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New comment by geekraver in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

geekraver — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:38:52 +0000

What about non-Finnish sauna heat? Or do I have to go to Finland?

New comment by geekraver in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

geekraver — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:36:45 +0000

Wow, totally ignores the one framework Microsoft developed that was actually a pleasure to use (WinForms). Avalon sucked IMO; it was just a continuation of the fever dream at the time of making everything XML (or XAML in that case). MFC sucked because it was C++. WinForms was that brief Window of “modern programming language with simple, elegant GUI framework”.

I know it’s not a popular opinion, and I am sure there were reasons Microsoft abandoned it, but that was a brief few years when I actually enjoyed building GUIs on Windows.

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

geekraver — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:29:36 +0000

Because it’s a functional society that has a government that works for the citizenry and not a small cadre of wealthy sponsors?

New comment by geekraver in "TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse"

geekraver — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:48:34 +0000

ETTD

New comment by geekraver in "U.S. added 911k fewer jobs in year through March than reported earlier"

geekraver — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:18:03 +0000

I do find it encouraging that there’s not a lot of pro-Trump sentiment on HN these days. Unlike, say, in October/November 2024…

New comment by geekraver in "Ageing accelerates around age 50 ― some organs faster than others"

geekraver — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 15:15:16 +0000

Make sure to test you thyroid hormone levels

New comment by geekraver in "Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)""

geekraver — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:16:26 +0000

“Completely preventing X is impossible. As such, attempting to stop it is a foolish endeavor” has to be one of the dumbest arguments I’ve heard.

Substitute almost anything for X - “the robbing of banks”, “fatal car accidents”, etc.

New comment by geekraver in "Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)""

geekraver — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:10:46 +0000

Given the number of times Musk has been pissed or embarrassed by Grok saying things out of line with his extremist views, I wouldn’t be so quick to say it’s not intended. It would be easy enough to strip out of the returned system prompt.

New comment by geekraver in "Cursor 1.0"

geekraver — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:27:09 +0000

And models eat apps over time. If you build an app that’s valuable, OpenAI takes note.

New comment by geekraver in "A Research Preview of Codex"

geekraver — Fri, 16 May 2025 21:14:06 +0000

Same, mine is about to graduate with a CS masters from a great school. Couldn't get any internships, and is now incredibly negative about ever being able to find work, which doesn't help. We're pretty much looking at minimum wage jobs doing tech support for NGOs at this point (and the current wave of funding cuts from Federal government for those kind of orgs is certainly not going to help with that).

New comment by geekraver in "Can you trust that permission pop-up on macOS?"

geekraver — Tue, 13 May 2025 13:13:17 +0000

This is one of those places where having a selected “security image” makes sense. That popup should not just be easily spoofed text.

New comment by geekraver in "Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server"

geekraver — Wed, 07 May 2025 22:17:23 +0000

The pylance team has started exploring this, namely whether it makes sense to have an API for type checkers that is not the LSP, as language servers have a somewhat different goal in which type checking/inference is an enabling technology. This could allow multiple different language servers to be built on top of different type checkers (and the type checkers can run out-of-proc, so implementation languages can be different). https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/discussions/718...

New comment by geekraver in "Why Fennel?"

geekraver — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:20:32 +0000

Apart from Forth, Lisp and Lua, Tcl also deserves mention as a small embeddable language. Not sure of its state today; I think by v8 it had started to get more complex, but its original incarnation was very simple. I remember getting Ousterhout’s book and being so enamored with the elegant design that I felt compelled to just implement it myself from scratch, which took just two days.

New comment by geekraver in "The 'Judicial Black Hole' of El Salvador's Prisons Is a Warning for Americans"

geekraver — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 14:39:12 +0000

“It can’t happen here”

New comment by geekraver in "Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid research cuts"

geekraver — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 17:31:59 +0000

Ph.D. programs being stopped: https://www.wesa.fm/health-science-tech/2025-02-21/universit...

New comment by geekraver in "Arthur Whitney's one liner sudoku solver (2011)"

geekraver — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 17:51:48 +0000

Much better than some of the garbage solutions I have seen, including from sources that should know better, like The Algorithm Design Handbook. Some really absurd approaches out there, so bad I wrote a blog post about it in 2015: https://www.grahamwheeler.com/post/sudoku/

New comment by geekraver in "X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled"

geekraver — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 14:43:03 +0000

Friends don’t let friends use 4Chan - I mean X

New comment by geekraver in "Ask HN: Where are the good resources for learning audio processing?"

geekraver — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 15:02:21 +0000

https://www.audiolabs-erlangen.de/resources/MIR/FMP/C0/C0.ht... might have something

New comment by geekraver in "The Software Crisis"

geekraver — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 14:39:32 +0000

Is this going to be followed up with a “functional programming is the bestest” post?

New comment by geekraver in "Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts"

geekraver — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 15:00:25 +0000

Which they can avoid by resigning. So the worst penalty for almost any crime is they might have to step down,