Austizzle (u/Austizzle)

Austizzle commented on Please just try HTMX pleasejusttryhtmx.com/... · Posted by u/iNic

jtbaker · 5 days ago

Not having to deal with npm and a build step can remove a huge barrier to adoption for a large number of potential adopters, or people that just want some lightweight interactivity in an app.

Austizzle · 5 days ago

That's what got me into Vue and I still use build less Vue all the time for tiny little sites that aren't worth setting up a whole CI process for. It's really lovely that it's an option.

Just like how easy jQuery was to get started with back in the day, but a whole framework

Austizzle commented on When is it better to think without words? henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/word... · Posted by u/Curiositry

quacked · 2 months ago

I just learned that term today, but I guess so. I don't know how I generate words, they're just there. I type at about 120 wpm and speak very quickly as well, but as it's coming out I'm just flashing through different images in my head, often partial images from my own memory, and the words come out without paying attention to them, like out of a lower layer of consciousness. I write a lot of 300+ word messages at work, and it's just image after image firing in my head while the words appear.

I think I have a concept-image map in my head; to test it out, I'm thinking of random words, and very well-defined images are popping into my head. "Insurance" is the impression of slate grey followed by a view into a 90s corporate office room. "Propulsion" is the bell of one of the space shuttle engines firing on full, but not centered in frame. "Gravity" is one of the rooms in the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. Etc. But it's harder to go the other way; if I see an image or a drawing and have to describe what it is, there's more of a lag before I can retrieve the words to describe it. It's much easier to think of other related images.

Austizzle · 2 months ago

I'm the same way, and I often feel like I don't know what the words that come out of my mouth will be until they happen.

I'm thinking in abstract feelings and images, and then it feels like some subconscious part of my brain is actually figuring out the words and saying them, if that makes any sense.

It can be spooky sometimes since it doesn't always feel like I'm in control of the specific words I use

Austizzle commented on Pyrefly: Python type checker and language server in Rust pyrefly.org/?featured_on=... · Posted by u/brianzelip

wiz21c · 2 months ago

isn't it perfectly valid to pass None to that function ? It's not like python enforces types at runtime nor at compile time. Right ?

Austizzle · 2 months ago

It's not valid from a typing perspective, but python will let you. If you want to disregard types though then none of this matters anyway and you won't get much benefit from these tools

Austizzle commented on Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why? · Posted by u/ofalkaed

Qem · 2 months ago

20 years behind get us back to Windows XP, that had a better experience than Windows 11 anyway.

Austizzle · 2 months ago

I've heard people say this, and believed it myself for a long time, but recently I set up a windows XP VM and was shocked by how bad the quality of life was.

I think nostalgia is influencing this opinion quite a bit, and we don't realize the mountain of tiny usability improvements that have been made since XP

Austizzle commented on Detect Electron apps on Mac that hasn't been updated to fix the system wide lag gist.github.com/tkafka/e3... · Posted by u/tomaskafka

pier25 · 3 months ago

Wait... Resolve uses Electron? It's not for the main GUI, is it?

Austizzle · 3 months ago

When I do scripting for resolve the UI API feels a lot like QT. Unless they made a very QT-like wrapper around JavaScript code.

I wonder if instead there's small parts that are done in electron but most of it is qt

Austizzle commented on Zig feels more practical than Rust for real-world CLI tools dayvster.com/blog/why-zig... · Posted by u/dayvster

tialaramex · 3 months ago

> Seasoned Rust coders don’t spend time fighting the borrow checker

I like the fact that "fighting the borrow checker" is an idea from the period when the borrowck only understood purely lexical lifetimes. So you have to fight to explain why the thing you wrote, which is obviously correct, is in fact correct.

That's already ancient history by the time I learned Rust in 2021. But, this idea that Rust will mean "fighting the borrow checker" took off anyway even though the actual thing it's about was solved.

Now for many people it really is a significant adjustment to learn Rust if your background is exclusively say, Python, or C, or Javascript. For me it came very naturally and most people will not have that experience. But even if you're a C programmer who has never had most of this [gestures expansively] before you likely are not often "fighting the borrow checker". That diagnostic saying you can't make a pointer via a spurious mutable reference? Not the borrow checker. The warning about failing to use the result of a function? Not the borrow checker.

Now, "In Rust I had to read all the diagnostics to make my software compile" does sound less heroic than "battling with the borrow checker" but if that's really the situation maybe we need to come up with a braver way to express this.

Austizzle · 3 months ago

I think the phrase _emotionally_ resonates with people who write code that would work in other languages, but the compiler rejects.

When I was learning rust (coming from python/java) it certainly felt like a battle because I "knew" the code was logically sound (at least in other languages) but it felt like I had to do all sorts of magic tricks to get it to compile. Since then I've adapted and understand better _why_ the compiler has those rules, but in the beginning it definitely felt like a fight and that the code _should_ work.

Austizzle commented on How to make things slower so they go faster gojiberries.io/how-to-mak... · Posted by u/neehao

yardshop · 4 months ago

I thought this might be about the saying I've heard a bunch recently, "Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast."

I've mostly heard it in the context of building and construction videos where they are approaching a new skill or technique and have to remind themselves to slow down.

Going slowly and being careful leads to fewer mistakes, which will be a "smoother" process and ends up taking less time, whereas going too fast and making mistakes means work has to be redone and ultimately takes longer.

On rereading it, I see some parallels: When one is trying to go too fast, and is possibly becoming impatient with their progress, their mental queue fills up and processing suffers. If one accepts a slower pace, one's natural single-tasking capability will work better, and they will make better progress as a result.

And maybe its just my selection bias working hard to confirm that he actually is talking about what I want him to say!

Austizzle · 4 months ago

They said this a bunch in the movie F1 that's playing in theatres right now, so that could be why there's been an uptick in usage

Austizzle commented on Physically Based Rendering in Filament google.github.io/filament... · Posted by u/indigo945

Austizzle · 4 months ago

Man, I got excited for a second from the title thinking this was about a way to produce 3d printer filament from PBR settings, so you could tweak a material on the computer and have your filament match the digital version

Austizzle commented on Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework neowin.net/news/microsoft... · Posted by u/bundie

specproc · 5 months ago

I get there are old people and stuff, but why should anyone consider Windows these days?

Austizzle · 5 months ago

Lots of games don't run on Mac or Linux

Others, like adobe software, only run on Mac or windows

Windows computers are generally cheaper than macs for the same hardware

Plenty of stuff annoys me about windows, but for now it's still what I end up going with every time I need a new computer

Austizzle commented on Harmonic: Modern Android client for Hacker News github.com/SimonHalvdanss... · Posted by u/flashblaze

atmanactive · 7 months ago

Can't find it on F-Droid.

Austizzle · 7 months ago

It's on the play store and there's APK files in the GitHub releases