Hacker News: quocanh

New comment by quocanh in "Zig Goals"

quocanh — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 20:23:39 +0000

I don't think this was super important given the core goals of the project. I agree that effortless tagged unions are a very valuable feature in a language, but it's also one that is paradigm shifting and requires a different set of goals.

Without naming names, there is a language out there with some overlap with Zig's domain that does have really good tagged unions. But that project has a different set of goal than Zig's and that's okay. They're both good projects.

New comment by quocanh in "Tmux is worse-is-better"

quocanh — Sat, 25 May 2024 19:43:02 +0000

An alternative: `zellij` is better is better. With `tmux` I never get the sense that I have "mastered" it. I simply don't know all the controls - I only have a few of my most commonly used ones. Stepping into `zellij`, I feel like I've mastered it within a few hours of using it.

New comment by quocanh in "Goodix Fingerprint Drivers for Linux (Or at Least Debian)"

quocanh — Sat, 25 May 2024 17:12:42 +0000

How does copyleft license work in this case? Aren't they legally required to open-source their sources and publish it publicly or can they hide that behind a request system?

New comment by quocanh in "Nanos – A Unikernel"

quocanh — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 04:51:17 +0000

Partly because it's an ecosystem that I'd like to see grow. More people using it means that the other Rust-based projects I use will be better too.

Partly because it is the "carbon fiber" of programming languages. Just its use is something you can use to market to other engineers.

Partly because it's very ergonomic and I enjoy working with it. I'd much rather dive into esoteric Rust code than esoteric C code.

Partly because code written in of Rust will have less errors than code written inside of C. It isn't just memory safety - it's all of the type theory/best practices we figured out in the last 50 years.

I understand why it was written in C. It's an easier language to work with and they probably needed something out quickly. But coding in Rust is a sign (not proof, but a sign) that a program is of quality make.

New comment by quocanh in "Nanos – A Unikernel"

quocanh — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 03:56:54 +0000

I so very much want this idea but coded in Rust. Alas, I'll have to try this out.

New comment by quocanh in "High-Speed Large Language Model Serving on PCs with Consumer-Grade GPUs"

quocanh — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 08:15:59 +0000

And the largest benefit of modern technology comes from the fact that so much of it is "free" (ad-supported). Without ads, there would simply be no effect at all.

New comment by quocanh in "High-Speed Large Language Model Serving on PCs with Consumer-Grade GPUs"

quocanh — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 21:54:19 +0000

Tiny negligible impact on the industry (Except cut advertising revenue in half, but who cares. What do ads pay for anyways?)

New comment by quocanh in "Google's Gemini: MIT Technology Review"

quocanh — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:43:42 +0000

If this is true, then there's a chance that there's no secret sauce to GPT4 that [Google doesn't already know about](https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16668).

New comment by quocanh in "Fedora Workstation 39"

quocanh — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 02:24:23 +0000

I think that whole thing was a bit overblown. RHEL is free for individuals. When I need the stability of a server OS, I'd rather just use the real thing.

New comment by quocanh in "Mark Zuckerberg: “Please Resign” (2010)"

quocanh — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 19:10:09 +0000

Do people on social media believe that all employees should freely share confidential internal information? Or is it that this is an email from a frustrated person and no one should ever share "bad feelings"? Or is it that CEOs should never be aggressive and "how dare he punish someone who broke the rules"?

Am I crazy for thinking that this is completely reasonable in context?

New comment by quocanh in "ChatGPT powered GitHub code review app"

quocanh — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 22:38:03 +0000

As someone who has been using ChatGPT to code recently - code reviews are one of the worst ways to use ChatGPT. Sure, it'll catch some stuff every now and then, but realize that it's still just a language model and things like design or code reviews require real understanding.

Using ChatGPT to code review is very much like posting a picture of your code on StackOverflow or Reddit.

New comment by quocanh in "What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)"

quocanh — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 19:07:34 +0000

This actually reminds me of something I've been thinking about lately. What we call honesty is actually two different things: truthfulness and openness. Americans are probably truthful and not open.

New comment by quocanh in "Ccache – a fast C/C++ compiler cache"

quocanh — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 07:48:15 +0000

Also see mozilla/sccache for Rust.

https://github.com/mozilla/sccache

New comment by quocanh in "Bocker: Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015)"

quocanh — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 21:10:41 +0000

You're telling me it's so stable and mature that it hasn't needed an update in 7 years? Incredible.

New comment by quocanh in "Drawbacks of engaging with customer complaints on Twitter"

quocanh — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 22:09:22 +0000

> We found that the more a firm responded to complaints, the more likely it was to fall in both value and in perceived brand quality.

Could someone with access to the actual paper tell me if they instead meant firms that responded through public strategies versus firms that responded through closed strategies? This sentence implies, rather, that firms that received more complaints fall in value and brand quality (duh).

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002224292110021...

New comment by quocanh in "DeepNet: Scaling Transformers to 1k Layers"

quocanh — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 02:08:30 +0000

Resnet was when we figured out how to throw a fuckton of perceptrons together and make it actually work. We didn't think networks scaled before that.

New comment by quocanh in "Not everyone should meditate"

quocanh — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 01:23:11 +0000

What evidence have you seen? Every research paper in the first page of this search is evidence that it works.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=mindfulness+meditation

It seems to be a staple for therapists and psychologists to improve emotional intelligence. It gives you clarity about what you're feeling, why you're feeling it, and what you're going to feel soon. From there it can be used for a whole host of other maladies: addictions, anxiety, depression, etc.

New comment by quocanh in "A New Library for Network Optimization"

quocanh — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 20:02:10 +0000

I didn't know communication networks could be described with resistors. Are inductors, diodes, and voltage sources also relevant? How far does this go and why would you model networks this way?

New comment by quocanh in "Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act"

quocanh — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:09:36 +0000

No one says that the barrel isn't necessary. Just that it's there and we should be judicious about when we want to apply it.

New comment by quocanh in "Epic Games' CEO Tim Sweeney: Linux has a 'terrifically hard audience to serve'"

quocanh — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 19:30:11 +0000

It doesn't have to be significant. Just having 1 hacker in the 100 PLAYERS PER LOBBY will ruin the game - there will be no chance of a legitimate player winning, ever.

Games have been abandoned even though companies actively catch cheaters because no one wants to play against someone with an unfair advantage. If Epic releases a game where they literally cannot catch cheaters, that game will be abandoned in a week.

Your defense of cheating is laughable. People are trying to play a game with a closed set of rules. Saying that your hacks are legal because they're turing-complete is completely nonsensical. You are not playing the same game that people signed up for. You're hijacking someone else's enjoyment for your own power fantasies.