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sedeki··on Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
I read "Pyramid Principle, The: Logic in Writing and Thinking" by Barbara Minto. Highly recommend it.
sedeki··on Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?
I took too much chalk and "ripped" part of my skin under my hands.

Where can I read more about the techniques and/or bad habits? Interesting.

sedeki··on Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?
I recently started lifting weights. I just bought gloves. I like this tip though - thanks.
sedeki··on Unapproved books now a felony in Manatee County schools
Can someone provide book titles that are affected by this...?
sedeki··on ‘Luddite’ Teens
Yeah, I have it activated. But I want to experiment with the idea to abolish my phone as much as possible.
sedeki··on ‘Luddite’ Teens
I want to start doing this too. I bought a flip-phone some time ago, but it never stuck.

My usage is pretty much: listen to music, use (Google) calendar, texting, FaceTime.

Any surfing is plain doom scrolling and not productive.

Recommendations for me? Analog/simpler substitutes?

For ppl that has gone down this path - how do you feel now?

sedeki··on Ask HN: Strategies for Being More Eloquent?
I like the idea of this, but $149 for a deck of cards...?
sedeki··on Ask HN: Do you look angry while you work?
OK, yes you're right - it would indeed be off topic.

I actually recognize that line of reasoning myself. But since losing weight and working on myself (e.g. going to a therapist) I feel much better.

My point is: There was bigger issues at play for me when I didn't want to work from an office...

sedeki··on Ask HN: Do you look angry while you work?
I agree that you don't need to change who you are by "fixing" something.

But it is a weak argument for WFH by itself, don't you think?

sedeki··on Ask HN: If money was no object what software would you create?
How far off is bpy (Blender's Python API) do you think?
sedeki··on Everything I wish I knew when learning C
But wouldn't one be required to include a particular header in such case (i.e. the correct header for defining a particular type)?

I mean, no typedef names are defined in the global scope without including any headers right? Like I find it really weird that a type ending in _t would be UB if there is no such typedef name declared at all.

Or is this UB stuff merely a way for the ISO C committee to enforce this without having to define <something more complicated>?

sedeki··on Everything I wish I knew when learning C
How can a (badly chosen) typedef name trigger _undefined behavior_, and not just, say, a compilation error...?

I find it difficult to imagine what that would even mean.

sedeki··on Cache invalidation really is one of the hardest problems in computer science
Off topic: What level of sophistication about modern CPUs is _good_ to have? And where does one learn it? Resources?

Say that I want to work with HPC-type applications and otherwise just squeeze the most out of the processor, e.g. quant finance / trading systems.

sedeki··on Ghana plans to buy oil with gold instead of dollars
May I ask if you think price stability is of any benefit for a given currency at all? If not, why not?

My intention is to justify inflation from this end.

sedeki··on KDE runs on the Apple M2 with full GPU acceleration
Thank you! I am learning something new every day.
sedeki··on KDE runs on the Apple M2 with full GPU acceleration
(false statement about a buggy M1)
sedeki··on Ccache – a fast C/C++ compiler cache
How does it compare to zapcc? My team used it a few years ago.

https://github.com/yrnkrn/zapcc

sedeki··on Alertness associated with last night’s sleep, physical activity and food intake
Same here. But I always associated it with stress.
sedeki··on LPD: Libertarian Police Department (2014)
I think "AnCapPD: Anarcho-Capitalist Police Department" would be a better title, no?

Funny read regardless.

sedeki··on The genius of binary space partitioning in Doom (2019)
What is a good learning path (books, videos, ???) to take in order to understand modern graphics programming? At the level of Vulkan or Metal, say.

I have had a bird's eye exposure to shader-based OpenGL but don't feel I have a good intuitive understanding of how the GPU operates.

sedeki··on Betting on things that never change (2017)
Do you live by this motto more generally? I'd love to have you as a customer.
sedeki··on Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (2019)
Unrelated question: Is there a good book for us laypeople on the Big 5 personality traits/dimensions (like agreeableness, etc)?
sedeki··on Rust in the 6.2 kernel
I have worked as a C++ dev, but am definitely not a C++ expert by any means.

My take however is that C++ is inherently a complex language due to deliberately not sacrificing backwards-compatability of the syntax and semantics, which has been creating a mess as the language has evolved: there are many, many things to define semantically in order to "fit" a new piece in this old already-elaborate puzzle that is the C++ standard.

You cannot say the same thing about Rust.

Please correct me if you see things differently.

sedeki··on Estonia: Become an E-Resident
Do EU citizens have something to gain from an Estonian e-residence at all?
sedeki··on Ask HN: Anyone go through Montessori education until age 12 (end of grade 6)?
But why do they need this from public school over say any other social ... activity (?). For example sports.

I am genuinely questioning whether public school makes children socially mature rather than only being a traumatic experience for many pupils, for no other reason than that public schooling is the default choice.

sedeki··on Ask HN: Anyone go through Montessori education until age 12 (end of grade 6)?
> - Difficult transition to the cliques and more aggressive social dynamics of public school

Am I naive in thinking that the aggressive social dynamics of public school adds no value whatsoever to a child's or teenager's development?

Like, _why_ would anyone want to put their children through that? Is it _really_ integral to a person's social development to understand how to interact with bullies (worst case)?

I admit that I am rather nihilistic about public schooling, but I'm open to changing my mind.

sedeki··on The positive effect of walking on creative thinking (2014) [pdf]
Inspiring! I am on a similar journey as well.

I haven't heard the term "zone 2" cardio -- can you expand on that?

sedeki··on Ask HN: How to manage studies when you have a lot of interests?
Can we get in touch?
sedeki··on Mochary Method Curriculum
Who is Matt Mochary?
sedeki··on How to Get Rich (2019)
What do you mean by "logical flaw" in these sort of motivational/inspiring-type quotes?
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