimately ineffective. For example Hegel gave a presuppositionless development of all metaphysics among other things. It’s not some kind of philosophical consensus that ultimate justification is impossible

New comment by bowsamic in "Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator"

bowsamic — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:05:04 +0000

I’m just curious if you are so dependent on LLMs that the idea of not using them at all seems extreme to you

New comment by bowsamic in "Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator"

bowsamic — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:29:17 +0000

> But I wonder does this mean no AI was used at all? Even for say, code review?

Would that be surprising to you?

New comment by bowsamic in ""Why not just use Lean?""

bowsamic — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:32:57 +0000

Any logic with LEM

New comment by bowsamic in ""Why not just use Lean?""

bowsamic — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:28:19 +0000

This makes it good for formal maths, but bad for philosophy, since it means it can’t encode the speculative movement

New comment by bowsamic in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

bowsamic — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:14:51 +0000

For me the widespread fear over this is evidence that it’s different from syntax highlighting and stuff

New comment by bowsamic in "Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish"

bowsamic — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:02:37 +0000

> Just because you use AI doesn't mean your brain grows a black hole from which information can never return.

How do you know this? I’m not taking that risk

New comment by bowsamic in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

bowsamic — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:40:25 +0000

Small stdlib, “implement it yourself” philosophy to even things like classes, diverging language versions and fragmentation (a lot of people don’t like any of the post 5.1 changes), bad tooling and editor support, dynamic duck typed language with no type hints

New comment by bowsamic in "Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings"

bowsamic — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:13:45 +0000

It's usually 6 months probation in Germany, not 3 months

New comment by bowsamic in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

bowsamic — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:01:09 +0000

I’m sure you can learn how to use it

New comment by bowsamic in "The curious case of retro demo scene graphics"

bowsamic — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:00:27 +0000

If only the demoscene wasn’t so horrible culturally. It’s absolutely full of old sceners who have “earned” being dicks to people, and unfortunately many newbies who think that the way to be a real scener is to copy that behaviour. The constant flamewars on pouet.net are embarrassing. It is a good reminder that the internet did not used to be a nicer place though

New comment by bowsamic in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

bowsamic — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:25:24 +0000

> I'm incapable of doing basic operations in Finder or changing basic system settings, and random shit I didn't want to press pops up when I'm doing other things

Why?

New comment by bowsamic in "Building a TB-303 from Scratch"

bowsamic — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:23:44 +0000

It’s a nice demonstration of this software but it really sounds very little like a 303

New comment by bowsamic in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"

bowsamic — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 09:37:02 +0000

Code review basically never actually means thinking through all the code again as if you wrote it