<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: FigmentEngine</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=FigmentEngine</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 07:24:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=FigmentEngine" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FigmentEngine in "Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>shame the bishop behind looks a bit flat though ;-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 13:02:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192751</link><dc:creator>FigmentEngine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192751</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FigmentEngine in "Supreme Court rules Andy Warhol’s Prince art is copyright infringement"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mickey Mouse has been extended to ~95 years so far</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2023 18:33:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35992193</link><dc:creator>FigmentEngine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35992193</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35992193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FigmentEngine in "Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>they work in single cells...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2023 18:12:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35376831</link><dc:creator>FigmentEngine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35376831</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35376831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FigmentEngine in "Feb 27 2023 GCP Outage Incident Report"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>tldr; no system failure is human error. if a human can cause this, then your system lacks adequate controls and mechanism. the root cause is the lack of controls, not the human error</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2023 20:25:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35060684</link><dc:creator>FigmentEngine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35060684</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35060684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FigmentEngine in "Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>671 flips, lol</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2023 22:11:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35034634</link><dc:creator>FigmentEngine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35034634</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35034634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FigmentEngine in "Privacy is ok"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>  Absolute privacy still results in tyranny,<p>what are the examples of this, can't think of any?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2022 22:28:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34178943</link><dc:creator>FigmentEngine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34178943</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34178943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FigmentEngine in "Privacy is ok"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>false and dangerous analogy. knowing your number plate is comparable to knowing your phone number, rather than the real analogy of bugging your converation in the car. the number plate yields metadata about journeys, not the actual conversation.<p>"i mean people who argue for privacy would never have a problem with barcodes on milk"</p>
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<p>linux only i am afraid</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2022 15:02:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34015266</link><dc:creator>FigmentEngine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34015266</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34015266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FigmentEngine in "Overlapping markup"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>overlapping b and i elements
<p>he<b>ll<i>o w</b>or</i>ld</p><p>contary to the article it can still be represented as a tree, by decomposing the children into their own nodes (so in this case characters become nodes with child nodes expressing what formatting is active, followed by the letter, and then turn of all the active formatting)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2022 20:10:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33959554</link><dc:creator>FigmentEngine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33959554</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33959554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FigmentEngine in "High-documentation, low-meeting work culture"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>this statement needs some detail, "high meetings" is obscuring that meetings use the docs (not meetings with no agenda or lots of presentations). meeying use docs as the primary driver, be that a narrative or analysis of a dataset</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2022 18:37:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33709276</link><dc:creator>FigmentEngine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33709276</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33709276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FigmentEngine in "Checking statistical properties of protocols using TLA+"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/learntla/" rel="nofollow">https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/learntla/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2022 20:50:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33113919</link><dc:creator>FigmentEngine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33113919</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33113919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FigmentEngine in "The disproportionate influence of early tech decisions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Inertia is a thing, especially around mental models and ways of working. Its hard to change an early decision, because many other parts and people have subsequently made decisions ontop of that. Like the ship of theseus, replacing parts is possible, but the replacement needs to fit in the gap, and the inertia means even if you replace everything, its always a ship.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2022 18:24:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32322451</link><dc:creator>FigmentEngine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32322451</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32322451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FigmentEngine in "Kurt Vonnegut on the “shapes” of stories"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Contextomy, happens all the time
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0163443705053974" rel="nofollow">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/016344370505397...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2022 17:35:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32110732</link><dc:creator>FigmentEngine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32110732</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32110732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FigmentEngine in "Ask HN: Are there any good poverty simulator games?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Something like games these by Jane McGonigal<p><a href="https://janemcgonigal.com/play-me/" rel="nofollow">https://janemcgonigal.com/play-me/</a><p>> I make alternate reality games: games that are designed to improve real lives or solve real problems. I’ve been making ARGs since 2001 — and you can watch trailers for a dozen of my favorite ARGs below.<p>> Many of my games challenge players to tackle real-world problems at a planetary-scale: hunger, poverty, climate change, or global peace, for example (see: EVOKE, World Without Oil, Superstruct)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2022 19:13:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31307201</link><dc:creator>FigmentEngine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31307201</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31307201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FigmentEngine in "Ask HN: How can scam callers fake a mobile phone number?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I do not believe S3 is written in Erlang... do you have a source for this?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2022 21:39:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30678735</link><dc:creator>FigmentEngine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30678735</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30678735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FigmentEngine in "The weight of the clipboard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>sounds like "cognitive load"<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_load" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_load</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2022 17:57:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29812473</link><dc:creator>FigmentEngine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29812473</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29812473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FigmentEngine in "Ask HN: Own .com for 7 years, a new company trademarked my name registered .NET"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Assume you are in Oz and they are in US
so be aware that laws are different, as well as scooe of any marks granted (doubt they have an internatonal mark), as daid by others marks also cme wth limitayions on them - so see what mark they have.<p>check your registration rules, and reach out to them to explain what is happening, stop any end run on your registra.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2021 21:44:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29524548</link><dc:creator>FigmentEngine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29524548</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29524548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FigmentEngine in "Cloudflare's Disruption"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>and Windows NT and Digital Vax<p>WNT<-VMS</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:28:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28710288</link><dc:creator>FigmentEngine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28710288</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28710288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FigmentEngine in "Researchers are studying the cooking traditions of the FARC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Never really understood how they fed them on Hoth either.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:53:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27859817</link><dc:creator>FigmentEngine</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27859817</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27859817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FigmentEngine in "Warmest June on Record for Contiguous U.S."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/western-north-american-extreme-heat-virtually-impossible-without-human-caused-climate-change/" rel="nofollow">https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/western-north-americ...</a><p>it wad made 150 times more likely due to cc so far, hence the 1/1000. so we can expect those odds to get more likely - even if we stopped emitting today, those odds look bad.</p>
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