Hacker News: zachrose

New comment by zachrose in "Ruby 3.4.0"

zachrose — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 23:27:40 +0000

Does `it` conflict with Rspec's `it`? Surely they've thought of this, but to my eye it looks like it would get confusing.

New comment by zachrose in "California is torn between clashing Anglo traditions?"

zachrose — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 13:22:28 +0000

Yes, that’s exactly the connection that American Nations makes and the OP ignores

New comment by zachrose in "California is torn between clashing Anglo traditions?"

zachrose — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 02:42:50 +0000

My read of Albion’s Seed and American Nations is that they’re more about how a regional culture was germinated and founded, under the idea that the culture (including legal and economic systems) is even more durable than a specific group. So it’s not exactly connected to current demographics.

New comment by zachrose in "California is torn between clashing Anglo traditions?"

zachrose — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 23:36:26 +0000

Applying Albion’s Seed to California misses out on Spanish missionary culture and the shipping merchants who came from New York City, which does not have the same puritan roots as New England.

American Nations is a more recent book that describes more of the United States, though with less depth.

New comment by zachrose in "The Lego Great Ball Contraption"

zachrose — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:57:32 +0000

Reading that the GBC standard specifies 1 ball per second, it’s fun to imagine a module that puts 1,000 balls in slow moving storage, taking 15 minutes to warm up and cool down

New comment by zachrose in "An approach to optimizing TypeScript type checking performance"

zachrose — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 11:57:56 +0000

I’ve worked on several TS projects that don’t type check but still “compile” (emit non-TS JavaScript). To me that’s the difference between a linter and a compiler, and I wish those projects had stopped compiling when they could no longer type check.

New comment by zachrose in "Software galaxies"

zachrose — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 01:02:19 +0000

Perhaps it's the versioning? Like in the way that libraries for Elm 0.18 are often (mostly? always?) incompatible with 0.19.

(N.B. 0.19 has been the latest version for almost six years.)

New comment by zachrose in "Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer"

zachrose — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:18:38 +0000

Maybe the idea is to order your vocabulary into some kind of “semantic rainbow”? Like a one-dimensional embedding?

New comment by zachrose in "Ask HN: Where are all the touch-based art forms?"

zachrose — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:23:43 +0000

I think it has to do with what you’re considering as artwork! There’s a traditional distinction between “fine arts” and “applied arts.”

Fine art, like painting, is almost definitionally not supposed to be touched.

Applied arts include fibers (knitting, weaving), ceramics, jewelry and metalwork, etc. Stuff that’s meant to be pleasing and functional.

Whether something should be touched is almost _the thing_ that moves a field from one category to the other.

Applied artists, and their product designer cousins, will spend a lot of time exploring and pursuing tactile qualities.

New comment by zachrose in "Why don't schools teach debugging, or, more fundamentally, fundamentals?"

zachrose — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 14:34:38 +0000

> "How to program" isn't something the academy understands, so they generally can't teach it

This was my (limited) experience with (introductory) formal CS.

Which is sort of amazing to me as art schools seem in broad agreement that “how to draw” can be taught, albeit in many different ways.

New comment by zachrose in "Ask HN: What cool desk ideas do you have for a home office?"

zachrose — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 18:34:13 +0000

I've been happily hacking on my Ikea Bekant for three years. I replaced the top, replaced the buttons with a double throw rocker switch (1), built a Mac Mini/laptop shelf on the back half, a KVM switch on a little shelf in the front.

Cable management isn't horrible but there's a lot of room for improvement. I'd like to replace all the AC adapters with one big one that can supply everything.

I've built some outlandish and unsatisfying desks in the past, the gradual approach has been better.

1. This is unsafe for children, as they might figure out a way to flip the switch and crush themselves. Please take this consideration into account.

New comment by zachrose in "The 1986 Paris-Dakar rally (2021)"

zachrose — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 03:01:40 +0000

Not sure, but the Dakar Rally hasn’t involved Dakar, Senegal since 2007. Most recently it takes place within Saudi Arabia.

New comment by zachrose in "Google’s water use is soaring, consume more than 25% of water used in The Dalles"

zachrose — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 03:19:33 +0000

Where does the water go after being used for cooling?

New comment by zachrose in "Software horror show: SAP Concur"

zachrose — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 21:20:24 +0000

Sometimes they work together! I submitted an email receipt and it kept getting rejected because Concur only shows the first page of a multi-page PDF unless you go through some very non-obvious navigation to see the whole thing.

New comment by zachrose in "American society is so focused on race that it is blind to class"

zachrose — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 03:54:07 +0000

The audiobooks are also good.

New comment by zachrose in "Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs"

zachrose — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 01:22:49 +0000

Stop using them so much?

New comment by zachrose in "Startup is selling tech to make call center workers sound like white Americans"

zachrose — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:45:20 +0000

William F. Buckley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTyZAul60ok

Mr. Burns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=othBTFk_W1Y

New comment by zachrose in "Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to WASM running in browser"

zachrose — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 17:01:46 +0000

Imagine wanting to learn Postgres but not knowing how to use a package manager, for example

New comment by zachrose in "Ask HN: Why does this 90-degree USB adapter have a chip in it?"

zachrose — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 17:05:33 +0000

I guess what I’m wondering though is: what is being negotiated over what looks to me like 8 connectors? Why can’t they just be simple conductors?

Ask HN: Why does this 90-degree USB adapter have a chip in it?

zachrose — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 16:38:36 +0000

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TQNQWPZ

Why isn't it just connectors? What is the chip doing?

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