Hacker News: cooljacob204

New comment by cooljacob204 in "That Time I Recreated Photoshop in C++"

cooljacob204 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:49:12 +0000

I use this which seems to work well for my projects. Particularly their docker image.

https://github.com/rust-cross/cargo-zigbuild

New comment by cooljacob204 in "French nuclear plant consumes more power than it generates in first two months"

cooljacob204 — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 17:10:15 +0000

Is this expected or an issue?

New comment by cooljacob204 in "Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks"

cooljacob204 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:35:58 +0000

Damn I hit 30 this year and planned to buy one.

New comment by cooljacob204 in "Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks"

cooljacob204 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:25:05 +0000

I plan to purchase one in the spring. This thread is giving me second thoughts lmao.

New comment by cooljacob204 in "The Vikings also used crampons to avoid slipping on ice"

cooljacob204 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 03:58:07 +0000

Can you share an example of what you're referring to?

New comment by cooljacob204 in "How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?"

cooljacob204 — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 18:19:36 +0000

Yeah, I wish I could get from Astoria to Forest Hills in only 40 minutes.

New comment by cooljacob204 in "An artist who trained rats to trade in foreign-exchange markets (2014)"

cooljacob204 — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:49:25 +0000

We can choose what jobs we work and find new ones unlike these pigeons.

New comment by cooljacob204 in "Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?"

cooljacob204 — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 14:34:30 +0000

Imo LLMs are dumb and our field is far from away from having LLMs smart enough to automate it. Even at a junior level. I feel like the gap is so big personally that I'm not worried at all for the next 10 years.

New comment by cooljacob204 in "Half of Russia's A320/A321neo Fleet Grounded Amid Engine Issues and Sanctions"

cooljacob204 — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 19:23:23 +0000

Compared to other airliners those production number are small.

New comment by cooljacob204 in "A mistake that killed Japan's software industry? (2023)"

cooljacob204 — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 22:17:14 +0000

I just booked a trip to Japan. Every single website was pretty bad, from airliners to bullet trains and hotels. They all look like something out of 2005 and have confusing flows.

New comment by cooljacob204 in "New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike"

cooljacob204 — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 15:28:04 +0000

It's a very young union, started in 2021.

New comment by cooljacob204 in "Zigler: Zig NIFs in Elixir"

cooljacob204 — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 04:59:18 +0000

Do nifs have the equal process time stuff that regular elixir processes have? Where the BEAM will move the scheduler into another process if it's taking too long?

Forgive me if I'm mixing up my terminology it's been a bit since I have poked at Elixir.

New comment by cooljacob204 in "Upgrading Uber's MySQL Fleet"

cooljacob204 — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 15:50:53 +0000

This is sorta mitigated by partitioning or sharding though right?

Too bad it's sorta annoying to do on plain old pg.

New comment by cooljacob204 in "How long til we're all on Ozempic?"

cooljacob204 — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 18:36:41 +0000

I don't think anything that can influence our choices would ever get enough public approval for that.

New comment by cooljacob204 in "DOJ proposes breakup and other big changes to end Google search monopoly"

cooljacob204 — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 14:41:09 +0000

I have been using Firefox for a year. And tbh it's just not as good. Lots of websites only target Chrome.

Ex: most video streaming websites will not render more then 720p outside of Chrome or Edge (both chromium).

It's just not a great experience due to chrome / chromiums stranglehold on web browsing.

New comment by cooljacob204 in "DOJ proposes breakup and other big changes to end Google search monopoly"

cooljacob204 — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:40:43 +0000

After Google shoving manifest v3 down our throats I think it's time for some regulator pressure on them.

An advertisement company should really not have such a stranglehold on web browsing.

New comment by cooljacob204 in "New Laser Could Cram GPS Alternative into a Shoebox"

cooljacob204 — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 15:56:28 +0000

For the first two questions I wouldn't think so because it detects acceleration. But I also only have a high school level of physics knowledge so maybe I'm wrong.

New comment by cooljacob204 in "If AI is helping people code better, why aren't products getting better?"

cooljacob204 — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:27:46 +0000

I would argue good code helps a product through allowing faster iteration.

New comment by cooljacob204 in "Sequel: The Database Toolkit for Ruby"

cooljacob204 — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 12:05:45 +0000

This is probably my favorite gem of all time. I strongly prefer it to active record. Especially when I have to do any sort of complex query.

New comment by cooljacob204 in "Threads Enables Fediverse Replies"

cooljacob204 — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 13:52:39 +0000

They have been doing a lot of open source work in the frontend world for a while. Biggest example is React.