Hacker News: krossitalk

New comment by krossitalk in "In Search of a Faster SQLite"

krossitalk — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 20:08:02 +0000

I argue it's not Open Source (Freedom, not Free Beer) because PRs are locked and only Hipp and close contributors can merge code. It's openly developed, but not by the community.

New comment by krossitalk in "Decimal BASIC"

krossitalk — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 16:33:48 +0000

Is there a full source for the Mandelbrot shown on the home page?

New comment by krossitalk in "Bram Moolenaar's programming language, Zimbu"

krossitalk — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 21:00:26 +0000

So...he invented Python?

New comment by krossitalk in "Shazam for singing"

krossitalk — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:55:45 +0000

I thought this was how Shazam worked as well. I hummed a tune and was super disappointed it didn't identify it. Sounds like a business opportunity to me :)

New comment by krossitalk in "Immortal Objects for Python"

krossitalk — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 13:59:18 +0000

A ~2% slowdown in every python program everywhere sounds...unfortunate to say the least.

New comment by krossitalk in "The Future of the Vim Project"

krossitalk — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 11:34:09 +0000

Pretty much this. I'd like to take a crack at updating that vim.org page away from PHP5/MySQL.

New comment by krossitalk in "Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim"

krossitalk — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 14:09:21 +0000

Was there the usual banner posted here in mourning? I seem to have missed that. RIP. Love vim.

New comment by krossitalk in "Lace Card"

krossitalk — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 12:20:48 +0000

"IBM Doily" is cute. Love that.

New comment by krossitalk in "Removing support for forwarded ports"

krossitalk — Mon, 29 May 2023 14:51:23 +0000

> NAT hole punching

Could we just throw a STUN service in front of this, then?

New comment by krossitalk in "It Wasn't AI"

krossitalk — Mon, 15 May 2023 17:33:21 +0000

Ironic that I had to pass Cloudflare "Are you human" verification.

New comment by krossitalk in "This Word Does Not Exist"

krossitalk — Mon, 15 May 2023 15:58:24 +0000

I've had several like "According to facts and standards" or "standards and standards" or "facts and facts".

New comment by krossitalk in "Why Object.keys doesn't return (keyof T)[]"

krossitalk — Tue, 09 May 2023 13:29:21 +0000

Overpaid behavior. ES5 was fine.

New comment by krossitalk in "The early days of Linux"

krossitalk — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 15:47:01 +0000

> the X11 system was ported to it, making 1992 the year of the Linux desktop.

That's rich!

New comment by krossitalk in "His software sang the words of God, then it went silent"

krossitalk — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 18:35:23 +0000

Not a single original thought. How this isn't about Terry A. Davis is disappointing

New comment by krossitalk in "ChatGPT and Wolfram Is Insane"

krossitalk — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 18:25:17 +0000

There's a subtle irony in being sent to Reddit from HN

New comment by krossitalk in "LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models"

krossitalk — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:03:39 +0000

Maybe call it LoRALLMR (Laura Loomer)

New comment by krossitalk in "Google Bard waitlist"

krossitalk — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 15:17:23 +0000

"Bard does not support Google Workspace addresses".

Cool, bye!

New comment by krossitalk in "FreeBSD Home Audio Studio"

krossitalk — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 13:05:58 +0000

Focusrite makes higher grade options for the pro studio space. They offer a variety of rack mount interfaces.

New comment by krossitalk in "[dead]"

krossitalk — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 14:30:09 +0000

Did anyone else notice Gmail/Workspaces were down this morning? Only briefly

New comment by krossitalk in "Idiot Proof Git"

krossitalk — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 16:08:47 +0000

Just learn Git. It's really not that bad. Don't _ever_ make someone use Rebase without their understanding of what that really means.