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kwkelly commented on Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim sgoel.dev/posts/trying-ou... · Posted by u/siddhant

Lyngbakr · 8 months ago

Perhaps Helix?

https://helix-editor.com/

kwkelly · 8 months ago

Zed needs a full helix bindings support and helix needs plugins. Both are so close!

kwkelly commented on Johns Hopkins medical school will be free for most after $1B donation axios.com/2024/07/08/john... · Posted by u/jnord

kennethwolters · a year ago

tuition-free for how long? current class? Forever?

kwkelly · a year ago

This would probably last forever. The MD class size is only around 120 people and at 70k per year tuition costs would be 8.4M per year (ignoring that only families earning under 300k are eligible). Modest interest on 1B would easily earn over 10M per year and probably several times that. Hedge funds often manage these endowment funds.

kwkelly commented on Operation CHARM: Car repair manuals for everyone charm.li/... · Posted by u/sergiotapia

elchief · a year ago

ooh, labor times too, to see if you're getting screwed by your mechanic...

and use rockauto.com for cheap parts (not affiliated)

kwkelly · a year ago

You mean rockauto.com and I agree it’s a great source for parts

kwkelly commented on Petosemtamab Receives FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation: Head / Neck Cancers onclive.com/view/petosemt... · Posted by u/jseliger

wawayanda · a year ago

"Breakthrough Therapy Designation" is a regulatory term. It's definitely good news, but it's also a pretty common occurrence that the FDA designates a breakthrough drug, and it does not guarantee that drug's ultimate approval.

It's also not really "news". It's a development that incrementally smoothes the path for what is still a highly uncertain outcome. And per the linked article it appears to be based on interim data in a phase 1/2 trial. Very early.

There are many drugs that look promising at this stage (that's why the breakthrough designation exists!) But this piece of news is unremarkable. Merus, the company behind Petosemtamab, alone has like seven cancer drugs in various stages of development.

And there are probably hundreds of cancer drugs in development at any given time.

So this is just a mechanical write-up of a regulatory checkpoint for a drug that's like 30% of the way to approval and is among many, many other cancer drugs all sitting at different points along the same continuum.

HN is really random sometimes.

kwkelly · a year ago

HN is really random, but also the submitter is an author whose posts are regularly submitted to HN and is a participant (I believe) in a trial for the drug in the article. The regular updates (and the author’s participation in threads) have endeared him to the community.

kwkelly commented on Coroutines in JavaScript for web components lorenzofox.dev/posts/comp... · Posted by u/HumanOstrich

dfabulich · 2 years ago

If you enjoy this approach, you might enjoy the Crank JS framework. https://crank.js.org/

> Crank uses generator functions to define stateful components. You store state in local variables, and `yield` rather than `return` to keep it around.

kwkelly · 2 years ago

The coolest thing (IMO) compared to react is the ability to await inside a component.

kwkelly commented on Mathematicians prove Pólya's conjecture for the eigenvalues of a disk phys.org/news/2024-03-mat... · Posted by u/rbanffy

jonathan_landy · 2 years ago

Matrix theory by Franklin is a great, affordable book containing many interesting results such as this — can highly recommend for those interested in linear algebra.

https://www.amazon.com/Matrix-Theory-Dover-Books-Mathematics...

kwkelly · 2 years ago

Matrix Analysis by Horn and Johnson is another great book, though it is a bit pricier than a Dover book.

kwkelly commented on Ventum, Dimond, Cervelo – Why do these triathlon bikes look so weird? theproscloset.com/blogs/n... · Posted by u/yread

alkonaut · 2 years ago

The immediate question is: if they are more efficient, why aren't all disciplines using these?

The article doesn't say! It suggests in passing that Triathlon has different rules because it doesn't allow "drafting" (Which I'm guessing is something related to team-riding to reduce air resistance, but the article doesn't explain what it is). Are there any rules prescribing (say) that a tour de France bike must use a normal (double triangle) design? Or is that just used because a traditional frame is optimal for weight rather than aerodynamics?

kwkelly · 2 years ago

It does say the UCI banned NDD bikes in 1999.

kwkelly commented on Let futures be futures without.boats/blog/let-fu... · Posted by u/ingve

jasomill · 2 years ago

Yes.

Eh bien! mon cher Pangloss, lui dit Candide, quand vous avez été pendu, disséqué, roué de coups, et que vous avez ramé aux galères, avez-vous toujours pensé que tout allait le mieux du monde? Je suis toujours de mon premier sentiment, répondit Pangloss; car enfin je suis philosophe; il ne me convient pas de me dédire, Leibnitz ne pouvant pas avoir tort, et l’harmonie préétablie étant d’ailleurs la plus belle chose du monde, aussi bien que le plein et la matière subtile.

kwkelly · 2 years ago

Thank you. It’s been a while since I read Candide and while I say “All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds” somewhat regularly, that detail has since fled my mind.

kwkelly commented on Let futures be futures without.boats/blog/let-fu... · Posted by u/ingve

airstrike · 2 years ago

> If you were a language designer of some renown, you might convince a large and wealthy technology company to fund your work on a new language which isn’t so beholden to C runtime, especially if you had a sterling reputation as a systems engineer with a deep knowledge of C and UNIX and could leverage that (and the reputation of the company) to get rapid adoption of your language. Having achieved such an influential position, you might introduce a new paradigm, like stackful coroutines or effect handlers, liberating programmers from the false choice between threads and futures. If Liebniz is right that we live in the best of all possible worlds, surely this is what you would do with that once in a generation opportunity.

This seems... a bit specific? Was it a reference to a specific new language or was that more of a poignant wish?

kwkelly · 2 years ago

This is tangential, but was Voltaire mocking Leibniz in Candide?

kwkelly commented on Wave Terminal: A Modern New Terminal That You'll Love If You Hate Command Line news.itsfoss.com/wave-ter... · Posted by u/tracymiranda

marssaxman · 2 years ago

I love the command line, and I doubt I'll use this terminal, but "each command and its output is a separate box" is a way of using a terminal that I've long wished for. My day is full of `clear && bazel build`, not because I want to clear my history, but because I want to treat the build output as a single unit.

kwkelly · 2 years ago

warp (warp.dev) does this