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squid_demon··on Astonishing Performance of .NET 5
It is not so astonishing that there is any performance improvement when it is 15x slower than it should be in the first place.
squid_demon··on Launch HN: StartPlaying.Games (YC W20) – Tabletop RPGs run by pro game masters
I was daydreaming about this with my son. This is awesome!
squid_demon··on Luhmann's Original Zettelkasten Digitalized
Great book on this topic:

How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers Ahrens, Sönke

squid_demon··on OOP: History, and challenges for the next fifty years (2013)
> In 1000 years object-oriented programming will no longer exist as we know it.

Hopefully more like 5 years or less. OOP is worthless for programming computers and needs to step aside.

squid_demon··on Bazel For Open-Source C/C++ Libraries Distribution
Man, I still just use a simple batch file. These build systems (and dependencies they are built to handle) are insane.
squid_demon··on Snake in a QR Code
Don't worry. There is no malicious code contained within this QR code!
squid_demon··on Typometer: A tool to measure and analyze the visual latency of text editors
I don't agree with this at all. If the software doesn't care to make keypresses responsive how does this philosophy translate to anything more complicated than reading and rendering the result of these keystrokes? The answer is pretty obvious if you try any of the slower editors pointed out in the article (or pretty much 90% of software written in the last decade). It doesn't take a person with sensory hypersensitivity to pick up on the differences.
squid_demon··on Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts
Why isn't the plus character, '+', valid? Shows up as one of those empty box thingies. Maybe it is just a limitation of the preview? Or does the font really not include a plus character?
squid_demon··on Ask HN: How to take notes?
If you want to go nuts you can take a look at the Zettelkasten method: https://zettelkasten.de/posts/overview/
squid_demon··on Text-Only Websites
Thank you!
squid_demon··on Restoring and MIDI-Fying a Baby Grand Piano
This reminds me of Linus Åkesson's chipophone:

https://www.linusakesson.net/chipophone/making.php

squid_demon··on Advice to Young Web Developers
Advice: don't make everything slow as shit please. Note, this most likely means writing your own trim left function and not depending on zillions of libraries. If you can't write something as simple as this, please don't! Just output a static web-page that loads ultra fast. Thanks young web developers!
squid_demon··on Geany – A flyweight IDE
If you are looking for a lighter than flyweight editor check out https://github.com/rxi/lite
squid_demon··on Show HN: A free educational live stream platform for kids
Might want to fix the typo: "The username for their accunt is..."
squid_demon··on What Is Nix?
It's not a joke. I don't use printf, scanf, malloc, etc...
squid_demon··on What Is Nix?
I use C but I never use the C standard library. It blows.
squid_demon··on What Is Nix?
"All software exists in a graph of dependencies."

And some of these graphs consist of a single node. Junk the jank!

squid_demon··on Linux touchpad: preliminary project funding, survey results
Will Linux fix their mouse support as part of this project?
squid_demon··on Deno 1.0
And the very first line of sample code is adding a dependency on someone else's code.

Reminds me of https://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/react-native

Good luck, though. Everyone lives in a different (mental) tribe I suppose...

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