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New comment by casey2 in "Don't Roll Your Own"

casey2 — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:12:43 +0000

What an odd idea. You should always write your own code whenever possible, that's how we get better things. It's not my job to make the standard better or to force a bad standard, it's your job to make the standard the obviously correct choice.

Plane Geometry: An Elementary Textbook by Shalosh B. Ekhad, XIV (Circa 2050)

casey2 — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:36:38 +0000

Article URL: https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/GT.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252692

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New comment by casey2 in "Show HN: Runners? This One for You"

casey2 — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:33:03 +0000

I don't understand this business model. It's like SRS apps or duolingo.

What do people call paying for the promise of success when you know you lack the ability to deliver results? It's half way between the gym membership model and downright fraud.

Want to run? Run. Want to learn a new language? Communicate to the people who speak it. Everything else is just a distraction and waste of resources.

If you do this or buy any of these apps then you aren't "a person who is trying" you are a person who has already given up.

New comment by casey2 in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"

casey2 — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:44:03 +0000

Even making them pay their own lawsuit insurance premiums would be enough to stop 90% of abuse.

No change will happen until cities stop using police revenue for discretionary spending.

New comment by casey2 in "Thinking in an array language (2022)"

casey2 — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:21:16 +0000

The bigger problem is that you often end up using more functions, worse algorithms or higher algorithmic complexity, creating your data structure at runtime, since the only datatype you have are arrays.

It's similar to the problem with unix/plan9, lisp or smalltalk. There is it turns out, too much of a good thing.

Such systems are great for learning, but I would make the mistake of building software on them

New comment by casey2 in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

casey2 — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:58:57 +0000

Please don't misrepresent the article it says clearly "a step up in cyber performance over previous frontier models" and that gpt-5.5 is on their tests is slightly better than mythos.

New comment by casey2 in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

casey2 — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:38:45 +0000

It's odd that whenever someone discovers a way to generate value from public noise, costs already paid, that they feel like they are being stolen from even though PPP for the average person will rise due to AI, not fall.

New comment by casey2 in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

casey2 — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:37:02 +0000

These students? They are the worst students in decades if there is any generation that could be replaced by machines it's the latest.

New comment by casey2 in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

casey2 — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:14:23 +0000

No one is forcing them to talk to you. Chances are there are benefits of laying out more information that you aren't considering. 15 minutes is the minimum amount of time you should spend considering a major architectural decision. And the reasoning should go a bit deeper than "cos we need this feature lol"

The actual recommendation: "I'd recommend conducting a proof of concept with your actual workload patterns to make an informed decision." is objectively correct with the context given. There are plenty of real world usecases where you can do polling in Memcached to emulate pub/sub.

New comment by casey2 in "Americans overwhelmingly oppose data centers. Women most of all"

casey2 — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:07:37 +0000

My wife is very concerned when I water the plants, says I'm wasting water we are in a drought. She routinely leaves the hose on and drives away, I silently turn it off.

New comment by casey2 in "Ask HN: Is there a better and more affordable AI coding tool than Claude?"

casey2 — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:38:07 +0000

Have you tried asking Claude?

New comment by casey2 in "Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo"

casey2 — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:04:16 +0000

Cuba is a Criminal state, the smart ones already left for America several times, 10% of the population in 2022-2023.

So many false tears shed for doing a 100th of what the Cuban government has done to it's own people. Iran, the Houthies, Cuba in the 60s etc none of them believed in free trade, infact they expropriated billions in American owned assets.

New comment by casey2 in "Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades"

casey2 — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:10:10 +0000

2 more weeks til "stable seasons" collapse. Good thing greenhouses have existed for millenia.

New comment by casey2 in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

casey2 — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:27:12 +0000

So you've been telling companies to stop using CI/CD too right?

New comment by casey2 in "Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit"

casey2 — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:19:42 +0000

Whatever political capital is gained fighting police unions will swiftly be lost when they run ads and start committing or letting crime get through.

The very first step that needs to be taken is cities decoupling citations/fines from their operating budget, either by putting them towards victim compensation funds or some other non-discretionary fund.

New comment by casey2 in "Everything in C is undefined behavior"

casey2 — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:08:18 +0000

That's a nonsensical statement, a language cannot warn you, only a compiler can (-Wcast-align). The compiler can also decide what is and isn't an invalid pointer, this way the language avoids leaky abstractions.

New comment by casey2 in "Everything in C is undefined behavior"

casey2 — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:32:07 +0000

And that's a good thing. UB is another mechanism to speed up the development of compilers, many other languages fall trap to over defining while we lack the methods to solve such problems cleanly (believe me, the modern c++ people have tried). Usually this is the case because they believe strongly that their methods work despite evidence.

As for UB, the compiler has the final say. Nobody should write nontrivial c without understanding their compiler, the same as nobody should write c without understanding their text editor.

Code in other languages breaks between versions, in c there are projects with code from every version at once!

Looking at it another way, work put into a c compiler enables you to write nontrivial code.

New comment by casey2 in "After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban"

casey2 — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:54:39 +0000

It's very odd that many town council in the US view their citizens as resources to exploit rather than fellow town members and friends. They should not have such a single minded focus on growth metrics. Leave corporate work to the corporations leave social work to the governments.

That's how China does things, e.g. 12345

New comment by casey2 in "How fast is N tokens per second really?"

casey2 — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:26:27 +0000

Not very far til we reach 1MTk/s per LLM. Computing is going to look very different in the future.

New comment by casey2 in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

casey2 — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:41:43 +0000

Maybe visa and mastercard will stop bulling Americans now that they are the only customer base... Who am I kidding. They will become much worse.