Hacker News: xchkr1337

New comment by xchkr1337 in "Desmos 3D graphing calculator"

xchkr1337 — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 19:51:40 +0000

the actual rendering code is ran using a webworker in a separate thread

New comment by xchkr1337 in "Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts"

xchkr1337 — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 06:14:22 +0000

It's weird how python defaults to spaces rather than tabs, as tabs would make indentation errors less prevalent and a lot more obvious to people learning the language.

New comment by xchkr1337 in "Bypassing YouTube video download throttling"

xchkr1337 — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 18:00:21 +0000

I don't think these tools are particularly suitable for reverse engineering websites, it's much easier to use devtools and userscripts

New comment by xchkr1337 in "Qalculate – A multi-purpose cross-platform desktop calculator"

xchkr1337 — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 13:08:27 +0000

I hve a global shortcut to open a Julia REPL session and I use that to perform any sort of quick calculations instead of a GUI calculator. The best thing about this approach is that I can always create new functions for stuff I use often.

New comment by xchkr1337 in "Zig 0.11"

xchkr1337 — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 08:49:03 +0000

does it support tabs yet?

New comment by xchkr1337 in "PRQL: Pipelined Relational Query Language"

xchkr1337 — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 07:01:16 +0000

The problem with SQL is the same as the problem with C-style variable declarations. It sounds slightly better than the alternatives when you say the code out loud, but in reality it causes problems with readability and parsing/processing the code

New comment by xchkr1337 in "Ten years of “Go: The good, the bad, and the meh”"

xchkr1337 — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 16:33:46 +0000

default values for everything without significantly increasing language complexity

New comment by xchkr1337 in "C’s Biggest Mistake (2009)"

xchkr1337 — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 08:13:36 +0000

There are many worse mistakes in the design of C, and some of them even got inherited by other languages, like switch statements.

New comment by xchkr1337 in "Writing prettier Haskell with Unicode syntax and Vim"

xchkr1337 — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 21:59:30 +0000

If you open any reasonable math textbook (except for maybe logic related ones), chances are, you won't see the ∀ symbol anywhere at all. It's often considered bad taste to write a symbol like this when you can just write "for all". The main obstacle in learning math comes from not understanding the background material enough and basically never from not understanding the notation.

New comment by xchkr1337 in "Google Mars (2005)"

xchkr1337 — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 12:29:20 +0000

I don't think that's a good point to critizice Google for. Unlike many other websites, the Google homepage has always remained clear and fast, even after multiple redesigns.

New comment by xchkr1337 in "WebGPU Fundamentals"

xchkr1337 — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 11:28:55 +0000

Right now it's in beta (Chromium 113), stable support is planned for 26th of April

New comment by xchkr1337 in "Chrome ships WebGPU"

xchkr1337 — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 11:16:40 +0000

Literally all of these are owned by big corporations (Apple, Microsoft, Sony) and made specifically for their proprietary gpu APIs. C++ is just a superset of C which doesn't fix syntax problems. Making an open source standard with a modern syntax is a better idea than picking a favorite corporation.

New comment by xchkr1337 in "Chrome ships WebGPU"

xchkr1337 — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 10:06:14 +0000

Most current shader languages are very close to C in terms of syntax and behavior and these are some of the worst aspects of C as a language. I guess they could have went with SPIR-V but generally a compilation step shouldn't be required in web standards.

New comment by xchkr1337 in "Chrome ships WebGPU"

xchkr1337 — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 10:00:28 +0000

Syntax-wise GLSL is a mess and having a new language to work with is like a breath of fresh air.

New comment by xchkr1337 in "Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes"

xchkr1337 — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 21:29:57 +0000

I wish Mozilla focused more on Linux support. I tried switching to Firefox multiple times, and in day-to-day use I always keep running into unfixable problems like bad font rendering, slow webgl performance, ui glitches etc.

Problems like this never happen when I'm using Firefox on Windows, and honestly the state of Firefox on Linux is kind of surprising since it's the most commonly recommended and preinstalled browser on Linux distros.

Right now I'm using Chromium but I'd be eager to switch if there was anything better which could provide me with a fast and stable browsing experience.

New comment by xchkr1337 in "Show HN: Open AI is not Open – A browser extension"

xchkr1337 — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 17:07:36 +0000

reassigning document.body.innerHTML like that seems like a really bad idea, this should be done using MutationObserver

New comment by xchkr1337 in "Zig Quirks"

xchkr1337 — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 08:48:55 +0000

Are tabs supported yet?

New comment by xchkr1337 in "A Bad Trip to Infinity"

xchkr1337 — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 19:42:21 +0000

Just picking digits from the diagonal might not work, you have to make sure the digits of the new number aren't equal to the ones on the diagonal, one way is to add 1 mod 10, in the case you showed it would result with 0.209...

New comment by xchkr1337 in "Show HN: The Shark Programming Language"

xchkr1337 — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 21:26:19 +0000

I've used lots of obscure cli tools and the ones written in python are always so slow to the point where it's just annoying. Maybe python is meant to glue things together but many people just ignore that and write everything in python anyway.

New comment by xchkr1337 in "Accessible hamburger buttons without JavaScript"

xchkr1337 — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 15:07:34 +0000

My experience with this is literally the opposite, I almost never clicked the buttons on the left side (except for the language switcher but that isn't in the hamburger menu now) but I always found long tables of contents very annoying on bigger articles, I find the new design generally more comfortable to read with. The only complaint I have is that it doesn't remember the state of the fullscreen button.