fuzztester's comments

On: The fish kick may be the fastest subsurface swim stroke yet (2015)

[fuzztester]

Polar bears are huge too.

IIRC, I read somewhere that they are the biggest species of bear (on average).

Checked:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bear

On: Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming language

[fuzztester]

Flix devs:

in the section:

What features are not supported by Flix?

this Feature on the left side:

No Code Before Main

does not match the Reason on the right side:

In Flix, no code is ever executed before main. Flix has no static initializers (or similar constructs) which are difficult to reason about, error-prone, and often lead to buggy code.

you should change the Feature name to:

Code Before Main

On: US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel

[fuzztester]

Do you mean brilliant.org ?

[beezlewax → fuzztester]

Yes

On: Ask HN: (Retro web q) What happened to the myway.com site?

[fuzztester]

Thanks for the answers, guys. I was not sure I would get any, this being an old topic, but decided to post my question anyway.

Cheers.

On: Data on AI-related Show HN posts

[fuzztester]

>I think it's partly because we all just have way too much to do. Every day. All day. And the harder you work, it seems the more you have to do.

Yeah(, right). Or rather, yeesh. Or maybe, yikes!

>we all just have way too much to do. Every day. All day.

... in the richest country in the world, which some inhabitants there also call the greatest nation in the world.

On: Data on AI-related Show HN posts

[fuzztester]

It's a term commonly used in some of the "Southern" US states.

And also by Indian Christians (Catholics) in some parts of India, such as Mumbai and nearby areas, like Pune and Goa, along or near the Western coast of India. Partly grew up there, and also did some of my schooling there, that's how I know this.

I don't know if there is any historical connection between the usage of that phrase (y'all) in those two areas (of the US and India).

It could have been, via (US) Christian missionaries coming here. There were and still are some of them, in some parts of India, from more than 100 years ago. Again, I know this from experience.

That general area of India, and some other parts, do have a relatively high percentage of Christians.

On: Data on AI-related Show HN posts

[fuzztester]

trends, as in, trendy, as in fashionable, as in topic du jour.

trends or trendy does not imply substance.

On: Data on AI-related Show HN posts

[fuzztester]

the same is the case with the main hn page, and the subsequent pages (the More links at the bottom). it's been that way for a while now.

the AI craze is in full boom, feverishly stoked and fuelled by the hypesters and hipsters, who stand to gain from it.

reminds of the gold rushes of the last few centuries, like in California and the Klondike:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_gold_rush

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_Gold_Rush

picks and shovels, folks.

there's a sucker born every minute:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_sucker_born_ever...

On: Features of D That I Love

[fuzztester]

forum.dlang.org is also written in D.

On: Features of D That I Love

[fuzztester]

>The "invariants" thing is fantastic, I haven't seen anything like that before and it's great.

is it not the same as the one in Eiffel?