Hacker News: fasquoika

New comment by fasquoika in "Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access"

fasquoika — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 23:12:17 +0000

Personally nearly every nice thing in my life either is a human or was made by one

New comment by fasquoika in "The Seamless Communication models"

fasquoika — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 22:40:10 +0000

Reinventing polari is certainly one way to make yourself less understood...

New comment by fasquoika in "Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras (2009)"

fasquoika — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 06:12:12 +0000

Well you're on a website called ycombinator.com so maybe the fixed point combinator

    Y = λf.(λx.f(xx))(λx.f(xx))

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator

New comment by fasquoika in "SEC charges Impact Theory for unregistered offering of NFTs"

fasquoika — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 01:53:46 +0000

>There’s a well-established effect, common enough at this point to where some academic has probably given it a name like “The Twitter Dilemma” or something, that describes how a lie can be much more potent and contagious with exponentially fewer words than are necessary to effectively refute it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

USB-C Confirmed for the iPhone 15

fasquoika — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 00:43:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macworld.com/article/2023828/usb-c-confirmed-for-the-iphone-15-in-new-leaked-part-images.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37057382

Points: 65

# Comments: 70

New comment by fasquoika in "Driving is more expensive than you think (2020)"

fasquoika — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 13:38:53 +0000

In New Jersey the Midtown Direct line famously paid for itself multiple times over by increasing nearby property values so much the state collected millions more in property taxes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kearny_Connection

New comment by fasquoika in "Indirect ownership, shallow borrow and self-referential data structures in Rust"

fasquoika — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 15:56:33 +0000

>A safe alternative is to use indexes instead of references.

    struct ParsedFile {
        contents: Vec,
        words: Vec<(usize, usize)>
    }

>This works well, and you can make it ergonomic by wrapping the index pair in a new type

You should probably just use the std::ops::Range type for this. It's what's created by the `..` syntax

New comment by fasquoika in "Ask HN: What are some interesting examples of Prolog?"

fasquoika — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 02:00:30 +0000

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.34...

Implementing Prolog via Microprogramming a General Purpose Host Computer [pdf]

fasquoika — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 19:04:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1988/CSD-88-399.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31137321

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by fasquoika in "Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself"

fasquoika — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 16:45:15 +0000

GHC is nearly impossible to bootstrap if you don't consider the vendored transpiled C code to be source. Versions of GHC not dependent on GHC were never public AFAIK.

https://elephly.net/posts/2017-01-09-bootstrapping-haskell-p...

New comment by fasquoika in "U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow"

fasquoika — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 22:09:50 +0000

https://tildeverse.org/

New comment by fasquoika in "How to set up a blog with Hugo and Cloudflare, and why you should"

fasquoika — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:56:22 +0000

Writefreely?

https://writefreely.org/

New comment by fasquoika in "A Big Week for RISC-V"

fasquoika — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 23:38:06 +0000

Closer to pi zero than pi 4 but you can order it right now

https://aliexpress.com/item/1005003741287162.html

New comment by fasquoika in "Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again"

fasquoika — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:57:47 +0000

Well, you didn't just find a cave, it was made for you by other people. Interdependence is a hallmark of social species such as Homo Sapiens. Even your caveman ancestors were probably reliant on one another in many ways.

>It seems that someone asked the great anthropologist, Margaret Mead, “What is the first sign you look for to tell of an ancient civilization?” The interviewer had in mind a tool or article of clothing. Ms. Mead surprised him by answering, “a healed femur (thigh bone)”. When someone breaks a femur, they can’t survive to hunt, fish or escape enemies unless they have help from someone else. Thus, a healed femur indicates that someone else helped that person, rather than abandoning them and saving only themselves.

New comment by fasquoika in "Fortran Web Framework"

fasquoika — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 18:10:15 +0000

http://www.coboloncogs.org/

New comment by fasquoika in "Learning APL"

fasquoika — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 00:12:14 +0000

>It really clued me into how the language got such a following in HR/Finance applications. You got an array of everyones hours per day. Weekly total hours, pay, tax, medicare, etc, were all broken out in little calculative statements based on the array of hours.

Yeah I guess APL is kind of 'spreadsheets as a Real Programming Language', isn't it?

Pine64 July Update

fasquoika — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 19:43:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pine64.org/2021/07/15/july-update/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27860400

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by fasquoika in "Cwtch: Decentralized, privacy-preserving, multi-party messaging protocol"

fasquoika — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 02:08:29 +0000

>I was at a talk that had something to do with Unix. Fortunately, I’ve succeeded in repressing all but the speaker’s opening remark:

>I’m rather surprised that the author of sendmail is still walking around alive.

>The thing that gets me is that one of the arguments that landed Robert Morris, author of “the Internet Worm” in jail was all the sysadmins’ time his prank cost. Yet the author of sendmail is still walking around free without even a U (for Unixery) branded on his forehead.

- The Unix Haters Handbook

New comment by fasquoika in "Main is usually a function, so when is it not? (2015)"

fasquoika — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 04:35:55 +0000

I'm guessing this is referring to the fact that early versions of Fortran stored return addresses in specific memory locations (at the end of the function definition IIRC) instead of on a call stack. This is why those versions of Fortran couldn't do recursion, because the new return address would overwrite the old one.

The Matrix Space Beta

fasquoika — Tue, 18 May 2021 20:28:16 +0000

Article URL: https://matrix.org/blog/2021/05/17/the-matrix-space-beta

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27200579

Points: 281

# Comments: 94