Hacker News: omniscient_oce

New comment by omniscient_oce in "Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first"

omniscient_oce — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:21:47 +0000

Which model are you using?

New comment by omniscient_oce in "Ant Game Engine"

omniscient_oce — Sat, 11 May 2024 04:48:10 +0000

Seems pretty cool. You should chuck a screenshot or two up at the top of the README

New comment by omniscient_oce in "Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years"

omniscient_oce — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 09:50:20 +0000

You could say that about any game engine. Are you suggesting Bevy should try and not optimise performance because perf and fun are not correlated?

New comment by omniscient_oce in "How do neural networks learn?"

omniscient_oce — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:29:47 +0000

I'm not an expert by any means but there are some papers exploring this using category theory.

New comment by omniscient_oce in "Hoppscotch desktop application"

omniscient_oce — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 11:52:44 +0000

It's amazing how powerful and clean Postman and Insomnia both felt when they were young and followed such similar trajectories into bloat and UI-unfriendliness hell.

New comment by omniscient_oce in "My personal C coding style as of late 2023"

omniscient_oce — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 10:36:04 +0000

Can anyone explain the use of ptrdiff_t instead of size_t (he has typedef'd "size" for ptrdiff_t) The macros are wrapping _Alignof and sizeof both which can't return non-zero numbers I thought.

New comment by omniscient_oce in "I Will Not Eat the Bugs (2021)"

omniscient_oce — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 11:40:01 +0000

I don't really understand why these kind of posts make it to the top page of HackerNews. Perhaps there is a bigger audience for this than you would think?

New comment by omniscient_oce in "Show HN: Poser – Posix SERvices C framework"

omniscient_oce — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 23:41:15 +0000

This looks really useful! I've just started working on a (mostly pedagogical) little project making a chat server/client in C and started reading through Beej's guide to networking which is great for the fundamentals but I was struggling with deciding how I want to structure my larger code in terms of sockets, clients, multiplexing, etc. I may just end up using your library if it fits (after reading through it some more), else take inspiration from it at the very least.

New comment by omniscient_oce in "Single File Elixir Scripts"

omniscient_oce — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 07:01:45 +0000

I've only just dipped my toes into Elixir and Phoenix but so far really loving it. I feel like I've noticed it popping up on here way more often lately or is that just the ol' frequency bias kicking in?

New comment by omniscient_oce in "Nix-Powered Development with OCaml"

omniscient_oce — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 02:18:15 +0000

I see. I wasn't aware that Nix was a build system and probably should have investigated a bit more before responding. Truthfully I don't use OCaml professionally but just in a hobby capacity. I believe you could roll your own using Make but the compiler invocations (which you can get dune to spit out if you want) become more complex over time the more features you add like PPXs, or `ctypes`, and unit testing, the more time you will save by using dune. tl;dr running ocamlopt directly works but will become cumbersome the bigger the project becomes

New comment by omniscient_oce in "Nix-Powered Development with OCaml"

omniscient_oce — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 11:14:44 +0000

I'm not very familiar with Nix but Dune is a build system not a dependency manager. You would need it regardless.

New comment by omniscient_oce in "Google and Mozilla are working on iOS browsers that aren't based on WebKit"

omniscient_oce — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:35:51 +0000

Is there a way to have tabs at the top of the browser? I like that about Chrome on my tablet, I can just hit the tabs at the top to swap, whereas on Firefox you need to hit the Tabs icon at the top right that brings up the switcher, then find the one you want and click that.

New comment by omniscient_oce in "Introduction to FPGAs"

omniscient_oce — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 22:36:50 +0000

That's awesome. I ordered an Orangecrab to start learning FPGAs with and it just arrived :)

New comment by omniscient_oce in "Reverse-engineering the conditional jump circuitry in the 8086 processor"

omniscient_oce — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 07:53:01 +0000

Do as many as you like. These are fascinating.

New comment by omniscient_oce in "Show HN: Hacker News Without News"

omniscient_oce — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 13:07:55 +0000

Great idea!

New comment by omniscient_oce in "DeShawn Williams vows, “My son is not playing football”"

omniscient_oce — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 12:08:49 +0000

I'm curious what relevance NFL has to Hacker News. I'm aware this comment will probably be downvoted to oblivion but I'm okay with that, I'm genuinely curious what constitutes on-topic and off-topic.

New comment by omniscient_oce in "Matrix Community Year in Review 2022"

omniscient_oce — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 05:40:36 +0000

At least for me there's no way you could get buy in from others either work or friend groups without native built in screen-share which only just released a month ago or so in Element I think (well, it's in beta). When I tried it out the Screenshare modal would open and you could select a window to share but you couldn't click the share button, it just wouldn't do anything (very frustrating - no error just did nothing). That was pretty underwhelming but at least it was resolved in the update a weekish later. I'm pretty sure companies would be willing to pay for Matrix if it were cheaper than Slack for example. Like you I'd prefer to see a polishing of usability over new features.

New comment by omniscient_oce in "WireGuard for the ESP32"

omniscient_oce — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 22:29:22 +0000

The Linux support on the Ox64 is supposedly pretty poor so far.

New comment by omniscient_oce in "2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?"

omniscient_oce — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 23:24:58 +0000

Can't beat the build quality and performance of the Macbook Air M1 for the price and size in my opinion so I'm sticking with it for laptop. But as for "Desktop" I've almost fully switched over to Mint and very happy with it. Windows + WSL2 for work so I guess I turn up in all metrics on the surveys :)

New comment by omniscient_oce in "Welcome to Comprehensive Rust"

omniscient_oce — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 10:42:02 +0000

Fantastic timing! I was just going to start looking into running Rust on Android