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Known as Kernighan's Law.


Why did provide a link that defaults to Romanian prices?


Presumably OP is Romanian/in Romania.

Here is the default link (US): https://frame.work/laptop16?tab=whats-new


Because its /ro/


This is why I've been finding it difficult to learn Metal. Apple's documentation is terrible. The important information is in their WWDC video presentations, but a lot of that assumes you are already familiar with Metal.

The most frequently recommended book (Metal by Tutorials) often doesn't explain things. It tells you to open a file, type this text, open this other file, replace this line with this text. If I wasn't also reading Realtime-Rendering, I would have no idea what is really happening. I've been thinking I should go back to Vulkan. At least Vulkan has a spec, more books, and more samples.


Obviously not me, but I remember John Carmack regretting releasing Doom and Quake under GPL instead of BSD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack#:~:text=The%20sou...


Look into toybox. It's a tiny reimplementation of GNU coreutils that ships in Android.

The author was on the core team for another project in that space (I think busybox). He saw first hand how copyleft sounds good but ends up being lots of friction with no practical benefit, and vowed to public domain all his projects after that. BSD0 is him giving a name to a public domain grant so OSS people could recognize it.


Rob Landley, and the original Busybox author was Bruce Perens, who with Eric Raymond co-popularised Christine Peterson's new term "open source".

https://lwn.net/Articles/202120/


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> Great Slate fundraiser Thomas Ptacek

Who is of course a frequent HN poster, one of the very top rated on the site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek

I remain strongly suspicious that this column of his is in fact a long and convoluted troll:

https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/

That got about 2.5K upvotes here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163063


I think this is the talk I was referring to:

https://youtu.be/MkJkyMuBm3g?si=8OfCdRmS2kmGjIbx


What are you switching to?


IDK about the user, but it looks to me like HackerNews Enthusiast might be a function of their current role:

user: lm28469 created: January 21, 2019 karma: 14198


Country side house with a huge land. Not exactly sure what I'll do yet, probably homestead and seasonal jobs here and there. I'll probably work as much and earn 30% of what I earn right now but I'm so done sitting 8 hours a day in front of a screen in a small flat, big polluted city with absolutely no way of getting out of the rat race before retirement despite me and my wife both being in the top 10% local earners.

The choice between "a 40sqm flat" or "two acres + a custom house + enough savings for a couple of years of vacation" was really easy to make. We've been talking about having kids too and there is absolutely no way I'll raise them in the hellscape


I interviewed with Mozilla back when they were working on Firefox OS. The first question was to write a linked list in C++. Easy, I actually practiced that ahead of time. However, I forgot everything and started sweating profusely (Thankfully it was a phone interview). The interviewer was nice and tried to help me get started but all I could think about was how stupid and screwed I was.

Since then, I've found that I need to practice extensively so that I can still function when my IQ drops due to the stress. It reminds me of, "Under pressure, you don't rise to the occasion, you fall to your level of training."


Why does the title say "slams" but neither the headline or URL contain "slams"? I think anything that says slams is not worth reading.


Saving 4 characters (over "calls out") to fit within the HN submission title length limit, I'd assume.


I don't think microsoft could feel a slam from anyone tbh, much less libreoffice.


it's ridiculous, clearly to get eyeballs. there should be a clickbait label on such titles


Headlinese


I check LinkedIn to see who is the next person to be laid off from my previous employer. They post a picture of their badge and write this overly positive thank you to the company for the opportunity. They laid you off after 30 years in a group video call where you can't speak, don't thank them.


What's funny about the bullet points in section 3 is that it only compares to the previous noisy agent, rather than having no agent. 51% fewer false positives, median comments per pull request cut by half, spending less time managing irrelevant comments? Turn it off and you could get a 100% reduction in false positives and spend zero time on irrevant AI generated comments.


What's funny is that searching for "cute framework fixed timestep" in Google points to this Hacker News thread as the first result. What I would have wanted to find is this page:

https://randygaul.github.io/cute_framework/#/topics/game_loo...


Very sorry about that :D


LOL


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