The first thought that popped into my head when I saw the post title was someone pressing the up arrow 24 times to find that `ls` they used a couple hours prior.
Readit NewsiKlsR commented on Time Theft at the Terminal marginalrevolution.com/ma... · Posted by u/paulpauper
iKlsR commented on Verlet Integration and Cloth Physics Simulation (2022) pikuma.com/blog/verlet-in... · Posted by u/atan2
The article says that Euler integration is commonly used in games, and I'm not sure that's true; it's been popularised in gamedev since many years that, and I quote, "if you use Euler integration, then you're a bloody idiot"[0].
BTW the same article series points out that using irregular timesteps is also a bad idea.
[0] Since gone offline, and without the famous quote, but there's an archived copy here: https://vodacek.zvb.cz/archiv/680.html
Misc comment but I find it odd that the author seemingly intentionally killed those old posts, you couldn't google "game physics" a decade ago and not see his timestep post which helped a lot. Glad I run my own archiver.
iKlsR commented on Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform github.com/Snouzy/workout... · Posted by u/surgomat
What do you have in mind?
Could be a new tab "collab" or something to do with joint work maybe, one could post a site, repo or detail a past work experience and anyone who was around or passed thru could reconnect, discuss stuff and share anecdotes. Thinking long dead internal faang tools, stuff like op's post, abandoned repos, old shareware etc. Could also be a place to find cofounders or people interested in starting or working on stuff together.
iKlsR commented on Doge Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months wired.com/story/doge-rebu... · Posted by u/danso
I had lunch this week with some former coworkers.
When I'd started working with them it was on the 20 year old C++ engine that ran everything.
Even at that time there was large team 'rewriting' it in Java. That team was dissolved about 2 years later.
During the course of my employment two more large teams were spun up to do a rewrite and then came crashing down after a year or two.
I hadn't seen my coworkers for about 7 years. Naturally they were still working on the C++ code. Naturally they'd seen two more rewrite teams come and go while I'd been gone.
I'm not sure why I'm bringing this up......
Isn't it customary for new hires or teams to drop into a legacy codebase and within weeks propose a rewrite.
Coffee and sugar are like oil and water: you can try all you want to mix them but they will never form a whole.
No matter how long you stir it... you take a sip, and there's a coffee flavor over here and a sugar flavor over there.
Disagree, I use a tsp of cane sugar in mine, you can't agitate it efficiently by hand and it needs to be piping hot to help it dissolute. You need something like a cheap $10 handheld milk frother/mixer or something that can get into it better than your hand going anti-clockwise. I typically add a small amount of hot water and get a thick sweet enough paste then add more hot water if I'm doing instant and for ground the same but add a strain step at the end.
iKlsR commented on It is not a compiler error (2017) blog.plover.com/2017/11/1... · Posted by u/misonic
Related "It Is Never a Compiler Bug Until It Is" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24636326
iKlsR commented on Build a link blog like Simon Willison xuanwo.io/links/2025/01/l... · Posted by u/xuanwo
I love how this post is an exact implementation of my advice on link blogging (add some personal commentary, quote liberally) - applied to my article about link blogging. Very meta. https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/
Random, been reading your blog and following posts for years esp since llm boom and I'm just noticing it's Willison not Williamson lol.
iKlsR commented on Ask HN: Is anyone making money selling traditional downloadable software? · Posted by u/101008
I do. macOS applications. Generating between 1,000-2,000 USD monthly (so variable because no subscriptions).
Obviously this is still a hobby that I am trying to make more sustainable. But this is where I am right now after 3-4 years in this business.
https://loshadki.app - you can check the apps here.
OpenIn seems like something I've been hunting for for a while on Windows, use case is I primarily use firefox but I have so many google logins that it only makes sense to use chrome where applicable for several reasons the most annoying being it's hard to toggle between accounts when logged into multiple google accounts, I also use Notion Calendar which by default tries to open firefox when you start a meeting. So my workflow typically is click join meeting, go to the firefox tab, copy said link then open the appropriate profile and paste link. Ideally I'd want to click that link which launches Chrome where I select a profile and it continues to the link.
iKlsR commented on Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to make an email domain with an uncommon TLD? · Posted by u/hackerbabz
I know people who've used strange ones like .club or .wtf and gotten by and others who due to the groups they interact with have to switch back to dotcom or something more recognizable etc. If you fall in the latter where someone might not "get it" and maybe even append .com (hello@hb.party.com) thinking it's missing then that answers your question. In my country companies end with Ltd (Limited) so got one for my "company.limited" and it's pretty cool, no issues there and makes for some interesting convo when I give people, also my primary email is hosted at fastmail and my email is me@"my full name".com so I can also when some asks say email me @ ... as a sentence.
Yes that is exactly what it is! It's basically a very small upgrade over my favorite database: A JSON-file :)
Literally did something similar just last week, was looking for a good redis gui on windows and couldn't find one that clicked (closest I got was Another Redis Desktop Manager but it sorted my keys like 1, 11, 2 etc) so turned to sqlite and implemented this. Also added a "sync to disk" method so I get both the benefits of ram and persistence, worked out great since the data I'm getting over tcp has a sequence number so in case of any errors I resume from the last sequence number in the db. Thinking of fully committing and moving some stuff from the language like decoding the raw bytes to build a json object to an extension.