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New comment by wy1981 in "The Vatican's Website in Latin"

wy1981 — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:37:13 +0000

Thanks for responding.

If you're interested in a tutoring Latin remotely, please let me know. If not, no worries.

New comment by wy1981 in "The Vatican's Website in Latin"

wy1981 — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:23:43 +0000

As an aside, do you still teach Latin? If not, any online recommendations for Latin tutors? Thanks in advance.

New comment by wy1981 in "AI made coding more enjoyable"

wy1981 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:08:15 +0000

This level of detail isn't really helpful. I am working with AI and genuinely interested in learning more, but this offers very little.

More concrete examples to illustrate the core points would have been helpful. As-is the article doesn't offer much - sorry.

For one, I am not sure what kind of code he writes? How does he write tests? Are these unit tests, property-based tests? How does he quantify success? Leaves a lot to be desired.

New comment by wy1981 in "“Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work"

wy1981 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:35:08 +0000

What works for me is that often on a Monday I restart my machine. If something is truly important, I save it before the restart. There is something good to start from an empty state.

New comment by wy1981 in "C Is Best (2025)"

wy1981 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:07:28 +0000

> Every project and programmer shouldn't feel they have to justify their choice not to use Rust

Maybe writing about it was taken as an opportunity to clarify their own thinking about the topic?

New comment by wy1981 in "CPU cache-friendly data structures in Go"

wy1981 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:58:33 +0000

Looks nice. Some explanation for those of us not familiar with Go would've been more educational. Could be future posts, I suppose.

New comment by wy1981 in "We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler"

wy1981 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 13:07:15 +0000

Great find and writeup.

As an aside, this is the type of a problem that I think model checkers can't help with. You can write perfect and complicated TLA+/Lean/FizzBee models and even if somehow these models can generate code for you from your correct models you can still run into bugs like these due to platform/compiler/language issues. But, thankfully, such bugs are rare.

New comment by wy1981 in "A visual introduction to big O notation"

wy1981 — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 10:13:51 +0000

Writing is one of the best ways to learn something. Maybe non-experts learn something by writing about it?

Don't think the entire internet is repeating inaccuracies. :) I also believe there are readers that attempt to learn further than a blog. A blog post can inspire you to learn more about a topic, speaking from personal experience.

If there were no blog posts, maybe there would be no HN I believe.

There should be a place for non-experts. One could remain skeptical when they read blog posts without hating blog posts about complex topics written by non-expert.