Hacker News: xtalax

New comment by xtalax in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

xtalax — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 19:45:49 +0000

I really hope that they have thought about alternative accessible gestures, not all of us have the luxury of functioning fingers

New comment by xtalax in "Trial of Ketamine Masked by Surgical Anesthesia in Depressed Patients"

xtalax — Sat, 06 May 2023 22:27:58 +0000

Of course this trial is worse than useless if the other reported benefits of ketamine come from the experience had while under the effects, but these authors seem not to have thought of that.

New comment by xtalax in "America is turning into India: our coming “caste wars”"

xtalax — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 22:36:08 +0000

Smells like someone virtue signalling to a group I know nothing about, but not in a way that I find equitable. Smacks of someone trying to transplant their own form of racial(?) superiority to the US. But what do I know?

New comment by xtalax in "Ask HN: Founders, how much automated tests do you write?"

xtalax — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 14:12:20 +0000

The second you "think" a piece of software/a feature works, you should be verifying that this is the case automatically. It's often just as easy to write an automated test as test manually, just do it and that test will be there forever saving you from your own idiocy. You don't need to write the tests before you know how the feature is going to shake down to its implementation, but you'd sure do better to test before pushing to prod. You save yourself so much hassle in the long run with automated CI.

New comment by xtalax in "My Journey from R to Julia"

xtalax — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 22:32:59 +0000

This isn't even showcasing what multiple dispatch is, and its power, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc9HwsxE1OY