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New comment by lkirkwood in "Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art"

lkirkwood — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 07:13:29 +0000

They made a playstation game eventually - I thought it was really good! More fleshed out and missing a bit of the charm, but not much.

New comment by lkirkwood in "Principles for Fast Tokio Applications"

lkirkwood — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 03:51:27 +0000

Semaphores are more general for sure. The common semaphore is just a counter, when you lock it you decrement the counter by one atomically. Therefore a mutex is just a semaphore with a limit of 1. I wouldn't say they're much trickier to get right, maybe just less frequently applicable in e.g. general web io tasks.

New comment by lkirkwood in "Show HN: What If Donut.c but with Any ASCII Art"

lkirkwood — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:57:22 +0000

Really really cool. I am extremely impressed with the accuracy of the 3D model, and I suspect it is in large part thanks to the high quality ASCII art.

New comment by lkirkwood in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

lkirkwood — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 01:21:55 +0000

Have you got a source for this? I can't find anything

New comment by lkirkwood in "True Rate of Unemployment"

lkirkwood — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 05:02:34 +0000

Is capital gains / wealth tax a fix here though? Definitely not saying it doesn't work, I have no idea. But I'd be curious to hear both sides of the argument.

New comment by lkirkwood in "Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened"

lkirkwood — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:02:33 +0000

Youre kidding! That's a great fact. Do you have a source for that joycon part?

New comment by lkirkwood in "scScript for Linux"

lkirkwood — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:31:09 +0000

Seeing a lot of mentions of Tcl over the past couple days. Why so much love? When do you reach for it?

New comment by lkirkwood in "Too much Chinese science is ignored by the West"

lkirkwood — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:55:20 +0000

Is this true though? Have you verified this claim? Or is it stemming from... a bad reputation

New comment by lkirkwood in "Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with"

lkirkwood — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:30:28 +0000

2 large pizzas is near the threshold for the hours in a day?

New comment by lkirkwood in "Choose Boring Technology (2015)"

lkirkwood — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:12:30 +0000

10 years ago though

New comment by lkirkwood in "Punk, or why I don't stream anymore"

lkirkwood — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:18:25 +0000

Not much skill in problem solving if you can't Google some react syntax

New comment by lkirkwood in "GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years"

lkirkwood — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:53:00 +0000

Not that everyone should know it but it's definitely widely used. A Google search for "stack UAF" also turns it up.

New comment by lkirkwood in "Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM"

lkirkwood — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:37:03 +0000

The tone here is a bit rude but I'm still curious: what does no runtime mean to you?

New comment by lkirkwood in "I’m spending months coding the old way"

lkirkwood — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:32:35 +0000

Why? I thought it was pretty good, just get the rest of your function a lot of times and no context switching to type to an agent or whatever. It just happens immediately and if it's wrong just keep typing till it isn't. You can still use an agent for more complex things.

I just wish I knew of a good Emacs AI auto complete solution.

New comment by lkirkwood in "Some software bloat is OK"

lkirkwood — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 04:24:07 +0000

... why? What does it offer that literally any other IDE does not? Genuinely asking.

New comment by lkirkwood in "Rust 1.91.0"

lkirkwood — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 06:55:06 +0000

Are there that many people running Windows on ARM machines? I don't think I've ever met someone who was.

New comment by lkirkwood in "Why every Rust crate feels like a research paper on abstraction"

lkirkwood — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 03:55:42 +0000

Tokio is fast, but it's huge! Check the size of any library or binary that includes tokio with even minimal features, let alone their recommended default feature set which comes with a complimentary kitchen sink.

New comment by lkirkwood in "An illustrated introduction to linear algebra"

lkirkwood — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 04:07:29 +0000

I wish there was more of this in the world. Educational math content is very hard to do well. Great stuff!

New comment by lkirkwood in "Vibe engineering"

lkirkwood — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 03:09:19 +0000

If you're using LLMs for a large number of arithmetic calculations, you're exactly the problem GP is talking about. If you absolutely must use AI get it to generate code that will perform the calculations instead, so that you can actually verify the result.

New comment by lkirkwood in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

lkirkwood — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 09:02:24 +0000

What is so superior about Visual Studios debugging experience that you're sure it can't be replicated anywhere else? I've never used it.