<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: shakow</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=shakow</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:36:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=shakow" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shakow in "The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Many games can just swap devices on the fly (from the top of my mind, Elden Ring, Witcher 3, Lords of the Fallen, Dirt Rally).</p>
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<p>MacOS definitely lets you put the dock wherever you prefer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:28:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777104</link><dc:creator>shakow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777104</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shakow in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think that you need top-of-the-line, $1M/yr TC people to revamp a build system.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:15:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750001</link><dc:creator>shakow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750001</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shakow in "The road signs that teach travellers about France"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> "people merging in from the right have the right-of-way" actually makes sense to me<p>Yeah but they don't; priority to the right never happens on motorways, all insertions lanes have “Cédez le passage” signs.</p>
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<p>“Needed” is too strong, but this does not provide services, does not provide project-specific scripts, does not setup LSP, does not setup git hooks, can't automatically dockerize your build, does not support multiple profiles (e.g. local and CI), etc.</p>
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<p>home-manager manages your whole user's environment & desktop.<p>devenv does not do any user-level change (you will not be able to make it configure your WM), but works at the directory level.<p>For instance I'm currently working on a Rust + C++ project, and my devenv, whenever I enter this project folder: make CMake/g++/cargo/cbindgen available, enable a couple scripts to longer CMake invokations, set-up everything required for C++ and Rust LSPs, and create a couple git hooks to validate formatting etc.</p>
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<p>That's what I would have thought as well, but looks like that on x86, both clang and gcc use variations of LEA. But if they're doing it this way, I'm pretty sure it must be faster, because even if you change the ×4 for a <<2, it will still generate a LEA.<p><a href="https://godbolt.org/z/EKj58dx9T" rel="nofollow">https://godbolt.org/z/EKj58dx9T</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:49:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482538</link><dc:creator>shakow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482538</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shakow in "Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> These two are generally adhered to in the US as well<p>I'm not sure; granted I did not visit a lot of places in the US, but when I was there (Miami/Denver/Phoenix), I virtually never saw e.g. a customer greets the cashier when buying things.</p>
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<p>As a Frenchman living in Paris – we have such a huge expat community already (and many english-speakers, I worked with Brits, Aussies, Kiwis, Americans, Canadians) than one more or less will be a non-event.<p>Now it's true that Americans tend to love to frighten each other with firecamp stories about the Big Bad Frenchman, but IME it's mostly a mix of latent francophobia and a grapevine of bad experience between what is locally perceived as wholly uneducated Americans and local Frenchmen that the Americans tend to see as arrogant.<p>The latest if most often due to (i) tourists forgetting that what is a great week you spent years saving for is another Tuesday for the other guys in the street, (ii) many fundamental French etiquette rules (don't shout, say “hello” first when talking to someone, the absence of a hierarchical relationship between hospitality personnel and customers, distant behaviour is not arrogance but a mark of respect, etc.) are completely accessory in the US customs, leading to very strong misunderstandings.<p>So book a trip for a week and come say hello, we don't bite! (and avoid like the plague any café/restaurant in the touristy areas)</p>
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<p>> most influential<p>> "what stuck in your mind"<p>That's strongly correlated IMHO; and I don't really see any objective metric for the influence of a book anyway.</p>
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<p>“I'm not sure” is academic jargon for “I don't give a damn”.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:33:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47396823</link><dc:creator>shakow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47396823</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47396823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shakow in "How will OpenAI compete?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What I mean is that the one I cited were first movers that actually <i>found</i> a golden goose, then got ousted years/decades later for various reasons.<p>For now at least, OpenAI has not found a golden goose (i.e. made a lot of money) yet.</p>
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<p>VisiCalc, CP/M, BlackBerry and Yahoo definitely got a golden goose; it's long after establishing their dominance that they failed at maintaining it.</p>
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<p>>  it’s roots are solving the c10k problem<p>The C10K was a long-solved problem when Node came out; just it was not for what 99% of people used at the time, i.e. PHP/Python/Ruby.</p>
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<p>Use the double-arrow buttons to change the view angle.</p>
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<p>Ah, you were thinking of the German branch, I was talking about the French one, in Toulouse (I have a few friends working there).<p>There, a team lead is doing ~$4000 net per month. So not poverty, but not great either.</p>
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<p>I can confirm, they do.</p>
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<p>> San Francisco is better<p>Yeah, but you're a tramp if you're not making >$250k/year. Of course wealthy people will have access to excellent food, and that will be true everywhere from Moscow to SF through Shanghai. I'm more interested in what the common plebes can get their hands on.<p>> and the variety of cuisines at restaurants is laughably incomparable<p>Might be; I only went to Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Florida, so YMMV. But in my experience, sure, there are a lot of cuisines, but frankly, save for the Mexicans, all of them sucked hard: very salty, very sugary, very spicy, but .<p>Now I'm sure you can get excellent local fruits/vegetables in California thanks to the climate, but I doubt they would be notably worse or better than anything you will find around the Mediterranean.</p>
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<p>> more food<p>Yeah, so I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, but as a European who visited the US, your food is definitely not something I would use as an example of your QoL.</p>
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<p>> One thing that is lost when using auto cameras is using focus & DOF as part of composition<p>That's why virtually all cameras have aperture-priority though, right?</p>
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