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New comment by thumb in "MS Paint IDE"

thumb — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 16:38:46 +0000

I can see utility in something like this where someone sent you a screenshot of code and you wish to compile/execute the code in the screenshot. Anything else is a bonus. I dig the project, keep it up!

How do researchers come up with the stuff they write about?

thumb — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 14:55:14 +0000

How do researchers approach coming up with stuff they write their white papers on?

How do approaches vary across faculties?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32866876

Points: 2

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New comment by thumb in "Show HN: Smort.io – Edit, annotate and share articles easily"

thumb — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 22:08:35 +0000

Nice! Smort!

I'm excited to try it out when I get off work.

New comment by thumb in "Ask HN: How can I improve my reading comprehension as a person who has dyslexia?"

thumb — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 14:10:17 +0000

If you’re not aware already, there is a font face that is designed to aid people with dyslexia. I’m not dyslexic myself, but this font helps me read ebooks substantially.

https://opendyslexic.org/

New comment by thumb in "L.A. temporarily suspends Uber’s permit to rent out electric scooters and bikes"

thumb — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 15:35:07 +0000

the point is: - the government would be knocking down the door of a CEO who may not necessarily have the type of data they're looking for. - the government would have to go through a ton of effort to get anything they needed, rather than having it all up front to begin with. - no data should be given up freely without direct, fair consent (no matter who demands it)

New comment by thumb in "Raspberry Pi admits to faulty USB-C design on the Pi 4"

thumb — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 18:16:39 +0000

Yes, forget due diligence. It's too much work.

New comment by thumb in "Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada"

thumb — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 14:56:32 +0000

That's true, but why does that mean they need to shut down her account just because she visited Cuba? Would that mean a grocery store would then have to refuse to sell you their goods because you visited the country once?

New comment by thumb in "Tesla Autopilot and Euro NCAP"

thumb — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 16:03:05 +0000

I don't know; they seem to be trashing Autopilot plenty in the article.

New comment by thumb in "Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever seen work?"

thumb — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 20:49:56 +0000

This sounds a lot like Walmart's codebase for their POS registers. Except, the kicker is that there are zero unit tests, zero test frameworks, etc. You just have to run it through the shitty IBM debugger and hope that you don't step on anyone else's work. Up until 2016, they didn't even have a place to store documentation. Each register has ~1000 flags, some of which can be bit switched further into testing hell.

New comment by thumb in "Apple makes slight progress on diversity while rivals make practically none"

thumb — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 23:41:01 +0000

I don't understand this either. It's not up to companies to "be the change they want to see in the world". To me, this behavior is nothing but a ploy. No successful company invests money to get the second, third, fourth, etc best return possible.

If anything, it's an insult to the minorities; they only hire them because they are a minority and they fill the minority quota, not necessarily because of their ability.

New comment by thumb in "[dead]"

thumb — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 15:40:40 +0000

Such a tragic thing to read. I hope that his family and friends get through this.

Please reach out if you or someone you know are having suicidal thoughts: 1 (800) 273-8255 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

New comment by thumb in "Ask HN: Social Network for Geeks?"

thumb — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 01:03:30 +0000

This is the tried and true response. It's been around for 20+ years and chanops enforce channel topics.

New comment by thumb in "Ask HN: Social Network for Geeks?"

thumb — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 22:30:40 +0000

My opinion is that at some point, things will go the way of Facebook. Facebook started as a college-student-only social network, and then eventually became available to the general public. I feel the same will happen with this idea. :/