Hacker News: TheCycoONE

New comment by TheCycoONE in "Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index"

TheCycoONE — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:14:33 +0000

The acronym is new to me: Facebook, Anthropic, Google, openAi?

New comment by TheCycoONE in "U of Chicago law school bans laptops from classes amid AI backlash"

TheCycoONE — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:07:48 +0000

About 20 years ago I learned if I took my laptop to class and typed my notes I didn't retain nearly as well as if I took a pen and notebook.

I was in computer science in Canada and probably 5-10% of people brought laptops to class as far as I recall. A few people had to use the labs, but most students had their own computer or laptop at that time.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "98% Isn't Much"

TheCycoONE — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:58:11 +0000

I suppose in most industries, but in others a bug in a computer programming has more serious consequences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 comes to mind. Many of the really consequential ones end up on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_bugs

New comment by TheCycoONE in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

TheCycoONE — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:16:12 +0000

The problem may be that it's a 7800XT which handles memory contention by freezing.

New comment by TheCycoONE in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

TheCycoONE — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:32:49 +0000

I have 32GB of RAM with 16GB VRAM and I haven't had a lot of luck running larger models like this. Are you able to expand on that?

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.