Philpax

By all means; I also work at a start-up. That doesn't mean that everyone here does, or is interested in doing so, or will have the necessary background. All I ask of you is to present information…

Hacker News may be hosted as part of the Y Combinator website, but as the name suggests, the primary audience is hackers, not entrepreneurs. Your answer is good, but could have done without the condes…

Rust doesn't have it built in, but it's part of itertools: https://docs.rs/itertools/latest/itertools/trait.Itertools.h... This may eventually be upstreamed: …

Thankfully, uv makes this a lot better, but it'll still be a while before that percolates to the entire ecosystem, if ever. There are real concerns about tying the language's future to a VC-…

If I have to write Python like Go, I'd rather just write Go. (Not disagreeing with you, but this is one of many reasons that Python is the least-favourite language that I use on a regular basis.)

Right-to-left is equivalent to left-to-right in this regard: you're still reading in one linear direction, as opposed to Python, where you have to read inside-out and revisit later parts of the l…

That's what the article describes, yes.

> Sorry, I don't follow. There's nothing preventing a tool from re-indenting code when it's pasted (i.e.: considering indentation within the pasted text relative to its first line, a…

God, this kind of tired parody is especially exhausting these days. Get new material.

Significant whitespace pushes a tooling problem (correct indentation) into the human domain. It might have made sense before autoformatters that run on save, but I agree with you that in today's …

I don't believe Crystal is whitespace significant?

They're joking that despite their three years of study, they've only retained hiragana.

That's not a guarantee, either: https://www.anthropic.com/research/reasoning-models-dont-say... …

Good B1M video about the making of the viaduct and its impact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQA8303vxjE …

Meaningless noise that contributes nothing to the conversation offends me. Being a non-believer is fine, but do us the favour of having something interesting to say.

Out of curiosity, do people here still use Dropbox? I've had an account for over a decade, but haven't used it since ~2014; Google Drive and Syncthing have largely replaced it for me.

Fair enough!

Rust + egui, but it's a far cry from the convenience or iteration speed of the web. Wherever possible, I build webapps instead, just because it's so much faster to get results (especially wi…

I wouldn't mind diversity, but in this particular case, Simon has been consistently documenting, exploring, and commenting upon AI advancements. As far as I can tell, nobody has attempted to keep…

It has to compile them; you can see the compiled binaries in your `target` directory. Rust doesn't have an interpreter for the full language, only for the `const` subset, so it can't interpr…

obligatory relevant qntm story https://qntm.org/perso

Congratulations on winning the race to post the announcement :)

BAD is lying about GOOD and presenting GOOD's legitimate service as a mere IdP for BAD, such that the user provides their code for GOOD to BAD so that the latter can then automatically log into G…

The existence of several type-checkers and Astral's largely-successful efforts to build tooling that pulls Python out of its muck seems to suggest otherwise. Better things are possible, and I…

In the earlier days of rustc, it was handy to be able to look at the context for a specific compiler error (this is before the error reporting it is now known for). Using that, I was able to diagnose …

I saw a short post to this effect here: https://solmaz.io/typed-languages-are-better-suited-for-vibe... …