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nynx··on Ask HN: Why did stack-based CPUs lose out?
45nm is massive for a high-performance processor. Rad-hardening compute is frankly overrated. Have multiple and compare state at a high-rate.
nynx··on Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution?
I’m going to graduate! Just one semester left and my undergrad thesis.
nynx··on Astronomical Calculations for Hard SF in Common Lisp
Love this philosophy
nynx··on AI breakthrough ChatGPT raises alarm over student cheating
I’m not entirely sure what point you’re making. Is leatcode not akin to cheating in this context? If doing it pushes you to the top, how would this sort out correctly?
nynx··on A neat XOR trick
This article’s technique can definitely expand into dynamically allocated bitsets.
nynx··on Law and order among the anarchists (2020)
What a beautiful piece of writing. Definitely read if you're reading the comments before the article.
nynx··on I Asked What it Would Take to Get Gen Z Back to the Office
I actually prefer working in offices, especially open floor plans. Private offices are too isolating.
nynx··on Const vs. constexpr vs. consteval vs. constinit in C++20
This seems like it could cause issues. Being able to evaluate at compile time is part of the api surface of a function. If it’s not explicit, it could be very easy to accidentally change the internals of a library to not support consteval, but without changing the explicit signature.
nynx··on AVX 512 will be the future
Rust has built-in support for this, I believe.
nynx··on Making all your integers positive with zigzag encoding
Used in the [postcard](https://docs.rs/postcard/latest/postcard/) crate for encoding variably sized signed integers.
nynx··on I over-engineered a Fast Fourier Transform for Arduino
Fair enough, that’s a good answer!
nynx··on I over-engineered a Fast Fourier Transform for Arduino
This is super cool—but why use a micro with no fp unit and only 2048 bytes of ram? Something much more capable likely wouldn't be more expensive.
nynx··on Ask HN: What is the thing you've did as a manager that you regret the most?
Have you looked them up to see how they’re doing, career-wise, now?
nynx··on Education as civilization-building
I love the idea of education as something people do because they love to learn and to think and I think it’s important that it exists. At the same time, we can’t expect everyone to want to do that.
nynx··on Starlink User Terminal Modchip
Woah, this is awesome!
nynx··on Ask HN: What kind of life do you dream about?
Complexity, adventure, and purpose.
nynx··on Three new utility functions in C++23
I would’ve much rather have gotten span into C++11 than variadic templates, for instance. Definitely seems to me like a paper about span would’ve been a lot shorter and easier to write than one about variadic templates.
nynx··on Three new utility functions in C++23
Why on earth are these in C++23 and not C++11? There are a ton of things that should’ve been standardized over a decade ago but only show up in C++20 or later. `std::span<T>` is a huge one. The mind boggles.
nynx··on Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
Can’t say more :)
nynx··on Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
Neat project! You seem like a super interesting person! How’d you get into parkour?
nynx··on Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
I can say that they have multiple station keeping and orientation methods. The ion thrusters are public info!
nynx··on Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
I knew I’d find you here! Really enjoy following you on Twitter!
nynx··on Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
I’m definitely not allowed to say, sorry!
nynx··on Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
Hello from Seattle!

I’m here for the fall working on flight software for literal internet satellites and having the time of my life. Hope you’re enjoying life as much as I am!

nynx··on Physical Warp Drives (2021)
I love Baxter’s books but haven’t read those, thank you!
nynx··on In defense of linked lists
The performance of vectors comes from iterating through them and letting the cpu prefetch items before you need them. Random access in a vector doesn’t really get you that if the vector is larger than your L1/L2 caches, which linked lists would be in anyway if you used them recently enough.
nynx··on I’m taking some time away from Comma
It strikes me as surprising that George Hotz is religious. Very few people I’ve met with similar personalities are.
nynx··on SpaceX launches Starlink ‘flat high-performance’ dish for moving vehicles
Yes, all starlink user terminals are phased arrays.
nynx··on SpaceX launches Starlink ‘flat high-performance’ dish for moving vehicles
Have you raised that with starlink support?
nynx··on Downtown San Francisco is in trouble
San Fraction is such an interesting place and could be so much better if real estate and housing was significantly cheaper
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