Hacker News: svnpenn

New comment by svnpenn in "Decoded: GNU Coreutils (2018)"

svnpenn — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 00:29:23 +0000

on mine it is 1,354 KB. I prefer the 10x LOC savings over a megabyte of hard drive, but you do you.

New comment by svnpenn in "Rust module system encourages bad practices"

svnpenn — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 00:15:51 +0000

> it is pretty much identical to go.

Its not.

with Go you have ONE go.mod file, at the module root. you may have 100 sub packages or sub sub sub packages, but still only ONE go.mod file. then any time you need to add a new import at ANY level, you just go "go mod tidy", and DONE. please dont try to compares apple and orange and say they are both apples.

New comment by svnpenn in "Aurora Store Accounts Blocked by Google"

svnpenn — Thu, 25 May 2023 23:55:39 +0000

you are mistaken:

https://beta.gobuilds.org/2a.pages.dev/googleplay

New comment by svnpenn in "Show HN: A little web server in C"

svnpenn — Wed, 17 May 2023 00:13:43 +0000

> I make no claims about use of generics making your code being absolutely good or bad, but I do make claims that use of generics can make your code less error-prone and safe.

Right. this is the issue right here. people only see that Go didn't have generics, and they never stop for a second to think WHY Go didn't have them. Generics have an implementation cost for the Go project, and maintenance cost for the Go project, and end user negative impacts in regards to time and memory. but advocates often dont know or care about these drawback, and only howl that GENERICS ARE MISSING until they are added, consequences be damned.

I'm just saying that while generics are useful in some cases, they are not always the right answer, and it shouldn't just be assumed that every language needs them, nor that any non-generic language "sucks".

New comment by svnpenn in "Sourcehut will not blacklist the Go module mirror"

svnpenn — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 21:31:14 +0000

well, he could have done nothing, and where would we be? if you say "exactly where we are now", I think you are being dishonest with how the situation played out.

No, he didn't write the code or make the schedule, but he stood up and said "this is not right", and took steps to protect his and other small sites.

New comment by svnpenn in "I'm shadow banned by DuckDuckGo and Bing"

svnpenn — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 16:26:57 +0000

numbers look like garbage, I think this is the culprit:

    font-family: system-ui, 'Noto Emoji', sans-serif;

New comment by svnpenn in "Examples of floating point problems"

svnpenn — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 19:41:52 +0000

Here is Go version. works exactly as expected, no surprises. People just need to grow up and use a modern language, not a 50 year old out of date language:

    package main
    
    import "fmt"
    
    func main() {
       var i, iterations, meters float64
       for iterations = 100_000_000; i < iterations; i++ {
          meters += 0.01
       }
       // Expected: 1000.000000 km
       fmt.Printf("Expected: %f km\n", 0.01 * iterations / 1000)
       // Got: 1000.000001 km
       fmt.Printf("Got: %f km \n", meters / 1000)
    }

New comment by svnpenn in "Wakamai Fondue, the tool that answers the question “what can my font do?”"

svnpenn — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 18:53:30 +0000

doesn't work:

http://0x0.st/o70q.png

New comment by svnpenn in "SQLite Wasm in the browser backed by the Origin Private File System"

svnpenn — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 01:03:19 +0000

> the user must be able to clear it when clearing site data and this what makes it currently an unviable solution

What are you suggesting here? That extensions should have some special storage, that can't be (easily) deleted? Noooooooo thank you. Firefox has "forget about this site" and similar tools, which I use near daily. Don't fuck with my ability to do housekeeping.

New comment by svnpenn in "GitHub Copilot free plan stopped working – rate limit exceeded"

svnpenn — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 02:59:11 +0000

I am fine with this. I personally have no interest in Copilot, but my understanding is its not small feat to offer a service like this. I think it would be understandable if the "free tier" was severely rate limited. GitHub has plenty of crappy business practices, this seems pretty tame. The honeymoon is over. If people want this technology, they can pay up.

Not sure if this is still the case, but last time I checked Microsoft Office had student discount, but was not generally free. This seems like a similar situation.

New comment by svnpenn in "Surveillance Footage of Tesla Crash on SF’s Bay Bridge"

svnpenn — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 02:18:55 +0000

if they do, so what? even if 10 people cut in front of you, with a 30 minute drive, how much time are you really losing? 50 seconds?

New comment by svnpenn in "Surveillance Footage of Tesla Crash on SF’s Bay Bridge"

svnpenn — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 02:10:45 +0000

> drivers cutting in when large gaps form

if they do, so what? even if 10 people cut in front of you, with a 30 minute drive, how much time are you really losing? 50 seconds?

New comment by svnpenn in "Post-processing is ruining iPhone photos"

svnpenn — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 19:31:41 +0000

I work in IT. I manage our mobile devices, and I was shocked to recently find out that iPads (and I assume iPhones), have no option to choose the resolution of the resulting pictures.

Why is Apple like this? I dont always need a 9 MB or whatever photo size, it would be nice to be able to take lower res images to save space.

New comment by svnpenn in "The beauty of CGI and simple design"

svnpenn — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 17:01:14 +0000

this is the exact opposite of the point the comment you replied to is making. Rails is not simple. we are talking about SIMPLE, like CGI. Rails is a classic example of a slow bloated framework.

New comment by svnpenn in "P Language: a state machine-based programming language (2021)"

svnpenn — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 00:55:45 +0000

> [Step 2] Install Java Runtime

Nooooooope. No thank you.

https://p-org.github.io/P/getstarted/install

New comment by svnpenn in "Tesla finally breaks and offers round steering wheel on Model S/X"

svnpenn — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 03:54:33 +0000

> low speed maneuvers

AKA maneuvers. Driving on the highway in a straight line is not a maneuver.

New comment by svnpenn in "Tesla finally breaks and offers round steering wheel on Model S/X"

svnpenn — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 03:38:27 +0000

A single u-turn should have been all Tesla needed to understand how terrible an idea yoke is. You try arm over arm, then crash the car.

New comment by svnpenn in "Transcoding Unicode with AVX-512: AMD Zen 4 vs. Intel Ice Lake"

svnpenn — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 23:58:33 +0000

I saw this once before, and both times, it's pretty shocking. Is this really something that needs to be inside the CPU itself? I don't want my CPU doing this. I would rather just take the performance hit and keep the CPU "dumb".

New comment by svnpenn in "Google’s quest to digitize troops’ tissue samples"

svnpenn — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 23:53:25 +0000

Cookie nag and newsletter nag, fuck you.

New comment by svnpenn in "Yark: Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable"

svnpenn — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 22:39:34 +0000

Any video you care about, you need to make it your own responsibility to backup the metadata and/or streams. If you're lucky you can internet search the video ID to get the metadata, even after deletion.