Hacker News: TheCycoONE

New comment by TheCycoONE in "How Alberta Eradicated Rats"

TheCycoONE — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:00:23 +0000

There are certainly rats in Hamilton and Toronto; and I had the misfortune of dealing with them in my home at one point. They ate through (or under) the crawl space, and they would eat through anything we tried to store food in.

Unlike the sibling though I couldn't claim a nice neighborhood, it was near a soy processing factory.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "The Ü Programming Language"

TheCycoONE — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:30:56 +0000

It reads like affine types to me https://panzerschrek.github.io/U-00DC-Sprache-site/docs/en/r...

They borrowed heavily from Rust here.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs"

TheCycoONE — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:10:01 +0000

I wondered if innoextract was Linux only, but I see there is a homebrew formula. https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/innoextract

Is the author reading hackernews?

New comment by TheCycoONE in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"

TheCycoONE — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:01:58 +0000

It's the most common sports related head injury by a wide margin and helmets are quite effective at injury reduction.[1] As a public health policy it makes a lot of sense. Anecdotally I've flown over my handlebars and hit my helmet without serious injury, and I'm sure I would have been in much worse shape otherwise.

On cars the law requires seat belts and airbags and a variety of other legally enforced safety measures. If you have a study suggesting that helmets would significantly help I'd be curious to see it.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7019a1.htm

New comment by TheCycoONE in "Computer Hobby Movement in Canada"

TheCycoONE — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:29:13 +0000

I grew up in Orillia, but my siblings and I all moved to your city. At the time it was just the closest to Toronto I could afford because all jobs are in Toronto. This city has grown on me, I wouldn't want to be any closer to Toronto.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "Computer Hobby Movement in Canada"

TheCycoONE — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:51:48 +0000

Toronto still has a Pet User Group (TPUG) which runs the World of Commodore conference every year. https://www.tpug.ca/

It might be the closest thing remaining; though unfortunately I was too young to participate in the hay-day of computer hobby clubs.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

TheCycoONE — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:10:45 +0000

I don't have the evidence to say either way, but I do know that at least my city has a lot of cellphone repair businesses, including mall kiosks. Presumably they have enough clientele to keep them going which suggests a lot of people are repairing their phones.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

TheCycoONE — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:03:15 +0000

Are you able to run any of the old Loki games on Linux these days?

New comment by TheCycoONE in "An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD"

TheCycoONE — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:18:32 +0000

CorsixTH requires Theme Hospital assets but we didn't clone or otherwise steal anything that we ship, we require you to supply the assets precisely because we aren't. I presume that's true of OpenTTD as well. In the United States copyright protection for games covers the art and text but not the rules and Oracle vs. Google established reimplentations being fair even when exposing the same api. Truely novel game rules can be protected by patents per Nintendo.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "SuperTux 0.7.0"

TheCycoONE — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:05:28 +0000

Super Tux Kart does have battle mode somewhat similar to the Mario Kart balloon fight though not as polished (and many of the arenas are a little too large in my opinion). It also has a unique soccer mode.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics"

TheCycoONE — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:36:14 +0000

Pythagoras learned from Egyptians that have been largely erased by euro/western narratives of superiority.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client"

TheCycoONE — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:21:01 +0000

Even glibc breaks ABI. The linux userspace ABI is too unstable and games don't have to be doing weird things to hit it.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13"

TheCycoONE — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:23:11 +0000

Most of human history we didn't have electronic distraction devices and we have one Michelangelo; the answer is probably not as many as the question implies.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software '"

TheCycoONE — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:18:49 +0000

I suspect they would put out a GOG Galaxy that works on Linux well before promoting it on their web site that aggressively.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "Lua 5.5"

TheCycoONE — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 16:31:01 +0000

lua does not preserve compatibility between minor versions. As such they don't need to reserve words for future use.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "Microservices should form a polytree"

TheCycoONE — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:42:38 +0000

I have a question. Does the directed / no cycles aspect mean that webhooks / callbacks are forbidden.

I work a lot in the messaging space (SMS,Email); typically the client wants to send a message and wants to know when it reached its destination (milliseconds to days later). Unless the client is forbidden from also being the report server which feels like an arbitrary restriction I'm not sure how to apply this.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]"

TheCycoONE — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:15:35 +0000

I have strong Tawney Scrawny Lion and Un loup dans le potager vibes from this commercial. Delightful.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server"

TheCycoONE — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 01:01:44 +0000

It sounded like they were encouraging dnsmasq for home use. I migrated to that successfully. My DHCPv6 is working flawlessly now whereas I was never able to get it running smoothly/persistently on ISC.

I understand Kea has more features so I'm a little curious what I'm missing.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux"

TheCycoONE — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 23:08:34 +0000

Turns out Linux needed a stable abi for games and Wine provided.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "Matrix Conference 2025 Highlights"

TheCycoONE — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:11:51 +0000

Sure, t2bot and OOYE discord bridges have told us they are not yet compatible and still months away.

The appservice-irc bridge has this issue which is more of a question: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/issues/1... which hasn't been answered.

These are keeping our space on an earlier version.