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ademon Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore

I will never get over the overuse of adjectives like "real" in LLM outputs, it dilutes the meaning of these words.

ademon How many bytes does gzip compress?

The page lags horribly on Firefox Android

ademon Avería: The Average Font (2011)

I'd love to see the results for the same process used on monospace fonts.

I can't provide you with numbers but back when I used Windows on my work machine, I recorded my screen + microphone input using OBS to compare they recorded keystroke sound and appearance of the character on my screen. I was able to confirm my suspicion in that WezTerm yielded higher input latency. This was especially noticeable when using helix inside of WSL - movement in normal mode would always sort of lag behind the keystrokes.

EDIT: Just installed in on my Mac and here, I can't notice any difference between kitty (my current input latency baseline) and WezTerm. Good stuff! Not sure how Windows fares nowadays, though.

ademon Okay, I Like WezTerm

I tried WezTerm on Windows because I was looking for a terminal with ligature support and lower input latency than Windows Terminal. Unfortunately, it still had higher input latency than cmd.exe. The only terminal with ligature support that comes close in terms of input latency is contour (https://contour-terminal.org/).

ademon Visual ChatGPT

> I’ve noticed the on search snipits seem to know the exact bit of text on the page that answers my question.

This must be new, right? I noticed this too and to be honest, it immediately improved my search experience, which had gotten very bad.

ademon Thiel Foundation announces next Thiel Fellow class: 23 entrepreneurs

CTRL+F "climate" - Phrase not found. This is saddening. But hey, at least blockchain is present!

ademon Work Hard (2007)

Look at the username, probably a troll.

ademon Influential books on Computer Science and programming

It would've been nice to see why a particular book was included in the list. I certainly don't agree with the addition of Clean Code, but I may be missing something, hence my wish.

ademon [dead]

I'm genuinely curious to know why people get upset about this and what harm it does to them.

ademon Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?

[Ekşi Sözlük](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ek%C5%9Fi_S%C3%B6zl%C3%BCk)

ademon WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update

How do you know it's misinformation if you need a decomposition of the proposed policy itself?

ademon Odroid-HC4 is a $65 2-bay network attached storage device

I own a HC2 (single SATA slot) and it's an amazing piece of hardware.

ademon List of YouTube channels for improving web development and programming skills

Another channel I'd add to this list is Vivek Haldar: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpXfS8bu7ILGCuOtsnJMtxQ

He comments on papers of various CS topics.

ademon Ranger: A console file manager with VI key bindings

It's a good option if you're on a Windows machine.

ademon Electron 6.0

> [...] GTK or other UI framework [...]

ademon Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending America's supermarkets

Assuming you mean the Hieber in Weil am Rhein, they really do offer a superb shopping experience, but it's vastly above the standard. I wish more supermarkets would adopt the self-scanning devices, it's perfect when buying single-digit items.

ademon There is no good reason to buy an inkjet printer (2016)

You saying this made me realize that buying an inkjet printer is akin to buying a phone with a contract - crazy.

ademon 2,400 MOOCs Starting in April

> Even if the courses were good, you still need to spend a good amount of time with a textbook and practice the subject.

I don't understand why anyone would expect otherwise? This is as close to the university experience as it can get.

ademon Chrome “clear cookies on exit” feature does not work

I can imagine that multiple tabs/windows don't share the same address space, so in case of opening the same website on another browser instance, saving to disk would make sure that the cookie is exposed to other running processes as well.

ademon Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

As someone who fell in love with Sway a month ago, this is the best opportunity for me to support the work you've been doing. Thanks Drew!

ademon Yobi3D – Free 3D Model Search Engine

The original author shared this on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/2gjq1s/3d_model_sea...

ademon The future of Unreal Tournament begins today

I wonder if one could learn how to program games in C++ by following the progress from the very beginning and persistently try to understand every line.

ademon Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image

Cool idea, definitely worth exploring the possibilities. A quick run showed me that it often interprets the "i" as "l" whenever the the gap between the line and dot is not apparant

ademon Space Monkey dumps Python for Go

"So in the bottom of the ninth, we decided to transliterate our 90k lines of Python directly to Go, line by line."

A question here: Is it always a practical approach to transliterate line by line when transitioning to another language or because "Go [is] semantically very similar to Python"?

ademon A Quick Guide to Sublime Text

Now if you really wanna get that extra motivation, I highly recommend you to watch this introduction by Derek Wyatt. For me, a few minutes into the video were enough to stick to all of his videos, truly amazing guy.

vimeo.com/6999927

I hope this is not too off-topic in a ST thread.

ademon A Quick Guide to Sublime Text

The only thing you need to read about Vim to get started is here: http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressiv..., the rest is learned pretty much by the following principle:

1. Detect inefficiency for a particular task 2. Find a faster way to do it 3. Make it a habit

You can learn more about this approach in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6K4iIMlouI

ademon A Quick Guide to Sublime Text

Thanks for the ShortcutFoo tip!

ademon Ask HN: Math books like SICP?

My recommendation is "One-Variable-Calculus with and introduction to Linear Algebra" by Tom M. Apostol, followed by "Mathematical Analysis". Both books form a great combination!

ademon PyCon US 2014 – Videos

bullshitting much, huh?