Hacker News: stdatomic

New comment by stdatomic in "The Cold Email"

stdatomic — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:12:50 +0000

Yeah people replied to cold emails back when they received one once every 3 months. Now we get dozens a day. Straight into the garbage.

New comment by stdatomic in "Guy took Jupiter photo with Game Boy Camera, giant telescope, publishes tutorial"

stdatomic — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:00:59 +0000

I don't know why I was expecting to be amazed by the photo.

New comment by stdatomic in "Pros and Cons of Solo Development"

stdatomic — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:09:52 +0000

I really wanted to work on making a niche game with one other person. Never found that person.

New comment by stdatomic in "Programmers need to start meditating"

stdatomic — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 11:48:57 +0000

No. What they need is to stop being told "ok this is good enough now we need you to implement this other highly-necessary half-assed feature using ai as fast as possible."

New comment by stdatomic in "(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2010)"

stdatomic — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:08:12 +0000

First day of paradigms course in the 2000s and prof says "if your opinion of Scheme is too many parentheses, then you're an idiot."

Needless to say that was my opinion and every day I think, more and more, how right he was.

(later I did make some gui apps that included scripting and chose s-expr syntax because of how simple it is to implement it)

New comment by stdatomic in "News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development"

stdatomic — Fri, 29 May 2026 02:59:21 +0000

It used to be that raspberry pi was a cheap pc. Well it's not longer cheap.

And at their price point, you could just get a mini PC and have better performance, or if you want to use it as a microcontroller, you can just use an arduino, esp32, or an actual microcontroller for a fraction of the price and power consumption.

So, what do people actually do with these pies?

New comment by stdatomic in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

stdatomic — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:50:01 +0000

Really hits hard when you have to go to Home Depot to buy 6 spade connectors for $7.99 to use in a project with 3.3V 300mA max, when you can buy about 500 of them from Aliexpress for the same price.

New comment by stdatomic in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

stdatomic — Mon, 25 May 2026 03:02:26 +0000

> meanwhile, the real issue is wealth distribution

This is so mind-boggling to me. Why do the poor keep defending the billionaires?

New comment by stdatomic in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

stdatomic — Mon, 25 May 2026 02:47:27 +0000

So many words just to say you want more money.

> Younger workers have zero political leverage to change it because our demographic is just too small to matter at the ballot box.

Because:

> can't wait to move to the US once I get a suitable H-1B offer.

New comment by stdatomic in "Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone"

stdatomic — Sat, 16 May 2026 16:27:54 +0000

There was a time back in covid days where you had to have an app on your phone to go through customs clearance in Canada.

New comment by stdatomic in "Show HN: Rust but Lisp"

stdatomic — Sun, 10 May 2026 01:42:24 +0000

Can you translate this for those of us who don't speak rust?

New comment by stdatomic in "Why TUIs are back"

stdatomic — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:05 +0000

Web interfaces aren't any better. They're designed to for aesthetics and not functionality. Not to mention the fact that they all have their own UI idioms that you have to pick up on.

New comment by stdatomic in "Ti-84 Evo"

stdatomic — Sat, 02 May 2026 01:36:53 +0000

Not only did we use it several times every week for 4 years, I spent 4 years writing tons of programs on it. Best $100 ever spent, thanks mom & dad.

New comment by stdatomic in "Meetings are forcing functions"

stdatomic — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:58:20 +0000

This sounds like something straight from LinkedIn...