Hacker News: Cpoll

New comment by Cpoll in "Has America Crossed the Asshole Threshold?"

Cpoll — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:09:32 +0000

I didn't notice any obvious markers, weird prose, or meandering in this one.

New comment by Cpoll in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

Cpoll — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:06:51 +0000

> Every game engine has a sort of "grain" to it where it tends to produce games with a certain look and feel.

I think this is a bit of a myth. Unreal gets this criticism a lot, but it's usually because many studios choose to stick close to the rendering defaults, which does lead to a certain look.

To that point, it's probably a lot cheaper to configure Unreal or Unity into a unique "grain" than it is to develop your own engine. It's also possible to use custom physics instead of those built into the engine.

New comment by Cpoll in "Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland"

Cpoll — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:47:32 +0000

> idea worth persuing

Remains to be seen, considering how much snake oil there is in the solar market (but to be fair, this makes more sense than solar roads). A news article summary of a press release isn't proof of much.

New comment by Cpoll in "I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)"

Cpoll — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 05:51:35 +0000

> this has to be satirical, right?

Right.

> Surely nobody in the field of academia is this limited in their ability....

Wrong.

New comment by Cpoll in "What to learn to be a graphics programmer"

Cpoll — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:33:39 +0000

If anyone needs a longer tutorial, I strongly recommend 3b1b's series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2xVFit...

The visualizations made things click in a way my Linear 101 course didn't.

New comment by Cpoll in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

Cpoll — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:27:58 +0000

That sounds pithy, but a person doesn't need to remind themselves of their own values; a company of 200,000 people does.

Which isn't to say cynicism for these sorts of company charters isn't warranted, just not for that reason.

New comment by Cpoll in "Solid and Clean Code never felt solid or clean to me"

Cpoll — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:31:53 +0000

Uncle Bob does a bad job talking about trade-offs, but there's still value in stuff like SOLID. The problems start when people blindly obey or ignore design principles.

Saying SOLID makes bad code is as over-simplistic as saying SOLID makes good code.

New comment by Cpoll in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

Cpoll — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:09:53 +0000

> middle finger to second hand and physical stores

They've seen the writing on the wall for at least a decade; that's why GameStop has more shelf space for Funko Pops than for games.

New comment by Cpoll in "Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions"

Cpoll — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:01:33 +0000

The Godot Foundation pays for it if it furthers their mission.

New comment by Cpoll in ".self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting"

Cpoll — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:36:15 +0000

I had a similar class where they threatened to fail us if we didn't use Dreamweaver and instead wrote our own html.

New comment by Cpoll in "Michigan spent $1.8B and only created 602 jobs"

Cpoll — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 02:23:52 +0000

Implementing your loan-contingency wouldn't prevent generating headlines, so that would only leave contributions and kickbacks.

New comment by Cpoll in "Factorio 2.1 Experimental Release"

Cpoll — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 02:15:34 +0000

Totally agree. I tried the JIT approach; I could never get it to work, and I've never seen anyone else do it either. The wisdom has always been to keep everything flowing and accept spoilage (or kludge it with lots of bots and then move on). This patch makes it a more feasible, I think.

I'd love to see splitter filtering by freshness (e.g. nutrients at >=80% freshness) but I don't think that's in the cards.

New comment by Cpoll in "Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour"

Cpoll — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:34:01 +0000

> If [the job applicant materials] didn't get you in the first time, they won't the next time

> we had one opening, but five or even ten excellent final candidates

Under my interpretation , these statements contradict each other. The former implies that a candidate's failure is always the result of their shortcomings. The latter implies that a qualified candidate can be edged out through little fault of their own. The parent poster complained of exactly this; they weren't sure whether they were ineligible or simply edged out.

New comment by Cpoll in "Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour"

Cpoll — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:00:10 +0000

This contradicts your earlier statement, "we had one opening, but five or even ten excellent final candidates," and ignores the criticism: "is it me or is is it you?"

Although I suppose you're saying that promising candidates are kept on file for later?

New comment by Cpoll in "Dostoyevsky isn't difficult"

Cpoll — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:31:51 +0000

Reading Crime and Punishment gave me anxiety, I had to put it down.

New comment by Cpoll in "Lobsters Bug Allows Unauthorized Email Access"

Cpoll — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:16:13 +0000

The poster was banned for "Irresponsible disclosure and threatening users privacy to advertise a startup." Unless the post was edited, is the moderator referring to their mention of HN?

New comment by Cpoll in "Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce"

Cpoll — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:56:08 +0000

To be fair, none of that has been paid out yet.

New comment by Cpoll in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

Cpoll — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:59:02 +0000

> At the same time, anyone growing up today will be using LLMs for massive parts of the jobs they grow up to do. So they should learn about it.

There's not so much to learn they can't put it into a high school course. Adults currently in the workforce haven't been using AI since they were in elementary school, and they're adjusting fine.

New comment by Cpoll in "Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia"

Cpoll — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:19:11 +0000

I can't imagine there were lots of AZERTY keyboards kicking around MIT?

New comment by Cpoll in "JD Vance Confirms Iran Will Get Jaw-Dropping Sum Under Trump Deal"

Cpoll — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:33:32 +0000

Article makes some distinction, though the $25MM number doesn't match your link.

> In addition to the U.S. and its allies paying $300 billion in reconstruction funds, Iran reports that the U.S. has agreed to release $25 billion in frozen Iranian assets.