Hacker News: neuromanser

New comment by neuromanser in "Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals"

neuromanser — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 11:30:07 +0000

I too think we're growing hypersensitive, but that's not the only argument for switching to a different picture: the the model has requested the image not be used, long ago IIRC.

New comment by neuromanser in "Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax"

neuromanser — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 20:38:01 +0000

Github can't even recognize syntax, let alone provide semantic diffs! In fact, Github can't even tell that foo.cpp.in is different from foo.mk.in! Any foo.t is declared to be Perl, with no way to fix it…There are a decade-old tickets!

New comment by neuromanser in "Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax"

neuromanser — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 20:25:16 +0000

> Do you know how to read @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ syntax?

Do you not?

New comment by neuromanser in "Microsoft again bothers Chrome users with Bing popup ads in Windows"

neuromanser — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:48:29 +0000

Windows has focus issues too. Eg. when I launch Windows Terminal, whether from the Start menu or the pinned icon in Taskbar, it renders the window focussed at first, but as soon as the shell finishes initialization the window loses focus.

New comment by neuromanser in "The Good Soldier Švejk (2018)"

neuromanser — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 20:23:03 +0000

This one is a little difficult: the book is laden with multilingual dialogue and notes apparatus; it's not for everybody. That said, I first read The Name of the Rose when I was 11 or 12, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

New comment by neuromanser in "The Good Soldier Švejk (2018)"

neuromanser — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 20:14:12 +0000

Catch-22. I was maybe 11 on my first reading, and read it once a year until I was 19 or so. The book grew darker and darker on each reading, without changing a word. (I've read it a bunch of times since, just not every year. )

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. My mother read it to me before I could read. I thought it was a great adventure book!

New comment by neuromanser in "The Good Soldier Švejk (2018)"

neuromanser — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 20:01:04 +0000

I don't know anyone who liked The Little Prince when they were kids, regardless of their appreciation of the book as adults.

I disliked it as a kid for the same reasons I've loved it (and Exupéry's other aviator stories) as adult: it's abstract and impressionist.

New comment by neuromanser in "Two-thirds of young Dutch say influencers affect their financial decisions"

neuromanser — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 17:38:04 +0000

The article is specifically about "finfluencers", which I can't help but read as "active participants in shitcoin pump-and-dump schemes", and find the self-reported numbers of "saved money" and "made money" suspect.

Alternatively, the finfluencers in question could be coffeezilla, that would check out. ;-)

New comment by neuromanser in "Cloning a Laptop over NVMe TCP"

neuromanser — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 16:22:15 +0000

> # yes | head -c 512 > foo

How about `truncate -s 512 foo`?

New comment by neuromanser in "Bees and chimps can also pass on their skills"

neuromanser — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 11:47:21 +0000

I, too, thought that chimps learning from each other was nothing new (Jared Diamond, etc).

Besides that: I haven't read either study, just the article, so who knows what were the actual claims, but…

The article opens with:

> chimpanzees can learn skills from their peers so complicated that they could never have mastered them on their own.

Which you object with:

> Basically, the study is showing that a chimp can teach other chimps something humans trained it to do.

and:

> I am not sure the study is showing human like “cumulative culture”.

That reads a bit like rejecting evolution because we haven't fully replicated abiogenesis (yet).

Is "humans trained it to do" in "a chimp can teach other chimps something humans trained it to do" so important?

New comment by neuromanser in "The 160-year mystery of Europe's Ice Age 'queens'"

neuromanser — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 19:22:52 +0000

Children were most probably routinely exposed not just to nudity but also sex.

New comment by neuromanser in "Twenty years is nothing"

neuromanser — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 20:15:55 +0000

How did you "commit locally" with Subversion twenty years ago? And if "local commits" were a thing, what was Svk for?

New comment by neuromanser in "Joplin is an open source note-taking app"

neuromanser — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 08:41:45 +0000

Scrolling in the webpage crashed my browser (Firefox, ios).

New comment by neuromanser in "I turned my open-source project into a full-time business"

neuromanser — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 13:18:35 +0000

I understand these two formulations to be equivalent. Would you spell out the difference? For me? Thx!

New comment by neuromanser in "Useful Uses of cat"

neuromanser — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 15:55:06 +0000

What do you mean? It's specifically for $(cat …) / $(< …): the latter is a faster equivalent of the former. Other than that, see my comment about $READNULLCMD.

New comment by neuromanser in "RFC 9512: YAML Media Type"

neuromanser — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:44:25 +0000

> for multi-line strings, I almost always use |, and only |. It takes the indented block as-is

Except it doesn't. Try using

    steps:
      - run: |
          > f echo not redirected

in Github Actions.

New comment by neuromanser in "Useful Uses of cat"

neuromanser — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:19:59 +0000

It's built-in in Zsh: The substitution ‘$(cat foo)’ may be replaced by the faster ‘$(https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Expansion.html#Comman...

New comment by neuromanser in "Useful Uses of cat"

neuromanser — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:06:29 +0000

cat is a verb though

New comment by neuromanser in "Useful Uses of cat"

neuromanser — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:00:48 +0000

Press alt and dot (full stop) to insert last word from the previous command line:

    $ cat file
    $ grep stuff alt-.

Alternatively, make use off the READNULLCMD mechanism in Zsh:

    $ < file

translates to

    $ ${READNULLCMD:-more} < file

Thus you can

    $ < file

then UP (or ctrl-p which I find more ergonomic) and continue with "grep stuff":

    $ < file grep stuff

(Redirections can be anywhere in the command.)

https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Redirection.html#Redi...

New comment by neuromanser in "Japan bets $67B to become a global chip powerhouse once again"

neuromanser — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 20:28:25 +0000

Intel was receiving continuous beatings from AMD (Ryzen/Epyc) a few years before Apple came up with M1. 2016/2017 vs 2020. I don't think Apple and Intel are in much competition: Intel doesn't make laptops and lacked Apple's moat when they did, and Apple doesn't sell (amd64) server CPUs.