Hacker News: JonnieCache

New comment by JonnieCache in "Building, and Losing, a Career on Facebook"

JonnieCache — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 15:41:09 +0000

Free access to all past media online caused culture to suddenly halt just after the turn of the century, and turn from a directed timeline, where fashion mimicked the advancement of technology, into a weird swirling self-referential ironic vortex of ahistorical relativity.

This made me extremely anxious for a good while, fortunately the emergence of PC music has basically cured that: https://soundcloud.com/shhsecretsongs/gfoty-my-song https://soundcloud.com/pcmus/wannabe

New comment by JonnieCache in "Building, and Losing, a Career on Facebook"

JonnieCache — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 15:35:51 +0000

>chaotic nerdy

lol. What would be the opposite I wonder? Lawful preppy?

New comment by JonnieCache in "The Forgotten 'China Girls' Hidden at the Beginning of Old Films"

JonnieCache — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 15:12:35 +0000

Christ, I'd forgotten how grim these were.

New comment by JonnieCache in "Researchers are beginning to disentangle pain relief from addiction and overdose"

JonnieCache — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:56:45 +0000

I've always wondered about the relationship between america's opiate habit and the afghan poppy harvest. The US army was burning millions (billions?) of dollars worth of poppies every year, to deny profit to the taliban. Could that not have been used to make pain pills? How do the incentives flow here?

New comment by JonnieCache in "Spinner"

JonnieCache — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 08:22:41 +0000

Really? I got 3148825 back within about two seconds.

New comment by JonnieCache in "Spinner"

JonnieCache — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 09:53:25 +0000

I wonder what the process is, as a google engineer, to get the artwork done for something like this? Do you just put in a ticket and some time later the SVGs turn up in your repo? Is there an artwork queue, or is it a political fight for access to the illustrators time?

New comment by JonnieCache in "Spinner"

JonnieCache — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 03:32:55 +0000

Works fine on firefox desktop for me. Its some kind of locale issue I think, as others have suggested.

New comment by JonnieCache in "Spinner"

JonnieCache — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 02:44:32 +0000

https://www.google.com/search?q=10m+timer

My favourite is still this though: https://www.google.com/search?q=3*cos(sqrt(x*x%2By*y))%2B5

New comment by JonnieCache in "Mathematicians bring ocean to life for Disney's 'Moana'"

JonnieCache — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 19:48:18 +0000

To put this in perspective, 60fps == ~16.7ms per frame.

That's 16.7ms to run your WHOLE game engine, you get some fraction of that left over to do rendering.

New comment by JonnieCache in "TensorKart: self-driving MarioKart with TensorFlow"

JonnieCache — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 01:52:34 +0000

This is indeed what they do. Mario Kart 64 is known for having the most egregious rubberbanding ever.

New comment by JonnieCache in "TensorKart: self-driving MarioKart with TensorFlow"

JonnieCache — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 14:27:26 +0000

In contrast, here's what is effectively an oracle machine playing mario kart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBNgbJ5hXtQ

(Amazingly detailed) info: http://tasvideos.org/5243S.html

New comment by JonnieCache in "Lenovo ThinkPad T460 – A Good Linux Laptop for Development"

JonnieCache — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 19:18:23 +0000

It has a user definable order of preference across all SSIDs which you can tweak in network preferences.

New comment by JonnieCache in "It’s a-me: How Super Mario became a global cultural icon"

JonnieCache — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 14:09:50 +0000

Hyper Light Drifter, released this year, comes close for me. Imagine a cross between alttp and dark souls, with the art style and music of fez. It's superb.

It's not as expansive or elaborate as the snes marios or zeldas, but the gameplay is very polished and deep, and the plot is... well I won't spoil it ;)

New comment by JonnieCache in "It’s a-me: How Super Mario became a global cultural icon"

JonnieCache — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 22:48:54 +0000

The reason it still looks good now is because they created a timeless art style with clear, readable sprites which didn't need many colors. Compare that with 16-bit era attempts at photorealism which look muddy today.

The same is true of Metroid Prime on the gamecube, which looks better than some modern games despite hardware which was underpowered even at the time, due to masterful art direction.

New comment by JonnieCache in "It’s a-me: How Super Mario became a global cultural icon"

JonnieCache — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 18:32:20 +0000

https://www.twitch.tv/602race

info: http://bombch.us/giU

(yes, speedrunners have their own, zelda themed url shortener.)

New comment by JonnieCache in "Carrie Fisher has died"

JonnieCache — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 18:43:19 +0000

I thought it looked like a PS4 cutscene tbh. I think if you play video games then you're primed to notice the facial animation techniques.

New comment by JonnieCache in "FreeDOS 1.2"

JonnieCache — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 01:25:41 +0000

I think they're just making an ironic comment about how times have changed.

New comment by JonnieCache in "“Children of Men”'s vision of the future is now disturbingly familiar"

JonnieCache — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 10:51:17 +0000

And the scene in the barn with the animals all around, c'mon.

New comment by JonnieCache in "Wolfenstein 3D – Gameboy cartridge with co-processor"

JonnieCache — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 05:11:44 +0000

There are people out there making new NES games and selling them on real carts. They go for about $40; obviously they don't typically include ARM coprocessors. Sometimes they have blinkenlights though.

https://www.retrousb.com/index.php?cPath=30

New comment by JonnieCache in "Postmodernism Generator"

JonnieCache — Sun, 18 Dec 2016 21:03:56 +0000

It attempts to describe certain aspects of human cultural interaction, broadly defined.

I'm not defending it, I share the opinions of many of it's detractors, my point is only that to describe a technical subject you don't understand as incomprehensible nonsense is silly.