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abductee_hgon Sweden’s Northvolt raises $2.8B to supercharge EV battery output

uh, are they also committing to raise the energy density, but then only will build bigger batteries? :)

abductee_hgon Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

I am not sure that those threads are entirely legal.

abductee_hgon Ask HN: Worst code you ever had to fix up?

company with an in-house compiler of a functional language, w/ no chanche to have a breakpoint or know whats what in the disassembly, generates ~800 lines of assembly for the simpelest things. turns out that someone did not read the specs and used xorps in a funny, heisenberg-ish way.

abductee_hgon Ask HN: Worst code you ever had to fix up?

i saw this happening at a demoparty, the person sitting next to me:

hekps out a friend with some coding problems; discovers a file containing a class called "superHoegen" with the function members "SuperHoegen1" ..."SuperHoegen12" took a while to realize that this was the martix class of the renderer and sth like ".SuperHoegen5()" would invert the matrix.

also there where no bugs in the superhoegen class, just funny naming :)

abductee_hgon How I built the world's first 3D ultrasonic scanner

well, you sir, are the first. except maybe those lamers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_ultrasound

abductee_hgon Java's records, Lombok's data, and Kotlin's data classes

sorry -java .. better? what? why would anyone use java for anything? let me give an example: from a project a while(some years actually) ago i still have a license for a php-ide(zend). its in java. no chance in hell to get it working today.

meanwhile, stuff i did 2003 still runs on windows out of the box, even in wine/osx. so again: why use java for anything? https://twitter.com/abductee_org/status/711966430133026816 (try it https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=11247 )

oh and there is this: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/JAVAhurt.pdf so, double-again: why use java for anything?

abductee_hgon “About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”

raises an interesting question: what is Basecamp?

abductee_hgon Making Generative Art with Rust

how about doing it for real? (4074 bytes exe) https://demozoo.org/graphics/292422/

abductee_hgon EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after Spotify complaint

well, the way I see it Apple does a better/less cutthroat job than spotify.

abductee_hgon Wat (2012) [video]

it shows that at the fringes nobody in the audience correctly predicts what will happen...

anyways, here's the abductee-programming-language-conundrum:

consider Language X: there is a nuclear power plant, and you or loved ones live within 10 miles. it is your responsibility to select the language for implementing the emergency shutdown procedures. would you use language X?

abductee_hgon Luca App: CCC calls for a moratorium

german hiphop star smudo has been promoting the luca app in german tv, etc.

- funnily enough the same smudo who was a very vocal "Napster bad!!11eleven" voice back in the day ... however napster would at least meet 2 op the ccc criteria(instead of 0, like luca :)

abductee_hgon Intel in talks to produce chips for automakers within six to nine months

how about they make a mobile chip that doesn't suck first?

the 2013 BMW ... if you got the big headunit you had to also get the big AC... why?

there was an extra hose from the AC to the headunit... why?

intel ATOM. that's why.

abductee_hgon Let us now praise tiny ants

Thanks Ants! THANTS

abductee_hgon Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany

ehem...

abductee_hgon How Uber Deals with Large iOS App Size

...as a demoscener who has released multiple 64k/4k intros I hereby formally say: LOL.

abductee_hgon Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'