Hacker News: PacificSpecific

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux"

PacificSpecific — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:39:52 +0000

Don't worry you aren't. Luckily no one will use this distro day to day

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"

PacificSpecific — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:49:55 +0000

Never thought I'd be living in a world where my tech hardware purchases INCREASE in value over the years.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image"

PacificSpecific — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:38:03 +0000

Couple options I've tried. ALICE vision is an open source library (I used it through Houdini)

Also epic makes an app called Realityscan

The term is "photogrammetry" which might help in your searches

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order"

PacificSpecific — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:18:15 +0000

My library was recently asking for donations and they said the reason is more people are loaning out digital books which are significantly more expensive. I don't recall the details on the flyer though.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image"

PacificSpecific — Sat, 16 May 2026 01:45:52 +0000

I've had some success with that. It's pretty neat!

Haven't used it professionally mainly because the titles I've worked on lately aren't realistic so you can't really procure the materials to scan.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)"

PacificSpecific — Sun, 10 May 2026 06:59:02 +0000

There's also a Hokusai range of calculators I saw at yodobashi camera Yokohama this spring. It was 60$,I didn't buy it but I kind of wish I did.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning"

PacificSpecific — Sun, 10 May 2026 06:22:27 +0000

Please post your progress! That sounds cool as hell

New comment by PacificSpecific in "I want to live like Costco people"

PacificSpecific — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:12:57 +0000

Not sure if there's anything preventing this from happening in North America but in Japan there are stores that literally just sold broken down bulk items bought at Costco.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

PacificSpecific — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:26:58 +0000

I've been doing a 4 day work week and it certainly helps quite a bit. I worry I have gotten too used to it now though.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Visual Studio 2026 still ships the form designer Alan Cooper drew in 1987"

PacificSpecific — Sat, 02 May 2026 02:24:45 +0000

Yeah I still write WPF Software today and it's as stable as it's ever been. Kind of nice to have a UI framework frozen in time tbh.

Maui on the other hand.. I don't get why it exists. It's like the worst of both worlds between desktop and mobile. My understanding is it's rebranded Xamarin which would explain some stuff...

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Why Japan has such good railways"

PacificSpecific — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:51:53 +0000

Wow weird. I've lived there and never knew but now that you've pointed that out I'm realizing we never parked on the street. It's always at the house or the parking lot of the place we're going.

Of course 95% of the time we take the train. Only use a car to go to Costco or possibly go out to the country (even then a lot of remote areas are super accessible in public transit)

New comment by PacificSpecific in "C# in Unity 2026: Writing more modern code"

PacificSpecific — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:36:32 +0000

Based on your comment it sounds like you have a personal problem with that person which compromises your argument

New comment by PacificSpecific in "C# in Unity 2026: Writing more modern code"

PacificSpecific — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:11:48 +0000

That's pretty much correct. I kind of have to switch to "unreal c++" context whenever I'm working in it. They have their own standard library etc

New comment by PacificSpecific in "C# in Unity 2026: Writing more modern code"

PacificSpecific — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:20:57 +0000

You think that's bad. Wait until you see some non game developer coders (I'm being sarcastic of course. The comment I'm replying to is incredibly naive).

New comment by PacificSpecific in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

PacificSpecific — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:14:02 +0000

Oh I hadn't considered looking at the source but considering how minimal and clean Lua is I should have assumed so :)

Thanks for the tip. That should make for a fun weekend

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

PacificSpecific — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:46:59 +0000

If I'm writing Windows desktop GUIs I still stick to WPF. Might be Stockholm syndrome but I quite like it.

I don't see the reason to use any of the new ms ui frameworks. Especially if ms themselves don't even really use them.

As far as I know visual studio is still a WPF project so I'm not super worried about it no longer working.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

PacificSpecific — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:36:42 +0000

I generally very much dislike dynamic languages but for some reason I've always really liked Lua. I'm not exactly sure why to be honest.

Maybe because you can fit the whole language spec on a single sheet of paper and adding more advanced features is pretty easy.

Love looks really cool. I never got into it personally but I still might

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Ask HN: Is there any interest in a native Qt/C++ Discord client?"

PacificSpecific — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:51:21 +0000

I would as a Windows user if it works as advertised. The official client has been going downhill. I have to restart it about once a day because it gets into some weird stuck state where it struggles to load chat rooms.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Vite 8.0 Is Out"

PacificSpecific — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:46:05 +0000

Loading a browser context isn't helping.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Best performance of a C++ singleton"

PacificSpecific — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:22:17 +0000

You leveled up past a point a surprising number of people get stuck on essentially.

I feel likethe mindset you are describing is kind of this intermediate senior level. Sadly a lot of programmers can get stuck there for their whole career. Even worse when they get promoted to staff/principal level and start spreading dogma.

I 100 percent agree. If you can't show me a real world performance difference you are just spinning your wheels and wasting time.