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New comment by peesem in "Omarchy Is Not A Distro"

peesem — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:22:30 +0000

well, it is in the "thoughts" section of the author's website. maybe it doesn't belong on HN, but the person who posted it is not the author, so take it up with them. anyway, i agree with most/all of the complaints but if a valuable point were to be made it is probably the funding point. why does this need money?

New comment by peesem in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

peesem — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:12:54 +0000

TigerBeetle (https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle) and Ghostty (https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty) come to mind as decently popular projects.

New comment by peesem in "Googlebook"

peesem — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:05:33 +0000

the pattern seems to be that all of these don't use your google account, i suppose their system (through cookies or something similar) depends on the domain google.com somehow.

New comment by peesem in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

peesem — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:01:03 +0000

isn't this how esync works?

edit: i think so https://github.com/zfigura/wine/blob/esync/README.esync

New comment by peesem in "Googlebook"

peesem — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:38:52 +0000

They bought that TLD and then never did anthing fun with it. I can forgive them for not doing https://google, since that's discouraged apparently, but not even fonts.google? docs.google? mail.google? Apparently once upon a time you could do com.google for an April Fools prank but they didn't even keep a basic redirect. The only thing they ever permanently used it for (afaik) was domains.google, and they sold that to Squarespace. Why even spend the money?

New comment by peesem in "I’ve banned query strings"

peesem — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:33:42 +0000

oh, it's uBlock Origin (non-lite) removing it without telling me at all. retracted

New comment by peesem in "I’ve banned query strings"

peesem — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:21:09 +0000

edit: not true https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077990

"I don’t like people adding tracking stuff to URLs" and "You abuse your users by adding that to the link" and "no unauthorised query strings" and "At present I don’t use any query strings" but for some reason ?igsh, which i'm pretty sure is an instagram tracking parameter, is allowed. weird

New comment by peesem in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

peesem — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:02:06 +0000

try `bunx --bun whateverthecommandis`?

New comment by peesem in "Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust"

peesem — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:55:55 +0000

last zig fork didn't go so well: https://ziglang.org/news/statement-regarding-zen-programming...

New comment by peesem in "“Kitten Space Agency”, a Spiritual Successor to “Kerbal Space Program” (2025)"

peesem — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:00:52 +0000

somewhere they have an FAQ where one of the questions is about Mac support, i remember the response being something like "most of the developers use Macs so it might happen"

edit: here - https://kittenspaceagency.wiki.gg/wiki/Frequently_asked_ques...?

New comment by peesem in "Ti-84 Evo"

peesem — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:20:31 +0000

ever been to school?

New comment by peesem in "Ti-84 Evo"

peesem — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:19:58 +0000

CollegeBoard only seemed to realize recently, the ban on CAS calculators on the SAT, PSAT, and AP exams came last September if I remember correctly, maybe August or October

New comment by peesem in "Music with Lyrics Interferes with Cognitive Tasks (2023)"

peesem — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:49:51 +0000

i wonder what the results are with lyrics in languages that the listener doesn't understand.

New comment by peesem in "How and why to take a logarithm of an image [video]"

peesem — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:43:26 +0000

YouTube has A/B testing features that allow videos to have multiple titles and/or thumbnails.

New comment by peesem in "Type resolution redesign, with language changes to taste"

peesem — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:32:22 +0000

it seems to me like the acceptance of breaking changes by the Zig community is more coming from "it's worth it to get a nice, polished language" than some "source of pride" which i personally have not seen in my time in a/the Zig discord server.

what is the problem with zig being developed for 10+ years? if people want stable languages there are stable languages to be used. if a language like zig is not achievable in less than 10 years, should it just not be developed from the start?

i think your problems with build.zig are overstated. where do you see someone saying "to build your first Hello World, first understand this build script in non-trivial Zig"? you can literally just do `zig run file.zig`, so if someone is advocating for that then i think many would agree they are teaching the wrong way. i wonder if you saw an example project with a build script that was intended to show the power and possibilities of Zig rather than to be a starter guide.

New comment by peesem in "Type resolution redesign, with language changes to taste"

peesem — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:15:40 +0000

files aren't converted to structs on import, they _are_ structs (well, their contents are the inside of a struct declaration). also, public members don't become comptime fields? file structs are basically left as-is on import, nearly like you copy&pasted the file contents into a struct declaration

New comment by peesem in "A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words"

peesem — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:15:12 +0000

Wordle now credits an "Editor" for each day, so I guess that person is the one who hand-picks the word for that day?

New comment by peesem in "A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch"

peesem — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:14:28 +0000

you have to go into your Privacy & Security settings and scroll down until you see something like "Posturr.app was blocked to protect your Mac." and then press "Open Anyway"

New comment by peesem in "Memory layout in Zig with formulas"

peesem — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:30:32 +0000

Andrew Kelley has said relatively recently that there are no plans to introduce a Zig ABI: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/3786#issuecomment-2646...

New comment by peesem in "SETI@home is in hiberation"

peesem — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:31:33 +0000

unhelpful and untrue