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Zecc
·yesterday·discuss
I take it he claims to have created these particular pictures of the fractal, which is likely true. And yes, the webpage containing them as well.
Zecc
·2 days ago·discuss
You underestimate what people are willing to do just for fun.
Zecc
·2 days ago·discuss
Trackballs are a thing as well.
Zecc
·3 days ago·discuss
Big Hairy Audacious Goal was a new one to me.
Zecc
·8 days ago·discuss
> Solipsism is essentially the one certainty that every mind out there has.

Not I. I'm just a Boltzmann brain.
Zecc
·8 days ago·discuss
> be aware that there are too many bad game engines. In Rust land, where I am, there are three failed renderers, one unfinished one, and the one inside the Bevy engine. Those are the major projects.

Where does Fyrox sit in this?
Zecc
·10 days ago·discuss
Same here. But I hibernate it, which defeats the purpose.
Zecc
·2 months ago·discuss
> astronut

I honestly can't say for sure whether that was intentional or an actual typo. Good job.
Zecc
·2 months ago·discuss
Elastic tabspots everywhere would be ideal. But in the real world I think 'tabs to indent, spaces to align' is the superior way, as every dumb text editor will support it.
Zecc
·2 months ago·discuss
If you're good at SQL, or SQL-like languages like Linq, it might be more efficient precisely writing a reasonably complex query than trying to explain it in detail to an AI.
Zecc
·2 months ago·discuss
> You're absolutely right

This got a smirk out of me.
Zecc
·3 months ago·discuss
Unless it's being observed externally it is in a state of quantum uncertainty, I think.
Zecc
·3 months ago·discuss
> if you [...] mentally integrate them properly.

There it is.
Zecc
·3 months ago·discuss
> Careful not to mix unions with sum types, though. The key distinction is that the latter are disjunct sets, even if you "sum" together the same type twice, you can always tell which "way" you went.

This is a really good point. I'd love to be able to have a sum type of two strings ("escaped" and "unescaped"); or any two kinds of the same type really, to model two kinds of the same type where one has already passed some sort of validation and the other one hasn't.

Edit to add: I figure what I want is for enums to be extended such that different branches are able to carry different properties.

Edit again (I should learn to think things through before posting. sorry): I suppose it can be faked using a union of different wrapper types, and in fact it might be the best way to do it so then methods can take just one of the types in arguments and maybe even provide different overloads.
Zecc
·3 months ago·discuss
Which brings us to: SpaceChem's soundtrack.
Zecc
·3 months ago·discuss
Elon Musk's ears are burning.
Zecc
·4 months ago·discuss
I don't remember which HN thread I've heard this joke originally from, but...

People in Montenegro: it's not .yu, it's .me
Zecc
·4 months ago·discuss
> The core of what we were doing (Writing code) dictated the core of our tool kit (IDE). > > Now that we're not writing code anymore it's very exciting to see how this unfolds in the tool kit.

So maybe the text area in your IDE becomes read-only. Even when not actively debugging, you still need to read code and efficiently browse through it as you review it. Because you always review code, don't you? Don't you??
Zecc
·4 months ago·discuss
For what is worth, I prefer the name pomato to totato.
Zecc
·7 months ago·discuss
For what it's worth, it's what caught my attention. I wouldn't have found it so captivating if it had only said "Fixing Google Nano Banana Pixel Art". To be clear, it's not because of Rust in particular. It would have been the same if it said "with C#", or "with Python", or even just "programmatically". And on that note: I feel disappointed. I thought I would be reading about the development process, and not just a product presentation.