Hacker News: Coincoin

New comment by Coincoin in "Factorio 1.0"

Coincoin — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 13:24:10 +0000

They even made 0.18 mods to be 1.0.0 compatible this way the game releases with all mods already up to date.

New comment by Coincoin in "Error Handling in Go (2016)"

Coincoin — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 14:10:39 +0000

>The only problem I have with it is it is still really Windows only, hopefully that will improve with .Net Core 3.

I've been writing games in C# that run on Windows, Linux, OSX, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, UWP, AppleTV, Nintendo Switch and more for years now.

Ironically, the most compatibility issues we had was with Windows Phone and UWP.

New comment by Coincoin in "A faster, cheaper path to fusion energy"

Coincoin — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 02:39:44 +0000

“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”

New comment by Coincoin in "A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley"

Coincoin — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 03:33:16 +0000

Funny thing is some games are designed to be boring but still addictive, so that you will pay to skip playing the boring game. It totally blows my mind that people will pay to not play a game.

New comment by Coincoin in "Copyright Office Ruling Imposes Sweeping Right to Repair Reforms"

Coincoin — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 13:11:34 +0000

There is a lot of snow where I live and the ABS triggers all the time and yes some people just slam the brakes expecting their ABS to optimally slow down on ice.

New comment by Coincoin in "Copyright Office Ruling Imposes Sweeping Right to Repair Reforms"

Coincoin — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 01:18:19 +0000

ABS not working as intended could be a surprise to the driver and cause a crash, especially if you become dependent on it.

It's just like that AF 447 crash, they stalled from 38,000 ft to the ground because they never expected the computer to let them stall the plane.

But I mostly agree, the only software things I would see as absolutely life critical on a car would be drive-by-wire controls. All the rest will just either stall it, reduce performance or break something.

New comment by Coincoin in "Microsoft open sources parts of Minecraft: Java Edition"

Coincoin — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 22:38:31 +0000

It's just simple straight humblebrag.

New comment by Coincoin in "Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles"

Coincoin — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 19:11:23 +0000

On the other hand, they also believe in homeopathy, so you would only need 1 litre of moon water to produce billions.

edit: excalibur beat me to it.

New comment by Coincoin in "What to Do After Finding Hot Connectors on Overhead Power Lines (2017) [video]"

Coincoin — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 18:13:48 +0000

The lineman (and my guess is the pilot too) wear a conducting and fire retardant suit made of metal threads. This essentially acts as a Faraday cage.

New comment by Coincoin in "Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere"

Coincoin — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 01:21:13 +0000

Then they are going to make the plastic package part of a cheap accessory for whatever they are selling. They are already doing that to boast the feature list of their products: "Practical widget holder included!"

New comment by Coincoin in "Press leaks during Google's all-hands meeting enrage insiders"

Coincoin — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 01:27:12 +0000

Assuming all actors are rational, which they often are not.

New comment by Coincoin in "Nissan Admits Internal Emissions-Test Results were Falsified"

Coincoin — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 17:40:07 +0000

It's a lie by omission. The title should have been something like: "Nissan Admits Internal Test Data Was Falsified"

Boring, I know.

New comment by Coincoin in "Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall"

Coincoin — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 18:54:24 +0000

My father used to tell me: "Don't skimp on your bed, your chair and your car tires."

New comment by Coincoin in "Ok-Cancel versus Cancel-Ok"

Coincoin — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 12:30:21 +0000

They paid someone a lot of money to design their UI, so they better do something different from the rest of the world, else they would have wasted money.

New comment by Coincoin in "Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds"

Coincoin — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 03:33:24 +0000

I never understood the obsession of all car makers to always design EV and hybrid cars with ugly shapes and black plastic all over the body.

Can I just have a regular car that works on electricity please? Spare me the tacky from-the-future look please.

New comment by Coincoin in "The great video game exodus"

Coincoin — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 13:01:10 +0000

This. I wanted to do games since I was a kid, so I assumed I would be the best at it just because I loved them so much, until I got the job. Then I realized I sucked at it. I left the field for a few years, relearned everything from scratch, reset my goals and tried again. Now I'm much happier.

New comment by Coincoin in "OpenDUNE – An open-source recreation of the game Dune II"

Coincoin — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 19:21:17 +0000

What I find the most impressive about Syndicate is the action phase was only 16 colors.

New comment by Coincoin in "Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming"

Coincoin — Mon, 07 May 2018 22:27:54 +0000

There must be a name for that, when someone casually says something is simple when it is in fact a very complicated subject.

EDIT: After some googling, TIL humblebragging.

New comment by Coincoin in "NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A Lie From Google'"

Coincoin — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 19:50:08 +0000

I know right? Those rich people are not assholes! They must be criminals.

EDIT: /s It ended up he was right, but maybe he had no reason to actually know they were cons. We don't have the full story, which is exactly why it has been retracted.

New comment by Coincoin in "Tesla's Simultaneous Brilliance and Incompetence Revealed in Teardown of Model 3"

Coincoin — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 19:34:16 +0000

Or maybe present Earth is a single cell in Their giant cellular automaton machine.