Hacker News: acdbddh

New comment by acdbddh in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

acdbddh — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:06:34 +0000

To be honest, if my only other option was to be buried, I would love to let my brain be connected to some machine that try to keep it as alive-like as possible.

Just please don't remove my brain before I'm 1000% certainly dead.

New comment by acdbddh in "Valve is about to win the console generation"

acdbddh — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 13:18:09 +0000

I want a console that is brother-proof. He should not be able to break it by just pressing buttons

New comment by acdbddh in "Valve is about to win the console generation"

acdbddh — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:49:19 +0000

Agree. By "best experience" I also mean "don't force me to wait". But my console doesn't do that. Some online games may require patches before playing for better (anticheat) or worse reasons but thats a fault of the game supplier - not the console supplier.

New comment by acdbddh in "Valve is about to win the console generation"

acdbddh — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:31:41 +0000

As much as I love hacking with various things, there are reasons why I buy "closed products" for myself and for my family. I like to do hacking when I want it (with ESP32, rpi etc). I don't want to be forced to serve as a free IT support guy anytime someone presses a wrong button.

When it comes to gaming consoles, I want them to serve reliably to my family. The game console must be fun, optimized for best experience and should not break. Will that be possible with an open platform where anyone can install anything?

New comment by acdbddh in "WebAssembly (WASM) arch support for the Linux kernel"

acdbddh — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 22:27:38 +0000

when docker ;)

New comment by acdbddh in "John Carmack on mutable variables"

acdbddh — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 10:51:10 +0000

related quote from Carmack:

> "A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in."

https://web.archive.org/web/20201229045320/https://www.gamas...

And variable mutations increase the cognitive load necessary to understand all the possible states.

New comment by acdbddh in "John Carmack on mutable variables"

acdbddh — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:03:44 +0000

In python its common to see code like this:

  df = pd.concat(df,other_df)
  df = df.select(...)
  ...

My eyes hurts, when I see it. It makes me avoid python. I bet the reason for this mutable code is a missing simple pipes syntax. I love pipes. In R can do:

  df |> 
    rbind(other_df) |> 
    select(...)

It feels much better.

New comment by acdbddh in "SGI demos from long ago in the browser via WASM"

acdbddh — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 11:17:00 +0000

related: old demoscene demos running in the browser: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40241290