Hacker News: MetallicCloud

Mario Meets Pareto

MetallicCloud — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:26:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47364159

Points: 3

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New comment by MetallicCloud in "Guilty Displeasures"

MetallicCloud — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 04:04:55 +0000

I was obsessed with a handful of Deftones songs back in the day. But outside those, I just couldn't get into them wholesale. I think they just weren't heavy enough for me. Now I'm old, and one of my mates is a huge Alice in Chains fan, and he showed me their ropes (I didn't know much prior). I'm very into them now. It's the same with a lot of bands that were before my time. My dad loves Dire Straights, and I thought they were OK when I was younger. I appreciate them at a different level now.

Not sure what my point is.

New comment by MetallicCloud in "Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia"

MetallicCloud — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:41:56 +0000

Same with me, but I was camping as a kid. One took the snag out of my mates bread just as he was about to bite it. It made sure it was dead by hitting it on the tree it landed in.

New comment by MetallicCloud in "Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids"

MetallicCloud — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 18:07:48 +0000

It's at least half of what the article is about.

New comment by MetallicCloud in "Apple is open sourcing Swift Build"

MetallicCloud — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 18:41:38 +0000

I wish they would stop adding anything to the language and document what they have. I constantly need to reverse engineer how things work. For example, I just had to integrate AccessorySetupKit and the docs are laughable.

New comment by MetallicCloud in "What the hell is a luminiferous theremin?"

MetallicCloud — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 22:04:08 +0000

It features in one my favourite songs 'Red right hand' by Nick Cave.

Fortnight vs. Final Fantasy

MetallicCloud — Tue, 28 May 2024 20:04:11 +0000

Article URL: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1793779717813723521.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40504962

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by MetallicCloud in "How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?"

MetallicCloud — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 23:07:49 +0000

Could you share the name of the yard?

New comment by MetallicCloud in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

MetallicCloud — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 03:15:11 +0000

As an Australian, is this true? Granted, I grew up rural in Victoria, but I don't know anyone who uses it.

Army seeks $255M to procure more than 3k IVAS augmented reality systems

MetallicCloud — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 21:26:57 +0000

Article URL: https://defensescoop.com/2024/03/13/army-ivas-procurement-fiscal-2025-microsoft/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39720899

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’

MetallicCloud — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 19:26:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/inside-the-proton-the-most-complicated-thing-imaginable-20221019/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39374020

Points: 612

# Comments: 567

New comment by MetallicCloud in "Amazon and iRobot call off their planned acquisition"

MetallicCloud — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 04:56:00 +0000

Sounds like the Dreame L20 Ultra. I have it, it's miles better than any irobot I've owned.

New comment by MetallicCloud in "Transparent wood could soon find uses in smartphone screens, insulated windows"

MetallicCloud — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 16:36:06 +0000

It's addressed in the article. It could work as windows, but they'd be 'frosted'.

New comment by MetallicCloud in "Ask HN: What's your favourite hobby and how did it start?"

MetallicCloud — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 19:16:52 +0000

I gave it up about 7 years ago, but have recently started again. It's so fun, but so addictive!

New comment by MetallicCloud in "Ask HN: What's your favourite hobby and how did it start?"

MetallicCloud — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 19:15:50 +0000

Woodworking - It started when someone on my work slack posted an image of an arcade machine they had made. I thought "I want one of those". So I borrowed a circular saw and made one. Then I was hooked. Now I'm doing lots of home improvements, such as building a coffee bar and converting an unused area into a pantry. I'm currently building some shop furniture, then I'll be converting an unused cupboard near our entry way into a mud room.

The two downsides are: * It's easy to want to buy all the shiniest tools, which are expensive * I don't want to buy furniture anymore, I want to make it. But there just aren't enough hours in the day.

New comment by MetallicCloud in "1919 cartoon depicting the use of a ‘pocket telephone’"

MetallicCloud — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 17:28:49 +0000

As an aside, it's commonly called "Violent agreement".

New comment by MetallicCloud in "Water Cooled Rooftop Solar Panels"

MetallicCloud — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:13:44 +0000

As an Australian who has moved to the USA, I don't know why it's done. I don't know a single person in Australia who has ever replaced their roof. My dad lives in the same house I was born in 40 years ago, same roof. I've been in Colorado for 4 years. We had a new roof put on 2 years ago, then another 6 weeks ago due to a bad hail storm.

Disney could soon sell its TV assets – may not be core to the company

MetallicCloud — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:35:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/13/disney-ceo-iger-opens-door-to-unloading-tv-assets.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36712970

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by MetallicCloud in "Firefox address bar"

MetallicCloud — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 20:23:10 +0000

Is there a good way to hide the top tabs without getting into barely supported config files?

I like TST, but I gave up on it because I could never get the top tabs hidden correctly, and all the information I could find on the internet was different levels of out of date.

New comment by MetallicCloud in "Ask HN: Good Books on the History of Technology?"

MetallicCloud — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:43:38 +0000

"Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe" is the best I've read.

https://www.amazon.com/Turings-Cathedral-Origins-Digital-Uni...