hertzrat

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by hertzrat 4y ago
> absolutely no one remembers who the fuck Edmund Wilson was Can’t we strive to be more civilized on this site?
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by hertzrat 4y ago
I’m a game developer. Lots of work in that area but it’s hard work with lots of competition. Lots of time spent optimizing performance so you can run on weaker hardware. Insane user experience focus compared to web as well
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by hertzrat 4y ago
Theory: The cloud took over the same way most trendy tech took over: resume driven development. Everyone on all the teams pushed for it because of how much value it adds to their resume and gradually more and more companies bought in, which
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by hertzrat 4y ago
It used to be missing occlusion culling, which is a big deal. I think it either has it now or else it’s in v4 though? It was sparse on tutorial content from the community too, but that seems changed a lot too since then I wonder what their
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by hertzrat 4y ago
Godot seems nice so far. How is the c# support? The docs? Is it hard to do x if you look online for how to do so? Performance? Occlusion culling? Last time I looked into it, it was too far behind still, but it looks like Godot 4 will be a r
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by hertzrat 4y ago
Isn’t it likely that patent law is going to lock ai down? One company will finally crack something general-enough in a way that gets it way ahead, will patent it, and will use that monopoly to gain control of the whole space, and the monopo
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Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News for writers?
101 points by hertzrat 4y ago|95 comments
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by hertzrat 4y ago
These discussions always remind me of some talks by Jonathan blow where he argues rust doesn’t solve the hard problems he needed it to. There are podcast episodes with better discussions, but the main one people link to seems to be this I h
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by hertzrat 4y ago
This is apocalyptic. Imagine something 100km from where you live, and that whole span between you and there being under water tomorrow. in a movie, that wouldn’t feel real no matter how good the special effects are, it’s too out there
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by hertzrat 4y ago
Notice is says “for ads,” and not in general. The terms sneakily allow them to still profile you or use your content in other ways, like training ai systems or reporting you to the government
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by hertzrat 4y ago
That’s due to swelling batteries, which is apparently common in the xps line
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by hertzrat 4y ago
How Orwellian. It’s like newspeak: make it impossible to express certain thoughts
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by hertzrat 4y ago
If it’s no, but has a dozen asterisks, to the end user, that’s still a “no, this component does not work properly.” The footnotes can be 5 pages long but the chart is still straightforward One day I’ll probably end up with a Linux phone, bu
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by hertzrat 4y ago
My mom wasn’t hacked, but she lost her password and can’t get a human to talk to for the life of her
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by hertzrat 4y ago
Speaking of upping their game, I have a friend who worked in photography, and photo and video editing. Over the years, the tools got better and better and more user friendly. The money started to disappear due to more and more people being
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by hertzrat 4y ago
I wish Canada would do a similar call for comments
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by hertzrat 4y ago
I’d rather have a portable device that doesn’t need a separate keyboard
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by hertzrat 4y ago
Out of curiosity, why is it only 5M and not 500M? You would think the same vulnerability applied to every server, not just one or one cluster, if they are using automated deployments
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by hertzrat 4y ago
I recently turned down a m1 mba for $1100 in favour of a 2015 mba for $500. The keyboard is so dramatically better in the 2015 model, I couldn’t believe it. The battery is great, seems to last about 10h in a charge while writing and browsin
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by hertzrat 4y ago
Off topic, but I just learned that the author of Watchmen (Alan moore) wrote some superman stories. The one I’m trying to track down right now is “for the man who has everything.” He described his writing process for it in detail in his gre
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by hertzrat 4y ago
Removing affiliate codes is arguably a privacy feature. People don’t especially like having so many sites know where they just came from. I know some people who rely on those affiliate codes for some of their income though Did they really r
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by hertzrat 4y ago
> I’ve seen great games fail because they tuned their compulsion loop to two minutes when it should have been an hour. Nobody tries to hide anymore that a lot of game companies just create skinner boxes
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by hertzrat 4y ago
Again, what does this have to do with being blind? Whether you can see or not, summaries are nice to have; and whether you can see or not, you still need to read the code in case the summary isn’t accurate, as it typically isn’t
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by hertzrat 4y ago
Not sure what that has to do with being blind except the audio part, and we already have text to speech systems to read the actual code Programming while biking with ai is like relying on a really buggy early stage auto-drive ai system to t
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by hertzrat 4y ago
Trust is low because I read a science journalism article recently that claimed mit (or somebody else) had found, but we’re not sharing, drugs that prolonged life spans by 30%. In reality, the report said that they found a drug that raised l
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by hertzrat 4y ago
I don’t buy it. Musk compulsively creates huge and innovative companies. To liquidate stock, he could just as easily have just waited until his next big thing and sold off his stock then, once again, in order to pay for a non-Tesla venture;
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by hertzrat 4y ago
And we wonder why the common person believes in conspiracy theories by the government against them
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by hertzrat 4y ago
Democracy isn’t just a system of government, it’s a cultural thing, a paradigm that the people and those in business and government must buy into. If they don’t, you get corruption and decay and fighting. However, you get even more corrupti
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by hertzrat 4y ago
Canadas multiculturalism approach is working great. It’s the American melting pot that has dissolved into tribal identity politics. It helps that Canada can have more than two parties to vote for - when Americas 2 political parties go off t
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by hertzrat 4y ago
I wasn’t aware Sweeney spoke about software design. Any recommended articles?

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