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New comment by s_trumpet in "Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port"

s_trumpet — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:46:44 +0000

Notepad++ has incredibly easy to use macros with the record/play buttons in the toolbar. It is my preferred tool for quickly munging text files especially ones where you want to change formatting through the file.

New comment by s_trumpet in "The Case Against Gameplay Loops (2024)"

s_trumpet — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:12:36 +0000

The way the author defines loops is so broad that every single 90s game I can think of has them.

New comment by s_trumpet in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

s_trumpet — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:58:01 +0000

I am seeing information about the attacker that show he was being influenced by Rationalist thinkers - he posted about “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares.

This information of course might be false, so take the words below with a grain of salt. I might be completely wrong.

When an influential group in the Valley that has ties to many tech companies spends years speading rhetoric about “bombing data centers” or the title of the book above, I fear this kind of psychosis is inevitable. People in this thread are focusing on labour and AI issues as the motivation but I am afraid the problem might be closer to home.

Disclaimer: I am not American, just an outside observer.

New comment by s_trumpet in "India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI"

s_trumpet — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:15:02 +0000

I know what it means to be under material poverty in this hell of a country. Even so I think this is another poisoned chalice. We are where you export your garbage to, whether material or digital. I spit on your false charity.

New comment by s_trumpet in "India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI"

s_trumpet — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:11:59 +0000

I am a lower caste Indian one generation removed from being farmhands. I have seen my parents go without for decades until I became successful. I still think this is utter cruelty and another way the poor are taken advantage of. Mr Paternal westerner, I reject your false dichotomy.

New comment by s_trumpet in "Trump Links Greenland Threats to Nobel Peace Prize Snub"

s_trumpet — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:05:55 +0000

The brink of world war 3 over fucking goodhart’s law.

We are not a serious species.

New comment by s_trumpet in "The Gleam Programming Language"

s_trumpet — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:39:29 +0000

I have worked extensively on Elixir in the past and had a decent enough time, some warts aside. How different is programming in Gleam in the day-to-day apart from type safety?

New comment by s_trumpet in "Pokémon Team Optimization"

s_trumpet — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 11:54:21 +0000

Great article but I’d say you’re optimizing for the wrong metric here. For in game playthroughs, offense > defense and especially speedy offense beats anything else.

I’d state it as, Given any type, we should be able to hit it for super-effective damage with at least 1 move. And instead of taking raw BST, I’d take Max(SPD+ATK, SPD+SPA) to favour speedy offense.

Of course this does not take into question the thorny question of availability. Metagross is a top tier but only available post game in its debut. On the other hand Crobat and Gyarados are readily available in many of the games early on and evolve fairly quickly.

Please look into the competitive Nuzlocke community, there are a lot of damage calculations and viability spreadsheets all around, you’ll find it interesting.

New comment by s_trumpet in "Warp Terminal changes pricing model"

s_trumpet — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:56:37 +0000

The other thing keeping me on iTerm is Ghostty lacking tab support in quake mode

New comment by s_trumpet in "'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' among new words added to Cambridge Dictionary"

s_trumpet — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 11:47:19 +0000

Dictionaries are not specs for the English language, they are wikis. Twenty years later when “delulu” (a word popular enough that my 65 year old father regularly uses it) has fallen out of style, new readers would find it very useful to get the word defined in the dictionary.

New comment by s_trumpet in "An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force"

s_trumpet — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 07:52:53 +0000

> The old growth engines (microtransactions, live service games, season passes, user-generated content, loot boxes, eSports hero shooters, etc.) also no longer work, as neither general players nor whales find them appealing.

I just don't think that's true in a world where Marvel Rivals was the biggest launch of 2024. Live service games like Path of Exile, Counter-Strike, Genshin Impact, etc. make boatloads of money and have ever rising player counts.

The problem is that it's a very sink-or-swim market - if you manage to survive 2-3 years you will probably make it, but otherwise you are a very expensive flop. Not unlike VC-funded startups - just because some big names failed doesn't make investing into a unicorn any less attractive.

New comment by s_trumpet in "DBeaver – open-source database client"

s_trumpet — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 06:25:59 +0000

DBeaver is somewhat clunky, yes, but for me that's a minor downside since it acts as a Swiss army knife, regardless of what DB I'm trying to access. That saves cognitive load from having to learn multiple tools. Pretty much anything with a JDBC driver is fair game. It being cross platform is a big boon as well since I use all 3 major OS fairly regularly - Mac at work, Windows and Linux at home.

New comment by s_trumpet in "Effect of perceptual load on performance within IDE in people with ADHD symptoms"

s_trumpet — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 10:20:18 +0000

I use a similar technique with ebooks on my phone.

New comment by s_trumpet in "Effect of perceptual load on performance within IDE in people with ADHD symptoms"

s_trumpet — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 10:14:27 +0000

I managed to slowly claw it back by completely changing my reading method. I download ebooks on my phone and read in 5-10 min chunks throughout the day (where I’d normally be using social media or checking the news) followed by 1 hour at the end.

New comment by s_trumpet in "Effect of perceptual load on performance within IDE in people with ADHD symptoms"

s_trumpet — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 10:09:20 +0000

I’d personally go with a single function like “convert_object_type” and pattern match into different clauses such as “convert_object_type(obj, from: m, to: mm)” and so on.

New comment by s_trumpet in "Effect of perceptual load on performance within IDE in people with ADHD symptoms"

s_trumpet — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 10:05:36 +0000

At my firm we’ve standardized on import being used only for a short list of well known first/third party modules (e.g. Ecto.Query and Plug.Conn).

Application modules can be aliased, but not library modules. This is so that we don’t need to keep repeating the name of the application throughout the codebase while preserving clarity as much as possible.

Ask HN: ChatGPT vs. Copilot for day-to-day programming

s_trumpet — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 07:48:08 +0000

Which of the current AI code generators do you find most useful in your workday? How have you integrated them into your workflows?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34623479

Points: 1

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New comment by s_trumpet in "I hate what video games have become"

s_trumpet — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 14:12:38 +0000

Sadly, this curse is nearly inescapable if you want to play modern online multiplayer or PVP games. MOBAs, MMOs, shooters, racing games, etc. are almost all like this now.

New comment by s_trumpet in "Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system"

s_trumpet — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 19:04:50 +0000

Yes. I'm Indian, lower-caste (not Dalit) with a surname that does not reveal it, working in India. One of my most vivid memories is hearing colleagues at my first job (a large multinational conglomerate) casually use caste slurs (ch*mar) in my presence. Ever since, I never enter discussions about politics or religion. I keep my cards close to my chest.

New comment by s_trumpet in "Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system"

s_trumpet — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 18:54:22 +0000

Surnames are often caste signifiers.