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New comment by yw3410 in "The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances"

yw3410 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:42:52 +0000

That's interesting; have you talked to your friends about their changes in behaviour? Is it something they've noticed themselves?

New comment by yw3410 in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

yw3410 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:45:17 +0000

It's odd to me that you live in a place where it's hard to find a theatre. Living in a cosmopolitan city there's so many theatres with anything from professional shows to amateur dramatics all at very reasonable price points.

New comment by yw3410 in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

yw3410 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:46:37 +0000

It's satire - just see the About page.

New comment by yw3410 in "Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide"

yw3410 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:04:15 +0000

How small a model are we talking? Don't even the smallest models which would work need gigabytes of memory?

New comment by yw3410 in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

yw3410 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:02:01 +0000

Not to detract from your wider point, but there's a few ISPs which own IP blocks which aren't blacklisted.

I had quite a bit of success with it and of course, DKIM and the other measures you can take some years back.

For personal emails, I don't think I had any which fed straight into spam.

New comment by yw3410 in "Detecting Dementia Using Lexical Analysis: Terry Pratchett's Discworld"

yw3410 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:52:46 +0000

Personally I just ignore them(Raising Steam and Snuff). There are too many inconsistencies with how Vimes and Lipwig are characterized in those books, that I can't see them as the same characters. I haven't started the Shepherd's Crown for the same reason.

I don't think that any fan of his is under any illusion that those books are up to his standard, but he has so many good books that his legacy will be safe.

New comment by yw3410 in "The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day"

yw3410 — Thu, 09 May 2024 13:34:55 +0000

Could you elaborate what you mean when you say they broke the team?

New comment by yw3410 in "How to Use the Foreign Function API in Java 22 to Call C Libraries"

yw3410 — Wed, 08 May 2024 23:40:05 +0000

You can't be as aggressive at removing functions in Java than in Rust though since it's dynamic dispatch (e.g., if you use toString once in your code, you need to keep all implementations of toString which are reachable even if users don't use reflection).

New comment by yw3410 in "The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs"

yw3410 — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:53:25 +0000

The best reason to use Emacs is because it is _yours_ in a way no other software is.

You can change practically every aspect of it; and crucially it's really, really easy like no other editor or program.

New comment by yw3410 in "A Proposal for an asynchronous Rust GUI framework"

yw3410 — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 19:38:26 +0000

I've just wanted right click menus and second screens on Wayland for ages.

My herd of yaks is only getting higher over time...

New comment by yw3410 in "This isn’t the way to speed up Rust compile times"

yw3410 — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 17:39:15 +0000

The author uses NixOS.

New comment by yw3410 in "Leaving Haskell behind"

yw3410 — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 12:39:55 +0000

To be fair, mixing higher order functions with effects (exceptions) is really hard without changing the type system completely. At that point you're moving into novel encoding territory.

New comment by yw3410 in "Leaving Haskell behind"

yw3410 — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 20:49:38 +0000

The Scala community is incredibly committed to stability; every open source maintainer I know of in that space checks for binary compatibility when releasing as well as cross-compiling for multiple targets (Node, Web, Native) and versions.

New comment by yw3410 in "Leaving Haskell behind"

yw3410 — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 20:40:49 +0000

Also, Mavens metadata model is recursive. You want need a dependency? You're going to have to pull in the parent, which is probably an Uber pom. Take a look at your M2 cache, it's probably got a kubernetes pom even if you've never touched it before because your logging library uses an Uber pom...

New comment by yw3410 in "Show HN: Python can make 3M+ WebSocket keys per second"

yw3410 — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 14:21:09 +0000

Yes, though hopefully it's been packaged up by the distro otherwise you'll end up having dependency problems if you compiled against a wrong libc or something else.

New comment by yw3410 in "Gopher Wrangling: Effective error handling in Go"

yw3410 — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 05:35:39 +0000

Monads have nothing to do with laziness and we're talking about the Result type anyway.

OP is correct. If it has a bind, pure and map (which it does!) then for all intents it forms a monad.

Now the fact is you can't _manipulate_ monads in Rust easily (see kinds and discussions wrt GAT), but nonetheless monads are present in all languages with ADTs in the same way that rings are present in all languages with addition.

New comment by yw3410 in "Killing Community"

yw3410 — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 06:06:06 +0000

Correct me if I'm wrong but, you and others are saying that posting racial slurs, CP and gore for shock value are an integral part of the culture?

I don't understand why it's important to be flamed at all by people who are anonymous? I might banter with friends, but there's a shared history of understanding there; in an anonymous message board there's none of that so I don't understand what it's trying to achieve?

New comment by yw3410 in "Killing Community"

yw3410 — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 05:43:59 +0000

Really? Would you not think that being anonymous, performative moral actions would be fewer than a social network which was tied to an actual identity?

I don't understand why in your example, the point couldn't be made without specifically using crude language. It doesn't seem like that racial slurs would contribute to the threads topic.

New comment by yw3410 in "My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted (2022)"

yw3410 — Wed, 10 May 2023 13:40:02 +0000

My intuition would expect the two to be correlated.

All anecdotal evidence I've seen points to the language mattering a great deal since only those people who are enthusiastic about niche languages, tend to put more time in learning/practicing programming and all other things being equal, spending more time on a skill correlates to being better at said skill.

New comment by yw3410 in "Z Garbage Collector: The Next Generation"

yw3410 — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 00:54:25 +0000

But what you call promptness is predictability from the PoV of the programmer, no?

I don't think I've mentioned performance anywhere; thanks for the paper I'll take a look.