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New comment by prollings in "I feel like giving up on coding"

prollings — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 05:15:42 +0000

You speak as though everyone on HN has the same attitude towards these things, but that's just not true.

There were naysayers then and there are naysayers now.

New comment by prollings in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

prollings — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:36:50 +0000

Why? We know the price was $1300. Doesn't mean anyone would buy it for that much. So try lowering the number and see what you think? The value is what someone is willing to pay for it.

New comment by prollings in "America's Data Center Build-Out Is Falling Way Behind Schedule"

prollings — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:38:20 +0000

I keep seeing people all over the internet adding the caveat that the data centres are necessary in comments following stories about rollout (and often the stories themselves). But never why that's the case. So the question is why are more data centres necessary at the proposed rollout rates? What actually drives this demand?

New comment by prollings in "Left to Right Programming"

prollings — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:32:03 +0000

Right, but which columns? The goal absolutely IS to select columns from a table. ie. my goal is not to select created_at, my goal is to select Foo's created_at.

New comment by prollings in "E Ink faces growing competition in the "paper-like" display space"

prollings — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 10:02:22 +0000

I dunno, I can barely see my OLED phone's screen when I'm using it on full brightness in the sun.

New comment by prollings in "GDScript – Custom scripting language to be used with the Godot game engine"

prollings — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 05:59:19 +0000

I am grateful they left it at "inspired by python", as I find python with its libraries and all its warts strangely complex and indigestible. Then, from a tooling and ecosystem perspective, wildly frustrating and unfriendly to work with. So I'm glad they took the chance and made something that's tailored to their use case and gives them the space to diverge and optimise where and when it makes sense.

Also C# is available as a scripting language for Godot, which makes a lot more sense than python from a performance perspective.

New comment by prollings in "Honey, I shrunk the NPM package"

prollings — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 21:07:22 +0000

Amdahl's law states that "the overall performance improvement gained by optimizing a single part of a system is limited by the fraction of time that the improved part is actually used".

For anyone else who didn't know.

New comment by prollings in "Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode"

prollings — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 22:35:36 +0000

I think they're essentially using "hashtags", so they could have many for one note.

New comment by prollings in "Chess is booming among teens"

prollings — Mon, 01 May 2023 09:07:11 +0000

I've taken to "installing" the webapp version on my phone. It's only a little bit different, but doesn't come with the frustrating issues the android app does.

New comment by prollings in "A New Beginning for LifeHacker"

prollings — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 11:10:20 +0000

And what would that advice be?

New comment by prollings in "How to find a tiny radioactive source while doing 70 kph"

prollings — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 12:50:19 +0000

The road you're talking about was 1400km long

New comment by prollings in "Under anesthesia, where do our minds go?"

prollings — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 07:33:32 +0000

Perhaps consciousness is just an observer of those physical systems that exist in the brain, and under anaesthetic the interface between consciousness and those systems is interfered with. I don't know what I'm getting at.

New comment by prollings in "Fetch API has landed into Node.js"

prollings — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 14:45:24 +0000

They're talking about JavaScript's fetch API. It's not an external library.

New comment by prollings in "Ichi.city"

prollings — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 02:48:24 +0000

I think most people who would be happy with such a simple webpage are the same people who know how easy it is to do.

New comment by prollings in "Google can't pass its own page speed test"

prollings — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 15:47:39 +0000

Sure, but these people must have left that golden zone at some point and had their clicks stolen like the rest of us.