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nightowl_games··on Turso SQLite Offline Sync Public Beta
Honestly this is so simple and core to the idea that I literally just assume it's handled.
nightowl_games··on Show HN: Hexi – Modern header-only network binary serialisation for C++
Wow that api looks fantastic! Bravo!

I'd like to read an even more thorough overview of how it works and all the gotchas before I'd consider using this 'in production' but the API looks very easy to use and very elegant.

EDIT: just hit the section on portability, seems like you would always have to use that API, yeah? I feel like when you are writing network code you simply have to make it portable from the get-go. I guess I'm always thinking about having it run on client machines.

nightowl_games··on Ask HN: Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey?
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
nightowl_games··on Trump slaps tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China
I agree with your points in general but I'm still confused - how do you connect any of these to the USA tariffs? I'm specifically asking you how you can justify this statement "I blame Canadian leadership [for the tariffs]."
nightowl_games··on Trump slaps tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China
> force and strength

The problem is that the USA is capable of far more force and strength than Canada is. It's like an abusive relationship, but one where due to geography, Canada cannot simply leave.

nightowl_games··on Trump slaps tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China
> What are you willing to do about it?

This is the vibe of a bully taking a kids lunch money and then saying 'What are you gonna do about it?'

I'll never forget this feeling. The world is watching.

nightowl_games··on Trump slaps tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China
Sorry - what do you blame Canadian leadership for? What did they do?
nightowl_games··on Trump slaps tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China
Yes, the USA has massive leverage over Canada on basically every front. We are a small child standing next to a massive person with a gun. But what is the point of destroying us?

Our economy is already down. All of our tech elite move to Silicon Valley. Our energy infrastructure cant get off the ground. The USA dictates so much of what Canada is able to do.

What is the point of squeezing us more? We have so little we can offer you.

We've already given you the lives of our soldiers as we follow you into pointless wars. What more do you want? The pennies in our pockets?

nightowl_games··on Bunster: Compile bash scripts to self contained executables
One of the most critical elements of a shell script is that the source can be easily examined.

Bringing this into your system seems like a huge liability.

The syntax of shell scripts is terrible, but we write it to do simple things easily without needing more external tools.

git-bash on windows is generally good enough to do the kind of things most shell scripts do.

This tool feels like the worst of both worlds: bash syntax + external dependency.

nightowl_games··on A Taping of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Saved an Innocent Man from Death Row (2017)
What happens if you dont accept a settlement for something like false imprisonment?
nightowl_games··on Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?
And that problem is so severe that it dwarfs all second order effects by a massive margin.
nightowl_games··on Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?
I imagine we've seen massive increase in parental acceptance in our lifetime already.
nightowl_games··on Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?
What happens in response to a crippling cyber attack? Who does the government pay to fix it? Palantir?
nightowl_games··on Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?
The root issue here is children not coming out to their parents. If we improve that metric, we can begin to improve all other metrics. Ie: the parent can help the child discover appropriate peer groups
nightowl_games··on Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?
I'm bullish on Intel. I think the stateside fabs they are building will eventually be powerhouses.

I'm not sure when, but I've been "long Intel" for a long time.

nightowl_games··on GPT-5 is behind schedule
> They said they were really being paid for holding risk.

I think that's a really interesting insight that has application to using 'AI' in jobs across the board.

nightowl_games··on Tldraw Computer
Tell us more about what you saw?
nightowl_games··on Includeable minimal operating system for C++
A game server could perhaps be another valid use case for this technology. A simple program, performance maximized, cost minimized.
nightowl_games··on Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]
As someone who's done game dev professionally for a decade, as well as had countless personal projects and has known others to have done the same: don't underestimate the toll game dev can take on you, it's a cruel mistress. Stardew Valley is a massive outlier.
nightowl_games··on School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study
In my province, they implemented a smart phone ban in public schools this year. It was wild to see the political push back, where people just made stuff up to oppose it because they were politically opposed to the government in general.
nightowl_games··on Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit
Because they are all located in the same small town?
nightowl_games··on Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit
What were their predictions?
nightowl_games··on Evolving my ergonomic setup (or, my laptop with extra steps)
I bought they keychron Q11 because it was cheaper and it is way higher quality than I expected. It's a fantastic split keyboard.
nightowl_games··on Nobody gets fired for picking JSON, but maybe they should?
Exactly. And this is an extremely important detail. It makes your development process go from using glass tubes where you see everything as it is sent/received to black boxes of binary data.

JSON is self describing, you can mostly just call the API, read the JSON response and figure it out from there.

Ignoring that detail is ignoring the elephant in the room.

nightowl_games··on The case against Google's claims of "quantum supremacy"
Quantum computing only solves certain classes of tasks faster, not all tasks, not most tasks, only a tiny amount of tasks.
nightowl_games··on What we know about CEO shooting suspect
Blows my mind that no ones suggesting mental illness in their analysis. Especially given that he's cut off contact from his family...
nightowl_games··on BareMetal OS
I wonder what kinds of hardware are supported... Like I'd imagine a keyboard is not
nightowl_games··on Just: Just a Command Runner
Performance in your shell script is a new one. Can you cite a real world example where that would ever matter? My shell scripts just initiate build/export/deploy programs. They take milliseconds to run and then the programs they start take minutes. The perf of those milliseconds couldn't be more negligible.
nightowl_games··on Just: Just a Command Runner
Bash scripts need wrappers because they suck so hard.

You can do it all in bash, yes, but it's very conceivable this "just" thing actually provides real value.

nightowl_games··on Hit men aren't what you think
The conference started at 8am, the assassination happened at 6:45am. The assassin was only waiting there for a few minutes ahead of time. It's surprising how "on time" the assassin was. Wasn't waiting around there for an hour or anything. Seemed like he knew when the CEO would arrive.
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