Stop posting this crap. You've submitted and deleted the same thing at least a dozen times now.

Another one you did under a different account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46439576

You can see for yourself if what I'm offering is crap. Here's a sample chapter: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/i9oj0ywsoxpyen3x1kxpu/ValidPo...

This is a strange list. #58 is make your own malloc, ok. That's a moderately difficult project for a new developer (made harder if they don't know anything about what malloc actually does under the hood, you may need to study up a bit on operating systems and some other things before you even start). Followed by #59 where they suggest you build your own streaming protocol from scratch...

There are some good projects in there, but the levels of difficulty are all over the place.

My rAI-dar says this list and blurbs are very likely produced by AI. It really reads like in near the middle.

The list is made by the folks who maintain the “build your own x” repo. This is pretty close to their domain.

I'm not familiar with Swift's libraries, but what's the point of making this two lines instead of one:

  let request = URLRequest(url: url)
  let (data, response) = try await URLSession.shared.data(for: request)

  // vs
  let (data, response) = try await URLSession.shared.data(from: url)

That aside, your Swift version is still about half the size of the Go version with similar levels of error handling.

The first one you can configure and it is the default way you'd see this done in real life. You can add headers, change the request type, etc. Likely, if you were making an actual app the request configuration would be much longer than 1 line I used. I was mostly trying to show that the Swift example was hiding a lot of things.

The second one is for downloading directly from a URL and I've never seen it used outside of examples in blog posts on the internet.

> That's also the reason why he wants to tell Europe to stop using renewables, and that's the reason why he is threatening Venezuela - because they have the biggest oil reserve and started selling them not in USD.

What's interesting is that the strategy you suggest (tell Europe to stop using renewables, attack nations that compete with US oil sales) only motivates other nations to move away from oil. It's a terrible strategy if the intent is to sell more US oil. Renewables are far more sustainable in many regards, and bolster national energy security while remaining on fossil fuels leaves them weak wrt energy security.

Also the US is increasingly proving itself as an unreliable partner. Do you want that for your energy supply?

This is just more of that, contracts in the US are suddenly subject to political winds.

In the end, this will probably be unblocked by the legal system, and eventually the US tax payers will pay for damages. But it'll be a long time.

it could very well be that it backfires. I guess time will tell. A lot of his actions seem to be trimmed into this direction, and it's not a new one. He left the paris climate agreement quite a while back as far as I remember. blocking offshore wind construction just fits this agenda, as supporting companies to manufacture these windmills would just make everything cheaper (more demand, rising production capacity etc.) and demonstrate actual use of it.

At least that's how I see this.

> it could very well be that it backfires.

It's kind of hard to see the strategy you outlined as doing anything other than backfiring. Oil and other fossil fuels are consumables. Once burned, they're gone. For strategic reasons, most nations with any sense and the economic ability to do so are turning away from fossil fuels precisely due to this fact. European nations are not exceptional here, the US is actually the outlier.

Your suggested strategy is that the US wants European nations to buy more US oil, and in order to motivate them the US is demonstrating how bad oil dependence is. See Cuba (they depend on Venezuelan oil there).

How could a demonstration of the flaws of oil dependency possibly motivate the sale of US oil rather than hasten the move towards solar, wind, and other power sources?

This is why I said it's a terrible strategy. Only the non-thinking would go for it.

You could be right. I try to abstain from making any predictions, because I see the world is such a complicated mess where even stupid decisions could get a positive outcome due to unforeseeable events. (a new pandemic? a war breaks out? someone decided to retaliate? the suez canal gets occupied? a volcano erupts?)

That being said, he is obviously aware that Europe is planning on greener energy. This administration also tries to break down the EU by pulling out countries like Italy and Poland. They are clearly promoting right wing parties all over Europe which align more with his agenda and are more EU sceptic. They might try to use social media for propaganda. The goal is divide and conquer. Europe has to pay attention to this and be aware of the risk. The strategy may seem stupid, but it would be even more stupid to ignore it and not make sure it fails.

That's my personal opinion on this subject.

Ada is Wirthian, but not a Wirth language. It's worth making the distinction because while its syntax and many of its semantics can be seen as coming from Algol and Wirth's line of languages in particular, he did not design it himself.

Ada is not even "Wirthian". There are similarities with Pascal syntax, but the philosophy is completely different (see my other comment).

HN does have flagging for submissions which can downrank them, and this submission is marked as [flagged] so that's probably what happened here.

Yes. I was wondering why it is flagged though.

Generally when I post something unflattering about Tesla, Meta or Airbnb it gets flagged. Just a pattern I've noticed. The Tesla ones get flagged the fastest!

> In fact being proven false has not been acknowledged at all by the literary world

You are aware that the book is a novel right? That means it's pretty much all made up. Sometimes novels pull from reality (real people, places, events, etc.), but they are always made up (fictional) stories. So of course it's been proven false, it never happened because it was fiction.

Did you also know that there was never a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man attack on NYC? Shocking!

it's been no more "proven" to be "significantly mistaken" because six friends from a Polynesian island nation were actually pretty good at helping each other subsist on a Polynesian island than "proven" correct because another kid shoots up a school or some kids got trained by adults to commit war crimes that make Lord of the Flies look tame.

I think The Hobbit has also been proven false. You should add it to your list.

It wasn't flagged, they're shadowbanned. [dead] without [flagged] is not the same as [flagged][dead]. [dead] alone is shadowbanned or maybe mod killed, [flagged][dead] means that it was flagged to death by users.

They (or someone) needs to message the mods about it, it looks like they've been shadowbanned since their first comment 6 months ago.