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New comment by sedeki in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

sedeki — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 20:56:32 +0000

I read "Pyramid Principle, The: Logic in Writing and Thinking" by Barbara Minto. Highly recommend it.

New comment by sedeki in "Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?"

sedeki — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 23:40:47 +0000

I took too much chalk and "ripped" part of my skin under my hands.

Where can I read more about the techniques and/or bad habits? Interesting.

New comment by sedeki in "Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?"

sedeki — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 14:36:42 +0000

I recently started lifting weights. I just bought gloves. I like this tip though - thanks.

New comment by sedeki in "Unapproved books now a felony in Manatee County schools"

sedeki — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 15:47:47 +0000

Can someone provide book titles that are affected by this...?

New comment by sedeki in "‘Luddite’ Teens"

sedeki — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 18:41:34 +0000

Yeah, I have it activated. But I want to experiment with the idea to abolish my phone as much as possible.

New comment by sedeki in "‘Luddite’ Teens"

sedeki — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 18:37:22 +0000

I want to start doing this too. I bought a flip-phone some time ago, but it never stuck.

My usage is pretty much: listen to music, use (Google) calendar, texting, FaceTime.

Any surfing is plain doom scrolling and not productive.

Recommendations for me? Analog/simpler substitutes?

For ppl that has gone down this path - how do you feel now?

New comment by sedeki in "Ask HN: Strategies for Being More Eloquent?"

sedeki — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 21:00:33 +0000

I like the idea of this, but $149 for a deck of cards...?

New comment by sedeki in "Ask HN: Do you look angry while you work?"

sedeki — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 15:18:19 +0000

OK, yes you're right - it would indeed be off topic.

I actually recognize that line of reasoning myself. But since losing weight and working on myself (e.g. going to a therapist) I feel much better.

My point is: There was bigger issues at play for me when I didn't want to work from an office...

New comment by sedeki in "Ask HN: Do you look angry while you work?"

sedeki — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 14:47:33 +0000

I agree that you don't need to change who you are by "fixing" something.

But it is a weak argument for WFH by itself, don't you think?

New comment by sedeki in "Ask HN: If money was no object what software would you create?"

sedeki — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 18:41:34 +0000

How far off is bpy (Blender's Python API) do you think?

New comment by sedeki in "Everything I wish I knew when learning C"

sedeki — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 14:49:17 +0000

But wouldn't one be required to include a particular header in such case (i.e. the correct header for defining a particular type)?

I mean, no typedef names are defined in the global scope without including any headers right? Like I find it really weird that a type ending in _t would be UB if there is no such typedef name declared at all.

Or is this UB stuff merely a way for the ISO C committee to enforce this without having to define ?

New comment by sedeki in "Everything I wish I knew when learning C"

sedeki — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 14:24:59 +0000

How can a (badly chosen) typedef name trigger _undefined behavior_, and not just, say, a compilation error...?

I find it difficult to imagine what that would even mean.

New comment by sedeki in "Cache invalidation really is one of the hardest problems in computer science"

sedeki — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 02:37:59 +0000

Off topic: What level of sophistication about modern CPUs is _good_ to have? And where does one learn it? Resources?

Say that I want to work with HPC-type applications and otherwise just squeeze the most out of the processor, e.g. quant finance / trading systems.

New comment by sedeki in "Ghana plans to buy oil with gold instead of dollars"

sedeki — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 00:47:31 +0000

May I ask if you think price stability is of any benefit for a given currency at all? If not, why not?

My intention is to justify inflation from this end.

New comment by sedeki in "KDE runs on the Apple M2 with full GPU acceleration"

sedeki — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 19:31:46 +0000

Thank you! I am learning something new every day.

New comment by sedeki in "KDE runs on the Apple M2 with full GPU acceleration"

sedeki — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 18:49:57 +0000

(false statement about a buggy M1)

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

sedeki — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 11:05:21 +0000

How does it compare to zapcc? My team used it a few years ago.

https://github.com/yrnkrn/zapcc

New comment by sedeki in "Alertness associated with last night’s sleep, physical activity and food intake"

sedeki — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 16:44:33 +0000

Same here. But I always associated it with stress.

New comment by sedeki in "LPD: Libertarian Police Department (2014)"

sedeki — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:33:33 +0000

I think "AnCapPD: Anarcho-Capitalist Police Department" would be a better title, no?

Funny read regardless.

New comment by sedeki in "The genius of binary space partitioning in Doom (2019)"

sedeki — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:32:14 +0000

What is a good learning path (books, videos, ???) to take in order to understand modern graphics programming? At the level of Vulkan or Metal, say.

I have had a bird's eye exposure to shader-based OpenGL but don't feel I have a good intuitive understanding of how the GPU operates.