Hacker News: Elzair

New comment by Elzair in "Star Citizen game has reached $1B in funding"

Elzair — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:29:23 +0000

In my Traveller RPG campaign, which is set over 3500+ years in the future, Star Citizen is still not out yet. The joke is that the space opera future has arrived before Star Citizen. It has been in omega for the past 1000 years since they ran out of Greek letters.

New comment by Elzair in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

Elzair — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:44:35 +0000

I saw a Waymo for the first time IRL last week in Atlanta. It stopped on a narrow street for about 5 minutes to wait for the person to come out. The people in the cars behind it were not happy!

New comment by Elzair in "Making a PDF that's larger than Germany"

Elzair — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:06:16 +0000

You could use the pdfium library as an alternative to Ghostscript.

New comment by Elzair in "Emacs should become a Wayland compositor"

Elzair — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 16:20:57 +0000

I do!

New comment by Elzair in "Raytracing won't simplify AAA real-time rendering"

Elzair — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:49:07 +0000

Well, there are signed distance field fonts for one thing.

New comment by Elzair in "Why do I care the open web is dying?"

Elzair — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 15:39:08 +0000

Where are you? Also, are they IPv6 or IPv4 addresses?

New comment by Elzair in "TANSTAAFL: Apple's M1. Attempting a novel take."

Elzair — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:19:31 +0000

Thank you for the elucidation of the M1. It is odd that chip manufacturers are moving more and more to ASIC approaches again. I do fear they will be less flexible than traditional ISAs. However, GPUs started out as custom silicon, and they have been very useful.

New comment by Elzair in "Civilization VI UI, but made in Webflow (a no-code tool)"

Elzair — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 17:30:43 +0000

$#17! It seems like I need to switch to Chromium. Le sigh.

New comment by Elzair in "Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages"

Elzair — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 17:53:57 +0000

Well, there is always bc and dc.

New comment by Elzair in "iPhones are hard to use"

Elzair — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 14:29:20 +0000

There is some horrible ableism in that post.

New comment by Elzair in "Let’s Get Better at Demanding Better from Tech"

Elzair — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 22:23:48 +0000

When I try to access the site, I get "Error establishing a database connection" Let's indeed demand better from tech!

Ask HN: What should every programmer know about memory nowadays?

Elzair — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:29:15 +0000

Ulrich Drepper's 2007 series of articles, What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory, is widely considered a must read. However, it was written 8 years ago (a lifetime in the tech world). What changes should the modern programmer be aware of?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9256382

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by Elzair in "The Death of Optimizing Compilers"

Elzair — Sat, 14 Mar 2015 18:14:28 +0000

Can you share this algorithm?

New comment by Elzair in "The Gig Economy Is Being Sued to Death"

Elzair — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:40:58 +0000

Yay!

New comment by Elzair in "Defending GCC considered futile"

Elzair — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:53:15 +0000

Has anyone considered creating a new libre compiler suite in Rust? That would be pretty cool. I have wanted to do this, but I have so many other projects to work on.

New comment by Elzair in "Operating System Development in Rust"

Elzair — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 03:38:49 +0000

The GPLv3 was designed to counteract this threat. Maybe we should license more stuff under it?

New comment by Elzair in "A Eulogy for RadioShack"

Elzair — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 13:34:39 +0000

Here is a good blog post on the history of the TRS-80 that also discusses RadioShack's corporate culture. http://www.filfre.net/2011/06/the-trash-80-part-1/

New comment by Elzair in "Reproducible SBCL builds – a month ahead of schedule"

Elzair — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:58:16 +0000

Yay, now we can determine if our SBCL build contains a backdoor.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/01/countering_tr...

New comment by Elzair in "Hacker's Guide to Neural Networks"

Elzair — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 18:36:20 +0000

Thank you karpathy. This is a great introduction.

New comment by Elzair in "Loyalty Nearly Killed My Beehive"

Elzair — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:08:41 +0000

Is Colony Collapse Disorder largely affecting only domesticated beehives?