Hacker News: ptato

New comment by ptato in "How to do the thing you've been avoiding"

ptato — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 06:50:17 +0000

>You’re not exploring something. Asking for something. Acting on something. Why? Because it’s a bad idea.

No, it's because it is hard. If it is a bad idea, why would I want to do it?

New comment by ptato in "A case for toe socks"

ptato — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 05:00:42 +0000

Spain - most people wouldn't ask guests to take their shoes off

New comment by ptato in "You don't need Scrum, you just need to do Kanban right (2022)"

ptato — Mon, 08 May 2023 03:33:51 +0000

What is Kanban?

New comment by ptato in "WebGPU Fundamentals"

ptato — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 15:30:06 +0000

I've found enough Firefox-only bugs when doing things through spanish government sites that I started using Chrome for them preemptively.

New comment by ptato in "Zig build system"

ptato — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 10:30:36 +0000

Zig embeds clang to compile C code. This doesn't add a new dependency since Zig already depends on LLVM. If there is a future where the self-hosted Zig backend is good enough to not depend on LLVM anymore, there might be a reason to use a C compiler written in Zig (possibly https://github.com/Vexu/arocc)

New comment by ptato in "Nvidia RTX Remix Runtime Open Source Available Now"

ptato — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 10:30:51 +0000

For Morrowind it didn't just upgrade the rendering, it completely changed the aesthetic of the scene. Is that on purpose? At that point you can't call the results better, only different.

New comment by ptato in "Why Janet?"

ptato — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 10:05:15 +0000

good enough

New comment by ptato in "Why Janet?"

ptato — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 09:15:26 +0000

Can you write GUIs with Janet?

New comment by ptato in "Why Janet?"

ptato — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 07:01:41 +0000

Yeah... he says you can learn the language in an afternoon, but his book is so long-winded... I just want a short intro so that I can start writing programs.

New comment by ptato in "Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket"

ptato — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 16:11:45 +0000

I've thought about setting up something like this before for myself. You might have given me the motivation I needed...

New comment by ptato in "Zig Quirks"

ptato — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 10:07:52 +0000

Built-in names are essentially reserved words, and there are dozens of them. The @ prefix ensures you don't step on user's variable names, and that you can add new built-ins without making breaking changes.

New comment by ptato in "Zig Quirks"

ptato — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 07:39:16 +0000

Please don't do "const Self = @This();" if the type isn't generic. It is pointless, redundant, ugly.

What issues could public struct fields have caused?

New comment by ptato in "Zig Quirks"

ptato — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 07:37:50 +0000

It isn't possible, compiler will complain about "actual" being an undeclared identifier. The function arguments are declared in order.

New comment by ptato in "Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market"

ptato — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 12:54:35 +0000

Nobody knows.

New comment by ptato in "Ask HN: Why did medium.com "fail"?"

ptato — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 02:41:45 +0000

I don't know if this fits what you were thinking of but I love rateyourmusic.com. Great community, great content, simple website.

New comment by ptato in "Langoguessr"

ptato — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 01:48:35 +0000

A good side effect of this game is that you can find great songs from cultures that aren't as well represented in popular culture.

New comment by ptato in "A taste of pavex, an upcoming Rust web framework"

ptato — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 17:03:20 +0000

The answer to help beginners understand highly generic rust code is not more abstraction and magic.

New comment by ptato in "50 years of C, the good, the bad and the ugly [video]"

ptato — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 16:54:09 +0000

the self-hosted rewrite took a long time so it felt like the project had stalled for the past ~year. the team has started working on new features like the package manager, though.

New comment by ptato in "Dioxus: User interfaces that run anywhere"

ptato — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 22:47:57 +0000

I'd like to know the name of these libraries.

New comment by ptato in "Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas"

ptato — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 16:08:41 +0000

That looks great. I had no idea this was coming. Now I wonder which other ideas the Obsidian team has.