Hacker News: Discordian93

New comment by Discordian93 in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

Discordian93 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:04:55 +0000

You aren't getting to the exam stage without that degree though

New comment by Discordian93 in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

Discordian93 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:38:34 +0000

Outlook is now basically an Electron app, they've deprecated the old desktop Outlook in favor of a port of the web app to desktop, so it's basically just Excel remaining.

New comment by Discordian93 in "Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail"

Discordian93 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:10:33 +0000

It was all legal before China went and did retroactive legal changes

New comment by Discordian93 in "Ask HN: Loneliness at 19, how to cope?"

Discordian93 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 04:21:54 +0000

Wish I knew. I was at the same place at you at that age and it's basically destroyed me, 32 now and no better off

New comment by Discordian93 in "In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999)"

Discordian93 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:39:15 +0000

Like the other reply says, Linux already won on the server level where all the hype was 25 years ago. Now it's different but there's a lot of excitement still thaks to Valve's efforts to make gaming viable on Linux and to make ARM/x86 porting easier. Plus there's been a new wave of new users lately thanks to influencers recommending Linux in the wake of Windows 11's horribleness.

New comment by Discordian93 in "The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2020)"

Discordian93 — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:02:11 +0000

These skills are also useful for reproducible computational research

New comment by Discordian93 in "Look at how unhinged GPU box art was in the 2000s (2024)"

Discordian93 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:34:40 +0000

I disagree, AAA games started nosediving with the seventh generation 20 years ago and only recently have they started to tentatively show signs of recovery.

New comment by Discordian93 in "‘Overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI"

Discordian93 — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 23:56:48 +0000

Same here. I'd love to get a full time coding job even if it meant a pay cut on hourly terms, but everything in my area pays much, much less and also I have a hard time even getting interviews. Guess I'll try to apply to this kind of role but full time, I think Amazon, Mistral and xAI are hiring.

New comment by Discordian93 in "South Korean workers detained in Hyundai plant raid to be freed and flown home"

Discordian93 — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 14:47:16 +0000

"Deported" now seems to be an euphemism for being sent to a concentration camp in a random third world country, so I guess they have to use different language for actual deportations.

New comment by Discordian93 in "Science research gets more engagement on Bluesky than X, study finds"

Discordian93 — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 16:33:36 +0000

I generallu find it easier to get engagement in bluesky and fedi than x/twitter. I guess in X if you're not paying for the bluecheck you're soft shadow banned.

New comment by Discordian93 in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

Discordian93 — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:14:04 +0000

I wish Firefox OS had succeeded, my first ever app was for it, it was all so much simpler and so much more free than the locked down systems of both major mobile OSes.

New comment by Discordian93 in "Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026"

Discordian93 — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 07:29:41 +0000

I agree, It think Spain adopted the Euro too soon and we'd have weathered the GFC better if we still had control of our monetary policy at the time. And we didn't grow as much as we could have in the preceding boom phase.

New comment by Discordian93 in "Stop Killing Games"

Discordian93 — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 19:02:31 +0000

It still does require a purchase, though now all expansions except the latest one are included in the base game and you can purchase the expansion with the base game at little markup over the expansion itself so the base game might as well be free.

New comment by Discordian93 in "Why does Apple make a minority of developers finance the entire App Store?"

Discordian93 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:55:10 +0000

I believe it's game "whales" who spend thousands on in game purchases.

New comment by Discordian93 in "Why old games never die, but new ones do"

Discordian93 — Sun, 25 May 2025 01:46:26 +0000

You can't play Phantasy Star Online for the GameCube anymore.

New comment by Discordian93 in "Don't guess my language"

Discordian93 — Mon, 19 May 2025 20:07:09 +0000

I think there's some too down agenda to force people into bilingualism, big tech doesn't like how the internet of the 00s and 10s made many people polyglots that look behind their borders' information and media markets.

New comment by Discordian93 in "How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment"

Discordian93 — Thu, 01 May 2025 09:45:51 +0000

Tulsi is a competent mole, she knows better than to be this obvious.

New comment by Discordian93 in "How the Internet Left 4chan Behind"

Discordian93 — Thu, 01 May 2025 01:03:35 +0000

I remember all type on /vp/ for HGSS, board was basically created to contain it because it was taking over other video game boards. Fun times, sad to see the fate of the site.

New comment by Discordian93 in "How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2"

Discordian93 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:34:16 +0000

He's a total legend, yet apparently he's never met Bill Gates in person from what he said in an interview in the Dave's Garage YouTube channel a few years ago. You'd think that someone who's been that prominent for so long in the company would have been invited to a company dinner where he was present or something.

New comment by Discordian93 in "Cloudflare builds AI to lead AI scraper bots into horrible maze of junk content"

Discordian93 — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:11:12 +0000

The Blackwall lol