Hacker News: PAGAN_WIZARD

New comment by PAGAN_WIZARD in "Vangelis has died"

PAGAN_WIZARD — Thu, 19 May 2022 18:39:26 +0000

link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVExlaxaweo

New comment by PAGAN_WIZARD in "Sgt. Pepper’s to get new Atmos mix: current version ‘doesn’t sound quite right’"

PAGAN_WIZARD — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 23:57:24 +0000

It was, and there are even some significant differences. On she's leaving home, the mono mix was speed up with the mono version's length coming in at 3:26 and the stereo at 3:35 [0]. I believe (running off of memory here too) that the first album where the stereo mix got some actual attention was the white album.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She%27s_Leaving_Home

New comment by PAGAN_WIZARD in "Sgt. Pepper’s to get new Atmos mix: current version ‘doesn’t sound quite right’"

PAGAN_WIZARD — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 23:40:27 +0000

Personally, only the mono mix sounds right.

New comment by PAGAN_WIZARD in "Valve Steam Deck"

PAGAN_WIZARD — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 21:00:48 +0000

Check out itch.io

New comment by PAGAN_WIZARD in "The Vivaldi browser will not support Google’s FLoC"

PAGAN_WIZARD — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 19:06:26 +0000

firefox on android supports noscript

New comment by PAGAN_WIZARD in "macOS unable to open any non-Apple application"

PAGAN_WIZARD — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 01:21:01 +0000

Maybe suicide linux? https://qntm.org/suicide

New comment by PAGAN_WIZARD in "Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition"

PAGAN_WIZARD — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 17:27:05 +0000

>I think quarantine should be down to the individual and the rules they'd like to implement on their private property

Too bad most people leave their private property and interact with people in public spaces where their personal rules are moot.

New comment by PAGAN_WIZARD in "The most prized degree in India became the most worthless"

PAGAN_WIZARD — Tue, 12 May 2020 22:30:17 +0000

Then (most) electrical engineers are not engineers either.

New comment by PAGAN_WIZARD in "Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016)"

PAGAN_WIZARD — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 19:35:11 +0000

For some software products, the runtime and output can be measured for quality.

New comment by PAGAN_WIZARD in "Ask HN: What’s the most important modern simple invention?"

PAGAN_WIZARD — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 19:57:29 +0000

The electric motor/generator.

New comment by PAGAN_WIZARD in "Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, including uBlock Origin"

PAGAN_WIZARD — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 00:33:03 +0000

Are the number of users that use adblock actually increasing? I feel like we are already at a saturation point where anyone who would use an adblocker already does. Adblocking has been around longer than these big sites that use ads as a main revenue source yet they managed to become big in spite of adblocking.

> Will the government move to rule adblocking illegal?

Absolutely not, serving ads is not a protected activity, you can't force someone to consume something they don't want to.

> Will websites engage in sophisticated technical anti-adblock measures?

Already been tried, see anti-adblock and its counterpart, anti-anti-adblock. The solution to adblock is product placement and sponsorship, which has already extremely prevalent.

New comment by PAGAN_WIZARD in "Ever Plugged a USB in Wrong? (2019)"

PAGAN_WIZARD — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 18:15:41 +0000

I feel like I am the only person who can plug one in correctly the first try >90% of the time. The trick is simple, look at the damn connector first.

New comment by PAGAN_WIZARD in "Andrew Yang’s math on the robot takeover doesn’t check out"

PAGAN_WIZARD — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 21:37:16 +0000

Bloomberg reported that super micro motherboards were compromised with a Chinese spy chip the size of a grain of rice. Every one refuted it, super micro's stock fell, no new information since.

New comment by PAGAN_WIZARD in "Half-Life: Alyx"

PAGAN_WIZARD — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 19:57:21 +0000

If I know I can play day 1, I'll gladly shell out the $1k for the full index package. I just spent about that on new gpu + monitor so I was gonna wait to save up, but tux == bucks.

New comment by PAGAN_WIZARD in "Zuckerberg doubles down on Facebook political ads policy after Twitter ban"

PAGAN_WIZARD — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 18:26:31 +0000

>At least when watching television, it's absolutely clear when you're watching paid-for commercials

That is not true, product placement can be very subtle and even when it's not, it's not like the actors look at the camera and say "This show brought to you by X" even when it really is.

New comment by PAGAN_WIZARD in "Xilinx Vitis and Vitis AI Software Development Platforms"

PAGAN_WIZARD — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 22:37:34 +0000

Ive seen plenty of HDL written by people who are software engineers, it's not good. It seems to me most software engineers struggle with visualizing their behavioral code as a schematic and tend to write code that is not very synthesis friendly and overly convoluted. Not to mention most issues with hardware engineering cant be solved by a google search of how to do X in Verilog/VHDL, problems tend to be device specific which means you NEED to understand your tool chain and can't abstract away the code from from the implementation like you can with most high level software to the ASM/binary.