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JLCarveth

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https://blog.jlcarveth.dev https://github.com/JLCarveth
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JLCarveth··on Upcoming price changes to Linode services
Makes sense. Akamai needs to make their $900M back...
JLCarveth··on Hackers claim they breached T-Mobile more than 100 times in 2022
$0.13 and a "Sorry, it won't happen again."
JLCarveth··on A runner who leads every pack and then vanishes
Weighted squats
JLCarveth··on A keypad to control my desk setup
I did something similar a while ago, made a 9-key Macropad using a Teensy. I've been wanting to try making a new one with BLE support and an integrated battery for wireless. Using Home Assistant is quite a good application for a device like this!
JLCarveth··on Ask HN: Best examples of software documentation that you've come across?
MDN Web Docs https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
JLCarveth··on Tell HN: DEI initiatives undermine the self esteem of PoC within a company
And you're here dismissing their experience because they're not black. See the issue?
JLCarveth··on Why the conventional wisdom on how to grow muscles is wrong
Been running this for over a year and I have been loving the results.
JLCarveth··on Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
I disagree on the two browsers being interchangeable. Chrome supports quite a few Web APIs that Firefox doesn't. For example the lack of support for platform authenticators in WebAuthn.
JLCarveth··on Show HN: A simple world flags game, my first web dev project as a beginner
I was expecting the button highlight to be red on an incorrect guess.
JLCarveth··on MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max
Look into Gallium Nitride (GaN) chargers. I got a 100W charging brick on Amazon for a little over $100CAD (a bit pricy yes), with 3 USB-C, 1 USB-A. There are cheaper models with less ports / wattage as well. A single brick fast-charges my M2 Macbook Air, my Phone, headphones.
JLCarveth··on Ask HN: What's a good home router?
A bit pricey but you can always look at the Ubiquiti products[1].

[1] https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-wireless

JLCarveth··on Learn Lisp the Hard Way
Just downloaded "On Lisp", thank you for the suggestion!
JLCarveth··on Learn Lisp the Hard Way
A question I have that's not answered by the link is why would I want to learn lisp? If you were starting a project today, what are some of the features Lisp offers that make it a better choice than any other (more popular) language? And do those features outweigh the lack of community the larger languages have?
JLCarveth··on Ask HN: What supplements do you take that have good scientific backing?
I run a push pull legs program. Biggest thing I notice is the "pump". It's far easier to get a nice pump going when I have creatine in my system vs not. This definitely aids in forming a mind-muscle connection, and at least in my personal experience a good pump is an indicator you're training properly. Around this time last year I was having trouble finding any, and the difference in my performance was night and day as far as being able to reach progressive overload.
JLCarveth··on Ask HN: What supplements do you take that have good scientific backing?
Creatine. Definitely noticed a HUGE difference when I ran out a few months ago.
JLCarveth··on GoatCounter: Open-source hosted/self-hosted web analytics
You can self-host Plausible.
JLCarveth··on Show HN: GPTDuck – Ask questions about any GitHub repo
I tried it for my (incomplete) compiler project[0], and the results are quite funny:

> This program prints a large string of text to the console. It does this by using a String variable called myLongString, which is initialized with a long string of text. The program begins with the line "program LargeString {" and ends with the line "}". Inside the program, there is a comment that reads "Now let's try a comment". This comment is not necessary for the program to work, but it helps to explain what the program does. The program then uses the write() function, which is a function that prints a given string to the console, to print the large string of text.

It seems as though its looking at the sample code files used for testing rather than the actual compiler codebase.

[0] - https://github.com/JLCarveth/zpl-compiler

JLCarveth··on Ask HN: What is your biggest problem? (2022)
If your biggest problem is that you will die in 41 years, you must live an incredibly easy life.
JLCarveth··on Ask HN: Is Hacker News slow for anyone else?
Yes, it's been taking 10-11 seconds each request for me.
JLCarveth··on The next step in ecommerce – replatform with APIs and micro front ends
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JLCarveth··on Ask HN: Experienced devs, what language would you learn today?
If you are using a popularity contest to choose your tooling you are choosing your tooling incorrectly.

Also it seems it would be helpful for you to read this: https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/stop-citing-tiobe/

JLCarveth··on Ask HN: Experienced devs, what language would you learn today?
How is a language's ranking on an arbitrary list at all relevant?
JLCarveth··on Ask HN: What are you buying on Cyber Monday
I was hoping to buy a new GPU, but stock levels still haven't recovered, at least in Canada. I'm not going to pay $1000+ for an RX 6800. I guess I will be waiting until December when the 7900 series releases and see how stock looks then.
JLCarveth··on Show HN: Pokemon Emerald Randomizer
I think the README could be a little more clear. What exactly is a Pokemon Emerald Randomizer? That doesn't tell me too much about what this software actually does. Frankly I only figured out what this is for thanks to the link izietto posted.
JLCarveth··on Ask HN: Anyone try semaglutide / Wegovy for weight loss?
I can't imagine taking a drug for weightloss would be more beneficial / effective than simply counting your calories and eating in a slight caloric deficit.
JLCarveth··on Ask HN: Are you boycotting Qatar World Cup?
This is whataboutism
JLCarveth··on Deno 1.28: Featuring 1.3M New Modules
> No node_modules folder by default (use --node-modules-dir for backwards compatibility). Modules are cached once in a special global directory.

This is definitely interesting. It will be nice not having to deal with that massive directory in each project.

JLCarveth··on Which face is real?
I only got one wrong and it's because I clicked through a little quick. To me it's almost immediately apparent by looking at the skin texture / how the hair looks. The AI is particularly "wavy" and doesn't look like normal skin.

Edit: Doing it a couple more times, you can tell pretty much instantly.

JLCarveth··on Feature Request: Collapsible Comments
The API is public, you could always design a client ;)
JLCarveth··on Ask HN: Why don't games allow you to automate some gameplay via programming?
Also there is a mod for Minecraft (or used to, I haven't played in years) called ComputerCraft, which had computers, routers, even robots called Turtles that were all scriptable with Lua.
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