Hacker News: aduty

New comment by aduty in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

aduty — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:32:27 +0000

> Then the social paradigm needs to change. Is everyone just going to roll over and die while AI destroys academia (and possibly a lot more)?

My 40-some-odd years on this planet tells me the answer is yes.

New comment by aduty in "15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die"

aduty — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:42:44 +0000

I remember when 16 MB was considered a lot. Then again, I also remember when graphics acceleration was considered optional.

New comment by aduty in "Sodium-ion EV battery breakthrough delivers 11-min charging and 450 km range"

aduty — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:26:30 +0000

Anyone who thinks this should give it a try.

New comment by aduty in "Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar"

aduty — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:51:54 +0000

Pretty grate either way.

New comment by aduty in "Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues"

aduty — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:35:37 +0000

Lars was always a scumbag.

New comment by aduty in "Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting"

aduty — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:53:27 +0000

Start disabling and towing their cars and watch a solution magically appear.

New comment by aduty in "I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported"

aduty — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:24:00 +0000

You forgot the part where they charge you to get rid of the ads but then the ads come back anyway so you're paying to be the product.

New comment by aduty in "Virtual Boy on TV with Intelligent Systems Video Boy"

aduty — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:53:48 +0000

I really liked Red Alarm but it was a really tiring game to play. But overall I agree with you about the Virtual Boy. It's not a system that was received fondly for very good reasons.

New comment by aduty in "The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello'"

aduty — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:56:57 +0000

Probably. They're not very cultured there.

New comment by aduty in "Dealing with abandonware (2024)"

aduty — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 11:07:37 +0000

The modern choices are accompanied by ads and gambling, to the point that it wouldn't be surprising if Final Fantasy 6 was seeing an uptick. Go enjoy your "modern" games all you like, but it doesn't always matter if a games community is growing, especially if it's not one requiring connectivity to blast ads and skins at people.

New comment by aduty in "Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?"

aduty — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:22:11 +0000

At most places, no. Lol.

New comment by aduty in "If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)"

aduty — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:43:59 +0000

They're just speaking from their own place of privilege.

New comment by aduty in "Building a Modern C64 Assembly AI Toolchain"

aduty — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 19:40:03 +0000

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rosc.vs6...

I haven't tried the support for the C or C++ compilers targeting the C64, but that would set you up for developing with the C64 as a target in a modern environment.

If you're wanting it to be on the C64 Ultimate itself, maybe we'll all be in luck in a year or two.

New comment by aduty in "The Lions Operating System"

aduty — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:02:37 +0000

Love that discussion on the Haiku board.

New comment by aduty in "NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission"

aduty — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:21:45 +0000

He only cared about sending rockets up. Where they came down was other people's problem.

New comment by aduty in "Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend"

aduty — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:53:28 +0000

Mopar and dead car.

New comment by aduty in "AmigaMidiRecieve – Transfer File from Any OS to Amiga via MIDI"

aduty — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:23:05 +0000

Because some people want to watch the world burn.

New comment by aduty in "How functional programming shaped and twisted front end development"

aduty — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 10:33:24 +0000

If you have a workplace (not just a manager or even a set of them but an entire organization or subset thereof) that is allergic to punishing people then it's easier and less headache inducing to just tell everyone to use a particular framework with a set of customizations to maintain some semblance of unity. This is true if large teams and small "teams" that are overburdened with lots of disparate projects.

Should they be allergic to punishing people? No, but it be how it do.

New comment by aduty in "The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh"

aduty — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 11:54:08 +0000

I don't know how many of you need to read this but no one is stopping you from doing any of this. Putting aside cultural friction and being thought a bunch of quacks, you could just start doing these things. There's no real authority telling anyone that they can't despite what some people believe. Just do it!

New comment by aduty in "Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover"

aduty — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:33:31 +0000

That is the gist of it.