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ninepoints··on Dev Fonts
You're in good company. Ligatures were really not meant to be used this way, and materially harm the editing experience IMO.
ninepoints··on Zig's (.{}){} Syntax
Using parens to pass type arguments was one of the things that turned me off on Zig. For a language that prioritizes "no hidden control flow," it sure did a lot to make various syntax conventions _masquerade_ as control flow instead.
ninepoints··on Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public
> from a patent attorney

This isn't an interesting counterpoint. This is the de facto narrative regarding patent lawyers and patent trolls masquerading as firms that act as though they somehow contribute.

ninepoints··on How DWARF Works
Very mid compared to Visual Studio in my experience. You don't even get a modules window, and there's a whole litany of core C++ debugging features missing.
ninepoints··on OpenAI to become for-profit company
Anyone who had any respect for Sam "Give me your eyeball data" Altman was always delusional.
ninepoints··on Coding Font by Typogram – Find Your True Love of Coding Fonts
The trouble with the comparison text is that it doesn't provide a way to quickly filter out fonts that abuse ligatures.
ninepoints··on Radiance Cascades: A Novel High-Res Sol. For Multidim Non-LTE Radiative Transfer
Seriously talk about poor naming. Even the start of this paper is the same as the other Radiance Cascades GI paper.
ninepoints··on Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable
Console user spend and user acquisition costs are not even remotely similar to the corresponding values in the mobile ecosystem.
ninepoints··on Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine
I'd really rather not, personally. All my Swift experiences have been fighting the abysmal compilation times.
ninepoints··on Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript
Not having an opaque tech stack encumbered by a patent minefield is another plus.
ninepoints··on CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes
You're missing something. Many somethings.
ninepoints··on Webview: Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++
"header only"

Aside from template based code, this is a disadvantage in my book usually

ninepoints··on C isn't a hangover and Rust isn't a cure
You'll have to enlighten me on how Rust makes passing bounds any easier. Spans and views are pretty common in C++ and C codebases these days.
ninepoints··on Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
You are comparing apples to oranges. Settlement times in traditional credit card transactions are not felt by the customer, and provide safeguards for fraud prevention and charge backs. Furthermore, transactions are easily reversible through a claims system. Guess what crypto doesn't have?
ninepoints··on Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
Surely that isn't the only reason
ninepoints··on The Worst Possible Way to Be Rejected for a Job, This Could Have Been an Email
Alternative take, scheduling a rejection meeting without providing any indication about the meeting agenda creates an unrejectable obligation without any consideration for the candidate.
ninepoints··on Forum reactions to Satoshi's Bitcoin paper
All the criticisms of Bitcoin scalability are completely warranted and have played out.
ninepoints··on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power
I'm very familiar with congestion trading and was in that industry at one point, but cmon, this is a bad crypto talking point. It's already quite apparent that bitcoin mines actually destabilize grids just as much while driving up electricity prices for local consumers far more than any positive net effect from an energy perspective.
ninepoints··on 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev
I don't really understand this take. Appkit/Uikit _is_ the dependency.
ninepoints··on Go: What we got right, what we got wrong
Erlang
ninepoints··on RawJS is a better way to call document.createElement()
Feels worse than something like dom-chef
ninepoints··on A Modern Web for Hacker News – Open-Source and Seeking Feedback
"good design?" Imagine a world where you can reply to a comment and have the entire thread context, or a world where after posting a comment and hitting "back", the navigation stack didn't take you to the post form. From an accessibility and legibility standpoint, the text is honestly hard to read (insufficient contrast, long line, etc.). There are so many usability issues/quirks about HN that I'm not sure "good design" is an apt description. "Information dense" is honestly a low bar -- it's easy to achieve information density and pretend the end result is actually good.
ninepoints··on 4B If Statements
I would think that the title alone should indicate that this entire bit is satire.
ninepoints··on Atree: A simple and efficient pointer-free tree implementation
I'm not sure why what I wrote necessitated a lesson on limits and asymptotes. My point was that given that N was the size of your tree, more often than not, big-O analysis would apply in this case since N is likely big compared to secondary fixed effects.
ninepoints··on Atree: A simple and efficient pointer-free tree implementation
Yes and I'm pointing out that non-asymptotic behavior doesn't apply when N here is the total number of nodes in the tree.
ninepoints··on Atree: A simple and efficient pointer-free tree implementation
No idea why your parent comment was flagged. The proposed data structure is truly horrendous but somehow, this post remains on the front page...
ninepoints··on Atree: A simple and efficient pointer-free tree implementation
I would hope your joint hierarchy is at least depth sorted or the loop as shown would not work. The proposed ATree has no order invariants...
ninepoints··on Atree: A simple and efficient pointer-free tree implementation
Do you understand the data structure being proposed in the original post, and are you claiming that scanning 100GB of data every time you want to perform a childof operation is acceptable? Please, use the proposed tree for your application since big o isn't the full story to you lol
ninepoints··on Atree: A simple and efficient pointer-free tree implementation
This doesn't make any sense to me.
ninepoints··on Atree: A simple and efficient pointer-free tree implementation
Sorry, do you not have trees for which the size of the tree is large. Do all your trees fit inside a few cache lines of storage?
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