Hacker News: legends2khttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=legends2kHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:57:29 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by legends2k in "Advent of Code 2025"]]>By the same token, AI came along and we all still have intelligence, needless, eh? I mean people reading and writing stuff has nothing to do with AI. I don't see how some people see everything as a zero-sum game.

]]>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:41:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46097513legends2khttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46097513https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46097513<![CDATA[New comment by legends2k in "Advent of Code 2025"]]>I'm not sure I understand this. Most puzzles are number-crunching but very little to do with graphics (maybe one or two), so no usually OpenGL isn't used AFAIK.

Of course, folks may use it to visualise the puzzles but not to solve them.

]]>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:38:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46097500legends2khttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46097500https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46097500<![CDATA[New comment by legends2k in "Blender 5.0"]]>Not sure about FreeCAD but got a lot done with Gimp, Inkscape and LibreOffice in my personal projects. Totally worth my time!

]]>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 02:21:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45975133legends2khttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45975133https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45975133<![CDATA[New comment by legends2k in "Go's Sweet 16"]]>Sorry, hard disagree. Try to understand what `this` means in JS in its entirety and you'll agree it's by no stretch of the imagination a simple language. It's more mind-bending and hence _The Good Parts_.

]]>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 01:36:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934275legends2khttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934275https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934275<![CDATA[New comment by legends2k in "Software Rot"]]>My comment didn't convey it, but I'm with you on using the right tool for the right job. Just that I always don't have the luxury to do so. And yes like the other comment I'd use it for throw away scripts and glue code, instead of installing a new toolchain. Longevity and importance should warrant doing it. Cheers!

]]>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:10:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44826385legends2khttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44826385https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44826385<![CDATA[New comment by legends2k in "Software Rot"]]>While there are other parameters I would consider like maintainability, ergonomics, mind share, ease of deployment, etc. The ubiquitous availability point triumphs most others though. Installation of new toolchain is usually a hassle when the same task can be done with existing tools. Also when I present it in a company setting installing new software and broadening the security attack surface is the first pushback I get.

]]>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 08:52:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44809514legends2khttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44809514https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44809514<![CDATA[New comment by legends2k in "Sign in with Google in Chrome"]]>I haven't signed in to my Google account since browser install but I still see it in StackOveflow.

]]>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 11:34:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44721971legends2khttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44721971https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44721971<![CDATA[New comment by legends2k in "Rust running on every GPU"]]>Even games, epitome of performance, have 5 levels of abstraction (including your 4, 5, 6 + an engine layer + game code). This isn't new in GPU/Graphics programming IMHO.

]]>Sun, 27 Jul 2025 04:05:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44698843legends2khttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44698843https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44698843<![CDATA[New comment by legends2k in "Microsoft Edit"]]>Huge +1, same for me, but with GNU Emacs instead of neovim but can completely appreciate the philosophy.

]]>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:58:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379479legends2khttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379479https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379479<![CDATA[New comment by legends2k in "Microsoft Edit"]]>I don't think a sentence in a big report page is counted as touting.

]]>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:05:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44378833legends2khttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44378833https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44378833<![CDATA[New comment by legends2k in "Microsoft Edit"]]>Sure, there are always exceptions but they're only that, exceptions.

]]>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:51:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44378678legends2khttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44378678https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44378678<![CDATA[New comment by legends2k in "Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved­ feature (2022)"]]>I discovered notes from the man pages around 2020 but didn't use them as it was primarily a local repo feature. By default they don't get pushed or fetched. If course, one can configure it such that it's pushed and fetched, but that's a team decision and mine didn't vote for it.

]]>Sun, 22 Jun 2025 15:34:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44347756legends2khttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44347756https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44347756<![CDATA[New comment by legends2k in "Mbake – A Makefile formatter and linter, that only took 50 years"]]>Why not Python? I primarily program in C++ but I see it as a decent choice as Python is available in almost all recent machines. Of course Windows is a notable exception but given it's a tool for developers I guess Python should be present.

]]>Sun, 22 Jun 2025 10:33:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44345701legends2khttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44345701https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44345701<![CDATA[New comment by legends2k in "The Grug Brained Developer (2022)"]]>This! Also my guess would be Kernighan or Pike aren't (weren't?) deployed into some random codebase every now and then, while most grugs are. When you build something from scratch then you can get by without debuggers, sure, but foreign codebase, a stupid grug like I can do much better with tools.

]]>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 02:42:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44306215legends2khttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44306215https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44306215<![CDATA[New comment by legends2k in "Good Writing"]]>Paul clearly excludes non-native writers. I know excellent thinkers who struggle to express an idea in a given language that they're not fluent in.

Another related point: I've seen geeks who're solid in thinking but terrible at explaining what they think.

]]>Sat, 24 May 2025 16:28:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44082088legends2khttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44082088https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44082088<![CDATA[New comment by legends2k in "I Built My Own Audio Player"]]>Even if we agree on a format I don't want someone to quietly say a song I like is gone from my library while I wasn't looking due to some reason.

]]>Fri, 23 May 2025 17:45:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074862legends2khttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074862https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074862<![CDATA[New comment by legends2k in "Project Verona: Fearless Concurrency for Python"]]>Isn't this so common in computer science, haven't you heard of Worse is Better [1]?

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better

]]>Sun, 18 May 2025 09:57:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44020212legends2khttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44020212https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44020212<![CDATA[New comment by legends2k in "Show HN: Lux – A luxurious package manager for Lua"]]>I see no problem though. Most package managers support binary-only package installations.

]]>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 07:27:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43629693legends2khttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43629693https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43629693<![CDATA[New comment by legends2k in "FFmpeg by Example"]]>I thought FFmpeg is pipeline based too; graph of filters. Am I missing something? You can set up a complex graph of source, sink and transform filters.

]]>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:08:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42705715legends2khttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42705715https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42705715<![CDATA[New comment by legends2k in "The C23 edition of Modern C"]]>That's besides the point. The book's author has a valid point. Being pedantic should be applied at all levels if you're going that route.

]]>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 16:07:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41860761legends2khttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41860761https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41860761