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New comment by sreekotay in "Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions"

sreekotay — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:59:13 +0000

I always liked: is it like shaving, getting a haircut, or getting a tatoo?

New comment by sreekotay in "Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (1990)"

sreekotay — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 04:01:25 +0000

Exactly this.

New comment by sreekotay in "Why is Zig so cool?"

sreekotay — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:34:56 +0000

This is the real answer (amongst other goodness) - this one is well executed and differentiated

Every language at scale needs a preprocessor (look at the “use server” and “use gpu” silliness happening in TS) - why is it not the the same as the language you use?

New comment by sreekotay in "At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery"

sreekotay — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:32:07 +0000

Most of that you can get with diligence in high school and a smattering of College classes as HS junior/senior IMHO.

New comment by sreekotay in "I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself"

sreekotay — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:29:28 +0000

Nailed it in one. Or (similarly) never makes the priority/cut-off list because "what metric does it move?"

New comment by sreekotay in "-2000 Lines of code (2004)"

sreekotay — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 23:46:18 +0000

Are... are you comparing quicksort to... Quickdraw?

Lol - ok that's genuinely funny :). slow clap

New comment by sreekotay in "Long live Xorg, I mean Xlibre"

sreekotay — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:46:56 +0000

do you have any examples of this online to play with? I see the samples in the arvix doc and some documenation at github but not examples I can see live.

New comment by sreekotay in "Show HN: Real-Time Gaussian Splatting"

sreekotay — Thu, 15 May 2025 13:38:05 +0000

This is realtime capture/display? Presumable (at this stage) for local viewing? Is that right?

New comment by sreekotay in "Why can't HTML alone do includes?"

sreekotay — Mon, 05 May 2025 22:17:44 +0000

hunh - THAT's cool. Learn something new every day.

That said - it does appear encapsulated, much like an iframe - css doesn't take, etc. so though more "pure" HTML I'd argue doesn't fulfill the spirit of "include"?

New comment by sreekotay in "Why can't HTML alone do includes?"

sreekotay — Sat, 03 May 2025 23:31:40 +0000

( •_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) Deal with it.

New comment by sreekotay in "Why can't HTML alone do includes?"

sreekotay — Sat, 03 May 2025 19:38:45 +0000

you need a server for HTML to work, as practical matter. But yes. There IS a workaround to that too, if you're REALLY determined, but you have to format your HTML a giant JS comment block (lol really :))

[edit: I'm sure there are still some file:// workflows for docs - and yes this doesn't address that]

New comment by sreekotay in "Why can't HTML alone do includes?"

sreekotay — Sat, 03 May 2025 19:37:32 +0000

While you do need a server i think this is the functional equivalent? The fetch JS and insert outlined (linked to) in the article is async. This blocks execution like you'd expect an HTML include to do. It's WAY easier to reason about - which is why the initial ask, I think...

New comment by sreekotay in "Why can't HTML alone do includes?"

sreekotay — Sat, 03 May 2025 19:25:19 +0000

This has always worked for me. Pretty much the ask? https://gist.github.com/sreekotay/08f9dfcd7553abb8f1bb17375d...

New comment by sreekotay in "Robust Wavefront OBJ model parsing in C"

sreekotay — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:59:46 +0000

Depends on your definition of robust (e.g. how are you handling T-junctions) but in general I would agree with this, in that that some things that are NOT trivial should rightly be pushed up the art pipeline.

Good pipelines shouldn't rely on clever parser behaviour (as a general rule)

New comment by sreekotay in "Is ChatGPT autocomplete bad UX/UI?"

sreekotay — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:11:55 +0000

The core problem with pure text as an interface tends to be discoverability. Where to go from where I am is often unclear.

New comment by sreekotay in "Where does the name "algebraic data type" come from?"

sreekotay — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:19:00 +0000

Under rated reply.

(Though I think here the author means "free algebra" in the colloquial sense)

New comment by sreekotay in "ELIZA Reinterpreted: The world's first chatbot was not intended as a chatbot"

sreekotay — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 01:59:31 +0000

But .... it sounds like it was was? The original MIT SLIP version (yes SLIP not LISP) had a framework for embedding dynamic modules - so could do an early version of "learning." It feels like it was indeed more a framework for testing out different kinds of chatbot logic - maybe a meta-chatbot?

The famous DOCTOR script was just one example to demonstrate the tools's capabilities, and not the main point of ELIZA.

[Edit: the paper suggests the DOCTOR script is "ELIZA" not ELIZA, i.e. the limited version that became popular, not the full version that was built)

New comment by sreekotay in "Safe Superintelligence Inc."

sreekotay — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 17:17:41 +0000

Can't wait for OpenSSL and LibreSSL...

New comment by sreekotay in "Scrollbars are becoming a problem"

sreekotay — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 13:17:00 +0000

Yep OS X wasnt til 2000/2001 and absolutely NOT smooth even on relatively new high end Macs at the time.

OS 8 and 9 were winXP like in terms of desktop effects - no soft anything.

New comment by sreekotay in "The Interface of Kai Krause's Software (2003)"

sreekotay — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 13:14:54 +0000

Was a graphics and lead app engineer on many of the Kai line of products at the time.

So much fun. And polarizing for sure - but more fans than detractors, and the business didn't fail because of lack of interest. Way more sordid/gossip-y and sad unfortunately.