Hacker News: abductee_hg

New comment by abductee_hg in "Sweden’s Northvolt raises $2.8B to supercharge EV battery output"

abductee_hg — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 18:15:31 +0000

uh, are they also committing to raise the energy density, but then only will build bigger batteries? :)

New comment by abductee_hg in "Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project"

abductee_hg — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 21:52:43 +0000

I am not sure that those threads are entirely legal.

New comment by abductee_hg in "Ask HN: Worst code you ever had to fix up?"

abductee_hg — Fri, 28 May 2021 17:09:21 +0000

company with an in-house compiler of a functional language, w/ no chanche to have a breakpoint or know whats what in the disassembly, generates ~800 lines of assembly for the simpelest things. turns out that someone did not read the specs and used xorps in a funny, heisenberg-ish way.

New comment by abductee_hg in "Ask HN: Worst code you ever had to fix up?"

abductee_hg — Fri, 28 May 2021 17:02:13 +0000

i saw this happening at a demoparty, the person sitting next to me:

hekps out a friend with some coding problems; discovers a file containing a class called "superHoegen" with the function members "SuperHoegen1" ..."SuperHoegen12" took a while to realize that this was the martix class of the renderer and sth like ".SuperHoegen5()" would invert the matrix.

also there where no bugs in the superhoegen class, just funny naming :)

New comment by abductee_hg in "How I built the world's first 3D ultrasonic scanner"

abductee_hg — Sun, 09 May 2021 03:27:25 +0000

well, you sir, are the first. except maybe those lamers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_ultrasound

New comment by abductee_hg in "Java's records, Lombok's data, and Kotlin's data classes"

abductee_hg — Fri, 07 May 2021 17:39:49 +0000

sorry -java .. better? what? why would anyone use java for anything? let me give an example: from a project a while(some years actually) ago i still have a license for a php-ide(zend). its in java. no chance in hell to get it working today.

meanwhile, stuff i did 2003 still runs on windows out of the box, even in wine/osx. so again: why use java for anything? https://twitter.com/abductee_org/status/711966430133026816 (try it https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=11247 )

oh and there is this: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/JAVAhurt.pdf so, double-again: why use java for anything?

New comment by abductee_hg in "“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”"

abductee_hg — Sat, 01 May 2021 03:14:13 +0000

raises an interesting question: what is Basecamp?

New comment by abductee_hg in "Making Generative Art with Rust"

abductee_hg — Sat, 01 May 2021 03:10:10 +0000

how about doing it for real? (4074 bytes exe) https://demozoo.org/graphics/292422/

New comment by abductee_hg in "EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after Spotify complaint"

abductee_hg — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:29:35 +0000

well, the way I see it Apple does a better/less cutthroat job than spotify.

New comment by abductee_hg in "Wat (2012) [video]"

abductee_hg — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 09:58:13 +0000

it shows that at the fringes nobody in the audience correctly predicts what will happen...

anyways, here's the abductee-programming-language-conundrum:

consider Language X: there is a nuclear power plant, and you or loved ones live within 10 miles. it is your responsibility to select the language for implementing the emergency shutdown procedures. would you use language X?

New comment by abductee_hg in "Luca App: CCC calls for a moratorium"

abductee_hg — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 13:30:37 +0000

german hiphop star smudo has been promoting the luca app in german tv, etc.

- funnily enough the same smudo who was a very vocal "Napster bad!!11eleven" voice back in the day ... however napster would at least meet 2 op the ccc criteria(instead of 0, like luca :)

New comment by abductee_hg in "Intel in talks to produce chips for automakers within six to nine months"

abductee_hg — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 07:52:14 +0000

how about they make a mobile chip that doesn't suck first?

the 2013 BMW ... if you got the big headunit you had to also get the big AC... why?

there was an extra hose from the AC to the headunit... why?

intel ATOM. that's why.

New comment by abductee_hg in "Let us now praise tiny ants"

abductee_hg — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 07:46:56 +0000

Thanks Ants! THANTS

New comment by abductee_hg in "Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany"

abductee_hg — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 15:05:03 +0000

ehem...

New comment by abductee_hg in "How Uber Deals with Large iOS App Size"

abductee_hg — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 20:52:33 +0000

...as a demoscener who has released multiple 64k/4k intros I hereby formally say: LOL.

New comment by abductee_hg in "Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'"

abductee_hg — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 12:15:54 +0000

word.

New comment by abductee_hg in "My Priceless Summer on a Maine Lobster Boat"

abductee_hg — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 21:46:01 +0000

WOW that's pretty tonedeaf.

remember David Foster Wallace? "Consider the Lobster"?

Here's a reminder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fZOl7C_vDI

New comment by abductee_hg in "Show HN: Dungeon Map Doodler – Free online map drawing tool"

abductee_hg — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 06:24:59 +0000

nice work. you want to validate your inputfields tho: number of sides -> 9999999999 -> use and browser tab crashes. :)

New comment by abductee_hg in "Ask HN: How do you overcome decision fatigue in software development?"

abductee_hg — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 21:59:21 +0000

HAPPY HARDCORE (no joke, it helps me)

New comment by abductee_hg in "Text-Only Social Network"

abductee_hg — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 22:45:42 +0000

"irc"? :)