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ku-man··on Tariffs Raised Consumers' Prices, but the Refunds Go Only to Businesses
"I'm sure America will learn from this and elect responsible leaders in future."

Assuming you are not being sarcastic, I would expect actually the opposite.

ku-man··on Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost
"... the truth is that Ukraine is sovereign nation and has every right to decide their future..."

In all honesty, would you hold that argument if Mexico decides to host Russian or Chinese troops?

ku-man··on Blessed.rs – An unofficial guide to the Rust ecosystem
May I kindly suggest you organize your thoughts before posting?
ku-man··on Object-Oriented Programming in C (2019) [pdf]
"If you need to do OOP in C, it's time to move to a more powerful language."

As long as is not C++...

ku-man··on Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (2011)
The author of this blog post uses the words engineer and engineering way too haphazardly. In my opinion, calling yourself engineer, when you are not a registered one, is a disservice to the actual engineers (that have to pass technical and ethical exams)
ku-man··on Colombia boosts budding cannabis industry by removing ban on dry flower exports
It's Colombia not Columbia
ku-man··on United States involvement in regime change
A joke:

Why there aren't any coup d'etats in the US?

Because in the US there isn't embassy of the US.

ku-man··on Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starting in early September
So, you like office politics. Enjoy the commute.
ku-man··on Julia 1.6 addresses latency issues
This is exactly the problem with Julia, to achieve those (soo much vaunted) c-like-speeds you need quite a few contortions.
ku-man··on Out of control San Francisco shoplifting forcing Walgreens to close 17 stores
"San Francisco Deputy Public Defender Doug Welch called in to the hearing to say his clients charged with shoplifting are not part of organized crime, but are homeless or struggling with substance abuse and need more services."

As if is not stealing if you are a druggie or homeless.

ku-man··on Adding ANSI C11 C compiler to D so it can import and compile C files directly
"... the language issues with some not so well worked out features should be fixed, instead of trying to please everyone."

This. For average programmers like myself, latest and fanciest language features are of little value. C++ and (unfortunately) D are in the same quest: to incorporate every programing language paradigm available, the extra complexity be damned. In the specific case of D, I'd rather have a good assortment of native D libraries than more bells and whistles added to the language.

ku-man··on Reflections on One Year as the CEO of Mozilla
Is a she
ku-man··on Julia 1.6 Highlights
You forgot to mention that a 'Hello World' standalone file is about 0.5 GB!
ku-man··on Girls perform better academically in almost all countries (2015)
Indeed. The number of women in STEM fields is also low in Sweden and other Scandinavian countries compared to in-development ones. And, nobody in his/her right mind will accuse the Scandinavian countries of being patriarchal sexists societies.
ku-man··on Why must we hate the things teen girls love? (2018)
I never thought of it but yes, "Love Me Do" and "She Loves You" are rather teenage girl songs.

Fortunately, we have "Helter Skelter".

ku-man··on San Francisco school board halts appointment based on race
If Africans decide to redraw their borders based on ethnic or tribal lines we would end up with hundreds of statelets (I am talking about black Africa).
ku-man··on Julia adoption keeps climbing
Then Julia should stop describing itself as a general-purpose programming language.
ku-man··on Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages
I am sure I am not the only one but some of the illusions do not work for me, and some only work after reading the description. Does your brain needs to be trained to 'get' the illusion?
ku-man··on Trump bans Alipay and seven other Chinese apps
"So blame Europe for not successfully countering it rather than the US for knowing how to play the game."

Says the bully.

ku-man··on GTK4 for Graphical User Interfaces
Title should be: GTK4 for Graphical User Interfaces with Nim
ku-man··on C Template Library
Great work! And thank you for making it available for everyone.

Did you also run tests against other libraries such as glib?

ku-man··on My Engineering Axioms
I think we should be careful when using the engineering term.

The author is writing specfically about software engineering but by by-passing the 'software' word in the title he is making a disservice to the real engineers (those professionals who have to go through a rather demanding set of requirements to be considered as such, e.g. mechanical, structural, chemical, etc).

We software developers love to be called engineers because it give us gravitas and status. But we fool ourselves and, most importantly the public, as our field is not regulated and it doesn't have a clear mandate nor ethical rules as the registered engineers.

ku-man··on Getting started with C
Not quite. I use C to interact with scientific libraries and to do some image processing. I would like to learn and use Rust but is still lacking in the scientific libraries department. I avoid C++ because it's a nightmare of complexity.
ku-man··on Saudi Arabia applied for diplomatic immunity for ten security guards in Norway
The US has a long story of killings, torture and kidnappings in Latin America.
ku-man··on A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional singletons (2012)
All things considered, dating is easy for women.
ku-man··on Ask HN: Good C++ code bases to read?
The GDAL library is a present from the gods to the geospatial community (well, Frank Warmerdam mostly). I read the parts of the source code a while ago and the C component was fairly readable. I had troubles following the C++ code. That's the beauty of C, even if you don't use it frequently, you can still read and write half-decent code with it.
ku-man··on Forklift truck drivers who never leave their desks
Guess you mean Colombia.
ku-man··on The Accelerating Adoption of Julia
Nim is a great general-purpose language I have been using lately for my numeric and data heavy processing needs.

Julia's overenthusiastic posts here in HN make me wary of the language instead of curious.

ku-man··on Most companies developing AI capabilities have yet to gain significant benefits
>A lot of companies seem to have a poor understanding of what AI is.

Yes, this is true, but a lot of this poor understanding can be tracked down to the over-enthusiasm (and straight overselling speak, mind you) of most of the AI scientists.

The company I work for (mining) hired a top-notch AI guy to "change the fundaments of data management and processing in the company, using the latest AI technology". Guy left six months later... I still wonder why he lasted that long.

ku-man··on Does C++ still deserve a bad rap?
I don't hear too many complaints from C users. Perhaps because C never overpromised?

I understand C++ is messy because, back in the day, Stroustrup never say no to a request or suggestion from a potential user. He wanted his language to be widely used. Guess he succeeded.

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