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mjtlittle··on Show HN: 999 Penguins
Beat it first try! Kept getting close to losing but the game was being nice to me
mjtlittle··on The subjective experience of coding in different programming languages (2023)
I fully agree with everything mentioned.

I think this synesthesia idea bumps into the concepts of comfort and understanding. In that I feel it also extends to the environment im in and the tools im using. Like if I switch to a different type of keyboard or the monitors are positioned weirdly; or especially if im not using a certain IDE or developing without a language server.

Being immersed in software development, and the different ways we do it, can be a visceral and emotional experience.

mjtlittle··on Show HN: Pumpkin – A Modern Minecraft server written in Rust
This looks like its for java while dragonfly seems to be for bedrock
mjtlittle··on ROOT: analyzing petabytes of data scientifically
Didnt know there was a cern tld
mjtlittle··on Serotonin booster leads to increased functional brain connectivity
Not sure why your getting pushback on such a leveled take.

I am also increasingly feeling like this is the case. Not to say that there is no value in psychedelics (definitely looks like there is in clinical settings), it just seems like some people are touting it as a miracle solution to all mental problems. Something that can be self administered with no oversight.

I have read a couple threads over the past few months on reddit about how mushrooms increased the posters' suicidal thoughts, and that they decided to abstain from taking them because of that.

I think this perspective is even reinforced by recreational users: the first thing you are told before participating is to be in a familiar set and setting, and also to be in a good place in life. However, in certain states of mind (ex. depression or some other condition), I wouldn't trust the individual to be able to make such informed judgements. The risk is known.

mjtlittle··on Show HN: PizzaGPT – ChatGPT clone accessible from Italy
My brain instantly went to function currying instead of the food. Any possible application? Lol
mjtlittle··on Thoughts on Svelte
Wait where do you see this? I haven't heard of this and cant find any reference in the docs. Are you referring to the Vercel support?
mjtlittle··on Zig's New Relationship with LLVM
Rust is heavily funded and maintained by Mozilla for use in Firefox's engine, Servo
mjtlittle··on Bootstrap 5 alpha
Its an extra (30kb) dependency for many projects that can solve the same problems using vanilla javascript with the same amount of friction
mjtlittle··on Show HN: Hex – Logic Board Game
Hey! I bought and played your game. It reminds me of the game Catcha Mouse on ios, where you have to block off the mouse from getting to the edge. What would be cool with your game though would be multiplayer (even if it were on the same device). Aswell as that, arbitrary board size, and more levels would be cool. Other than that, its very clean aesthetically and love to see minimal games like this being made.
mjtlittle··on Getting started with Rust by building a tiny Markdown compiler
I would say the definition linked is the computer science definition. Its just commonly the case that the compilation target is some final binary, but in this case it is an html document. A lot of the terminology in CS stems from analogous similar actions we perform in real life (I saw an article a week or two ago on here listing all terms used in an instance like this)

I hate it when people blindly post definitions like this without explanation, it comes off super aggressive and doesn't solve much.

mjtlittle··on Atom: Editor window startup is slow
I tried atom in the past and felt the definite slowness by comparison to other text editors, I would definitely need to check it out today to see if anything has changed. I currently use vscode and it feels really snappy for the practically the same functionality.

I also find it interesting that Microsoft is looming over both of these projects, I wonder what that will mean for the future.

mjtlittle··on Advent of Code 2019
Maybe he enjoys/benefits from the work, I feel like coming up with puzzle ideas would be somewhat fun/beneficial. I would definitely assume that if this were not the case he would outsource it or maybe even open source it.
mjtlittle··on A moonlit tribute to a moon landing icon
I agree! There must be some sort of program written that allows them to put any image on their solar display :)
mjtlittle··on Show HN: Web pages stored entirely in the URL
Clarification: there is an editor you just have to create interactable hypertext files externally and drop them in
mjtlittle··on Show HN: Web pages stored entirely in the URL
This reminds me of https://itty.bitty.site/edit, which does the exact same thing but with a size limit, no in browser editor, and if I'm not mistaken, a compression algorithm.
mjtlittle··on Genius Used Morse Code to Track Its Lyrics
You could almost say it was genius...