Hacker News: jeroenvlek

New comment by jeroenvlek in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

jeroenvlek — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:27:25 +0000

True, but don't you think the FBI director should be held to higher standards of security hygiene than average people? Because I'm interpreting your tone as "it could happen to anyone". At some point the doubt is gone and there's no more benefit to give...

New comment by jeroenvlek in "Is Jeff Bezos killing The Washington Post on purpose or by accident?"

jeroenvlek — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 21:12:15 +0000

Exactly.

New comment by jeroenvlek in "Hyprland Premium"

jeroenvlek — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 07:09:33 +0000

Apologies, I should have been more specific. "Mature" was a reference to its feature set, not its stability. It runs fine in my setup. I meant things like automatic resolution and scale switching, for example, without having to edit my config file Indeed, I can script that myself, I will. My point is more that if that's the kind of thing I need to do myself, then I'm not paying 60 euro a year.

New comment by jeroenvlek in "Hyprland Premium"

jeroenvlek — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 19:41:56 +0000

I've been using Hyprland now for 4 months and it's my first tiling WM experience. I absolutely love it and actually donated 10 euro to the dev(s?).

Having said that: This is simply not mature enough yet to warrant a 60 euro a year subscription, regardless of premium features.

To be clear, I do see the potential and I would actually pay it but this is too early.

New comment by jeroenvlek in "Life on a Closed Timelike Curve"

jeroenvlek — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 07:51:10 +0000

Am I interpreting this correctly to say that if you travel through the universe (at relativistic speeds?) and you arive at your destination, then you are reset to be the same person as when you started the journey?

New comment by jeroenvlek in "I don't do Domain Driven Design"

jeroenvlek — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:22:42 +0000

In the average organization, if you're not talking to other departments then, almost by definition, you're also not doing DDD.

New comment by jeroenvlek in "Automating the search for artificial life with foundation models"

jeroenvlek — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 07:19:44 +0000

In this context I can also highly recommend the Sara Walker episodes on Lex Fridman:

https://youtu.be/-tDQ74I3Ovs?si=1m0JV8gZEl4WFedG

https://youtu.be/SFxIazwNP_0?si=R7yZroSNbw5Jjc0H

https://youtu.be/wwhTfyX9J34?si=ceXh_aehsjQPklUT

New comment by jeroenvlek in "Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model"

jeroenvlek — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:09:58 +0000

Ultimately even conventional 3d assets are rendered into pixelspace. It all comes down to the constraints in the model itself.

New comment by jeroenvlek in "Low-poly image generation using evolutionary algorithms in Ruby (2023)"

jeroenvlek — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 11:55:43 +0000

Very cool! Like others here I've done something similar about a decade ago [0], but only with inheritance and mutation. This was C++ and Qt.

[0] https://github.com/jeroenvlek/evopic

About Time

jeroenvlek — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:59:45 +0000

Article URL: https://friso.lol/about-time.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41870300

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jeroenvlek in "Day Rates (2023)"

jeroenvlek — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 05:04:00 +0000

As a freelancer myself I go one step further and actually charge hourly rates. This granularity helps both with short workshops and fulltime projects because with the latter I'm often asked to work overtime or I have personal errands to run. Charging by the hour smooths this quite a lot.

New comment by jeroenvlek in "Rust needs a web framework"

jeroenvlek — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 11:31:05 +0000

Lol, and there are the downvotes

New comment by jeroenvlek in "Rust needs a web framework"

jeroenvlek — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 06:57:15 +0000

Strongly agree, yet debates about improving the ergonomics of the language, for which there clearly "is a market", seem to be hindered by those zealous activists. A minority, I'm certain, but vocal nonetheless.

It really can be small stuff too, like hiding that nested generic "GC adjacent" type salad to be accessible only if you need it, via a type alias. Yes, I can define that myself, but the point is that a lot of people need it often, given its widespread use.l, so why not provide one?

I'm sure there's reasons not to do the above example, but that's not the point. It feels like Rust is at 95% of being amazing, and that the remaining 5% is attainable if we want to.

New comment by jeroenvlek in "Sci-Fi: Every Idea in One CSV"

jeroenvlek — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:33:18 +0000

Amazing list and despite having read sci-fi almost exclusively for the past 5 years, luckily there's still so much more to read!

New comment by jeroenvlek in "Rust's Ugly Syntax (2023)"

jeroenvlek — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 09:36:05 +0000

Your explanation is appreciated. I naively assumed HN moderation was more meta than that. It boils down to taste, ultimately. I'm really a fan of Rust, and it is sobering to now experience this gatekeeping that the Rust community is often accused of first hand.

Of course, mixing keywords single quotes is confusing, but currently the single quote is also confusing.

Just to illustrate: The keyword could just be called lif, which has the same length as dyn.

New comment by jeroenvlek in "Rust's Ugly Syntax (2023)"

jeroenvlek — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 07:14:52 +0000

When is someone a Rust developer and why do you assume that I am not one?

edit: -4 points on my parent comment for a totally valid opinion, not violating any commenting guide line (please enlighten me). However, for the down voters: "Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity."

New comment by jeroenvlek in "Rust's Ugly Syntax (2023)"

jeroenvlek — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 09:53:10 +0000

A lifetime keyword would actually go a long way in improving ergonomics. You could even make it synonymous with '. Then people can choose. Maybe one will get much more traction and the other can be deprecated.

New comment by jeroenvlek in "Tesla’s TTPoE at Hot Chips 2024: Replacing TCP for Low Latency Applications"

jeroenvlek — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 05:19:32 +0000

Seems like Tesla could really benefit from this about to be released optimizer that reduces intra-GPU communication [0].

[0] https://github.com/NousResearch/DisTrO/blob/main/A_Prelimina...

New comment by jeroenvlek in "Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist"

jeroenvlek — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 12:02:25 +0000

Ultimately, we're all just living in an episode on Rick & Morty's galactic cable TV

New comment by jeroenvlek in "There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)"

jeroenvlek — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 07:53:51 +0000

They really are in a class of their own. So smart, eloquent and original. And I have to admit that I don't even get 100% of all references.

The first two also really read like an anime, including a cotton candy sweet beginning.