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New comment by AndrewOMartin in "Being an old school web-based sports sim dev in the era of vibe coded games"

AndrewOMartin — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:39:34 +0000

We might get a powerful enough model to run "Claude, build me GTA6" before GTA6.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "New Beam Spring Keyboards"

AndrewOMartin — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:10:41 +0000

That's $55 to ship to the UK. Tbh, I have an original Model-M and if ~£175 gets something of similar quality on your desk I'd say that's a fair value deal.

It's not cheap for a keyboard, but no one on this forum should be cheaping out on a keyboard. I always say, if you can find a vendor of Model-M keyboard buy a lifetime's supply (i.e. one).

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

AndrewOMartin — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:20:35 +0000

Even worse, what's to prevent the terrorists from temporarily renaming their Bluetooth bombs to something innocuous just before going through security and only renaming it back when they need to conveniently find them again while pairing?

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'"

AndrewOMartin — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:52:21 +0000

I think we can assume any hacker worth his salt has a dead man trigger. I imagine that if he doesn't reset it before a given period elapses then a script imports that will and testament text file into LaTeX and emails a lovingly rendered PDF off to the local lawyer.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean?"

AndrewOMartin — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:54:04 +0000

Only in the sense that Economists speak entirely in statements that are unprovable.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean?"

AndrewOMartin — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:52:28 +0000

Some people, when confronted with a Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems, think "I know, I’ll use a theoretically infinite set of axioms." Now they have aleph-nought problems.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "Porting 3D Movie Maker to Linux"

AndrewOMartin — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:58:14 +0000

Your point stands, it's very impressive. But Dragon in America was a cut above even that. Just look at the "chase scene" starting at 10:00 (even just 15 seconds should be enough to make my point)

https://youtu.be/i5IJCAhiBhw?si=qsTJgv6MsfjXmEXU&t=600

For anyone not familiar with 3DMM, there was no facility to move "the camera" to any apparent camera movement was just moving each primitive object, as far as I know, one piece at a time.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

AndrewOMartin — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:05:25 +0000

The second, fourth, and sixth form is options aren't used AFAIK.

Otherwise, a leading underscore indicates a private method but isn't enforced. A double leading underscore is also a private method but is "enforced" by giving it an unpredictable name. Double underscore (on both sides) means the function is digging in to python's API, like if you want to give a class some behaviour with + or = or [].

It's not trivial, and not particularly intuitive, but it's not necessarily terribly confusing.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games"

AndrewOMartin — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:50:28 +0000

I always felt Deadly Rooms of Death (my preferred version being the free "Architect's Edition", but all are good, and many have better QoL features) was one of the puzzle games which was essentially "discovered" rather than invented.

Simple turn-based eight-direction grid movement, where one of your adjacent squares contains your "sword" and you can rotate your sword around yourself one square per-turn. Kill (deterministic and 1hp) monsters by moving your sword on to all the monsters move after your move, and "complete" a room by killing all monsters.

There's quite an active community (at least there was when I was in to it) but I've rarely heard it mentioned outside of the community.

Edit: I'm happy to see some other references to DroD in this thread.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

AndrewOMartin — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:48:00 +0000

I'm one of the git users who would sweat. Can you explain a bit (out link relevant docs) how I might split a commit up, and move it?

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

AndrewOMartin — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:11:21 +0000

> Foreman was sued by the Adams County Sheriff’s Office over a drug search at his home in August 2022 that resulted in no criminal charges.

This is a mad sentence.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "Ask HN: In the real world we pay for everything so why not software?"

AndrewOMartin — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:16:01 +0000

We should have to pay every time we use Pythagoras' Theorem. Sure this might make it more expensive for an individual to do math[s]? and that might have a negative consequence, but it would inspire more profit-driven mathematicians to contribute their skills to society.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second"

AndrewOMartin — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:38:07 +0000

I genuinely meant that lottery winners got murdered at a noticeable higher rate. However I can't find a good source for that belief now. So I'm happy to drop the belief.

Nevertheless, here's an article from an untrustworthy looking site!

https://www.grunge.com/1301397/lottery-winners-murdered/

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second"

AndrewOMartin — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 03:02:22 +0000

The thing that annoys me most about the lottery is the tradeoff between risk and reward is so dumb as to become actually dangerous. The linked site says the Eurojackpot has a 1 in 139,838,160 chance of a jackpot and a payout of €10,000,000, where for most people a payout of €50k-€250k would be completely life changing and I expect there exist risky bets/gambles/investments which would give you that payout for much better odds.

Not to mention that once your winnings goes over a certain threshold the chance that you end up dead from bad choices or straight up murdered seems to skyrocket.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help"

AndrewOMartin — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:20:18 +0000

Redundancy isn't a dirty word in Information Theory.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "Can text be made to sound more than just its words? (2022)"

AndrewOMartin — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:01:56 +0000

You're on the fringe of an area which in academia is called Sensory Substitution. A simplification of which is experiencing one of the five senses using different sense organs than usual. Classic examples of this are video cameras which represent their image as a matrix of vibrations on the subjects skin or as a sound.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "Nvidia to invest up to $1B in AI startup Poolside"

AndrewOMartin — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:55:53 +0000

Nothing brings joy and optimism like giving $1B to a "coding automation for defence" startup.

If there's one person I don't want to lose their job to a shonky AI agent, it's Stanislav Petrov.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show"

AndrewOMartin — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:32:15 +0000

China should do some of their own research into Barbra Streisand.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "John Carmack on mutable variables"

AndrewOMartin — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:04:23 +0000

I have no doubt that he could, not only invent nuclear fusion, but get it running on a Pentium 90.

New comment by AndrewOMartin in "Wheeled Inverted Pendulum Model"

AndrewOMartin — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:12:30 +0000

That whole page is so crisp and clean.