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New comment by _y4o5 in "Show HN: PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC"

_y4o5 — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 14:53:22 +0000

Stun is a protocol to query the network about the topology. Turn is a protocol to route through a third party when p2p fails. Both of these are part of the ICE methodologies.

New comment by _y4o5 in "Vim Creep (2011)"

_y4o5 — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 12:49:39 +0000

Yeah I went from notepad to visual studio to emacs to sublime text2 to vscode and finally gave up all that nonsense and got back on good IDE and got Clion. Simply the utility of the code refactoring tools completely blows any text editor out of the water. For example when I want to do a simple refactoring such as rename a function or a class I can do this trivially in seconds. I could never find anything like this for any of the editors I tried before. OK, I mean there's some clang based plugin for vscode for example but the the functions it has (such as code completion) basically almost never works and it has very little to offer in terms of refactoring.

That being said I adopted emacs style key bindings which I use continuously for the most common editing things. I find this is really the best bang for the buck and best of "both" worlds!

New comment by _y4o5 in "Biohacking Lite"

_y4o5 — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 23:35:07 +0000

Watch YouTube AthleanX Jeff Cavalier.

Eventually you'll have to learn through experimentation what works for you. Will take 5 to 10 years.

New comment by _y4o5 in "Software Folklore – A collection of weird bug stories"

_y4o5 — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 08:12:55 +0000

When I was a kid (teenager) I worked at an indoords shooting range, mind you, not real guns but just BB guns. I was supervising a bunch of school kids do some practice shooting at biathlon targets (just 10m however) and one of them had an issue with the gun with the pellet getting stuck somehow. I had a look at the gun, sorted the pellet out and fired the gun off the hip and hit a bullseye without aiming. Pure luck of course but the kids were like "woaaah" and of course I never told them that it was just luck and not my mad leet shooting skills XD

New comment by _y4o5 in "Software Disenchantment (2018)"

_y4o5 — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 07:47:00 +0000

I have a feeling however that this is in fact not broken but working exactly as intended. Corporate dark pattern just to gently "discourage" problem customers from contacting them.

New comment by _y4o5 in "TheForger's Win32 API Programming Tutorial"

_y4o5 — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 14:47:59 +0000

Because sometimes it's nice not to have to drag in a large dependency such as Qt. For example PuTTY.exe is only around 500kb and that's all there is to it.

New comment by _y4o5 in "Should we build lots more housing in San Francisco?"

_y4o5 — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 17:56:30 +0000

Can't be done. Anything that would lower the cost of housing can't be done because rich ppl (property owners) would lose money.

New comment by _y4o5 in "Car Cost per Year - New vs Used"

_y4o5 — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 15:39:48 +0000

Buying no car is the best choice. From environmental perspective.

New comment by _y4o5 in "The Curse of Smart People (2014)"

_y4o5 — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 08:28:10 +0000

I lifted weights with two guys who were both physicists :)

New comment by _y4o5 in "The Curse of Smart People (2014)"

_y4o5 — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 08:24:33 +0000

And about 4 billion people live in the slums with no access to basic human needs much less education. Oh, how many einsteins and others are there among those people. Heck the cure for cancer could be among those people but we (collectively as a human race) choose to sideline them and throw away their potential. I think this is a huge loss to the whole human race.

New comment by _y4o5 in "80,000 Hours career plan worksheet"

_y4o5 — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 08:40:16 +0000

I've always wondered about this, how do people just "decide" to start a company for the sake of itself. I've always though that companies are kinda grown organically, i.e. you have a problem you want/need to solve and it turns out to be also commercially viable.

I have projects like that, i.e. have been scratching my own itch. Sadly none of them have taken off financially or otherwise despite the great effort.

If I had to start a business/project just for "fast growth" I'd be totally clueless how to ago about it?

Is it just about picking the "hottest shit" whatever that is at the moment and trying to ride that wave?

New comment by _y4o5 in "Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor"

_y4o5 — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 21:48:34 +0000

Don't waste your time with these cryptic editors. Get a more reasonable editor such as Sublime Text or VSCode that allow you to install plugins for emacs/vim bindings etc.

IMHO the best bang for buck that you get with these editors comes from learning just a handful of commands for the most common stuff, i.e. open/close/save, move caret, cut/copy/paste/, switch between buffers. So with a more modern editor with emacs/vim like plugin you can have the best of both worlds, i.e. enable fast operations for the common stuff while also having sensible menus etc. for the non-common stuff. If you go "raw" emacs/vim, then everything is cryptic.

New comment by _y4o5 in "I don’t like computers"

_y4o5 — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 11:40:58 +0000

Yup.

New comment by _y4o5 in "16-year-old British girl earns £48,000 helping Chinese people name their babies"

_y4o5 — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 13:52:22 +0000

As an engineer I find it an appalling when you realize that quality engineering means nothing in terms of financial success. I used to think that if you build a quality product the users will pick it up and it will become successful when in fact it couldn't be further away from reality.

Thus, bugs and quality are secondary. Why spend $ on engineering and fixing bugs when you can spend that on marketing for much better ROI.

New comment by _y4o5 in "How does gdb work?"

_y4o5 — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 06:52:27 +0000

It does? Well at least as long as you don't mention threads. Or try the cross host debugging "experience".