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chiffreon “Computer science is not about computers”

It referred to person who does computations by hand and/or abacus.

chiffreon The Era of Visual Studio Code

That is a subjective opinion

chiffreon The Era of Visual Studio Code

JavaScript/TypeScript ?

chiffreon Named Parameters in C++20

Ada arguably is a system programming language and it supports named parameters.

chiffreon Carmack on not being a power editor user

(1) Visual Studio Code - I work with it on Debian & Ubuntu versions from 16.04 to 20.04, also works well with WSL/Ubuntu on Windows;

(2) + C/C++ extension for VSCode from Microsoft (installed separately);

(3) + sudo apt-get install clang-format.

  You may want to adjust some settings e.g. set C_Cpp.default.cppStandard to C++17.

chiffreon Learn Functional Programming Design from Redux

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pattern-matching

chiffreon Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design

Agree with both points, but tachyonbeam wrote:

  > built-in Nvidia GPU (which 
  > I use for machine learning)

And I used aforementioned (gaming) laptop with GPU mostly for Deep Learning

chiffreon Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design

> built-in Nvidia GPU

  GPUs could consume a lot of power.

Source: I used a Windows 10 laptop (not Thinkpad) with Nvidia GPU and it usually lasted less than two hours on battery. I work on another laptop, Thinkpad without Nvidia or AMD GPU, it lasts 6-8 hours on battery.

chiffreon Rewards for loyal spenders are 'a honey pot for hackers'

If you don't mind me asking, what is the company ? I really need some expert advice/consultation.

chiffreon Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles

SpaceX announces sending man to Mars (wired.com)

hncynic 1 minute ago

The most important detail was the last paragraph. The actual announcement for the launch of the Falcon 9 is here: http://www.spacex.com/releases/index.html

This is a huge leap forward for SpaceX to make it into space again. SpaceX will still have a large stake in the rocket, but that's a huge leap forward for the whole industry. I wish SpaceX would just stop [... redacted ...] be more aggressive and look at their competitors.

chiffreon Ask HN: I lost my ability to focus for hours on coding. How to regain?

If you are not against some help from technology, then there are software/apps that block internet access for social media web-sites etc e.g. freedom.to

You could also try browser extensions, e.g. for Firefox: Mind the Time -- shows stats of internet usage; LeechBlock NG -- blocks sites.