Hacker News: pverghese

New comment by pverghese in "Shortest-possible walking tour to 81,998 bars in South Korea"

pverghese — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 10:27:45 +0000

I don't think this is presented as a means to get drunk around south korea. It's just an interesting application of TSP

New comment by pverghese in "MySQL at Uber"

pverghese — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 12:28:07 +0000

Without any proof you have resorted to some blatant racism. Sheesh

New comment by pverghese in "Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel"

pverghese — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 03:52:13 +0000

And there is no issue with that. What's this pervasive need to spread Rust to every part of the software space. It's just becoming a little too pushy and desperate

New comment by pverghese in "Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig"

pverghese — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:14:35 +0000

Compared to Rust its blazingly fast. Compared to Go compilation its slower.

New comment by pverghese in "Apple iPhone 16 Is Now Illegal in Indonesia, Ban Leaves Tourists in the Lurch"

pverghese — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 03:08:22 +0000

Tiktok huawei...so many more

New comment by pverghese in "Spice: Fine-grained parallelism with sub-nanosecond overhead in Zig"

pverghese — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 01:02:28 +0000

You are welcome to add it. This is a proof of concept

New comment by pverghese in "Is running a more efficient way to travel than walking?"

pverghese — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 07:24:57 +0000

7 min mile as most efficient seems off. Not many people run a 7 min mile especially for the population of people who walk generally

New comment by pverghese in "Reflections on Luck and Skill from the Part Time Poker Grind"

pverghese — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 07:50:39 +0000

Taxes are the rake in the economy.

New comment by pverghese in "Why Vivaldi won't follow the current AI trend?"

pverghese — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 08:51:58 +0000

With summarization, you still read, but have to read less. These days a lot of articles have a lot of verbose content, just to keep a person on the page for a long time. Reminds me of students writing essays just to get to a word or page count.

New comment by pverghese in "Swiss Broadcasting Corporation to pull plug on FM radio"

pverghese — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 07:00:47 +0000

I understand why the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRF) wants to pull the plug on FM radio. But I think there are still some good reasons to keep it around. FM radio is simple and strong, and it can be heard by a lot of people even in areas with bad internet access. FM radio also comes in handy in emergencies, like when natural disasters knock out other ways to communicate.

New comment by pverghese in "Labs.Google"

pverghese — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 07:28:10 +0000

This has been their website for experiments for years. Its for people to try out and not for the entire world to use as yet. It has had a lot of fun stuff over the years

New comment by pverghese in "Rust vs Zig Benchmarks"

pverghese — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 22:14:46 +0000

That's the point isn't it. The skill level of the programmer is also dependent on how easy the language is to pick up

New comment by pverghese in "Rust vs Zig Benchmarks"

pverghese — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 22:14:02 +0000

It does show it with the number next to the language

New comment by pverghese in "Rust vs Zig Benchmarks"

pverghese — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 13:37:44 +0000

Most of the ones zig is slightly slower than rust are due to a less than performative bignum implementation. All the rest zig handily beats rust

New comment by pverghese in "Rust vs Zig Benchmarks"

pverghese — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 13:36:28 +0000

Kind of shows how many rewrites of the rust code are needed to equalize or surpass the zig implementations which are much simpler to write

New comment by pverghese in "Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?"

pverghese — Wed, 31 May 2023 11:01:51 +0000

Don't know what you are doing? But Bard is so much faster than openai and its answers are clearer and more succint.

New comment by pverghese in "Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?"

pverghese — Wed, 31 May 2023 11:00:11 +0000

It's completely free. No tokens nothing.

New comment by pverghese in "I Am No Longer Speaking at RustConf 2023"

pverghese — Sat, 27 May 2023 15:30:53 +0000

The mods dont want anymmore rust drama. Keeps happening every month like clockwork though for some reason

New comment by pverghese in "My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted (2022)"

pverghese — Wed, 10 May 2023 15:31:04 +0000

Why are you calling for segregation? We have didn't years trying to move the world forward and yet you persist in trying to move backwards

New comment by pverghese in "Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK"

pverghese — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 00:00:41 +0000

Nobody will wait for seconds for responses when the competition provides it quicker even if it is a little worse