Hacker News: FoomFries

New comment by FoomFries in "How Modern SQL Databases Are Changing Web Development: Part 1"

FoomFries — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:30:59 +0000

Since everything is a car analogy...

A driverless vehicle doesn't require me to add a driver to reach a destination. A serverless solution doesn't require me to add a server to achieve the goal. Something is still driving the car, something is still serving the data. But it's out of my hands.

New comment by FoomFries in "Fantasy meets reality"

FoomFries — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 23:12:21 +0000

The tragedy of the commons is as pervasive as it is overlooked.

New comment by FoomFries in "Berlin Review: LAN Party"

FoomFries — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 23:03:49 +0000

Some ambience from Quakecon - https://youtu.be/SVfdVXxTOj0

New comment by FoomFries in "Escaping High School"

FoomFries — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 11:05:01 +0000

I disagree. I think that what college offers is more than an increase in salary. For hyperbole’s sake, you could use the argument of ‘my trust fund is already paying me more than your median graduate’s full-time job’ and most would roll their eyes at such a statement.

New comment by FoomFries in "Invisibility Training for Motorcyclists [video]"

FoomFries — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 11:54:23 +0000

The friction coefficients in rain aren’t bad if you’re riding at posted speeds, outside of solid metal and painted lines. It’s riding right after it starts raining that you want to avoid - all of the oils which drip from vehicles get displaced by the initial deluge, and that is slippery stuff.

New comment by FoomFries in "On the Apple Vision Pro"

FoomFries — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 23:14:21 +0000

Why is this? Camcorders in the 80s weren’t weird. Home movies weren’t weird. Is it solely because the device has other primary functions? Because it’s not clear that if you’re pointing at something you’re likely recording?

New comment by FoomFries in "School district sues Meta, Google, and TikTok over ‘mental health crisis’"

FoomFries — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 14:48:08 +0000

I don’t remember being able to do this at school while in a classroom. So I guess that part is new. And likely a problem if that’s the only venue for required learning.

New comment by FoomFries in "Why do ships use “port” and “starboard” instead of “left” and “right?”"

FoomFries — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 22:24:06 +0000

Because if you face the back of the boat the sides reverse. It’s similar to stage left. When you can’t afford to be confused, one name is better than a conflicting argument between your left and the boats left.

New comment by FoomFries in "USPS facility in Utah does nothing but decipher handwriting"

FoomFries — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 03:29:46 +0000

Indeed, and this is why they continue to downscale the number of people doing such tasks.

New comment by FoomFries in "How to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, MIT style (2021)"

FoomFries — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:07:20 +0000

Yep, these videos have been around for some time. Good stuff!

https://youtu.be/RqC7QpNrprg

New comment by FoomFries in "A taste of Brazil: How guaraná soda became a national icon"

FoomFries — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 05:05:04 +0000

Guarana flavored soda is the original flavor of Bawls energy drink, based in the US. Pretty tasty.

New comment by FoomFries in "The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later"

FoomFries — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 23:13:47 +0000

The use of acronyms without definition is exhausting. A three letter one which has multiple uses all the more so.

New comment by FoomFries in "I was an App Store games editor – Apple doesn’t care about games"

FoomFries — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 15:21:18 +0000

Hearthstone has two main game ‘modes’. The constructed Magic: The Gathering is card packs, the battlegrounds auto-chess team building auto-battler is subscription (although arguably that doesn’t affect much). The other incentives are cosmetic, and there are other game modes which are more niche. The problem with Hearthstone is that because it has a swath of modes, and all those modes price differently, it looks like you have this perverse overlap when in reality it’s pretty disparate.

New comment by FoomFries in "I was an App Store games editor – Apple doesn’t care about games"

FoomFries — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 15:16:31 +0000

The engine and rules are the same, but the track is different. You change enough things you get a different game - you don’t change enough, and people get bored. I’d compare F1 to NASCAR. Building a new track isn’t cheap. The rules change every season making the cars require redesigns and try to use the available rules to eke out their own advantages. Part of the fun of hearthstone is its deck building, and if the available card pool never changes or updates in large ways, that aspect of the game dies.

New comment by FoomFries in "I was an App Store games editor – Apple doesn’t care about games"

FoomFries — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 14:45:16 +0000

I don’t mind paying for content on a monthly basis when it keeps the game fresh. To each their own though. I feel like Hearthstone for example is reasonably priced for what you get.

New comment by FoomFries in "Police say GPS tag darts can eliminate need for dangerous high-speed chases"

FoomFries — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 01:05:54 +0000

And those they can’t, they can tag. Hence the article.

New comment by FoomFries in "AirPods Pro case converted from Lightning to USB-C with open-source PCB"

FoomFries — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 15:49:34 +0000

There is a business where you take picture, glue it to cardboard, cut it into pieces and then sell it to people who try to put it back together. Sometimes a puzzle is fun, and that’s all you need.

New comment by FoomFries in "How to live near your friends"

FoomFries — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 21:21:00 +0000

My spouse and I regularly do a Wednesday night dinner. One person cooks, everyone eats, and the cook rotates. People get a small break from the weekly grind while leaving early enough to work the next day. People get a nice social conversation, and most of them get a night off of cooking. It works quite well if you can get your friends to commit to it.

New comment by FoomFries in "Ask HN: Isn't ChatGPT unfair to the sources it scraped data from?"

FoomFries — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 15:31:01 +0000

You’re conflating human work and machine work. I think that’s the real argument here - it’s fine to study someone’s work and learn from it as a human, because that takes impossibly more time and produces impossibly less total works than chatGPT doing the same thing.

I’m not arguing for either side, just pointing out that we need to carefully consider what rights AI should share with humans.

New comment by FoomFries in "Ask HN: Why do cameras stop recording after 30 minutes?"

FoomFries — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 13:31:27 +0000

It’s always interesting to find what businesses will do to lower these. My favorite is Converse sneakers.

https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-converse-sneakers-...