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SomeHacker44··on So what is your programming setup? Hype is making fundamentals confusing
VS Code, with typical extensions for the langauge in use but no AI integration

Git

Antigravity CLI or Claude CLI

Whatever support is needed (JVM, CLR, etc.)

Arch Linux or rarely Windows 11

SomeHacker44··on The Visual 6502
Agree. I would pay for it.
SomeHacker44··on Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL
Any recommendations on how to use OpenGL from the CLR (.Net/C#) please?
SomeHacker44··on Writing by hand is good for your brain
Yes! 100x this. I do this all the time with my print technical books.
SomeHacker44··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
You already do not have that unfettered right in the USA.
SomeHacker44··on Qwen 3.8
Would you mind sharing more please? I literally just finished the same set up, with a 9950X CPU and 192G RAM at 4,800 MT/s. I used lemonade with Vulkan and the UD-Q8_x_x model from HF. 256k context. I have about 8G VRAM free, and use the iGPU for my desktop/monitor on Arch. What options do you give llama-cpp or whatever you run please? What other models have you found fit nicely in the 2xR9700? Thanks!!
SomeHacker44··on A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp
Please say more about the "dev experience of rust." As a long time Lisper and not much of a Ruster, I found the dev experience very painful. Granted, I expect had I continued using Rust that would have abated in tjme. I also disliked Clojure at first until I became comfortable with it and productive, before coming to like and appreciate it.
SomeHacker44··on Alternate clock designs and time systems
No centons?
SomeHacker44··on Write code like a human will maintain it
I still code this way.
SomeHacker44··on Kernel anti-cheat is an overreach
Is there some reliable tool which can list all the kernel anti cheat that may be installed on my Windows system, and the games I need to uninstall to remove them? Or remove them directly? Thanks!
SomeHacker44··on DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat
I believe treason is literally defined in the constitution itself as taking up arms against the country. By that definition, I think there have been few to almost no treasonous people in recent decades.
SomeHacker44··on In Praise of Observational Evidence
They reference RCT without first defining it.
SomeHacker44··on Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
Can you please explain how you set it up? I run it on my 129G Strix Halo under Arch with Lemonade with OpenCode and it just sits there doing barely anything unless I leave it to run over night. Then it says it thought for 13.7 seconds but was really 15 minutes. Thanks! I am using the 27B dense MTP model quantized by UnSloth with the UD-Q8_K_L if memory serves.
SomeHacker44··on A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events
Does this game make me MCP? Can I battle Jeff Bridges with discs?
SomeHacker44··on Andrew Ng ships Open CoWorker desktop AI agent
Seems to be Mac/Windows only. No Linux yet.
SomeHacker44··on Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
Curious about this. Usually I try to get an Apt source (I use Ubuntu). Why would I want to use brew on Linux? I stopped using Macs and brew around 2018 when Apple started closing down it's macOS for a few years and got sick of it. Thanks!
SomeHacker44··on Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface
Thanks, very nice! Any way to use it with Antigravity CLI/Gemini please?
SomeHacker44··on Nvidia RTX Spark
I believe Grace is an ARM designed core. Vera is the nVidia designed core.
SomeHacker44··on IXI's autofocusing lenses are almost ready to replace multifocal glasses
This exists. There was a frame with a slider on the nose bridge which refocuses circular lenses. I read about it a long (decade+?) time ago.
SomeHacker44··on Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash
1/16% is less than 0.001... A different number than being discussed, 1/16.
SomeHacker44··on Trump Mobile exposed customers' personal data
The only thing with trump I like is a hand of bridge.
SomeHacker44··on Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
The article never defined CTF. Nor have the top comments here. Skip.

Basic rule: define every abbreviation when it is first used.

SomeHacker44··on Ask HN: Does anyone know what a monad is?
Perhaps you can also explain what a box is, and what a flatMap is please? Fortunately I know what map is already. Also, what does it mean to combine boxes in order? Thanks!
SomeHacker44··on Show HN: DAC – open-source dashboard as code tool for agents and humans
The blurb about this is repeated several times but it is unclear to me what it actually does.
SomeHacker44··on Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET
Awesome! Has a MonoGame integration sample. Am curious to see if it will work with Godot or Unity. New weekend project...
SomeHacker44··on Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig
I found this funny. I am not sure if it was intended that way!

> Monads are not some kind of obscure math-y thing that only the big brains think are necessary. No, instead monads are a fundamental abstract algebraic description of imperative programming as a computational context.

Yep, as a non-big-brainer, I definitely get it now. :)

SomeHacker44··on Quirks of Human Anatomy
Male babies can lactate due to the high concentration of hormones in mother's milk.
SomeHacker44··on Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them
As a pedestrian, I fear cyclists the most. Please do block the bike lane while I am getting in and out so cyclists won't hit me. I have been almost killed by cyclists many more times than cars. My office building hires someone with a sign to stand in the crosswalk in front of the building where cyclists almost never respect the crosswalk.

Cyclists here regularly ignore red lights and also go the wrong way on streets and even in bike lanes.

SomeHacker44··on 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)
Curious about the "no derivatives" license. Surely anything derivative would be of the original now public domain art and not this. I do not see how this could as a practical matter be enforced. IANAL though.
SomeHacker44··on Put your SSH keys in your TPM chip
Agree. This is why I do not use Passkeys, and I have 4 physical Yubikeys tied to every system I secure with them.
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