Hacker News: DominikD

New comment by DominikD in "Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)"

DominikD — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 17:03:15 +0000

Filesystem fetishization at its finest. Not only is /etc poorly structured (just like portions of the registry are), it also suffers from lack of uniform format for the data. But hey, registry is bad because it's bad.

New comment by DominikD in "Twitter Banned in Russia"

DominikD — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 20:54:20 +0000

Facebook banned as well.

New comment by DominikD in "One Humanity – DOOM 2 Level"

DominikD — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 20:21:10 +0000

Just use some modern source port (and preferably hi res status bar mod).

New comment by DominikD in "Radiation spikes in Chernobyl"

DominikD — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 15:18:01 +0000

Wind in this area is primarily a westward one.

New comment by DominikD in "Radiation spikes in Chernobyl"

DominikD — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 21:51:14 +0000

They aren't just passing by. There's an ongoing fight for the control over this terrain. And, in the unlikely event of Russian troops retreating, I wouldn't put past Russia bombing it.

New comment by DominikD in "Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker', breaking thousands of apps"

DominikD — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 12:13:12 +0000

Unsurprisingly the majority of comments here focus on "how to prevent my free dependencies from breaking" instead of "can we have a systemic way of supporting developers that maintain critical software".

New comment by DominikD in "Ruling party figures say Poland has Pegasus spyware"

DominikD — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 20:26:38 +0000

Both-Sides-Ism is such a tiresome stance. Yes, PO fucked up on their way out but that in no way justifies PiS actions, not does it even explain them. They'd dismantle democracy with or without PO's unlawful judgment. It's dishonest to claim otherwise.

New comment by DominikD in "Rust Moderation Team Resigns"

DominikD — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 16:27:39 +0000

This doesn't scale though, and OpenBSD - as much as I love it - is a clear example of that. Compare Theo who remains abrasive at times, and Linus, who realized that project the size of Linux cannot be handled with complete disregard for safe, inviting environment. Toxic leaders are the reason there's this idea that projects that are built on merit somehow must be ruthless and uninviting. It's really easy to e.g. confuse critique and criticism and in result give project the "avoid whenever possible" badge.

New comment by DominikD in "Rust Moderation Team Resigns"

DominikD — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 15:21:54 +0000

There are always types of events that are not suitable for public discourse (pretty much any form of harassment or abuse, where victims are still subject to pressure or were yet unable to process what happened falls into this category). I have no insight into what happened but it's not hard for me to imagine what could prompt moderation team to resign w/o disclosing specific instances.

New comment by DominikD in "The Microsoft .NET platform has been forked: Introducing Open.NET"

DominikD — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 07:55:05 +0000

Other tools can do that too. The thing that keeps me on VS is muscle memory. And I'm fine with that. But that doesn't mean that there's no entire different world out there that's viable. :)

New comment by DominikD in "LLVM relicensing update and call for help"

DominikD — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 11:07:30 +0000

Accessibility of that blog is absolutely abysmal. I read the post thinking "cool, too bad you have no contributor list easily available" but the problem is that links are no-underline white, just like the text itself.

New comment by DominikD in "How does a game engine work? an overview (2016)"

DominikD — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 09:47:58 +0000

At the very least a bespoke engine will deal with state management, data loading and saving, audio, gameplay systems and probably AI. I'd even argue that these are more of a focus in indie games than rendering is.

New comment by DominikD in "How does a game engine work? an overview (2016)"

DominikD — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 09:46:43 +0000

That's not the point. You've got code responsible for audio, asset loading and streaming (which tends to be ad-hoc in "engines" that focus on rendering), UI, state loading and saving, visibility query DB, nav meshes, and a lot of system and gameplay logic further divided into unique modules (character management, damage management, etc.) Yes, editor is a must these days (and has been for over 20 years) but that's not the point DeathArrow was making.

New comment by DominikD in "Calm Technology"

DominikD — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 07:14:32 +0000

Sounds very much like the ideas around attentive user interfaces.

New comment by DominikD in "Against Dog Ownership (2020)"

DominikD — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 11:06:31 +0000

This text starts with the wrong (and outdated) assumption that animals are owned. If your motivation is to OWN an animal, then sure, I'm totally against it. Especially if you shop for a dog or a cat that looks good in your surroundings.

Taking care of rescue dogs and cats, improving their living conditions and integrating them into family on the other hand is absolutely fine if done responsibly.

This means that you have to take animal's behavioral tendencies into account. Many rescue dogs experience separation anxiety so if you can't devote enough time to help them overcome that problem, adopt an animal with confirmed, friendly disposition. Shelters should let you know which animals are a good fit for your lifestyle (and in some cases the answer can be "none").

New comment by DominikD in "Against Dog Ownership (2020)"

DominikD — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 11:01:23 +0000

In female cats and dogs neutering eliminates the risk of pyomyxia. The risk in females that have never gave birth is extremely high and consequences of delayed action when it happens are fatal (not to mention that cost of surgery may be prohibitive for many; it's orders of magnitude more expensive than neutering).

For male cats neutering reduces territorial spraying (urinating in order to mark your space; the smell of the urine is also much stronger if ca isn't neutered).

New comment by DominikD in "Against Dog Ownership (2020)"

DominikD — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 10:56:56 +0000

It does reduce territorial tendencies in feral cats. Not sure about other animals and living conditions.

New comment by DominikD in "Reinkstone R1, the Ultimate True Color DES E-Paper Tablet"

DominikD — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 12:42:58 +0000

Android 11 on 1.8GHz 4 Core processor with 4GB RAM & 64GB ROM is what they state in their page.

New comment by DominikD in "Lumina Desktop Environment"

DominikD — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 12:12:54 +0000

I wonder what the future holds now that Project Trident (Void-based Linux distro that came with Lumina as a default DE) has reached its end.

New comment by DominikD in "A single person answered 76k questions about SQL on StackOverflow"

DominikD — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 16:12:47 +0000

This rings true for a lot of discussions online: technically correct, but irrelevant in context. :|