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ijlx commented on NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency   lewiscampbell.tech/blog/2... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
the_real_cher · 2 months ago
What is NIH? I couldn't find it in the article
ijlx · 2 months ago
"Not invented here." Refers to the tendency to avoid using things from outside one's company/organization.
ijlx commented on Optimizing Brainfuck interpreter in the C preprocessor   github.com/camel-cdr/bfcp... · Posted by u/namanyayg
LukaD · 5 months ago
Unlikely, given that hello world takes 20 minutes to run.
ijlx · 5 months ago
I think you may be looking at the wrong column. Hello World runs in 0.020s, per the benchmarks.
ijlx commented on In Search of a Faster SQLite   avi.im/blag/2024/faster-s... · Posted by u/avinassh
krossitalk · 9 months ago
I argue it's not Open Source (Freedom, not Free Beer) because PRs are locked and only Hipp and close contributors can merge code. It's openly developed, but not by the community.
ijlx · 9 months ago
You can certainly argue that, but that's not what Open Source or Free Software has ever been. It's about your freedoms as a user, you are always free to fork with a different model. I think the expectation of "open contributions" is quite damaging, to the point where peple/organizations are hesitant to release their software as open source at all.
ijlx commented on If we want a shift to walking, we need to prioritize dignity   strongtowns.org/journal/2... · Posted by u/philips
Nicholas_C · a year ago
I don't know the distinct history of those cities but Houston's population didn't hit 1 million until the 1960s, nearly all of its growth has taken place in a car-centric world. At least 3/4 four of those cities have been around for a long time pre-car and I suspect weren't designed with cars in mind.
ijlx · a year ago
2/4 had massive growth in the 50s/60s/70s (KL and Singapore). I'll give you Montevideo and San Juan, but let's not pretend it's just timing that made Houston the way it is. It's a matter of choices that were made, to prioritize car infrastructure over all else.
ijlx commented on Don't use booleans (2019)   luu.io/posts/dont-use-boo... · Posted by u/pavel_lishin
CoastalCoder · a year ago
Is this an example from some well-known compiled language?

I work mostly in C++, and this is a feature I've wished for for a long time.

ijlx · a year ago
Swift and C# appear to have this feature, though they use the syntax

  fetch(accountId, history: true, details: false);

ijlx commented on GNU Justified Public License   tom7.org/bovex/JCOPYING... · Posted by u/weinzierl
andybak · a year ago
tl;dw? (or rather "I hate videos - can someone summarize briefly?")
ijlx · a year ago
It's worth watching, but tl;dw he used an LLM to pick words with similar meaning that make the lines the same length.
ijlx commented on EVs at 93.9% Share in Norway – Record High   cleantechnica.com/2024/02... · Posted by u/thelastgallon
TheLoafOfBread · 2 years ago
Technically Norway should be much colder on level of Canada cold. They aren't because Gulf stream. Same for UK, which usually does not even have winter like Southern Europe, just endless autumn.
ijlx · 2 years ago
Interestingly, per another article I read on HN a couple weeks ago, it may not be due to the gulf stream: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-source-of-euro...
ijlx commented on Solution 26370: Removing a new Texas Instruments calculator from the package   education.ti.com/en/custo... · Posted by u/soegaard
mjcohen · 2 years ago
I got this package opener in 2007 from Amazon for $12. It has two parts - a retractable blade to start the cut in the plastic and a "nibbler" to work its way around the plastic. Still works.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006ACWEQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

ijlx · 2 years ago
And of course, in a beautiful show of irony, it comes in clamshell packaging!
ijlx commented on Regular use of Vitamin D supplement is associated with fewer melanoma cases   pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
EdwardDiego · 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure XKCD created a name for this, if no-one is replying, give a horribly wrong solution to nerd snipe someone to put the time in to giving a correct solution.
ijlx · 2 years ago
The irony here is not lost on me, but it's Cunningham's Law (apocryphally named after Ward Cunningham, the creator of the first wiki software).
ijlx commented on Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report   blog.thunderbird.net/2023... · Posted by u/ktosobcy
waboremo · 2 years ago
An average of $21 is very impressive considering Thunderbird's position. I believe Wikimedia averages to about $15. Although I suppose its position is probably a large part of the comfort to donate more.
ijlx · 2 years ago
I'd be interested to know what their median donation is, assuming $21 is the mean (which it seems to be). I wonder to what extent that number is inflated by a few big donors (it might not be, I'm just curious).

u/ijlx

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