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New comment by kingofheroes in "Why Elixir? Common misconceptions"

kingofheroes — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 19:10:02 +0000

Pattern matching makes up for the lack of static typing for me. Combined with guard clauses it feels even stronger than static typing.

New comment by kingofheroes in "Why Elixir? Common misconceptions"

kingofheroes — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 19:07:15 +0000

Pattern matching makes up for the lack of static typing to me. It provides nearly all the same benefits especially when used with guard clauses.

New comment by kingofheroes in "Why Elixir? Common misconceptions"

kingofheroes — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 19:04:08 +0000

I just started learning Elixir recently and I'm honestly loving it. Pattern matching is awesome and how it approaches concurrency and async work was so easy to wrap my head around. Pragmatic Studios has a great tutorial.

New comment by kingofheroes in "My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures"

kingofheroes — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 17:30:06 +0000

I've had great success using AI to translate my thoughts into actual words on a page (not just for software development, but also amateur writing). Bridging the vocabulary gap.

New comment by kingofheroes in "Our sister died because of our mum's cancer conspiracy theories, say brothers"

kingofheroes — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 20:01:20 +0000

Your situation is different from the one in the article. In your brother's case, it was end stage and so forgoing treatment to improve QoL makes total sense. In the article the sister actually had a high chance of survival (so opposite of end stage) but still chose not to undergo treatment.

New comment by kingofheroes in "Membrane: Media Framework for Elixir"

kingofheroes — Tue, 13 May 2025 19:09:49 +0000

I recall doing a tutorial for Exilir, the Phoenix framework in particular, a few years back and I actually enjoyed using it. Anyone know any good up-to-date tutorials someone could use?

New comment by kingofheroes in "Plain Vanilla Web"

kingofheroes — Mon, 12 May 2025 14:27:30 +0000

Two local businesses I frequent (one for baked goods and another for coffee beans) use mailing lists for membership and ordering. Only "drawback", if it even is one, is they rely on word-of-mouth because I had no idea they existed until I saw them mentioned in a thread on a local subreddit.

New comment by kingofheroes in "Handwriting activates broader brain networks than typing"

kingofheroes — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 16:47:57 +0000

I always found handwriting notes to be more effective at getting my brain to actually remember them compared to typing. When it comes to writing though I'll always pick the keyboard.

New comment by kingofheroes in "A cryptocurrency scam that turned a small town against itself"

kingofheroes — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:14:45 +0000

Its interesting to think about it this way. Like, this community's "financial opsec" was their isolation from the rest of the world. No one on the outside can attack them if no one can even point out the town on the map. The internet makes that approach impossible.

New comment by kingofheroes in "Why can't we remember our lives as babies or toddlers?"

kingofheroes — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:25:17 +0000

The earliest memory I have, that I actually consider a memory and not just a weird dream, is a sensation of feeling very warm and comfortable and then suddenly feeling very cold and upset and wanting to go back to the warm place. I'd like to say this was a memory from when I was born, but I honestly have no clue when this happened as I couldn't see anything. I think the reason this memory stuck with me was just the stark contrast between "this is nice" to "this sucks, put me back".

New comment by kingofheroes in "47% of 160 Top Selling Protein Powders Tested Exceed P65 Limit for Toxic Metals [pdf]"

kingofheroes — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:17:41 +0000

They'll very likely get sued if they do.

New comment by kingofheroes in "Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?"

kingofheroes — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:27:13 +0000

One thing I've always stumbled on is finding the people to even ask the questions to. How do you contact people in the domain you're interested in and how do you convince them to give you the time of day?

New comment by kingofheroes in "Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit"

kingofheroes — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 20:47:24 +0000

This. In hindsight, buying Twitter at a loss was well worth the long (though, more like medium) term results. As much as it disgusts me, I'm impressed.

New comment by kingofheroes in "This website is hosted on Bluesky"

kingofheroes — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 15:10:40 +0000

The Streisand is "the more you try to hide something, the bigger its area of impact becomes".

New comment by kingofheroes in "It took some serious nerve for Wiz to walk away from Google's $23B offer"

kingofheroes — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 04:32:42 +0000

Good on them. This decision proves they legitimately care about their business and want to see it succeed. I hope others follow their example and realize that selling to Big Tech shouldn't be the default answer.

New comment by kingofheroes in "Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud charge stemming from 737 MAX crashes"

kingofheroes — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 16:44:29 +0000

Juries can be manipulated. Allowing this to go to public trial risks the danger of Boeing getting off lighter or not facing punishment at all.

New comment by kingofheroes in "OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman"

kingofheroes — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 23:07:56 +0000

Personal conspiracy theory: HIPAA data was, or possibly is, being loaded into ChatGPT without the legally required safeguards. The recent "security concerns" that caused Microsoft to cut its employees access was this information leaking out (and the leaking is possibly getting worse). Someone, possibly Ilya, found out and informed the board.

New comment by kingofheroes in "VPS Benchmarking – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr"

kingofheroes — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 19:30:38 +0000

Are they all just AWS resellers?

New comment by kingofheroes in "Why Bill Watterson Vanished"

kingofheroes — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 18:17:51 +0000

Theres Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield, and Jim Davis, the creator of the New Balance sneaker brand. The New Balance one is the billionaire.

New comment by kingofheroes in "Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement"

kingofheroes — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 05:11:40 +0000

Theres "creators create because they like to create things" and "creators create things because they want to make a living off of what they create". If artists/authors/musicians/etc aren't going to be paid for what they create, they can't make a living doing it. If they can't make a living doing it, that severely limits their opportunity and time available for creating things since they could only do it as a hobby (unless we bring back royal patronage or something). Many of the best artistic works we have came from people who were able to commit 100% to the creative process. That's gonna be real hard to do if you can't pay for food and housing.