Hacker News: PointyFluff

New comment by PointyFluff in "After 20 years the Dwarf Fortress devs have to get used to being millionaires"

PointyFluff — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 23:27:27 +0000

That's a thing, in Washington.

New comment by PointyFluff in "Emacs 29 is nigh"

PointyFluff — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 21:07:08 +0000

Meh.

wake me up for Emacs 42

New comment by PointyFluff in "The Rune Programming Language"

PointyFluff — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 17:29:03 +0000

ASCII has tones of unused chars we could grab for coding.

New comment by PointyFluff in "French man wins right to not be ‘fun’ at work in wrongful termination case"

PointyFluff — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 17:15:18 +0000

Is there an actual new source on this, beyond the Bezos Gazette?

New comment by PointyFluff in "Dwarf Fortress – randomly generated, persistent fantasy world"

PointyFluff — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 22:42:01 +0000

this.

not the lame knock-off that is rimworld.

New comment by PointyFluff in "RimWorld: A sci fi colony SIM driven by an intelligent AI storyteller"

PointyFluff — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 22:41:28 +0000

A single threaded heap of hot garbage-collection.

New comment by PointyFluff in "NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles above the surface"

PointyFluff — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:09:33 +0000

We use metric in the "American Space Program".

I cannot think of an engineering or scientific endeavor in the US that DOESN'T use the metric system.

The US is officially, metric; ansi converts back for the uneducated.

Here's a colorful video: https://youtu.be/SmSJXC6_qQ8?t=63

Here's boring government text: https://www.nist.gov/pml/owm/si-units-mass

New comment by PointyFluff in "NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles above the surface"

PointyFluff — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:06:00 +0000

Honestly, I think it's just silly that we are still trying to make these things on the ground.

New comment by PointyFluff in "NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles above the surface"

PointyFluff — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:01:31 +0000

pff...whatever.

I was a merely 4000 Meters from the moon's surface in KSP just lasts week.

New comment by PointyFluff in "Go First Dice"

PointyFluff — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:58:05 +0000

I don't understand why sites like this are not HTTPS, yet.

I'm not giving you a security exception to read your blog.

Let's Encrypt is free.

New comment by PointyFluff in "Building a BFT JSON CRDT"

PointyFluff — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:55:52 +0000

A little early in the morning for so much alphabet soup.

New comment by PointyFluff in "Welcome to the First RISC-V Site"

PointyFluff — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 08:17:50 +0000

LOL.

Far from the first RISC-V site.

New comment by PointyFluff in "Mildly interesting quirks of C"

PointyFluff — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 16:48:33 +0000

As someone who's moved on to Rust, I see this as one long list of nightmares.

New comment by PointyFluff in "A Twitter Off Ramp: A Tutorial for Getting on Mastodon"

PointyFluff — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 19:04:33 +0000

It's open source.

Put your code where your comment is.

New comment by PointyFluff in "Z-library founders arrested in Argentina"

PointyFluff — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 20:03:33 +0000

I thought Fahrenheit 451 was supposed to be fiction...

New comment by PointyFluff in "Who first thought of the notion of Polynomial Time?"

PointyFluff — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 02:31:45 +0000

Lime green is an objectively terrible background color.

New comment by PointyFluff in "Python Asyncio"

PointyFluff — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 17:50:20 +0000

Why do yo inject quotes randomly everywhere throughout the document?

Why is only 1/3 of the screen used for content?

New comment by PointyFluff in "Testing Microsoft's Windows Dev Kit 2023"

PointyFluff — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 17:38:36 +0000

Dammit, Jeff!

Stop buying up all the Raspberry PIs!

New comment by PointyFluff in "Rust 1.65.0"

PointyFluff — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 17:07:49 +0000

I imagine this is to make Torvalds happy.

New comment by PointyFluff in "Nushell: Introduction to a new kind of shell"

PointyFluff — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 21:08:58 +0000

I found Nushell to be too buggy for day to day use, but I sure am looking forward to the day it's stable!