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New comment by i_am_a_peasant in "Laws of Software Engineering"

i_am_a_peasant — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:12:02 +0000

I had one tell me all ints are 16 bits, and then they said 0xffff is a 32bit number.

New comment by i_am_a_peasant in "File System Wars"

i_am_a_peasant — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:55:43 +0000

Is there a reason in particular why btrfs is not part of this discussion? It's been mentioned once in passing.

New comment by i_am_a_peasant in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

i_am_a_peasant — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:06:57 +0000

passes him a german beer, silently nods

New comment by i_am_a_peasant in "Arm AGI CPU"

i_am_a_peasant — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:27:26 +0000

Intel uses its own fabs for certain IP, tsmc for others yeah. As far as I've seen the latest greatest Panther Lake that stuff is made in intel's arizona fabs.

New comment by i_am_a_peasant in "HopTab – Open source macOS app switcher and tiler that replaces Cmd+Tab"

i_am_a_peasant — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:37:41 +0000

i just use aerospace. It's not that great, but it's a lot more usable than without it.

I wish it performed as well as glazewm on windows. I can make a windows box be almost as responsive as a linux box, I simply cannot do that with a macbook.

New comment by i_am_a_peasant in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

i_am_a_peasant — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:05:35 +0000

It was night time so idk how obvious it would be that a plane is approaching when you're in a firetruck and probably have a million others things going on that all necessitate your attention as well.

New comment by i_am_a_peasant in "You are not your job"

i_am_a_peasant — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:37:31 +0000

Nah I think this paradigm already exists when city states form and you no longer live in a village where everyone knows everyone

New comment by i_am_a_peasant in "Having Kids (2019)"

i_am_a_peasant — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:24:59 +0000

I once had neighbors above me whose kids yelled all the time. all the time. and sometimes they were sick of the yelling and they put their girls outside of the apartment door. and she was just punching hard the door over and over and yelling “MAMAAAA!”.

Sure I feel sorry for the kids being distressed for one reason or another. but these guys did literally nothing.

There just has to exist someone on the planet for which the title “shit parents” does objectively apply no matter how you look at it.

New comment by i_am_a_peasant in "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"

i_am_a_peasant — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:43:04 +0000

Yeah, I can’t imagine why anyone would think that moving away from the most explicit source of truth possible would make AI work any better. the things good UIs excel at is data representation, not processing. Representing a tree or a graph in text sucks. But AI can sure read a text representation of a tree or a graph and reason about it much faster than through a UI

New comment by i_am_a_peasant in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

i_am_a_peasant — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:05:17 +0000

I had a team lead at work be offended by something pretty neutral that i said and explicitly asked me to always use chatgpt when i talk with him lol

New comment by i_am_a_peasant in "Never Bet Against x86"

i_am_a_peasant — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:28:57 +0000

for real, rosetta is crazy good

New comment by i_am_a_peasant in "Nihilistic Violent Extremism"

i_am_a_peasant — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:27:23 +0000

Well put tbh

New comment by i_am_a_peasant in "Nihilistic Violent Extremism"

i_am_a_peasant — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:25:32 +0000

I think most people on HN are just regular joes and there’s a strange expectation that most people in tech are on the spectrum or something. not that there’s anything wrong with that

New comment by i_am_a_peasant in "Understanding Std:Shared_mutex from C++17"

i_am_a_peasant — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:31:24 +0000

i think both you guys have the same job as me lol

New comment by i_am_a_peasant in "Ask HN: What U.S. cities have thriving but overlooked startup scenes?"

i_am_a_peasant — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:39:43 +0000

I'd be surprised if it isn't most major cities of most states. Like from Europe we've even done work with shops in Arizona and Tennesee

New comment by i_am_a_peasant in "Voith Schneider Propeller"

i_am_a_peasant — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:28:06 +0000

is mowing grass with a helicopter an actual commononly attempted trick like a kickflip with a skateboard?

New comment by i_am_a_peasant in "Understanding Std:Shared_mutex from C++17"

i_am_a_peasant — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:13:18 +0000

You know it often is the case that APIs like this both in C++ and Rust don't offer you enough knobs when your usecase deviates from being trivial.

It happens with locking APIs, it happens with socket APIs, anything platform dependent.

Does the C++ standard give you an idiomatic way to set PTHREAD_RWLOCK_PREFER_READER_NP or PTHREAD_RWLOCK_PREFER_WRITER_NP explicitly when initializing a rwlock? Nope. Then you either roll your own or in Rust you reach for a crate where someone did the work of making a smarter primitive for you.

New comment by i_am_a_peasant in "Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption"

i_am_a_peasant — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:32:03 +0000

same. i thought it would have been as quick to pick up as rust. nowhere near. i spent weeks trying to go through every feature of the language at least once. time in which i could’ve read several rust books and already start hacking up some interesting projects. so much in swift is pointless syntax sugar. why do i need 50 ways to do exactly the same thing, it’s just nonsense. then i have to look up the language reference whenever i read a new codebase

New comment by i_am_a_peasant in "Xfce is great"

i_am_a_peasant — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 07:54:32 +0000

This was my first DM, i even put my mother on it on her home laptop. I use i3 nowadays, glazewm on windows, and aerospace on macos. anything that’s not a tiling window manager nowadays just feels wrong to me. Even if sometimes my screen doesn’t look pretty because i randomly threw on virtual screen 7 all the windows i don’t currently use.

New comment by i_am_a_peasant in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)"

i_am_a_peasant — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 01:56:57 +0000

you make peace with your inner animal early on, so it doesn’t come back to bite you eh