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New comment by xypage in "I don't like NumPy"

xypage — Fri, 16 May 2025 23:06:11 +0000

To be general purpose with a very large package ecosystem so that you can get just about anything started pretty quickly. It is relatively easy to do things that aren't performance critical with python, which is great if you want an MVP to grow off of or if you're messing around with something and want to make a little flask server for it, or maybe run some image recognition, or a little anything. It's really just insanely flexible and puts a lot of the cognitive load in libraries so you can get straight to doing stuff, again, often at the cost of performance.

New comment by xypage in "Replicube: A puzzle game about writing code to create shapes"

xypage — Wed, 14 May 2025 04:15:56 +0000

Went to check it out, it has a demo so it's worth giving it a shot, but then I went to look at what else this developer has published just to find it's the guy behind the original jelly car games?? Which they have a sequel to on their steam page and the music instantly sent me back. This became a huge nostalgia trip on accident, thanks for sharing!

New comment by xypage in "The Webb Telescope further deepens the Hubble tension controversy in cosmology"

xypage — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 04:29:10 +0000

I think the simple one is x=0.999..., 10x=9.9999..., 10x-x=9.999...-0.999..., 9x=9, x=1

New comment by xypage in "Use a work journal"

xypage — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 18:47:18 +0000

I use something like this too, I will say it's helpful to have some simple command to append text to it so you can do it automatically, and then an extra little bit so if it's your first append of the day it adds the date. Sometimes I know something happened on a date and if you're just using paragraph breaks to separate it's harder to find but if you know it was related to this meeting on that date a few months ago you can go straight to it.

New comment by xypage in "Use a work journal"

xypage — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 18:44:29 +0000

If you're into notion I wanna recommend obsidian. It's got support for both of those and it's way more lightweight. If you use the tables and images a lot I will say notion is simpler to use there, the same is possible in obsidian but it's more work for sure, but when I was using it it started to feel bloated and even though I love it I wanted something smoother and obsidian has been exactly that. Plus local storage as markdown for reliable access even if obsidian ends up shutting down or something is nice, and unbeatable for searchability since you can ripgrep through it all with ease.

New comment by xypage in "Show HN: Crunching 1,200 Authors' Favorite Reads of 2023"

xypage — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 15:29:01 +0000

I'd say they're about even, it has some things I enjoy more and some places I think The Martian was better, they're very similar in how they read though, if you didn't like The Martian you almost certainly won't enjoy Project Hail Mary.

New comment by xypage in "Typst – Compose Papers Faster"

xypage — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 00:46:06 +0000

Their github [1] page is more helpful for this. Typst itself (as in the program that converts your input to a PDF) is free and open source under the Apache license, and the online editor is free as well but it's currently in a public beta so that could change in the future once they move that out of the beta.

1: https://github.com/typst/typst

New comment by xypage in "Advertiser exodus expected to deeply impact X ad revenue, analysis indicates"

xypage — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 20:56:14 +0000

The amount of advertising you see will stay the same or potentially even increase (if the big companies are leaving then the amount they make from advertising probably drops, so they have to run more to make up for it), the quality and variety of the companies is what will go down. And if they run out completely the platform just has to shut down altogether.

New comment by xypage in "Investigators are being sent to Antarctica to look into sexual violence concerns"

xypage — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 16:19:01 +0000

The article is pretty specific, I'd say it doesn't use precise language in the title because it's covering a variety of reported problems that are detailed in the body.

New comment by xypage in "Ways YC has changed in the last year"

xypage — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 23:09:06 +0000

Hop on over to nitter, just replace twitter in the url with nitter and you get https://nitter.net/snowmaker/status/1705643839443403263 which works without an account or anything.

New comment by xypage in "64-bit bank balances ‘ought to be enough for anybody’?"

xypage — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 00:05:25 +0000

The government cares, the precision necessary for taxes is sub cent as mentioned in some replies to the top comment on this post.

New comment by xypage in "Unity to Godot Docs"

xypage — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 22:24:06 +0000

Have you checked out processing or p5js? They both seem like they'd be well suited to something simple like this, they're not game engines they're graphics libraries but they're very approachable and easy to use, with great documentation.

New comment by xypage in "Very, Very, Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole"

xypage — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 01:13:43 +0000

It does, kind of.

It's not really officially advertised but it is first party, this guide [0] shows how to find it but it's just https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNELI... and the guide just explains how to find CHANNELID since it isn't explicitly shared (which amounts to going a channel page, viewing page source, and searching for "browse_id" which will be a key in a JSON string where the value is the channel ID).

[0]: https://www.ghacks.net/2022/08/01/how-to-subscribe-to-youtub...

New comment by xypage in "AdNauseam: uBlock Origin fork silently clicking ads on behalf of users"

xypage — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 02:02:25 +0000

It gives the networks money but it also hurts the companies actually running the ads, which would disincentivize them to do it at all, and the networks will only make more money if companies don't see a decrease in pay off for clicks and reduce their offers/stop running ads through that service altogether.

That being said realistically this is too niche for nearly enough people to run it to make any significant difference on the scale of the networks themselves, it'll just obfuscate your tracking a little.

New comment by xypage in "Show HN: I redesigned old GNOME app icons to fit in with the new HIG guidelines"

xypage — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 01:49:53 +0000

I went ahead and did it and sent a merge request, figured it'd be easy enough and that way you can just check/confirm the request probably without a PC.

New comment by xypage in "City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians"

xypage — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 20:57:35 +0000

I see what you mean, you're probably right that it would help, but honestly I just don't think the people hitting it are reading it in the first place. It doesn't light up until they're at the intersection, at which point they're either very focused on the light or the traffic, and definitely not looking way above even the yellow bar. Most people seem to be driving rentals, and in their case they're just not thinking about the size of their vehicle, and the rest have gone under a thousand bridges that look to the unfocused eye just as tall, so they're not worried about it at all. What they really need is probably just something that hangs at that height in front of it so you can hear it bang off of your car with minimal damage before you actually hit the bridge, and push the intersection further away from the bridge so there's more time to look at the signs.

New comment by xypage in "City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians"

xypage — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 19:38:13 +0000

That is exactly what it means though, they don't want everyone to stop just overheight vehicles. What do you want the sign to do? Encourage everyone to stop?

New comment by xypage in "Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse"

xypage — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 03:56:03 +0000

It seems you didn't read the article, it specifically talks about people are already buying accounts for $30 or less to be able to make accounts in areas where you're not allowed to register.

New comment by xypage in "The English Programming Language"

xypage — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 04:13:29 +0000

My guess would be that it's because spoken languages and programming languages are fundamentally different, so in trying to make one fit the other you might end up with a programming language that looks and reads a lot like English, but it's almost become self obfuscating because now your brain could automatically try parsing it using the rules for English and not the rules for the programming language, making things look like it should work even if it doesn't. The example the comment you're replying to works pretty well, we probably largely ignore punctuation at the end of sentences in terms of actually consciously seeing it as opposed to just inserting a pause in our mental cadence, so if they're suddenly important pieces of syntax in statements that look like English you could easily start messing up the use of it

New comment by xypage in "Sony just spilled confidential Playstation information because of a Sharpie"

xypage — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:07:22 +0000

I wonder if they did a black highlight digitally and then printed that, not taking the time to verify that the black was dark enough that it was actually making the text under it unrecoverable.