Hacker News: laqq3

Chris Simpkins, creator of Hack font, has died

laqq3 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 02:51:53 +0000

Article URL: https://typo.social/@Hilary/114845913381245488

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44871817

Points: 121

# Comments: 9

New comment by laqq3 in "The provenance memory model for C"

laqq3 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:29:26 +0000

I'm wondering if you could elaborate? I'd be curious to hear more about "bloated C" and the differences between the 2nd and 3rd edition.

Polars 0.20 Released

laqq3 — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 17:21:09 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/releases/tag/py-0.20.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38665987

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by laqq3 in "Actually Portable Perl"

laqq3 — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 09:54:42 +0000

    $ bash ./perl.com --version

    This is perl 5, version 36, subversion 0 (v5.36.0) built for x86_64-cosmo
    (with 3 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

New comment by laqq3 in "Gojq: Pure Go Implementation of Jq"

laqq3 — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 22:50:57 +0000

One reason to prefer gojq is that gojq’s author is one of the most knowledgeable person for the original jq (as seen by GitHub PRs and issues), and his gojq fixes many long standing issues in jq.

Plus, for my use cases, gojq runtime performance beats jq by a fair margin.

Gojq: Pure Go Implementation of Jq

laqq3 — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 18:05:37 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/itchyny/gojq

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32542752

Points: 153

# Comments: 74

New comment by laqq3 in "Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook"

laqq3 — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 04:18:41 +0000

This looks great!

Curious whether the team is looking at improving the support of having images in tables cell? I played with the playground and it seems to work, but there seems to be some (relatively minor) glitches/bugs (e.g. difficult to place an image in a cell, moving images across cells seems difficult, and cannot Ctrl-x an image and Ctrl-v to paste it).

Ask HN: Uber account wrongly banned for suspected fraud – any recourse?

laqq3 — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 20:41:04 +0000

Merry Xmas and happy holidays HN. I rarely post here but would like the community's help.

In short, my high spend (platinum, on track to be diamond?) 7-year-old Uber account was banned yesterday, and I have been trapped in a Kafka-esque, situation with support saying they will/cannot do anything. Support did drop a hint that my account has seen suspicious activity.

I am turning HN for help, e.g. if someone could get me in touch with more sympathetic/"human" channels. (From experience, it seems like sometimes HN could get Uber's attention in cases such as this.)

Thanks all!

The timeline of events is the following:

1. I got a new phone, and setup my credit card in Apple Pay, but didn't enter the CVV code. 2. Uber App on the new phone defaulted to the new card (seems to be a bug on Apple's end). 3. Payment was rejected, which is probably the suspicious activity trigger.

I reached out to support and subsequently was told my account was banned. Further communications were stonewalled.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29686772

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

The Boss Wants You Back in the Office. Like, Now

laqq3 — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 22:22:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/return-to-work-the-boss-wants-you-back-in-the-office-11627079616

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27944911

Points: 1

# Comments: 4

Amazon.com – Downdetector

laqq3 — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 03:00:23 +0000

Article URL: https://downdetector.com/status/amazon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27806476

Points: 12

# Comments: 0

New comment by laqq3 in "Windows Terminal Quake Mode"

laqq3 — Sun, 02 May 2021 06:38:32 +0000

I’ve been using Ctrl+Shift+f in Windows Terminal for this (it searches terminal output/its scroll back buffer).

New comment by laqq3 in "Sublime Text 4"

laqq3 — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:34:23 +0000

I love Sublime Text and will be upgrading when ST4 comes out.

VSCode has one distinct advantage though: it’s remote SSH editing plugin (which has a proprietary license and closed source). IMO, the remote SSH and related extensions is bar none the distinguishing feature of VSCode in that it is so good and there is simply no competition. Every other feature has at least a worthy/better implementation elsewhere (ST, vim, or emacs).

Is there something similar for Sublime, either builtin or native? I’d delighted to be corrected.

New comment by laqq3 in "Who Will Control the Software That Powers the Internet?"

laqq3 — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 09:03:30 +0000

> > 3. We need a desktop environment that's visually appealing and has a good UX.

> Such as KDE and the rest?

Just personal taste, but I don't find KDE visually appealing, and not only the default theme ("Breeze"). Unfortunately, I can't get used to the usability issues on GNOME.

IMO, the sweet spot of visually appealing and good UX is .... Windows 10 (sigh), followed by a close second in Cinnamon (and I'm also a fan of IceWM).

New comment by laqq3 in "London will be overwhelmed by Covid in a fortnight says leaked NHS briefing"

laqq3 — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 23:22:44 +0000

Good analysis but small nitpick: the use of "Θ" in Θ(a×exp(R×𝑡)) is slightly inaccurate (or is it the use of "a"?) because the set of functions Θ(a×exp(R×𝑡)) is the same for all positive a.

New comment by laqq3 in "IceWM 2.0 – Ice Window Manager"

laqq3 — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 00:50:39 +0000

I use IceWM as my daily driver since it has all the features I need and is very lightweight.

The maintainer is super nice too: I had a feature request in mind, raised an issue on GH, and the he eventually implemented it.

It may be appropriate to link to the donation page of the author: https://gijsbers.github.io/donate/

Thanks for IceWM!

New comment by laqq3 in "Restoring a 37 Year-Old IBM F Mechanical Keyboard"

laqq3 — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 05:45:21 +0000

For what it's worth, I own a Unicomp keyboard I got in 2013 and it still works flawlessly to this day. Not doubting nor disqualifying your experience, but just want to provide a counterbalance.

New comment by laqq3 in "The Era of Visual Studio Code"

laqq3 — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 22:04:42 +0000

I read about this fact elsewhere also. Could you expand on this a bit? My impression was that VSCode and its associated extensions are open source, so I'm curious how Microsoft could make certain parts exclusive to its own build of VSCode.

New comment by laqq3 in "The Era of Visual Studio Code"

laqq3 — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 22:02:44 +0000

> Sublime is great but it updates once every other blue moon for a reason.

I like both editors (VSCode and Sublime) and just want to point out that Sublime Text 4 is in semi-public alpha. It is "semi-public" in the sense that the download link is given in the Discord channel, but anybody could join it.

For nine months or so, there has been a new release of ST4 every 2-3 weeks. Development is definitely ongoing (though I'm quite happy with ST3 as it is).

New comment by laqq3 in "Nova by Panic"

laqq3 — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 00:08:18 +0000

Though it is made slightly (?) better for the fact that if you for 12 month consecutively, then your fallback license is upgraded to the version 12 months ahead.

(That is, the next sentence in the bit you quoted is:)

> You will receive perpetual fallback licenses for every version you’ve paid 12 consecutive months for.

New comment by laqq3 in "The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple"

laqq3 — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 16:43:17 +0000

I think zero makes sense as array indices when it refers to an offset as some kind. But I find it more intuitive for counters to start at one, in line with colloquial ('1st' and 'first') and mathematical usage.