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New comment by fainpul in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

fainpul — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:36:43 +0000

> AEPD […] known to be brutal.

Nice. I wish more countries had something like that. Many of these organizations are lethargic and have to be forced into action by civilian efforts or the press.

New comment by fainpul in "Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug"

fainpul — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:20:54 +0000

> This article’s framing and title are odd.

It's called clickbait.

New comment by fainpul in "High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain"

fainpul — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:23:30 +0000

"Swift uses Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) to track and manage your app’s memory usage."

https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-pr...

New comment by fainpul in "High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain"

fainpul — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:01:27 +0000

If it's an "array of strings AND numbers", then it should not be allowed to call the function with a string[], because those are different types.

New comment by fainpul in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

fainpul — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:17:20 +0000

> What's the Windows equivalent of dpkg (from 1993) and ssh (from 1995)?

PowerShell PackageManagement [1] and Remoting [2]

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof...

[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof...

New comment by fainpul in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

fainpul — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:13:32 +0000

Try https://cheat.sh/

New comment by fainpul in "12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)"

fainpul — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:59:41 +0000

As demonstrated in "The Biggest Little Farm" [1]. However it took years of hard work.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8969332/

New comment by fainpul in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

fainpul — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:26:01 +0000

The ugly thing about eugenics is that someone has an artificial ideal of how people should be and then tries to enforce that. If something just happens without interference (a process), that's basically just evolution.

New comment by fainpul in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

fainpul — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:12:36 +0000

There is no eugenics angle in Idiocracy. Nobody tries to achieve some "genetic ideal" by manipulating people.

New comment by fainpul in "Music for Programming"

fainpul — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:08:46 +0000

synthwave

New comment by fainpul in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

fainpul — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:59:05 +0000

Singapore seems very oppressive and medieval when it comes to punishment of crimes. I wouldn't want to live there.

New comment by fainpul in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

fainpul — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:31:45 +0000

Indeed rural areas are not as well covered [1], but in cities it doesn't matter if you live in an old building. As long as your street has fiber (most do by now), when you switch to a fiber connection from your ISP, contractors will connect it to your house (even if you only rent an appartment) and install an optical outlet in your appartment, all for free.

[1] https://map.geo.admin.ch/#/map?lang=en¢er=2634455.81,119...

New comment by fainpul in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

fainpul — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:14:03 +0000

Good article which would be even better without the AI slop images.

New comment by fainpul in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

fainpul — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:19:17 +0000

They think you're holding it wrong.

New comment by fainpul in "Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace)"

fainpul — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:06:29 +0000

So you think AI can do this – why exactly is a genius needed?

New comment by fainpul in "Build123d: A Python CAD programming library"

fainpul — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:29:44 +0000

> runs as part of regeneration

You can do that in FreeCAD. Performance is horribly slow in my experience, but maybe I'm doing something wrong.

https://wiki.freecad.org/Scripted_objects

https://wiki.freecad.org/Create_a_FeaturePython_object_part_...

New comment by fainpul in "Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed"

fainpul — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:23:02 +0000

OMG, so many open source projects need to read this:

https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2018/07/options.html

(hello FreeCAD ;)

New comment by fainpul in "Gonon: Building a Clock with No Numerals"

fainpul — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:05:33 +0000

Something like this (if you leave off the numbers) captures it pretty well IMO. One clock hand which symbolically points at the position of the sun.

https://www.botta-design.de/en/products/uno-single-hand-24-h...

New comment by fainpul in "The road signs that teach travellers about France"

fainpul — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:55:54 +0000

> how rich this country is that some random little lake somewhere will have a full blown parking lot

Aren't the parking spaces required by law, instead of "because we're rich"? I don't know, but I just watched the latest Not Just Bikes video, where he mentions legal requirements for stores to provide lots of parking spaces, which makes everything more expensive.

New comment by fainpul in "Show HN: Create a full language server in Go with 3.17 spec support"

fainpul — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:36:47 +0000

But you don't have to add a docstring. Cases like this are worse than no docstring at all, because it wastes the reader's time.

If you add one, at least make the effort to provide some useful information. For example which is more severe: higher or lower numbers.