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New comment by deadwanderer in "1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?"

deadwanderer — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:43:17 +0000

Knowledge is understanding that tomatoes are a fruit. Wisdom is understanding that they don't belong in a fruit salad.

Or...

Knowledge is understanding that ketchup is tomato jelly. Wisdom is refraining from putting it on your peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

New comment by deadwanderer in "Odin, a pragmatic C alternative with a Go flavour"

deadwanderer — Sat, 10 May 2025 02:36:53 +0000

That's a method from Raylib, a C library which has Odin bindings. For all libraries, Odin follows the original library's style.

The Odin convention is Pascal case (lower_case_procedures, Capitalized_Enums_And_Structs).

New comment by deadwanderer in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

deadwanderer — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:39:35 +0000

You should also be proud of the name!

New comment by deadwanderer in "Ask HN: Are people still using Pascal?"

deadwanderer — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 12:46:19 +0000

HROT[0] is a retro shooter using a custom engine written in Pascal.

(Not mine at all, I'm just a loving player)

*[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/824600/HROT/

New comment by deadwanderer in "Hg Init: A Mercurial Tutorial"

deadwanderer — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 14:48:20 +0000

It's built in to the Mercurial CLI, whereas tab autocomplete is an additional feature to the user's shell. Thus, by default, every user will have access to the Mercurial shortnames, while only users with autocomplete enabled in their shell (or with autocomplete available for their shell) will have the autocomplete available.

Also, autocomplete is still an additional keypress...

New comment by deadwanderer in "The illusion of evidence based medicine"

deadwanderer — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 13:15:12 +0000

What you're saying is technically accurate to the intended definition and purpose of science, but if you're seriously asking why these people didn't question or contradict, I'm not sure where you've been for the last several years. So many pandemic response items, in particular, have been "Trust the science"/"Follow the science", and any questions or possible alternatives to the prescribed Method Of Treatment are not only dismissed, but actively persecuted.

New comment by deadwanderer in "Ask HN: What are you working on?"

deadwanderer — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 18:04:55 +0000

The idea OP is working to combat or disprove, though, is not that "People can succeed without effort". Rather, they are working to prove that software development is a skill which can be learned by most/all people, and not some highly intellectual undertaking out of reach to all but the most mentally elite.

New comment by deadwanderer in "A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics"

deadwanderer — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 16:48:27 +0000

May I ask what the "different text" was that you switched to? I have Rosen, and I'd like something more approachable and clear.

New comment by deadwanderer in "Man charged after US gamer is shot by SWAT following hoax terrorism call"

deadwanderer — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 13:11:27 +0000

Should, but apparently don't, given the number of false alarms they respond to blindly and violently...

New comment by deadwanderer in "Introducing Twitter Lite"

deadwanderer — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 12:37:44 +0000

Definitely did not. Top tweet when I logged in just now was a T-Mobile promoted...