Hacker News: IntelMiner

New comment by IntelMiner in "Kash Patel Wants to Work from Home for FBI"

IntelMiner — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 04:42:17 +0000

Uh oh. He's going to butt heads with president Ketamine over that one

New comment by IntelMiner in "EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games"

IntelMiner — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:51:42 +0000

I know it's an open source project and I'm not "owed" anything

But watching them just drill away at every pixel of Tib Dawn and Red Alert 1 is like watching the Sistine Chapel be repainted as the world's most intricately beaten dead horse

Was anyone really asking for a "C&C in-game wiki"?

New comment by IntelMiner in "EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games"

IntelMiner — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 04:35:02 +0000

OpenRA is all well and good...until you want to play Tiberian Sun, or Red Alert 2

I'm still a little salty as someone who donated to the project in 2013 to add support and it's still not even at "alpha test"

New comment by IntelMiner in "EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games"

IntelMiner — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 04:15:47 +0000

Generals was EA Pacific (Formally Westwood Pacific, opened by EA)

New comment by IntelMiner in "EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games"

IntelMiner — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 04:13:16 +0000

Generals was famously extremely rushed in development. Probably a novice programmer

New comment by IntelMiner in "EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games"

IntelMiner — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 04:08:31 +0000

Can you shed any light on the rumors about TS/RA2's code being MIA?

(Or if you can't shed any light. Can you confirm "I can't talk about that")

New comment by IntelMiner in "Treasury agrees to block DOGE's access to personal taxpayer data at IRS"

IntelMiner — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:53:50 +0000

Given what happened with the ISS recently, how do you know?

New comment by IntelMiner in "NOAA's public weather data powers the local forecasts on your phone and TV"

IntelMiner — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 02:23:31 +0000

What will stop them?

New comment by IntelMiner in "Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel"

IntelMiner — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 00:55:55 +0000

>in order to witch hunt people he feels "gets in the way."

When has this ever happened with the Linux CoC? The only people who I've seen banging pots and pans together about the CoC are folks who like to sealion [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

New comment by IntelMiner in "Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new webhost"

IntelMiner — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:48:29 +0000

How is this Hetzner's fault (or concern?)

"Hey your customer is hosting a website with random pictures on it. One of them of me is unflattering. Please make them fix it"

New comment by IntelMiner in "Mineral Oil Cooled PC (2014)"

IntelMiner — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 17:03:52 +0000

Where'd I say that? Clockspeed isn't everything

New comment by IntelMiner in "OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor"

IntelMiner — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:37:15 +0000

Under Linux perhaps. But a web company running on NT instead of Solaris in the 90's? I mean you could but you'd be hobbled pretty hard

Especially around the era Musk is quoted for (NT4 in the late 90's) I think most people would be understandably critical, even at the time

New comment by IntelMiner in "OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor"

IntelMiner — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:28:46 +0000

Elon was fired from PayPal partially because he wanted to replace "old ugly mainframes" (Linux and UNIX machines) with the "cutting edge" Windows NT

New comment by IntelMiner in "Mineral Oil Cooled PC (2014)"

IntelMiner — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 08:16:00 +0000

Factually untrue

New comment by IntelMiner in "Unemployed office workers are having a harder time finding new jobs"

IntelMiner — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 05:17:25 +0000

There's a lack of dirt cheap highly educated labor.

It dovetails nicely into their desire to slash education for Americans

Once we deport all the "illegal" immigrants, the MAGA folk can pick fruit in Florida while the H1B's work at Amazon for pennies on the dollar I suppose

New comment by IntelMiner in "The GTA III port for the Dreamcast has been released"

IntelMiner — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 04:00:26 +0000

Preserving art? Fuck that. Embrace private ownership!

New comment by IntelMiner in "' first' open-source ARMv9 motherboard surfaces – Radxa Orion O6"

IntelMiner — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:44:27 +0000

I have to wonder what the return on investment for these "ARM SBC" devices are. Though this one is just an ITX ARM motherboard

Back in the Ras Pi 3 days I needed more memory than the 1GB standardized on the Pi. So I tried competitors. The Odroid and the Rock64.

They were both miserable with outdated (and buggy!) kernels, lacking documentation (at least in English) and absolutely miniscule developer interest.

The Raspberry Pi feels like "the worst device you could get, except for all the other ones". Everybody who isn't the Pi foundation are just churning out absolute electronic slop

New comment by IntelMiner in "Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z"

IntelMiner — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:33:55 +0000

Framework is trying the best toward "functional" in the sense that it can be repaired by a regular person. Though I would not consider it nearly as "tough" as a magnesium bodied Thinkpad

New comment by IntelMiner in "LG discontinues the manufacture of Blu-ray players"

IntelMiner — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:31:53 +0000

I've often wondered if the balkanization of streaming services would lead to a resurgence of physical media ownership, along with piracy of course

I had an argument some time ago with a friend who was a devout "streaming enthusiast" for lack of a better term. Netflix had Back to the Future on and I watched it

Understandably I wanted to watch the second movie in the trilogy. But...they didn't have it! Somehow they'd only acquired the rights to Back to the Future 1 and 3. But not 2

His genuine response was "just rent it on Google Play then"

This absolute stretching out of content to ensure every single penny on the table that could possibly be obtained is hoovered out of wallets is absolutely pathetic. At least when Netflix was a "dumping ground of old TV and movies" we could reliably go watch "re-runs" of Seinfeld forever. But not so much anymore

New comment by IntelMiner in "Small AI Chip Maker Marvell Now More Valuable Than Intel"

IntelMiner — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 22:19:42 +0000

If gig workers have jobs, why does Uber try so hard to classify them as "independent contractors" rather than employees?