Hacker News: makeset

New comment by makeset in "Privilege is bad grammar"

makeset — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:33:27 +0000

> respect for the people you're communicating with

That is exactly why executive grammar is so bad.

New comment by makeset in "Claude Opus 4.6"

makeset — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:02:09 +0000

> it weirdly feels the most transactional out of all of them.

My experience is the opposite, it is the only LLM I find remotely tolerable to have collaborative discussions with like a coworker, whereas ChatGPT by far is the most insufferable twat constantly and loudly asking to get punched in the face.

New comment by makeset in "How I estimate work"

makeset — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:06:09 +0000

I am sure you make this work on good faith at a small size, but how is it doable at large without insider trading, manipulation, and perverse incentives? People doing the work will be more informed and in a position to affect the outcome.

New comment by makeset in "Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?"

makeset — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:34:13 +0000

"Harun Yahya" aka Adnan Oktar the Turkish sex cult leader? Yeah he stays in the same place because he's serving 8658 years.

New comment by makeset in "Don't throw away your old PC–it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy"

makeset — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 02:54:57 +0000

How does that work for you? Last I tried, any interruption during a remote Time Machine backup corrupted the entire encrypted archive, losing all backup history.

New comment by makeset in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

makeset — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 06:12:46 +0000

Thank you. Someone else suggested that, but I never actually asked him why, felt awkward in the moment to probe when he left it at that, without sounding like putting down his driving job. I was also too busy thinking "Holy crap in ten years I might be a driver!"

New comment by makeset in "Galleri test: Exciting results from blood test for 50 cancers"

makeset — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 06:33:55 +0000

There is also a nontrivial chance of every CT scan to cause fatal cancer. It's a ton of radiation[1], and ERs love pushing it indiscriminately on vulnerable people.

[1] https://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info/safety-xray

New comment by makeset in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

makeset — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 06:14:29 +0000

Some 20 years ago I started a job at Google in Mountain View, and they were paying for a rental car, so Enterprise sent a driver to pick me up to do the paperwork. On the way I was chatting with him, telling him how amazing life at Google was, all the restaurants and the stocked kitchens and massage rooms on every floor of every building etc etc. He said "Do you know what this campus used to be before Google?" I said "Yeah, they told us at the orientation, it was SGI." The driver said, "Yes, and ten years ago it was exactly like that at SGI, too. I was an engineer there."

New comment by makeset in "Heroin addicts often seem normal"

makeset — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 04:08:27 +0000

The analogy is apt only in that financial markets are "a form of gambling" exactly as much as sports is.

New comment by makeset in "Learn to play Go"

makeset — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 06:29:24 +0000

Far from it, there is no need to learn any joseki before dan level. It's even counterproductive often enough ("Learn joseki, lose two stones") before the player can study why each move is joseki and whole-board implications. A lot of it makes little sense before beginning to understand thickness and influence. A 1-dan should have strong enough tactics to play reasonable corner exchanges without any joseki knowledge, and won't be losing many games because of that.

New comment by makeset in "Adjacency Matrix and std:mdspan, C++23"

makeset — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:49:28 +0000

Note that GCC/libstdc++ (as of v15.2) does not yet implement std::mdspan [1], so it needs to be imported from another reference implementation like Kokkos [2].

[1] Merged in for v16: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107761

[2] https://github.com/kokkos/mdspan

New comment by makeset in "Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml (2022)"

makeset — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 20:29:54 +0000

I remember working through Appel's compiler textbook in school, in SML and Java editions side by side, and the SML version was of course laughably more concise. It felt like cheating, because it practically was.

New comment by makeset in "That XOR Trick (2020)"

makeset — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 04:48:04 +0000

Fun fact: you can show that there is another binary operator that performs the same triple assignment swap.

New comment by makeset in "The Claude Bliss Attractor"

makeset — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 22:01:49 +0000

My favorite is when I typo "Why is thisdfg algorithm the best solution?" and it goes "You are absolutely right! Algorithm Thisdfg is a much better solution than what I was suggesting! Thank you for catching my mistake!"

New comment by makeset in "Chongqing, the Largest City – In Pictures"

makeset — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 23:11:00 +0000

No true Scotland.

New comment by makeset in "Hacktical C: practical hacker's guide to the C programming language"

makeset — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 21:05:38 +0000

I knew the name sounded familiar:

Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

New comment by makeset in "Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio"

makeset — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:36:08 +0000

Then came a nifty upgrade called "LED control" which installed a red LED next to that screw so all you had to do was turn until it was brightest, significantly reducing ?LOAD ERROR. Good times.

New comment by makeset in "First C compiler source code from 1972"

makeset — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:30:10 +0000

That's sed-able, if it were just that.

New comment by makeset in "A USB Interface to the "Mother of All Demos" Keyset"

makeset — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 02:40:37 +0000

You can learn to touch-type on any keyboard and never ever look at it (actually gets confusing to look), and many where you never have to move your hands around either, before you need to get anywhere near chordal.

New comment by makeset in "Write to Escape Your Default Setting"

makeset — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 18:50:49 +0000

Oddly my handwriting is aesthetically better than ever in old age, but I find I just have no patience left for it. Halfway through scribbling a word my brain is screaming "come on already!" for a keyboard, and by the next word it's completely checked out of whatever thought I was supposed to jot down. It's like watching the most boring scene unfold in slow motion. I've been hearing the handwriting->memory argument for decades, but screw that. Give me >100wpm.