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fuzzythinker commented on Modern Node.js Patterns kashw1n.com/blog/nodejs-2... · Posted by u/eustoria

tyilo · 21 days ago

Why would you call that "ascii.txt"?

Caz it has more than those book emojis. It makes writing geometric code docstrings easier. Here's the rest of it (HN doesn't format it good, try copy/paste it).

   cjk→⋰⋱| | ← cjk space btw | |
   thinsp | |
   deg° 
   ⋯ …
   ‾⎻⎼⎽ lines
   _ light lines
   ⏤ wide lines
   ↕
   ∧∨ 
 ┌────┬────┐ 
 │    │ ⋱  ⎸ ← left bar, right bar: ⎹
 └────┴────┘
    ⊃⊂ ⊐≣⊏
    ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯====›‥‥‥‥

◁ ◿ ◺ ◻ ◸ Λ ╱│╲ ╱ │ ╲ ──┼── ╲ │ ╱ ╲│╱ V ┌ ─┏━━┳━━━━━━━┓ │ ┃ ┃ ┃ ├ ─┣━━╋━━━━━━━┫ │ ┃ ┃ ┃ └ ─┗━━┻━━━━━━━┛ ┌ ─ ┬ ─ ┐ ├ ─ ┼ ─ ┤ └ ─ ┴ ─ ┘ ┌───┬───┐ ├───┼───┤ │ │ │ └───┴───┘ . ╱│╲ ↘╱ │ ╲ ↙ ╱ │ ╲ →‹───┼───›← ╲ │ ╱ ↗ ╲ │ ╱ ↖ ╲│╱ ↓↑ ╳ . ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ⋰ ╲ ╱⋰______╲

fuzzythinker commented on Modern Node.js Patterns kashw1n.com/blog/nodejs-2... · Posted by u/eustoria

austin-cheney · 21 days ago

I never needed those. I would just have an application wide object property like:

            text: {
                angry    : "\u001b[1m\u001b[31m",
                blue     : "\u001b[34m",
                bold     : "\u001b[1m",
                boldLine : "\u001b[1m\u001b[4m",
                clear    : "\u001b[24m\u001b[22m",
                cyan     : "\u001b[36m",
                green    : "\u001b[32m",
                noColor  : "\u001b[39m",
                none     : "\u001b[0m",
                purple   : "\u001b[35m",
                red      : "\u001b[31m",
                underline: "\u001b[4m",
                yellow   : "\u001b[33m"
            }

And then you can call that directly like:

    `${vars.text.green}whatever${vars.text.none}`;

fuzzythinker · 21 days ago

I have a "ascii.txt" file ready to copy/paste the "book emoji" block chars to prepend my logs. It makes logs less noisy. HN can't display them, so I'll have to link to page w/ them: https://www.piliapp.com/emojis/books/

fuzzythinker commented on Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from stratosphere, dies in Italy theinternational.at/felix... · Posted by u/signa11

fuzzythinker · a month ago

Slightly misleading title. He's famous for first to jump from the stratosphere, breaking the sound barrier. That wasn't the cause of his death. More on him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Baumgartner .

Maybe a more interesting and impressive fact from the wiki is learning about Alan Eustace, who was a senior VP of engineering at Google. Just before retiring, on October 24, 2014 *at age 57*, he made a free-fall jump from the stratosphere, breaking Felix Baumgartner's world record. He won the Laureus World Action Sportsperson of the Year in 2015.

fuzzythinker · a month ago

Found HN post (236 comments) on Alan Eustace breaking the record: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8504931

fuzzythinker commented on Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from stratosphere, dies in Italy theinternational.at/felix... · Posted by u/signa11

fuzzythinker · a month ago

Slightly misleading title. He's famous for first to jump from the stratosphere, breaking the sound barrier. That wasn't the cause of his death. More on him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Baumgartner .

Maybe a more interesting and impressive fact from the wiki is learning about Alan Eustace, who was a senior VP of engineering at Google. Just before retiring, on October 24, 2014 *at age 57*, he made a free-fall jump from the stratosphere, breaking Felix Baumgartner's world record. He won the Laureus World Action Sportsperson of the Year in 2015.

fuzzythinker commented on Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?" · Posted by u/bookofjoe

ksec · a month ago

People who are a little late to the site may not know there was a time on HN where Erlang has even more frontage submission than the best of AI / LLM.

Ruby Rails, Postgres, SQLite, Rust, etc. They all have their moments and I dont think LLM right now is as overwhelming as any other hyped moments. Certainly not Erlang.

fuzzythinker · a month ago

That was very different. Somehow the entire front page was Erlang, but it was only for a day or 2. AI is different from that. It's like a good 40-50% of the posts for at least a year or more, and I don't see it going away anytime soon. It's also different from web3/etc. as those were at most 10% of the posts and most of us can see it's just hype.

I'm not fighting for a split/fork, just stating the fact that it's nothing compared to Erlang.

fuzzythinker commented on Goodbye Dark, Inc. – Welcome Darklang, Inc blog.darklang.com/goodbye... · Posted by u/marc_omorain

pbiggar · 2 months ago

OK, interesting question. Long story short, companies are made of many shareholders with different needs and wants and financial expectations. We can split this into: "what are the needs of the investors of the Dark Inc" and "what are the needs of the founders of Darklang Inc".

Dark Inc investors signed up for a unicorn ($1B company) or better. They didn't get that, and they aren't interested in shares in a small business making programming languages. So they want to shut it down, they're not interested in funding it, and actually would much prefer to not have shares than to have shares in it. They are also interested in their reputations, so having a "soft exit" is better than a hard shutdown - usually that's an acquihire where they get a bit of cash back and get to say "we succeeded" but they also don't want to damage their reputation by shutting down products that are in use.

Meanwhile, the new founders of Darklang Inc are interested in building this cool language, and so want a (possibly small) business making programming tools while continuing to make a living. That company needs money to run until it gets revenue.

It is much simpler and cleaner to sell the assets than to sell the company (many acquisitions are structured this way). It's not just money in vs money out, it's what are the needs of the stakeholders. It's in the interest of both Dark Inc investors and Darklang Inc founders for Dark Inc to sell assets and shut down. Dark Inc investors are relieved of reputational liability and can close their books on the investment, and Darklang Inc gets a clean start.

In this case there's more money in than out - that money isn't just for buying assets though, it's for running the company for several years.

Hope that addresses the question!

fuzzythinker · 2 months ago

Good explanation, thank you.

fuzzythinker commented on Goodbye Dark, Inc. – Welcome Darklang, Inc blog.darklang.com/goodbye... · Posted by u/marc_omorain

pbiggar · 2 months ago

Hey folks, author here. Happy to answer any questions about Darklang and Dark Inc.

fuzzythinker · 2 months ago

Hats off to years of dedication that wants his creation to shine.

My question is: It says you sold the assets and everything to the new company, yet also personally invested in the new company for years of runway. I don't get it. If the exchange of funds is equal, why not just transfer ownership? If net money out is greater, then why not just transfer and fund. If net money in is greater, why not just sell for the net amount?

fuzzythinker commented on See how a dollar would have grown over the past 94 years [pdf] newyorklifeinvestments.co... · Posted by u/mooreds

maltyr · 3 months ago

Perfect time to revisit the Futurama episode where Fry realizes he's rich. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JwkaLt9pf8

fuzzythinker · 3 months ago

I don't watch Futurama, so I may be wrong in how the story goes. But I think he thought that he's rich but inflation shouldn't be much lower than interest (irl, it's actually way higher), so the 4 billion is likely worth 4 bucks or at most 4 hundred.