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New comment by badmonkey0001 in "Dopamine Fracking"

badmonkey0001 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:19:33 +0000

I was thinking of bananas and banana flavoring too. It may have been a better example than strawberries, but most people don't know how much variety bananas have because they've been so commoditized. It's too good of an example because the effect is complete.

https://10best.usatoday.com/food-drink/bananas-arent-good-as...

New comment by badmonkey0001 in "Bot vs human traffic"

badmonkey0001 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:36:16 +0000

Tiny peninsula; Six datacenters

The geology of the area seems to make for good cooling and DR sturdiness. One DC is even 500 meters under rock.

https://www.datacentermap.com/gibraltar/gibraltar/

https://www.datacentermap.com/gibraltar/gibraltar/continent8...

New comment by badmonkey0001 in "Mechanical Pencil: An illustrated celebration of the engineering around us"

badmonkey0001 — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:07:51 +0000

Weird/forced scrolling on FF desktop as well.

New comment by badmonkey0001 in "PageMaker pioneer Paul Brainerd, 1947-2026"

badmonkey0001 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 04:46:19 +0000

Pagemaker was a workhorse back in the 90s.

New comment by badmonkey0001 in "Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production"

badmonkey0001 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:44:00 +0000

15 years ago... They had just released a remake in 2008 for the Xbox, so the IP was certainly fresh in their minds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(2008_video_game)

Did they eventually drop the threat or did something else happen?

New comment by badmonkey0001 in "NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power"

badmonkey0001 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 13:40:05 +0000

There are dedicated turnkey vendors these days, so there's no need to get elaborate. All you need is a U of rack or two and enough cash.

Example: https://www.accubeat.com/ntp-ptp-time-servers

New comment by badmonkey0001 in "The gruesome new data on tech jobs"

badmonkey0001 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 01:39:13 +0000

It feels to me like everyone is holding their breath to see how the wholesale "AI can replace people" notion pans out. Whether it proves true or not, betting on the wrong result will hit hard so few want to go all in (outside of the companies that produce the tech itself). If there's anything "AI" has been able to ship at scale, it's uncertainty.

New comment by badmonkey0001 in "A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colors"

badmonkey0001 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:09:05 +0000

Could be just plain alphabetical. There's a selector for which color name list to use/examine on the bottom of the visualization. There's also a selector for which color space model to use.

New comment by badmonkey0001 in "Show HN: EZwurd. The easy way to learn Spanish pronunciation"

badmonkey0001 — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 18:10:17 +0000

Cool project!

New comment by badmonkey0001 in "Developing for old browsers is (almost) a thing of the past"

badmonkey0001 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:59:37 +0000

Now the problem becomes mobile browsers... (hover vs. tap, tiny resolutions, differences in form controls, sometimes crippled features that work fine in a "pc" based browser, fluid layout choices, float issues)

There will always be madness.

[edit] Took me a few to find this link again. Do compatibility charts like this look familiar? http://www.quirksmode.org/m/css.html

New comment by badmonkey0001 in "Now that people are considering NOSQL will more people consider no-DB"

badmonkey0001 — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 07:57:55 +0000

What have you needed out of ANSI SQL that is a gap in its Turing Completeness? Totally serious. A great many things can be dismissed as not being Turing Complete, so please provide us with some examples of why this is bad in ANSI SQL.

Bucketized Data in PHP with inBuckets()

badmonkey0001 — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 05:46:24 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.brynmosher.com/2011/08/09/bucketizing-data-with-inbuckets-in-php/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2866937

Points: 1

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New comment by badmonkey0001 in "Why are restaurant websites so awful? Because of restaurant culture."

badmonkey0001 — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:23:40 +0000

These words make me close tab for the site I'm looking at right away: "Click to launch site". I came to your website... shouldn't it have launched already? Oh it's not a website - it's a multimedia presentation? Great. That's not what I came to your "website" for. No thanks.

(Though I have to admit, there was a time when I actively looked for those sites. I made some good money going to restaurants and other small businesses around town offering to convert their sites from un-editable flash to a simple, skin-able CMS I had whipped up. They were always skeptical until I said "never pay for changing text or prices on your site again". After that, they were my customer and no longer the customer of the wannabe-techno-hipster that sold them the original contract for site and "updates".)

New comment by badmonkey0001 in "The Mysterious Case Of The Craigslist Writing Gig Scam"

badmonkey0001 — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:49:50 +0000

The phone number and extension is probably what's used to identify where the "sales lead" came from. As for the long-calls, there's probably a minimum connection time before the lead is considered "valid". "aaron" is probably telling everyone 6 minutes keeping in mind that this is a Craig's labor pool and they will probably only really do 2 minutes on average.

New comment by badmonkey0001 in "Games company claims their graphics are 100,000x better"

badmonkey0001 — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 05:51:12 +0000

Sorry for the belated reply. Yeah, I saw Atommontage and it's quite interesting. Despite the realism of the track marks left and suspension movement, the truck still seems to exhibit some unnatural "floating" feeling. These are the very pitfalls of dealing with lower-res poly collision that I was speaking about. Kind of an uncanny barrier for movement.

I do feel that this author is a bit further along at something ship-able than the Euclideon folks are though.

Apache One-Liner to List All Server Names and Aliases

badmonkey0001 — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 05:42:39 +0000

Here’s an Apache one-liner I often find myself using. It will list all of the server names and alises that are contained in the active Apache config files on a machine. I’ll go into the parts of the command and how to modify it to suit your needs. This assumes a bash-like shell (with grep, sed, sort, tr and a for loop), root (or permission to run the httpd binary directly) and if you wish to modify the examples, a little command-fu.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2844788

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by badmonkey0001 in "Games company claims their graphics are 100,000x better"

badmonkey0001 — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:23:59 +0000

The more I think about it, the more I realize that of the three pure voxel problems (rendering, animation and collision), rendering is probably the low-hanging fruit - Though I'm not sure if creating a hybrid poly/voxel engine is any harder or easier.

Here's to at least getting a hyper-real Myst someday :)

New comment by badmonkey0001 in "Games company claims their graphics are 100,000x better"

badmonkey0001 — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:55:22 +0000

That and I don't know of anyone (outside of using them as particles) that has successfully created collision models with voxels in real time. The collision calculations of just a few of their scanned rocks and a ground plane would be plenty complex - a whole scene perhaps even a little insane given today's specs.

They might have to resort to polygonal collision models in the same way that polygonal games end up using low-poly collision models (with the same pitfalls such as moonwalking, blocked projectiles or mystery-bouncing).

New comment by badmonkey0001 in "NewT.js - pure JS templating engine"

badmonkey0001 — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:15:06 +0000

I don't think you're being too harsh. I agree that newT really doesn't seem like a templating engine - it seems more like a HTML generator. It's a pretty complex hammer to drive a carpet tack. Programmatically constructing DOM from that low of a level is still more trouble than it's worth.

For me, I stick to small chunks I can loop on my own if need be and use a simple tokenizer I wrote (see bpmv.toke() at https://github.com/BrynM/bpmv/blob/master/bpmv.js ). Far simpler and I can have anyone whip up HTML boilerplate to use.

New comment by badmonkey0001 in "If you develop web apps, don't do this."

badmonkey0001 — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:00:30 +0000

POST can be sniffed and is only slightly less vulnerable than GET. HTTPS at a dedicated address should be a minimum level of security for a login form. Anything else is readily vulnerable to sniffing or spoofing.