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filipncson Odin Programming Language

I, on the other hand, am not in any way put off by someone not trying to answer every single part of a comment, when it starts out with "Odin seems like a bunch of features copied from a bunch of different languages without making sure they're (a) good and (b) consistent"!

filipncson Danish whistleblower details NSA collaboration, cable and data center spying (2020)

Ah, there’s already a bbc article on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27338555

filipncson Danish whistleblower details NSA collaboration, cable and data center spying (2020)

A lot of new information was released today in a collaboration between danish, swedish, german and french media. Sadly, I haven’t found a good english language article yet.

filipncson Blender 2.80 release candidate

I can't imagine OpenCL in any way being involved with the rendering of the UI. Maybe you're confusing it with OpenGL?

If you're having problems making use of an eGPU (that's supported by apple, which rules out nvidia!), you should report that. eGPUs will probably be a common use case.

filipncson Solving a puzzle using the Isabelle proof assistant

Yes, it's the same proof.

filipncson Defect that causes Huntington's disease has been corrected for the first time

Best of luck.

filipncson Skylon: A Plane That Can Fly Anywhere in the World in 4 Hours

Should be tagged as 2014. The included video interview is even older, from July of 2012.

I can't find any recent news about them. Only what they post themselves, which doesn't seem to have much concrete information: https://www.reactionengines.co.uk/category/news/

filipncson Launch HN: Sunu (YC S17) – Sonar wristband helping blind people navigate

In what way does it "say it all"?

Do you feel there's a lot someone could learn about you that isn't immediately clear from your comment above? Or does it "say it all" about you?

filipncson Nvidia Announces Titan Xp Graphics Card

Regarding the new Nvidia provided mac driver, does this have any influence on Vulkan or modern OpenGL support? Or would that require changes in macOS itself (that would presumably never happen)?

filipncson Square Buys OrderAhead

An acquifire, wth??

filipncson Ask HN: Dual monitors, or single 4k?

I'm using a Philips BDM4065UC at home. It's just under 40", 4K at 60hz. This gives you the same pixel density as a "normal" 27" monitor, but with far more space. I prefer it over smaller dual monitors, and feel no need for more screen space.

And yes, this is an actual monitor, not a TV.

filipncson Status.aws.amazon.com unreachable

Everything seems to be back to normal now.

filipncson Status.aws.amazon.com unreachable

Down in Berlin.

filipncson Rust-Doom: A Doom renderer in Rust, with no unsafe code

Note that this is an openGL renderer, not a software renderer implemented in Rust. Makes it hard to compare.

filipncson Show HN: BoomFilters – Probabilistic data structures for processing streams

If it's a cache, there is no chance of false positives.

filipncson The I-JSON Message Format

That does not seem plausible. That would break a million different things. Are you sure you're interpreting your results correctly? Do you have a test case you can share?

filipncson Is JavaScript getting worse?

Best of all, proper tail calls

When are proper tail calls expected to show up? Looks pretty bleak.

http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/

filipncson Show HN: Album Release “8-bit” Raycaster in JavaScript

Very nice. I got to the end (I think? I was send back to a screen with the album title), but only found about half the songs.

filipncson Google was down for 15 minutes (+/- from 09:35 UTC)

Down in Denmark.

filipncson Skylon ‘spaceplane economics stack up’

No, it's single stage to orbit; it's a poorly written article. It goes to mach 5.4 with atmospheric air before switching to liquid oxygen. The article makes it sound like it only ever reaches mach 5.4.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)

filipncson Fat JSON

D'oh, thank you.

filipncson Fat JSON

I must be missing something obvious. How is Tim's JWalk example different than doing:

  try { 
     var key = json_object.them.public_keys.primary.bundle;
  } ...

Is it to better allow dynamic keys? More consistent error handling?

filipncson Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move

Rumor has it that LightTable will be open sourced very soon, but I doubt it will ever take the place of Emacs.

filipncson React: Another Level of Indirection

That definitely belongs in an external gist or something similar. I'm surprised hacker news doesn't have a max length.

filipncson Strangeloop 2013 slides

I can't seem to find Chris Granger's Aurora slides. Any reason why they shouldn't be here?

filipncson Schema for Clojure(Script) Data Shape Declaration and Validation

You mention generating core.typed annotations from schemas, to allow for some compile-time checking.

I would have thought that this would be extremly hard to automate for non-trivial schemas, or at least that core.typed would have a hard time proving that return values match a schema. Is this only for a subset?

filipncson Non-Von Neumann Supercomputer in an FPGA

Dear lord, the comment spam!

Anyway, this architecture is actually quite similar to the design of modern GPUs.

filipncson A few words on Doug Engelbart

[citation needed]

filipncson Edward Snowden whereabouts unknown as US presses Russia

I'm afraid not:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/24/edward-snowden-b...

36m ago Apparently those poor journalists on the plane to Cuba can't even drown their sorrows ...

filipncson Meet the new Light Table

On 10.8.2 it works. Is there any shortcut for opening files by namespace names? Or of exploring the namespaces in a connected project?