Hacker News: mg74

New comment by mg74 in "I Love Board Games: A Personal Obsession Explained by Psychology"

mg74 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:05:11 +0000

Get a 1830 variant (e.g. 18Chesapeake) and Age of Steam. Also any Splotter game (Indonesia just got a new printing). A new Brass will come to Kickstarter very soon, that could be a good choice. A pax game would be good to, Pax Pamir 2ed is a good choice.

New comment by mg74 in "Vibe coding kills open source"

mg74 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:57:40 +0000

More we need a new GitHub.

New comment by mg74 in "New mathematical framework reshapes debate over simulation hypothesis"

mg74 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 12:56:49 +0000

Which of him is simulating which?

New comment by mg74 in "Emacs agent-shell (powered by ACP)"

mg74 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 21:47:08 +0000

I am waiting for someone to build this for Neovim.

Come on, you unknown hero!

(and thanks to the Zed team and Google for building the spec)

New comment by mg74 in "How to build a coding agent"

mg74 — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 11:45:47 +0000

You should learn to be grateful for what other people do on their own time and demand nothing from you for you to benefit from it.

New comment by mg74 in "Apple lacks strategic vision"

mg74 — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 16:36:42 +0000

Where has the competition caught up? Arent Apple's chips still by far best-in-class from the laptop down to the watch?

Its an honest question, I would love an arm based laptop running NixOS that is competitive with the upcoming M5 Pro's but I dont see it anywhere.

Case in point: Google's newest Google TV box (released this year) is an absolute turd when compared with an 8 year old 4k Apple TV box.

New comment by mg74 in "Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears"

mg74 — Sun, 25 May 2025 09:05:06 +0000

Hard agree. The first-past-the-post single representative election system that is the foundation of the two party system in the US is breaking the country. It encourages politics where the current winner has no reason nor expectation of compromising on anything; now is their time and they are justified in breaking everything the previous winners did. It encourages politicians to act like babies, not grownups.

New comment by mg74 in "Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing (2023)"

mg74 — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 20:31:40 +0000

And I am grateful for the ends, wish Python had them as well. Python already marks the start of every block with a :, one more keyword and the semantic whitespace madness could end.

New comment by mg74 in "GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search"

mg74 — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 12:13:04 +0000

what is height?

New comment by mg74 in "Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?"

mg74 — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 21:45:44 +0000

Your nations politics are depressing enough from afar; I would not choose to have it affect me more directly than it does now.

New comment by mg74 in "We're forking Flutter"

mg74 — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 21:03:29 +0000

Thank you

New comment by mg74 in "We're forking Flutter"

mg74 — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 20:34:07 +0000

How so? Is there anything on what changes they made to Erlang/BEAM?

New comment by mg74 in "Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill"

mg74 — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:56:43 +0000

Thank you, but I rather not inject a tool that hasn't been updated in 6 years into my build chain. Thats how we do things in the Javascript world and frankly it sucks.

New comment by mg74 in "Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill"

mg74 — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:45:55 +0000

I dont think this is a problem anymore in todays world of LSPs and auto formatters. I almost never have to type "end" in Elixir for instance, it is always autocompleted for me.

New comment by mg74 in "Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill"

mg74 — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:44:33 +0000

No need for braces. Just add "end" for marking block ending to match the already block starting keyword ":".

New comment by mg74 in "Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill"

mg74 — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:42:31 +0000

Neovim + ruff lsp. I have gone through many formatters to try and get this better, but it is always worse than any other language where whitespace is not semantic.

New comment by mg74 in "Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill"

mg74 — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:24:50 +0000

The number one thing I wish was addressed in future version of Python is the semantically significant whitespace.

Python is absolutely the worst language to work in with respect to code formatters. In any other language I can write my code, pressing enter or skipping enter however I want, and then the auto formatter just fixes it and makes it look like normal code. But in python, a forgotten space or an extra space, and it just gives up.

It wouldn't even take much, just add a "end" keyword and the LSP's could just take care of the rest.

GIL and JIT are nice, but please give me end.

New comment by mg74 in "The First HTML LSP That Reports Syntax Errors"

mg74 — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:19:30 +0000

Salsa sauce!

New comment by mg74 in "Install Asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environments"

mg74 — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:43:29 +0000

I have not had that problem. Only thing I have to do when I update Nix after a MacOS update is to move /etc/shells to something like /etc/shells.old

New comment by mg74 in "Install Asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environments"

mg74 — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 17:24:53 +0000

I'll take you up on that, will follow you on twitter (@mg0rn)