hikarudo (u/hikarudo)

hikarudo commented on Why Property Testing Finds Bugs Unit Testing Does Not (2021) buttondown.com/hillelwayn... · Posted by u/Tomte

frogulis · 3 months ago

Aw man, I was nodding along with the "most examples suck" section and then... it ended :(

hikarudo · 3 months ago

Here's a great talk by John Hughes, one of the authors of QuickCheck, with real-life examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi0rHwfiX1Q

hikarudo commented on Show HN: memEx, a personal knowledge base inspired by zettlekasten and org-mode gitea.bubbletea.dev/shiba... · Posted by u/shibaobun

chrisweekly · 5 months ago

There's definitely a lot to recommend w/ your approach, which actually overlaps a bit w/ my reasons for using Obsidian.

My obd vault is "a folder of markdown docs" (which retains the "future-proof, no lock-in" benefits you cited). But the excellent WYSIWYG UX (open files in Edit mode, w/ "Live Preview" enabled) is something I haven't seen replicated in any VSCode or Cursor extension/plugin. I also prefer a dedicated tool for note-taking and "PKM" (Personal Knowledge Management"), as a peer of my IDE(s) for coding. I get to use the best tool for the job, w/ no compromises. Switching to a different IDE for a given project (eg IntelliJ for wrangling Kotlin) doesn't disrupt my workflow, and having clear context boundaries (note-taking vs coding) is a personal preference.

YMMV, different strokes,.... I know some emacs org-mode fans out there will extoll the benefits of using "one tool to rule them all", which does sound compelling... (shrug).

I love that there are such a variety of quality tools and approaches -- and, I'm very happy with mine.

hikarudo · 5 months ago

I used a similar setup for a while: Obsidian for taking notes in markdown, and vscode for coding.

Eventually I moved to using vscode for both. My gigantic notes.md file is always open in tab 1, so I can go to it immediately with Ctrl + 1.

Finding notes in a single file is easier for me than finding them in a bazillion tiny files. And there's less friction whenever I need to make a note (no need to create and name a new file).

hikarudo commented on The race is on to build the most complex machine economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/_tk_

TacticalCoder · 5 months ago

And what about all the parts that Zeiss is using? That's basically Milton Friedman on how a pencil is made, but on steroids:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67tHtpac5ws

hikarudo · 5 months ago

Also see "I Pencil" by Leonard Read (1958).

hikarudo commented on A new proposal for how mind emerges from matter noemamag.com/a-radical-ne... · Posted by u/Hooke

card_zero · 6 months ago

I read it all, for a certain value of "read". It's very long, and heavy on examples and fascinating facts, but skimps on getting to the point. I enjoyed the line about plant biologists suffering from brain envy. The article gets better from about halfway through as skeptical views begin to be introduced, but eventually it lets go of that and turns back into lot of hand-wavy awe about mycorrhizal networks, and I missed what the "new proposal" is. If it's only saying that intelligence is an emergent property of connections, and could therefore emerge in swarms or societies, we've had that idea since at least Hofstadter and his sentient ant nests.

hikarudo · 6 months ago

> we've had that idea since at least Hofstadter and his sentient ant nests.

A similar idea is present in Herbert Simon's 'The sciences of the artificial', where he describes a sentient city.

hikarudo commented on F-strings for C++26 proposal [pdf] open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg... · Posted by u/HeliumHydride

boxed · 7 months ago

Jesus. This is such a bad idea. Don't repeat the mistakes of Python. Look at what Swift does and make a SANE system ffs.

hikarudo · 7 months ago

Sincere question: what's wrong with Python f-strings?

hikarudo commented on Ask HN: Programmers who aren't front/back end/web developers, what is your job? · Posted by u/superconduct123

hikarudo · 7 months ago

Computer vision. C++ and Python.

hikarudo commented on System design and the cost of architectural complexity (2013) dspace.mit.edu/handle/172... · Posted by u/damethos

niels_bom · 2 years ago

Reminds me of “I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one.”― Mark Twain

hikarudo · 2 years ago

That was Blaise Pascal.

hikarudo commented on Jaron Lanier on the danger of AI theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/atchoo

sdrinf · 2 years ago

Link, please?

hikarudo · 2 years ago

"Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712

hikarudo commented on Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you? · Posted by u/_ajoj

pwim · 2 years ago

I started blogging about developer events I was attending in Japan back in 2010. As I was the only one writing about it in English, the content naturally ranked well.

That led a fellow Canadian to my blog, who asked how I found a job here. My email back to him started to get pretty long, and so I turned it into an article for the blog.

That article attracted more people looking for developer jobs in Japan, so I started collecting their email addresses as I occasionally came across developer job opportunities that didn’t require Japanese.

After about a year of this, I heard a company had made a successful hire through the list, and so I started charging companies.

From there, the business organically expanded, until I was working with many of the major tech companies in Japan.

It’s now a business generating a life-changing amount of income. It wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t of started blogging with no real intent other than to share what I was learning.

hikarudo · 2 years ago

What an awesome story! Thanks for sharing.

hikarudo commented on What's the most portable way to include binary blobs in an executable? tratt.net/laurie/blog/202... · Posted by u/Tomte

ufo · 3 years ago

How do you feel about that problem the parent blog post mentioned, of this being slow for large blobs particularly when compiling with Clang?

hikarudo · 3 years ago

You can split it up into several files, then concatenate the arrays at runtime.