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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

New comment by bowsamic in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

bowsamic — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:24:05 +0000

Even if they do (often not the case) this will be far from exhaustive, and likely won’t reflect the structure of the application very well. Vision based testing is often combined with accessibility based testing

New comment by bowsamic in "Eight more months of agents"

bowsamic — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:59:46 +0000

The issue isn't when the programmers start using it. It's when the project managers start using it and think that they're producing something similar to the programmers

New comment by bowsamic in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

bowsamic — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 07:23:37 +0000

Many companies have totally banned it. For example at Qt it is banned on all company devices and networks

New comment by bowsamic in "I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)"

bowsamic — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:19:42 +0000

Most games back in the day were written in assembly

New comment by bowsamic in "Where did all the starships go?"

bowsamic — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:26:32 +0000

No one thinks the future is in space anymore. We realised that there’s a lot wrong with us culturally and spiritually

New comment by bowsamic in "2 in 5 Americans did not read a single book in 2025"

bowsamic — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 06:44:44 +0000

Both

New comment by bowsamic in "2 in 5 Americans did not read a single book in 2025"

bowsamic — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:44:07 +0000

It’s almost like they’re bragging about not reading

New comment by bowsamic in "2 in 5 Americans did not read a single book in 2025"

bowsamic — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:39:58 +0000

You should fix that

New comment by bowsamic in "I miss thinking hard"

bowsamic — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:01:18 +0000

I specifically spend my evenings reading Hegel and other hard philosophy as well as writing essays just to force myself to think hard

New comment by bowsamic in "Coding is when we're least productive"

bowsamic — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 10:44:28 +0000

Same, when I do pair programming with my boss he’s very happy if we managed to remove more code than we added

Pornhub to stop new UK users accessing site from next week

bowsamic — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 06:41:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/27/pornhub-to-stop-new-uk-users-accessing-site-from-next-week

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46791842

Points: 8

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New comment by bowsamic in "Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant"

bowsamic — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:47:48 +0000

Regardless of whether memory was externalised, it’s still the case that it was lost internally, that much is true. If you really care about having a great internal memory then of course you’ll think it’s a downside.

So we’ve externalised memory, we’ve externalised arithmetic. Personally the idea of externalising thinking seems to be the last one? It’s not clear what’s left inside us of being a human once that one is gone

New comment by bowsamic in "Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant"

bowsamic — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 09:22:09 +0000

> they've always been wrong before

Were they? It seems that often the fears came true, even Socrates’