<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: an_opabinia</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=an_opabinia</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:54:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=an_opabinia" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by an_opabinia in "Streaming data in Postgres to 1M clients with GraphQL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Which is it? Sounds cool.</p>
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<p>It’s incredible really that these guys are talking about using Godot on consoles when it is in such bad shape.<p>Even if it’s a bait and switch, and they spend 100% of the funds on just like, making the engine better, $8m isn’t going to get you to 1/20th of Unity or Unreal. It is an insurmountable niche.</p>
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<p>Ink</p>
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<p>The Victoria man is a radical, he's there to start an interesting conversation, he's succeeding.<p>> power to compel people to do the dishes... and some type of punishment to mete out.<p>Moneyed, Adam Smith style capitalist economies still had slaves, colonies, wars of plunder.<p>It's tough. I see from your other commenters you're rooting for the guy. The mainstream opinion that executives should be paid less, that the lowest wages should rise, these are freebies and could be implemented in an afternoon, with no consequences. All the changes in a person's day to day life would be for the better. Mainstream people advocate against inequality not the elimination of money, but yes, there is a transfer, a "handout," as part of those goals.</p>
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<p>The USA was a fine place to live, many people happily gainfully employed, many investment accounts booking gains, labor and capital coexisting in harmony, when inflation was double what it is now.</p>
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<p>Nobody said no classes. There wasn’t money like there was in Europe. There were by some intellectually honest estimates 50m people living in N and S America at the time of arrival, a huge number of people were living day to day without money.</p>
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<p>We could probably 10x the number of “handouts” as you call them, at least in the US, and nothing would change.
We’ve auditioned it already: $4T in stimulus, the $600/wk employment checks, etc. What negative negative impact really did that have on an average person’s day to day life? “Handouts” made pay rise for the first time in decades.<p>Even the landlords. I don’t know any landlords who are on the street because of the rent forbearance and eviction moratorium - and I don’t even agree with those policies.</p>
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<p>Indigenous Americans, prior to colonists’ arrival.</p>
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<p>90% of the revenue is games. Mobile Chrome would only need to support idiosyncratic Unity and Unreal web targets for a significant chunk of that revenue.</p>
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<p>Listen to yourself. “Under the works.” Dude, c’mon of course it was the lawsuits.</p>
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<p>Show me a traditional App Store app that doesn’t pay 30% of IAP to Apple.</p>
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<p>It is totally about preventing alternatives to the App Store.</p>
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<p>National, standardized, digital ID is inevitable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2021 03:30:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27946460</link><dc:creator>an_opabinia</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27946460</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27946460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by an_opabinia in "Amiga 2000 EATX PCB"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Retrocomputing is the programmer’s version of cringe. The very border of benign.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2021 22:10:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27944854</link><dc:creator>an_opabinia</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27944854</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27944854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by an_opabinia in "Why is the university of California dropping the SAT?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Indeed, because of diminishing marginal returns on studying, even being in the 50th percentile of SAT test prep hours can improve your score by 10 percentiles. It’s hard to know how many students spend 0 hours studying but it is definitely the plurality if not more than 50%. However, implementing such a study program in schools has two obstacles: (1) is forcing a student to do more than zero hours of studying the same as doing more than zero hours of studying? Will such a student just zone out and get 0 gains, but your study will book positive time spent studying? (2) 80% of the exam score will still be explained by G factor.<p>I don’t know how many hours of studying 50th percentile is or whatever, by the way. This just comes from the math and the fact that the test scores are “ex Gaussian” - skewed normal, where the small skew is explained by everything that isn’t G, like studying.</p>
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<p>Most people who weren’t 18 and living in CA in the last 3 years don’t know much about how UC admissions work.</p>
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<p>Dropping the SAT is an affirmative action measure.</p>
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<p>In my experience, for every engineering subordinate that turned out to be good that I didn't bother testing with leetcode, there were 19 who sucked and also failed their coding test, or sucked and we should have tested them. So far, among people who studied programming as their major in college, the best predictor was the prestige of the university they attended.</p>
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<p>???<p>That’s not how this stuff works at all. This is a dispute over the facts, and how much money the facts are worth, and to whom. Someone in California DOJ had a 15 minute meeting with their people and ATVI people and already decided that ATVI is going to face a fine to be paid to its female complainant former employees, the next three years of lawsuit is a ceremony enacting that.</p>
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<p>Public health emergencies exceed the limitations of your contrarianism.</p>
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