Hacker News: amptorn

New comment by amptorn in "Does anybody remember Google People"

amptorn — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 14:35:32 +0000

Is fiction not allowed on HN?

New comment by amptorn in "“Clean Code, Horrible Performance” Discussion"

amptorn — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 20:32:33 +0000

I gave up on Clean Architecture after about one chapter. There's a section where he's graphing the number of lines of code in a hypothetical company's codebase over time - it grows rapidly at first and then it levels off, and he points at this like it means anything, specifically like it's a bad thing and it means the software has become difficult to work in. Also this isn't a line chart, it's a bar chart, and the X axis isn't time, it's unlabeled - eventually, in the text, you find that there's one bar per major release of the software, if that tells you anything about how retro this conception of software development is. Another bar chart shows the number of developers growing rapidly, as if that means anything either... It was just baffling.

New comment by amptorn in "It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)"

amptorn — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 12:07:15 +0000

This is kind of like a recipe book opening with a disclaimer saying "Some of these recipes might make you ill."

New comment by amptorn in "Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”"

amptorn — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 20:23:33 +0000

Can it execute code?

New comment by amptorn in "MMAcevedo"

amptorn — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 11:03:12 +0000

The story's name is "Lena", not "MMAcevedo".

New comment by amptorn in "It’s time to leave the leap second in the past"

amptorn — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 17:45:32 +0000

I think that observation just lends further weight to the argument that the relationship between atomic time and universal time is a dynamic and unpredictable thing, which we need to handle correctly rather than pretending it doesn't exist.

New comment by amptorn in "Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold"

amptorn — Fri, 13 May 2022 18:01:05 +0000

The offered price to buy Twitter is ~220 times its net annual cash flow? Something about that does not compute.

New comment by amptorn in "JavaScript quiz that may confuse you"

amptorn — Tue, 03 May 2022 11:39:59 +0000

The more surprising thing about `Array.prototype.sort` is that it both sorts the array in place and returns the (now-sorted) array. You can go a long time writing `const arr2 = arr1.sort()` without realizing that what you're doing is wrong, and the code you're writing is misleading readers about what it does.

New comment by amptorn in "Bitcoin miners revived a dying fossil fuel plant – then CO2 emissions soared"

amptorn — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 17:50:59 +0000

Yes, actually it is negative, due to the emissions and waste involved in setting up energy production in the first place. That negative has to be offset by using the energy to do something useful.

New comment by amptorn in "Bitcoin miners revived a dying fossil fuel plant – then CO2 emissions soared"

amptorn — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 15:22:19 +0000

> Bitcoin can use energy in places you couldn’t get to before

You're suggesting a scenario where, instead of using energy at point A to do useful work, we use energy at point B to generate Bitcoin to buy energy at point A to do the useful work. In this scenario,

  1. the same amount of energy is still being generated at point A, and
  2. an incredible amount of additional energy is being generated at point B for no reason

New comment by amptorn in "Bitcoin miners revived a dying fossil fuel plant – then CO2 emissions soared"

amptorn — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 15:14:41 +0000

It's not free! You have to pay for the electricity and the expensive mining hardware! And it's less energy efficient than heating your house using conventional means.

New comment by amptorn in "Bitcoin miners revived a dying fossil fuel plant – then CO2 emissions soared"

amptorn — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 15:09:31 +0000

> There is a world of untapped energy that is only restricted by isolation. So you could entirely run bitcoin without increasing global energy output, if that makes sense.

No? Using previously untapped energy for Bitcoin, or for anything, does, in fact, increase global energy output.

New comment by amptorn in "Bitcoin miners revived a dying fossil fuel plant – then CO2 emissions soared"

amptorn — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 14:14:50 +0000

So by "move energy" you mean "move energy demand".

New comment by amptorn in "Quordle: Four Wordles in One"

amptorn — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 09:56:52 +0000

No, the creator of Dordle has not put his code on GitHub.

New comment by amptorn in "Quordle: Four Wordles in One"

amptorn — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 23:47:59 +0000

Octordle directly stole Dordle's code, so, yeah, not a fan.

New comment by amptorn in "Quordle: Four Wordles in One"

amptorn — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 21:35:54 +0000

Yes? Per the "History of Quordle": https://www.quordle.com/#?overlay=tutorial

> It all started on January 29, 2022 when I saw an article mentioning Dordle by Guilherme S. Töws and we all started playing it as a group. It was a blast to play something more difficult than Wordle

New comment by amptorn in "Quordle: Four Wordles in One"

amptorn — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 21:07:50 +0000

This feels like a cheap ripoff of Dordle: https://zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

If you're going to put your own spin on Wordle, have at it, many others have, but at least demonstrate some creativity.

New comment by amptorn in "Google Search Is Dying"

amptorn — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 16:28:25 +0000

That's stopped working! Google is just ignoring them from time to time now. Did you even read the article?

New comment by amptorn in "Social engineering scam that nearly cost me all of my ETH"

amptorn — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 20:19:33 +0000

Can a smart contract make a wire transfer with your knowledge?

New comment by amptorn in "Show HN: Evil Wordle"

amptorn — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 22:37:59 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio...