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> No one who matters care about HN anymore compared to 5 years ago, and those who are left are basically using it for the same reason a smoker continues to smoke despite feeling indifferent.

Any idea where they've moved on to? Asking for a friend...

Some lobsters. Some blind. Some BookFace. Some BlueSky. Some back to X. But mostly IRL in the core tech hubs.

The ones who rely solely on HN have fallen out of the loop.

I’ve always 1 indexed because there are non software engineers on here and I didn’t need to introduce the confusion that shibboleth would cause

Well some of use were using R (or later Julia) and have always 1-indexed as an act of defiance... There are dozens of us... DOZENS!

Pour one out for the poor saps in econometrics departments and logistics industries still using SPSS.

dozens of us PVX programmers as well. 1- index gang

...and some of us Fortran.

But Fortran goes skrt skrt (Gen Z/Zillenial for fast).

Honestly love Fortran as a language but really worried about how it's both the foundation of most core packages like Numpy and Scipy and is increasingly underresourced outside of physics departments.

Yeah. There's nothing wrong with 1-indexing, but it's interesting to notice it go from being the norm to being something only a handful of us do now.

There used to be a time when some HNers used to kvetch over not using 0-indexing and that kind of pedantry should have been cracked down.

plot twist seizethecheese is a bot themselves :D jkjk

If they are so be it. Knuckedraggers and bots act the same way. At with some bots are kinda creative.

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