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New comment by levzettelin in "How Complex is my Code?"

levzettelin — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:47:45 +0000

I haven't read this yet, but from the title I'm surprised that it doesn't mention Kolmogorov complexity. How does Kolmogorov complexity relate to the concepts in this article?

New comment by levzettelin in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

levzettelin — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:46:32 +0000

> Astronomical tariffs [...] and from all of this they got only $130B ?

Which is it? A number can't be small and large at the same time.

New comment by levzettelin in "We mourn our craft"

levzettelin — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:22:33 +0000

Well said!

New comment by levzettelin in "We mourn our craft"

levzettelin — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:21:04 +0000

I don't mourn our craft.

New comment by levzettelin in "Using Hinge as a Command and Control Server"

levzettelin — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:37:59 +0000

Could someone ELI5 what this does?

New comment by levzettelin in "A standard language for machine-readable code comments"

levzettelin — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:05:11 +0000

Would be interesting to heard about similar attempts, in particular for other languages like C++.

A standard language for machine-readable code comments

levzettelin — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:05:11 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/pomponchik/metacode

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46210632

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by levzettelin in "Syntax and Semantics of Programming Languages (1995)"

levzettelin — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 22:27:48 +0000

Hmm, interesting! Sounds a bit like a DSL for ECS with tight integration of event handling.

New comment by levzettelin in "Syntax and Semantics of Programming Languages (1995)"

levzettelin — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 09:19:54 +0000

I'm probably not gonna do it, but just out of interest: What is the syntax?

New comment by levzettelin in "Why I love OCaml (2023)"

levzettelin — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:31:42 +0000

Music being "good" is subjective. A programming language, however, can objectively be better if it allows a subset of programmers to better solve certain problems.

The reason for why OCaml is not more popular, thus, is that this subset is small. The reason for this may be either (a) habit or (b) it's not that much better than other languages. I'm gravitating to (b). OCaml guys seem to be quite dogmatic for the wrong reasons.

New comment by levzettelin in "A man who changes the time on Big Ben"

levzettelin — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 18:44:43 +0000

His name is Strangeway, he's sporting this preposterous mustache, and he looks after Big Ben. The guy is basically a living meme lol. He must be fun at parties; at least for like 2 minutes haha.

New comment by levzettelin in "The geometry of mathematical methods"

levzettelin — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 07:29:28 +0000

Why "Geometry"? Seems to just be a math 101.

New comment by levzettelin in "Sparrow: C++20 Idiomatic APIs for the Apache Arrow Columnar Format"

levzettelin — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 10:24:26 +0000

  // You are responsible for releasing the structure in the end
  arrow_array.release(&arrow_array);

This doesn't look like RAII. How is this idiomatic for C++20? Why do you have to pass a pointer to "this" again as an explicit argument.

New comment by levzettelin in "Age Simulation Suit"

levzettelin — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 12:05:30 +0000

As a German, that's exactly what I was thinking lololol

New comment by levzettelin in "America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain"

levzettelin — Fri, 23 May 2025 08:38:31 +0000

These days, a lot of brainpower is spent on scamming people (case in point: Vivek Ramaswamy). One can really make quite a good living off of scamming people these days. If you could reduce the brainpower of that demographic, I think this would be good for everyone else.

New comment by levzettelin in "America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain"

levzettelin — Fri, 23 May 2025 08:36:24 +0000

If you primarily reduce the brainpower of scammers, like Vivek Ramaswamy, I think that would help, even if it reduces overall brainpower.

New comment by levzettelin in "A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math rules"

levzettelin — Sat, 10 May 2025 14:46:07 +0000

Basically https://www.shadertoy.com/ for dummies. Right up my alley haha ;)

New comment by levzettelin in "Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety"

levzettelin — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 08:33:51 +0000

A tried A Short Hike. Games like this make me anxious, actually, because they make me feel like I'm wasting time. But I'm not anxious in general. I guess, it depends on the person.

New comment by levzettelin in "Tiny Pointers"

levzettelin — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 09:44:17 +0000

Can someone ELI5?

Tiny Pointers

levzettelin — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 09:43:48 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.12800

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43023634

Points: 163

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