Hacker News: gauddasa

New comment by gauddasa in "Speed Up C++ Compilation"

gauddasa — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 19:21:49 +0000

If it's too long to read then you can safely skip to "C++20 Modules" section near the end of the article.

New comment by gauddasa in "Functions are vectors"

gauddasa — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 07:14:26 +0000

I upvoted this post and your comment, that is equivalent to upvoting the post twice.

New comment by gauddasa in "Computer scientists discover limits of gradient descent (2021)"

gauddasa — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 07:10:28 +0000

From problems that require recognition of patters, whether in images or sounds, a non-linear function represented through neural networks and trained through gradient descent just suffices to produce smoothly distributed fuzzy classification that just works.

This setup is not a good prior for anything that requires more precise solution.

New comment by gauddasa in "Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)"

gauddasa — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 08:35:29 +0000

Anyone who has worked in Python or Go would tell you that it's not the right analogy. Opinionated rigid solutions kill innovation and this analogy is rather quite innovative!

New comment by gauddasa in "Raylib – A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy video games programming"

gauddasa — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 19:51:21 +0000

Why does the page claim "no external dependencies" as the very first feature, which is utterly false given it requires 26 additional libraries to be installed first:

libasound2-dev libegl-dev libgl-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libgles-dev libgles1 libglu1-mesa-dev libglvnd-core-dev libglvnd-dev libglx-dev libopengl-dev libpthread-stubs0-dev libx11-dev libxau-dev libxcb1-dev libxcursor-dev libxdmcp-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev x11proto-dev xorg-sgml-doctools xtrans-dev

New comment by gauddasa in "Is There an Illusion of Moral Decline?"

gauddasa — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 04:59:34 +0000

I was always in the impression that morality evolves. Hearing first time that it can increase or decrease because I always knew different eras in human history had their own problems. It is hard to compare ancient problems with modern problems.

New comment by gauddasa in "Finally getting two's complement"

gauddasa — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 10:53:49 +0000

What you wanted to describe is already very clearly mentioned in one small paragraph on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two%27s_complement#Why_it_work...

New comment by gauddasa in "The rule says, “No vehicles in the park”"

gauddasa — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 10:35:27 +0000

I'm sure a fuzzy inference system is being trained in the background based on visitors' responses.

New comment by gauddasa in "Loneliness is stronger when not alone"

gauddasa — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:30:09 +0000

It's bad idea to generalize it. Just surround yourself with children, old people and pets and experience loneliness vanish into thin air. It really depends on type of crowd around you.

New comment by gauddasa in "Contexto: Find the Secret Word"

gauddasa — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 01:00:53 +0000

I got red=12, blue=20 and magenta=9283. Also, yellow=33 and orange=93, green=95 and pink=389 if that might help. The word was "flag" but good luck if you are from Nigeria, Pakistan, Brazil, Libya or Mexico.

New comment by gauddasa in "Accessible hamburger buttons without JavaScript"

gauddasa — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 19:15:31 +0000

Oh, that explains why Wikipedia hamburger button works with Javascript disabled. I disabled all Javascript for wikipedia long ago when it brought back the abusive popup culture that disrupts reading by mere presence of pointer on a hyperlink.

New comment by gauddasa in "Python 2 removed from Debian"

gauddasa — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 19:35:48 +0000

It's ok. At least our children won't have to go through this dreaded dependency hell. Also, the role of Python 3 in popularizing Python was worth all the pain. Without version 3 it would not have been where it stands today.

New comment by gauddasa in "10x C++ Editor"

gauddasa — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 18:18:06 +0000

At least mention "Windows only" somewhere on home page or even better just below the Download buttons. It was shocking to see exe file being downloaded without any prompt or warning about operating system. Had to dig into FAQ to see that Linux and MacOS support are planned.

New comment by gauddasa in "React Native is not the future"

gauddasa — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 07:49:55 +0000

With tons of effort put on browsers to adhere to web standards and seamlessly interface with different kinds of hardware and platforms, the nasty hard work has already been done. How many times will the wheel be reinvented? It is consumers who should openly demand for web applications and resist efforts pushing for app alternative. This will help the consumers hide their backs and developers save their backs.

New comment by gauddasa in "Eight studies reveal a bias in human imagination"

gauddasa — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 21:09:35 +0000

Almost all cultures lay emphasis on using positive words than saying negative words. Long ago there was a superstition that spoken words might become true. It is not completely superstition as words do have psychological effects on the listener or thinker. So when encouraged to talk in certain way, it encourages to think the same way.

New comment by gauddasa in "Building a website like it's 1999"

gauddasa — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 20:37:16 +0000

The 5KB to 10KB pages of that era appear more complex than minimalist 1MB pages of today. You could save 100 or even 200 webpages on a 1.4MB floppy disk.

New comment by gauddasa in "0.999․․․"

gauddasa — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 00:41:38 +0000

This is not true. The truth is, 0.111111... = 1 . All other bases are fake and they are just imitating this behavior found in binary numbers.

New comment by gauddasa in "Atom was archived today"

gauddasa — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 13:35:29 +0000

True

New comment by gauddasa in "A circuit simulator that doesn't look like it was made in 2003"

gauddasa — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 06:49:15 +0000

I'm not able to see anything except the following message:

Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).

New comment by gauddasa in "LosslessCut: lossless video/audio editing"

gauddasa — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 17:07:11 +0000

Statically linked FFMPEG executable is about 80 MB. As there is no need to ship entire FFMPEG when only lossless operations are to be used, I'm sure it can be reduced below 10 MB.