Hacker News: FooHentai

New comment by FooHentai in "WHO updates critical medicines list for radiological and nuclear emergencies"

FooHentai — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 07:46:14 +0000

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

New comment by FooHentai in "Burn-out, daunting work, overstretched, and it's just too much"

FooHentai — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 03:13:54 +0000

Managers that do that are objectively shit managers. Sure, if your employee whines about every little thing expecting you to fix it all the time, turning it around on them is appropriate to foster some level of help-yourself capabity. But if your employee is selectively choosing to bring an issue to you as a request for assistance, turning it around on them is the same as 'fuck you, I'm not helping'. Bad manager. People don't quit jobs, they quit bosses. That is the kind of boss you might consider quitting, because they are poor at their job and do not have your back. In fact they are not even really listening to you.

New comment by FooHentai in "Chick Fil A's Edge Enterprise Architecture"

FooHentai — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 08:06:19 +0000

Fundamentally what they've deployed here is something a lot of organisations struggle with or don't even recognize as worth having - A reliable edge which you can trust sufficiently to form the functional core of a site.

For a restaurant chain this is something worth putting the development effort into because once you've figured it out and ran it for a few years to demonstrate it's reliability you can pitch the shift from a network-optional edge at each site to a network-dependent site with intelligent components hanging off it and depending on it. That's a pathway to having a major competitive advantage in the medium term that your competitors won't be able to put into place overnight once they realize you've left them behind.

You can't get there with the amount of effort often put into untrusted edge sites like this - aka a pc in a cupboard. You also can't get there with cloud when the weakest element in the chain is unrealiable site connectivity.

They could have done it in a lot of different ways, but going with cheap commodity hardware and avoiding expensive cluster license nonsense (vSphere etc) were smart choices. Spend that money on a compenent centralized tech team rather than vendor shinyness, and you can do a hell of a lot more (and often move faster, to boot).

New comment by FooHentai in "Fetish tabooness vs. popularity"

FooHentai — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 23:30:43 +0000

Since Ashley Madison caters to people wanting to cheat, it would self select for people with taboo-, thrill-, or risk-seeking tendencies. So not sure (and sure hope) this could be extrapolated to the population as a whole.

New comment by FooHentai in "Second Life on GitHub"

FooHentai — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 20:07:42 +0000

No, but when I saw where Meta's effort had got them it struck me they might have been better putting that development work towards modernizing an implementation of SL.

New comment by FooHentai in "The situation at LastPass may be worse than they are letting on"

FooHentai — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 06:26:28 +0000

That’s a great reference, thank you for the laugh.

New comment by FooHentai in "John Carmack Leaves Meta"

FooHentai — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 07:02:39 +0000

Earlier this year I packed up a lot of my computer gear and stored in at the in-laws house, because we were putting our house on the market and this got us ahead on moving into a new place. Then the housing market tanked, my stuff including a Quest 2 is still sitting there, many months later, and I'll maybe be able to get back to it now mid next year.

I'm learning from you here now that I'm gonna lose all the paid content I have on my account?

New comment by FooHentai in "Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists"

FooHentai — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 03:14:24 +0000

cocks gun I said Get. In.

New comment by FooHentai in "The hype around esports is fading as investors and sponsors dry up"

FooHentai — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 01:06:59 +0000

Yes, that is GPT output.

New comment by FooHentai in "Software horror show: SAP Concur"

FooHentai — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 21:45:14 +0000

I've worked on both sides of this divide, and most of it makes sense by just considering Chesterton's fence.

New comment by FooHentai in "Capsaicin is a psychoactive substance"

FooHentai — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 17:35:14 +0000

Mustard was around from the early Romans/Gauls I think, if that counts.

New comment by FooHentai in "Americans are choosing to be alone, but we should reverse that"

FooHentai — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 01:11:09 +0000

Perhaps. But what are the long-term ramifications of continuing down this track? Does a society of individuals with low cohesion survive in the long run? What motivations to pull together and overcome any adversity that might come along exists? Is it worth it for a few generations of improved individual freedom, if that society doesn't hold together longer than that due to a lack of cohesion?

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” — Abraham Lincoln.

New comment by FooHentai in "Is our definition of burnout all wrong?"

FooHentai — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 22:11:25 +0000

Perhaps more like... 'engagement fatigue'? When it's truly rote or mindless work your brain can disengage and be somewhere else. With knowledge work you don't have that luxury, even when the work itself isn't what we could consider 'engaging', you nevertheless are obliged to be engaged mentally to carry it out. Do that long enough without deriving any satisfaction, it seems a perfectly sane reaction to want to escape the situation, or just plain shut off. It makes sense for our brains to realize we're spending a lot of brain focus and time on something that isn't activating any reward centers, and insist we stop doing that. That really seems like a fundamentally sensible and healthy response from a brain functioning properly.

New comment by FooHentai in "Ask HN: How to deal with burnout and its consequences?"

FooHentai — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 16:24:57 +0000

>As soon as you possibly can, start working on something you 100% agree with.

Man, that point resonates with me. I quit a while back due to severe burnout (actually, I think now, boreout) and have been struggling to get enthused about anything. I think what you said here is the core of why I might be done with tech as a profession entirely - I'm almost completely soured with the impact and direction of it as a whole.

So then the question becomes well, what do I agree with and want to do? That's a hard one. This is the only career path I've been on and even if I do find something else, starting off at 40 with no skill base is... oof.

New comment by FooHentai in "Scientists find wreckage of ship that tried to warn Titanic of iceberg"

FooHentai — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 00:44:26 +0000

Perhaps it crashed outside of the environment.

New comment by FooHentai in "Magnus Carlsen resigns against Hans Niemann after one move"

FooHentai — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 09:07:16 +0000

Does any of what you just said not also apply to Carlsen?

New comment by FooHentai in "Magnus Carlsen resigns against Hans Niemann after one move"

FooHentai — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 09:02:12 +0000

I'm with Carlsen on this. If you're caught or admit to cheating even once in a professional competitive career that's it - You should be out for good. That we have this bizarre attitude of permissiveness and time salvation around cheaters in competition is frankly bizarre. What other argument is there than to refuse to engage. It is not difficult to simply never cheat, in the same way that it is not difficult to simply never murder anyone.

Honestly, bravo. He's at the point in his career that he really doesn't need to prove anything, and as such is uniquely positioned to make this kind of statement with at least a vague chance that it will be heeded.

New comment by FooHentai in "The Collectors Who Save Video-Game History from Oblivion"

FooHentai — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 12:14:32 +0000

If it's of interest to you there's now also a magnet link up over on quake3world. Comes to about 50Gb.

New comment by FooHentai in "The Collectors Who Save Video-Game History from Oblivion"

FooHentai — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 00:15:54 +0000

I don't have a personal platform for this, but am uploading missing content to existing ones I know of:

lvlworld.com - Curated, the polished and more playable end of the spectrum

en.ws.q3df.org (Worldspawn Archive) - Mostly focused on defrag (trick jumping) maps but has a lot for the standard game mixed in.

Excessive Plus's FTP server at ftp.excessiveplus.net

efservers.com/maps.php Elite Force Map Search. Has a lot of regular Q3 content buried amongst the Elite Force stuff.

New comment by FooHentai in "The Collectors Who Save Video-Game History from Oblivion"

FooHentai — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 13:35:32 +0000

For sure, I have hundreds of custom models and skins stashed away. I remember going to the millenium dome around y2k, and there was a booth there that would 3d scan you into a Quake 3 model! Sadly I lost my scan. Wonder if the company that did it has them all saved off somewhere. That would sit in a very weird place privacy-wise.