Hacker News: ropejumper

New comment by ropejumper in "Ethically sourced "spare" human bodies could revolutionize medicine"

ropejumper — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 09:12:26 +0000

People in a coma are still considered real human beings. The reason why you'd pull the plug is because there is no prospect of survival, or that the resources necessary are too great. Which, as much as it sucks, is a normal thing that happens. People die.

Intentionally breeding people that have no intelligence is a very different thing and I don't even know why we're talking about it as if it's even remotely similar.

New comment by ropejumper in "Dark Mirror Ideologies"

ropejumper — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 08:04:41 +0000

What I like is practical and real life, what I don't like is ideological.

How to Borrow Memory

ropejumper — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 11:52:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.falsifian.org/blog/2021/06/04/catalytic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43533889

Points: 1

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New comment by ropejumper in "Autology: A Lisp with access to its own interpreter"

ropejumper — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:19:13 +0000

https://imgur.com/a/5zDRli5

New comment by ropejumper in "The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available"

ropejumper — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:34:50 +0000

This requires a justification for why home size is a good indicator of quality of life, or for why it's more important than other indicators.

New comment by ropejumper in "U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine"

ropejumper — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 13:29:41 +0000

Many americans put the euro sign before the numerical value even though most (afaik all) countries that use the euro put it after. This is such a weird thing to get bothered by.

New comment by ropejumper in "Hacker News for Gamedev"

ropejumper — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 10:02:51 +0000

Yes it's invite-based, and yes it actually is lobsters, a fork of it.

New comment by ropejumper in "I wrote my own “proper” programming language (2020)"

ropejumper — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 13:52:23 +0000

The lack of such tooling may be precisely why many potentially great "indie" languages never succeed.

New comment by ropejumper in "UI is hell: four-function calculators"

ropejumper — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 09:23:03 +0000

They meant that the implementation of a four-function calculator only needs a few fixed variables rather than a stack.

New comment by ropejumper in "Turn any bicycle electric"

ropejumper — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 09:18:47 +0000

The amount of braking you can apply before flying over the handlebars decreases significantly the more you move the center of gravity forward.

New comment by ropejumper in "How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain"

ropejumper — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:44:14 +0000

I'm comparing more to 2010s cars :)

I think it's a pretty good balance between visibility and comfort. But I can definitely see your point.

> Are there new cars with warm LED lights?

I don't know actually, but I've definitely not seen any on the road. I wonder why, as far as I know it's not a technical issue.

New comment by ropejumper in "How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain"

ropejumper — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:49:49 +0000

The cold LED headlights also strain your eyes more as the driver. It's much less comfortable to look at IMO.

New comment by ropejumper in "Examples of quick hash tables and dynamic arrays in C"

ropejumper — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 07:51:50 +0000

Huh, I hadn't realized you can't search for submission domains, that seems like an oversight. To search for comments specifically there's a dropdown in the top left by the way.

New comment by ropejumper in "Examples of quick hash tables and dynamic arrays in C"

ropejumper — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 15:48:02 +0000

Fair enough, though I think the techniques that the author uses are perfectly adequate depending on the type and scale of software you're writing. Maybe it should be better labelled.

As for searching, if you scroll down to the bottom of the page there's a search box, you can add your username to the query and it'll match.

New comment by ropejumper in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

ropejumper — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:52:18 +0000

You're right, but I meant the consequences for him from this point on, which are essentially as if he hadn't done anything.

New comment by ropejumper in "Examples of quick hash tables and dynamic arrays in C"

ropejumper — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 09:36:52 +0000

> despite being of average quality at best and seriously problematic at worst

What exactly is your objection?

New comment by ropejumper in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

ropejumper — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 08:36:23 +0000

With a full pardon it's as if he never did anything in the first place.

New comment by ropejumper in "Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS"

ropejumper — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:13:27 +0000

It's a bit big for my hands as well, but the huge touch screen is amazing for programs like sunvox so I don't even mind.

I think it's hard to genuinely appreciate how big the thing is until you hold it. Today I realized it's exactly the same size as my keyboard. And almost as wide as a 12-inch macbook.

New comment by ropejumper in "Laid off for the first time in my career, and twice in one year"

ropejumper — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 08:22:50 +0000

The formatting is off, family time is 17:00-21:00 in GP's comment.

New comment by ropejumper in "Cognitive load is what matters"

ropejumper — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 10:06:31 +0000

On almost every newline, which is the reason why this doesn't work:

    func thing()
    {

I quite like this approach. It's very simple and consistent, and once you know how it works it's not ever surprising.