Hacker News: 9erdelta

New comment by 9erdelta in "Using an 8K TV as a Monitor"

9erdelta — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 04:11:45 +0000

Oh nice, I was just looking through for WIN32 apis to make something like RegionToShare. This saves me some time!

New comment by 9erdelta in "Using an 8K TV as a Monitor"

9erdelta — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 02:36:58 +0000

I used a tv as a monitor for a while and it was great -- but there is one problem with single monitor setups -- screen sharing/recording. If the app you're using lets you select a portion of the screen to share, that's great. But something like Slack you either share an app window, or the entire screen. This is very annoying in a single monitor setup. It would be amazing if you could select a part of your screen and tell the OS "treat this area like a separate monitor".

New comment by 9erdelta in "ImRAD is a GUI builder for the ImGui library"

9erdelta — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 15:45:38 +0000

Awesome, I've been working on a project with ImGui and keep thinking how great something like this would be. I'll be trying this out!

New comment by 9erdelta in "Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels"

9erdelta — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 19:19:19 +0000

radical, I love it.

New comment by 9erdelta in "Pornhub Blocked in Texas"

9erdelta — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:52:22 +0000

"Houston we have a problem" has a new meaning...

New comment by 9erdelta in "Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD"

9erdelta — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 20:44:13 +0000

Unity supports USD -- also Unity isn't technically a content creation tool (well...in the sense of what Adobe and Autodesk tools are). It is way bigger deal for the content creation tools to be aligning on an export format than consumers of said content (i.e. Unity) to align on importer.

New comment by 9erdelta in "Bookwyrm – A federated social network for reading books"

9erdelta — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 15:18:33 +0000

what is /lit/?

New comment by 9erdelta in "I am Steve Huffman, the new CEO of Reddit. AMA. (2015)"

9erdelta — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 01:12:29 +0000

Similar for me. I exclusively used reddit via old. or apollo, and mostly just lurked. I have some good memories of some communities there but by and large it's not something I enjoy anymore. For community I'm on discord, for being in the loop I'm on twitter and HN.

New comment by 9erdelta in "Lessons by 3blue1brown"

9erdelta — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 16:59:18 +0000

Can't speak to Fourier specifically -- but heartily agree that a lot of times in math, teachers try to make it "easy" and provide visuals that are actually a hindrance. Instead of understanding _the material_ you understand the _crutch_.

New comment by 9erdelta in "Maybe people do care about performance and reliability"

9erdelta — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 02:25:34 +0000

That's a fair point...I tend to be paranoid about these things, and I think your point reinforces mine to an extent. Yeah I have simple taxes, and yet couldn't feel confident about it through TurboTax. But at this point we're way off topic!

New comment by 9erdelta in "Maybe people do care about performance and reliability"

9erdelta — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 21:15:53 +0000

Anecdotally, I stopped using TurboTax (after using it for 8 years) for 2 reasons. I was never confident that my tax situation was being handled correctly. The UI is noisy, the explanations don't explain. So I would buy audit insurance just in case. The second reason, it was slow and navigating between pages and sections was annoying. So now I pay a real person to do my taxes. It takes a quarter of the time, costs about the same as TurboTax + audit insurance, and now I now longer stress about taxes.

New comment by 9erdelta in "Ask HN: Has anyone successfully started their career over in their 30s?"

9erdelta — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 19:51:26 +0000

I did mechanical engineering undergrad, then started and almost finished mechanical engineering grad school but dropped out and got a job. Then I started studying programming at night, then co-founded a startup with some friends, and quit my mech eng job. After the startup flamed out, I went to another startup. Throughout the whole time of startups, I continued studying programming and especially started dialing in on computer graphics. Now I'm a graphics dev at Unity. This whole switch from mech eng to graphics was all in my 30s, and has taken about 9 years, I'll turn 40 in 2024. It's not easy, and there are a lot of challenges. For example I'm basically a junior graphics programmer as I enter my 40s--which sucks. But when I think about it, there's basically nothing else I'd rather be doing, so that's cool.

The general thing I've learned is: there are no short paths, only long paths. Figure out what you want and start the long path to get there, because there aren't short cuts. How to figure out what you want? Well that's a long path too.

New comment by 9erdelta in "Fields where it matters, fields where you can thrive on BS alone, and in between"

9erdelta — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 04:16:50 +0000

I think daily stand up even encourages BS. Sometimes you really don't get much done in a day, but during standup it's got to sound like you did _something_ -- so how about some bs.

New comment by 9erdelta in "Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas"

9erdelta — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 18:30:06 +0000

hell yeah, I love you Obsidian.

New comment by 9erdelta in "Git Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Windows and Mac"

9erdelta — Tue, 31 May 2022 19:44:33 +0000

Fork is great -- except for when you try and google about it b/c at least for me, I haven't been able to differentiate my queries between the git fork operation and git Fork the UI.

Also on my local machine, push to remote gitlab does not work reliably and I have to push via command line. Have not been able to find a solution, but also haven't done more than googling about it.

New comment by 9erdelta in "Python Plays GTAV Reboot"

9erdelta — Wed, 04 May 2022 07:09:02 +0000

I remember this project from a few years ago, and the Twitch channel provides a link to some of the original content, https://pythonprogramming.net/game-frames-open-cv-python-pla....

Python Plays GTAV Reboot

9erdelta — Wed, 04 May 2022 07:03:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.twitch.tv/sentdex

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31257572

Points: 5

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New comment by 9erdelta in "Microsoft is testing ads in the Windows 11 File Explorer"

9erdelta — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 20:46:25 +0000

I've spent a lot of time learning how to use the Win32 api and overall I like using the Windows OS. But the user hostile design decisions of the UI/UX is making it more and more likely that I'll move on. I don't want ads, I don't want cloud, I don't want a store. I just want to use _my_ computer.

New comment by 9erdelta in "The Radical Woman Behind “Goodnight Moon”"

9erdelta — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 08:08:23 +0000

I am pretty sure the rabbit fishing is a reference to "The Runaway Bunny", another one of her books.

New comment by 9erdelta in "Tell HN: "Upload your resume and then type it out” is hurting your company"

9erdelta — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 20:16:26 +0000

the last two times I've gone on a job hunt, I only look at and apply for jobs on LinkedIn with "Easy Apply". I am not going to maintain a resume, a LinkedIn, _and_ fill all that info in on some janky form for one company.