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divbzeroon The 'else' keyword is probably a literal translation from German (2020)

Yes, otherwise is more natural but less terse.

divbzeroon The 'else' keyword is probably a literal translation from German (2020)

‘Else’ is not commonly used in English today but the meaning does fit. From Webster’s (1913):

Else, adverb or conjunction

1. Besides; except that mentioned; in addition; as, nowhere else; no one else.

2. Otherwise; in the other, or the contrary, case; if the facts were different.

“For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it.” – Ps. li. 16.

After ‘or’, else is sometimes used expletively, as simply noting an alternative. “Will you give thanks, … or else shall I?” – Shak.

divbzeroon Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font

Iosevka is also available in Nerd Fonts. https://www.nerdfonts.com/#features

divbzeroon Margaret Hamilton has died

Margaret Hamilton Led the NASA Software Team That Landed Astronauts on the Moon - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36720448 - July 2023 (32 comments)

Margaret Hamilton oral history (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30668338 - March 2022 (7 comments)

An interview with Margaret Hamilton - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20453737 - July 2019 (12 comments)

Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12991524 - Nov 2016 (70 comments)

Profile of Margaret Hamilton, programmer of the Apollo software - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10379904 - Oct 2015 (58 comments)

Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer, Project Apollo - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8735912 - Dec 2014 (94 comments)

divbzeroon A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over

Having AI “blow over” is overblown but OP does have some suggestions (except maybe CSS) that should be AI-resistant.

divbzeroon Mistral Large 4

Yes, so far the competitive dynamics feel more like cloud computing than web search.

divbzeroon The Tao of Backup

Not to be confused with the Zen of Backup…

A novice asked the master: “What must I do to learn the Zen of Backup?” The master whacked the novice in the head, grabbed the keyboard, and ran sudo rm -rf /. The novice smiled and left feeling enlightened.

divbzeroon Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict

Forgive me for my ignorance: Why should the Rodin Museum be obligated to provide 3D scans of Rodin’s sculptures? OP jumps into legal arguments about FOI without connecting the dots from the law to the point clouds.

divbzeroon Lunar Terminator Paradox

This isn’t really a paradox if you just visualize the Moon as a sphere and visualize where the Sun is shining from, and I think that’s what the plots in OP demonstrate.

The “paradox” might be in the initial assertion which does not use an accurate mental model: “After sunset, the sun is below, so we would expect the illuminated portion of the moon to point down, towards where the sun is.” This assertion might be true if at sunset the Sun ducks just behind the horizon, around the same distance or closer than the Moon is to the Earth. In reality, the Sun is of course much farther from Earth than the Moon. Factoring the relative distances into the mental model will lead you to the correct conclusion.

divbzeroon Markdown in /src

Instead of the proposed /src/md convention:

  src/
    md/
      README.md          # index of all md, entry point for agents
      TODO.md            # a list of general TODOs open for this module
      OVERVIEW.md        # a technical overview of this module
      features/FEATURE_1.md       # a set of feature-specific documents
      data/DATAMODEL_1.md         # descriptions of data models in the module
      api/API_1.md                # descriptions of APIs the module provides
      infrastructure/INFRASTRUCTURE_1.md   # descriptions of infrastructure used by the module

What if we standardized on README.md in each subdirectory alongside the code?

  src/
    README.md    # entry point for humans and agents
    TODO.md      # list of general TODOs open for this module
    INFRA.md     # descriptions of infrastructure used by the module
    api/
      README.md  # descriptions of APIs the module provides
    models/
      README.md  # descriptions of data models in this module

README.md in each subdirectory seems to align better with OP’s objective “that Markdown should be checked in to /src, next to the code it produces”. It is also a convention already in use in many code repositories.

divbzeroon San Francisco Onion Futures Company

“You would never sell anything to any of those people ever again.”

divbzeroon The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind

There are some in actual use though, for example this rotor ship that has docked at the Port of Vancouver: https://www.nsnews.com/local-news/what-is-this-strange-ship-...

divbzeroon Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

The underlying classifier, BirdNET, is a traditional neural network and not an LLM:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101236

divbzeroon Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

divbzeroon Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows

fm = Foundation Models

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2026/334/

divbzeroon GPU World

Quite an interesting selection committee:

  Neal Stephenson
  Gwern Branwen
  Matt Huang

divbzeroon Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

This geographic puzzle feels like the modern day version of the Seven Bridges of Königsberg:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_Königsberg

divbzeroon Dolly Parton has died

It was a $1 million donation to Vanderbilt in April 2020 to support three COVID research projects, including one related to the Moderna vaccine:

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...

divbzeroon Dolly Parton has died

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library has been gifting free books to kids from birth to age 5 for over three decades: https://imaginationlibrary.com/

divbzeroon Stop Making TUIs

It’s a matter of preference: Everything OP says about GUI development getting easier is also true about TUI development getting easier.

divbzeroon Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

> What makes Github special is the ecosystem and integrations. Sentry, Linear, and so many other tools have special UX around Github. You need centralization (or at the very least, a standard) for that.

I think “a standard” is the key here. There is no reason why integrations must work through a proprietary centralized service.

divbzeroon Sun Clock

You can set latitude and longitude after opening settings with the gear icon.

divbzeroon Sun Clock

> Nope, not unless you are in the center of a timezone!

… and you do not live with daylight saving time.

divbzeroon Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states

Casino games are rarely zero house edge. Is there a way you signaled this feature to problem solvers? Did the game prove to be successful?

divbzeroon Folding Paper Globes

Why not 30°? Is 14° as far as you can turn before the ends of icosahedron hit the top and bottom of the landscape sheet of paper?

divbzeroon French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

Pyrocumulonimbus [1] appears to be the most extreme version of pyrocumulus [2] which, coincidentally, was observed halfway around the world in Washington State this week [3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulonimbus_flammagenitus

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammagenitus_cloud

[3]: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/little...

divbzeroon Court Records Should Be Free

I agree with the analysis of lead service lines, but serving static files is lot cheaper than replacing underground pipes—so much cheaper that I think it’s qualitatively different.

divbzeroon Not everyone is using AI for everything

A balanced answer that’s often true these days is: you’ve found that LLMs are impressively useful in some cases but fall dramatically short in others.

divbzeroon Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0

I totally missed the memo that Homebrew has supported Linux since 2019.

https://brew.sh/2019/02/02/homebrew-2.0.0/

divbzeroon πFS

> you basically need the same amount of data to represent the address of your data as the data itself

Almost like the other Borges work where “the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire”.