lukehutch | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm 40 and feel my mental ability declining. Programming seems harder.
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lukehutch | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What can I do about my declining typing ability as I age?
Try switching to Dvorak. It's a trip for your brain (which will stave off cognitive decline), but also 70% of the keystrokes are on the home row on Dvorak vs. 30% on QWERTY, so you move your fingers around less, which should result in a lower error rate once you get back up to speed.
lukehutch | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?
Kind of a silly question when we're not saying FAANA rather than FAANG.
lukehutch | 4 years ago | on: Python programming: We want to make the language twice as fast, says its creator
How about instead aiming for 1000x as fast, so that it's as fast as a statically-typed language? (Google's pure Python Protobuf implementation is literally 1000x slower than their Python front-end that wraps the C++ Protobuf library...)
Oh wait, achieving native speed is close to impossible for a dynamically-typed language.
lukehutch | 5 years ago | on: Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing Factorio with someone
I'm pretty sure the only thing that playing Factorio really tests is the player's ability to learn and play Factorio.
lukehutch | 5 years ago | on: ARM Cortex-A72 fetch and branch processing
What's the previously-investigated dataflow processor architecture that the author refers to in the bolded text?
lukehutch | 5 years ago | on: Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with media onboard
Planes can be switched out last-minute. I plan to check the plane type at the gate every time I fly for the next 10 years, and if it's a MAX, I'll reschedule my flight on the spot.
They claim they solved the software problem, but they didn't solve the physics problems created by the engine position (which necessitated the software in the first place).
lukehutch | 5 years ago | on: We Rewrote Everything in Rust, and Our Startup Still Failed
Pretty sure it's 100% satire, but that doesn't mean it's not the story of 80% of startups.
lukehutch | 5 years ago | on: Pydis – Redis clone in 250 lines of Python, for performance comparison
This is a straw man argument. Python's associative array code is written in C, not in Python, and Redis is written in C. So you're comparing C to C. The 40% loss in performance is due to Python being much slower at doing the stuff that's actually written in Python.
lukehutch | 5 years ago | on: Manuka, the World’s Most Coveted Honey (2018)
I grew up in NZ and find it hilarious when I see a tub of manuka honey in a supermarket in the US. This is the most genius marketing ripoff of all time. Most honey you could buy in NZ back then was either clover honey or manuka honey, it cost about $3 for the same amount, and there was nothing special about manuka honey. Manuka is just teatree, by the way. And all honey has the same antimicrobial properties -- it has nothing to do with hydrogen peroxide and definitely nothing to do with UMF. The reason honey kills microbes is it has exceptionally low water content.
lukehutch | 5 years ago | on: I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers
These days the standard way to do this is to use a USB UART adapter, or a USB-connected Arduino, an Ethernet-connected Raspberry Pi, etc. -- they have GPIO ports, both analog and digital, as well as I2C, SPI, etc etc. There are enormous numbers of options for motor controllers and sensors available off the shelf. You can bit bang all you want from your desktop computer, via this interface!
lukehutch | 5 years ago | on: What if a pill can change your politics or religious beliefs?
Next thing we'll hear from QAnon is that the Clinton Foundation is putting MDMA in the water to turn everyone liberal.
lukehutch | 5 years ago | on: A tool that increased my typing speed
I switched to the Dvorak keyboard layout 20 years ago (in the middle of a mission-critical project, no less), and not only doubled my typing speed, but significantly reduced arm/finger strain. Once you put in the 3-ish weeks to retrain your brain, and get back to at least your original typing speed, you'll never go back to QWERTY.
lukehutch | 5 years ago | on: Coronavirus: Why aren’t death rates rising with case numbers? A UK perspective
Because the average of infection has dropped by over 20 years.
lukehutch | 5 years ago | on: Argonne National Lab Breakthrough Turns Carbon Dioxide into Ethanol
They say in the article that the conversion efficiency is 90%, which I assume means that if the reagent supply is infinite, 90% of the electrical energy you put into the catalyst is turned into chemical bond energy.
lukehutch | 5 years ago | on: Argonne National Lab Breakthrough Turns Carbon Dioxide into Ethanol
Presumably when the ethanol is burned, all the captured carbon is released again... So you have to re-capture each time you use it.
lukehutch | 13 years ago | on: Rob Pike: Go at Google
Favorite quote: "While that build runs, we have time to think."
lukehutch | 13 years ago | on: Solving the Multicore Dilemma
Some good ideas -- have you looked at Dryad?
lukehutch | 13 years ago | on: Solving the Multicore Dilemma
The least upper bound can be thought of as a virtual node consisting of the set of static constants (and the set of all inputs) fed into the rest of the lattice. The greatest lower bound is a virtual node consisting of the set of final output values that are "used" (written to an output file or database). If an intermediate value is computed but is not referenced anywhere, the data dependency DAG has a local lower bound node that is not connected to the greatest lower bound since the value is not written anywhere. If these unused nodes are pruned away, the result is a lattice.
lukehutch | 13 years ago | on: Solving the Multicore Dilemma
This is only intended to be an optimal solution to the problem of building highly parallel data manipulation pipelines.
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What I suggest for your current situation is to diagram everything. Just buy some big sheets of butcher paper, and draw out the entire nested API structure. Rely on your visual sense so that you don't have to do as many mental gymnastics. Your visual processing center is the GPU of your brain, it has vastly more parallel processing power than the language processing centers of your brain.
Also remember that everyone has different aptitudes. You might not be decreasing cognitively at all, it might just be that this problem doesn't click with you like it does with the other developers.