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New comment by zwieback in "Cursed circuits #4: PLL frequency multiplier"

zwieback — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:59:52 +0000

Very cool. Can this be used to make a better quadrature encoder multiplier? The ones we get in our programmable rotary encoders are pretty crappy when the input frequency wobbles.

New comment by zwieback in "The Science of Satiety per Calorie"

zwieback — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:24:55 +0000

As a former Swabian I'm a bit hurt that those beautiful Brezeln get such a low score

New comment by zwieback in "How England misplaced its first king"

zwieback — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:28:31 +0000

Generally Aethelstan gets pretty good coverage on TRIH and the episodes on that era are some of my favorites. Also, the VIP membership tier is called "Athelstan" if I remember correctly.

New comment by zwieback in "Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP"

zwieback — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:50:09 +0000

Learned from this post that Gmail web had POP! Now I'll be mourning loss of a feature I never even used.

New comment by zwieback in "State of AI-assisted software development"

zwieback — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:51:43 +0000

I find AI coding assistants useful when I'm using a new library or language feature I'm not super familiar with.

When I have AI generate code using features I'm very familiar with I can see that it's okay but not premium code.

So it makes sense that I feel more productive but also a little skeptical.

New comment by zwieback in "A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name (2021)"

zwieback — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 05:49:57 +0000

Not sneering in any way, I love those groups and visit when I get a chance. Also a big fan of our local university's tree collections, they are on a mission to preserve variety of specimens.

New comment by zwieback in "A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name (2021)"

zwieback — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 20:53:15 +0000

Sounds intriguing, want to try one now. This is the kind of thing Home Orchard Societies wet their pants over. Probably grown right next to their pawpaw tree.

New comment by zwieback in "That boolean should probably be something else"

zwieback — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 20:35:46 +0000

Maybe for the DB domain author is talking about but the nice thing about a bool is that it's true or false. I don't have to dig around documentation or look through the code what the convention of converting enum, datetime, etc. to true/false is. 1970/1/1 (I was four years old then, just sayin), -6000 or something else?

Nullable helps a lot here but not all languages support that the same way.

New comment by zwieback in "Ask HN: Why is it called "Vibe Coding"?"

zwieback — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 01:38:16 +0000

The real vibe coding is when you hear the core memory vibrating

New comment by zwieback in "Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again"

zwieback — Mon, 05 May 2025 21:29:21 +0000

I'm glad to hear that but only if the buttons, wires and connectors are high quality. Pretty sure one of the reasons for everything touchscreen is cost. My mom's BMW has a sort of joystick/knob/button that controls what's displayed on the screen which is an okay compromise.

New comment by zwieback in "Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again"

zwieback — Mon, 05 May 2025 21:23:30 +0000

What happened, did you just get stranded and they came and replaced the car?

Hamming Codes

zwieback — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 20:48:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nayuki.io/page/hamming-error-correcting-codes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43731733

Points: 1

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New comment by zwieback in "20 years of Git"

zwieback — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 19:58:25 +0000

Of all the many source control systems I've used git has the worst usability yet it's my favorite

New comment by zwieback in "Ask HN: What are your contrarian views?"

zwieback — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 16:57:22 +0000

Windows is a good OS and Visual Studio (not Code) is the best IDE.

Also, I really don't like marine mammals at all. Possible exception for otters

New comment by zwieback in "Image Processing in C (2000) [pdf]"

zwieback — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:37:16 +0000

For hobbyists that's enough, for engineers often okay (I find myself in that situation) but for scientists "good enough" means nothing.

Optical metrology relies on accurate equations how a physical object maps to the image plane so in that case analytical solutions are necessary for subpixel accuracy.

I'm worried about how often kids these days discount precise mathematical models for all use cases. Sure, you get there most of the time but ignore foundational math and physics at your own peril.

New comment by zwieback in "Effect of chewing hard material on enhancing cognitive function"

zwieback — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:59:13 +0000

Haribo

New comment by zwieback in "Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with built-in realtime visualizations"

zwieback — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:13:21 +0000

wait a while and there will also be advertising every time you boot up and at random other times

New comment by zwieback in "Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with built-in realtime visualizations"

zwieback — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:11:34 +0000

I wonder how many "traditional" engineers are Mac coders. I work at hp so not many Macs around but in our R&D and especially in manufacturing and test&measurement Mac-only would be a problem.

New comment by zwieback in "Show HN: Uscope, a new Linux debugger written from scratch"

zwieback — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:13:54 +0000

Everyone here seems to thing GDB is awful. It's been a while for me but I remember using front-ends like Eclipse's CDT or similar and didn't find that experience so bad. Do most people use GDB straight-up? I haven't done that in probably 15 years although it's nice to have a lightweight command line on small embedded systems.

New comment by zwieback in "Show HN: Uscope, a new Linux debugger written from scratch"

zwieback — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:10:16 +0000

Oh yea, we used both SoftICE and Periscope. I loved the pushbutton to fire off an NMI directly on the ISA bus. It was sad when your device driver crashed but it was a fun experience to push that button.