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New comment by lukebitts in "Doctors in Brazil using tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims (2017)"

lukebitts — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 06:32:37 +0000

I wonder what’s the difference between countries that drives that. It’s not like Brazil doesn’t have its own FDA, which is much more strict than the US one, from what I know. Maybe some kind of lobbying? Or are animal rights group that much stronger?

New comment by lukebitts in "Are arrays functions?"

lukebitts — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:32:54 +0000

Some people really do look at a painting and see only brush strokes huh

New comment by lukebitts in "Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler"

lukebitts — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:37:18 +0000

Any moment now…

New comment by lukebitts in "LinkedIn is loud, and corporate is hell"

lukebitts — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 05:50:55 +0000

Unfortunately most users on reddit are bots instead

New comment by lukebitts in "Observations from people-watching"

lukebitts — Sun, 11 May 2025 05:25:16 +0000

I disagree. The difference here is that she is not advocating for acting on her assumptions, like an interviewer does. Maturity is not letting your assumptions cloud your judgement.

New comment by lukebitts in "Star Citizen crowdfunding passes $750M"

lukebitts — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 12:45:49 +0000

I could open my copy of the game right now and find a bug in 5 minutes. That has been a constant for me since the game released and until at least 3 months ago when I last played

New comment by lukebitts in "Ask HN: How to deal with AI generated sloppy code"

lukebitts — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:36:52 +0000

Funny that this gets downvoted when the original post is also AI generated

New comment by lukebitts in "Blender 16yo winner of UK young animator of the year"

lukebitts — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 01:13:23 +0000

Incredibly well done! Showcases a lot of Blender’s systems as well

New comment by lukebitts in "Upcoming changes to Rust's borrow checker"

lukebitts — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 14:38:48 +0000

I feel like we've been hearing about Polonius for years, the authors must be glad its finally here!

New comment by lukebitts in "Why Async Rust?"

lukebitts — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 19:16:20 +0000

Great read! I always enjoy these dives into the reasoning behind the language

New comment by lukebitts in "Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude"

lukebitts — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 22:59:10 +0000

I haven't attempted latin translations, but anything from my native language to english and back has been 100% perfect, miles better than anything google translate can do

New comment by lukebitts in "Article reply “Godot is not the new Unity” from Juan Linietsky (BDFL of Godot)"

lukebitts — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 17:46:12 +0000

Great response, I downloaded Godot because I was looking for a lightweight engine that doesn't take two minutes to load. This seems to explain the reason for the performance, I'm glad its one of their focus

New comment by lukebitts in "Chonky Menu Re-Creation"

lukebitts — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 04:49:24 +0000

Great write-up! It’s hard to find good “chonky” ui tutorials

New comment by lukebitts in "Changing the Rules of Rust"

lukebitts — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 14:30:55 +0000

Very interesting read! I really wish we could be unburdened by backwards compatibility so big changes like these are possible, but I realize that would open its own can of worms

New comment by lukebitts in "Being “rockstars”: when software was a talents/creatives industry"

lukebitts — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:49:42 +0000

It's always so funny seeing these kinds of comments from throwaway accounts

New comment by lukebitts in "The Rust I wanted had no future"

lukebitts — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 15:46:21 +0000

I personally really like the type-system, for any kind of project really

New comment by lukebitts in "Why do railway tracks have crushed stones alongside them?"

lukebitts — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 12:20:48 +0000

Who is advocating for immediate turning off of oil pumps and transport networks?

New comment by lukebitts in "In vitro biological system of cultured brain cells has learned to play Pong"

lukebitts — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 06:52:51 +0000

That’s not true at all. If something is a waste but doesn’t meaningfully change yours odds of suvival, “evolution” won’t care

New comment by lukebitts in "Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”"

lukebitts — Sat, 06 May 2023 20:07:09 +0000

Thats the value proposition of MJ I guess. Its easier to get something good out of a simple prompt, but you end up with a recognizable MJ look

New comment by lukebitts in "Ask not what the compiler can do for you"

lukebitts — Fri, 05 May 2023 20:27:02 +0000

What happens? We debug and find the error exactly like we would have to if the tooling was “worse”