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New comment by bananicorn in "The 2005 Sony Bravia ad"

bananicorn — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 15:48:46 +0000

The video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spB4ezsQ6II

New comment by bananicorn in "'PDF to Brainrot' study tools are an iteration on a TikTok trend"

bananicorn — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 11:31:33 +0000

Absolutely with you on the last point, but the Subway Surfers mentioned in this Article is a mobile game which has been around since 2012 - they don't splice in videos with actual subway surfing. Not that that changes much about the article in general^^

New comment by bananicorn in "Vim Racer"

bananicorn — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:55:36 +0000

Try this in your local vim: set rnu

Really handy for relative movements like 5j or 12k :)

New comment by bananicorn in "We're ending our Samsung collaboration"

bananicorn — Fri, 24 May 2024 15:41:55 +0000

FYI the fingerprint sensor problem has since been fixed and I can now use it again without trouble for banking apps and the like. (Although I'm on a Fairphone 3+) Still holding up fairly well in 2024, even if it's a bit slow at times.

New comment by bananicorn in "Shattered Pixel Dungeon is an open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler"

bananicorn — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 09:16:16 +0000

DCSS = Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

ADoM = Ancient Domains of Mystery

Cataclysm DDA = Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead

I swear I didn't make the first one up ;) Edit: ah well, you got your answer already^^

System76 AMD-Only Laptop Returns

bananicorn — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 16:09:54 +0000

Article URL: https://system76.com/laptops/pangolin-teaser

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34355669

Points: 231

# Comments: 287

New comment by bananicorn in "[dead]"

bananicorn — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 12:32:44 +0000

That was probably supposed to be a pun - you're both on the same side here :)

New comment by bananicorn in "Ask HN: What hobbies do you have which help you rest your eyes?"

bananicorn — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 19:51:50 +0000

Skateboarding!

It's a bit hard to find time for it during a workday, but sometimes I just have the urge to get moving and trade lunch with my colleagues for some time on the board. A really nice change of pace, and I can usually think much better after getting some movement in, even if it's just some light cruising.

I'd still like to have another hobby which I can do during the winter, and maybe even while commuting. Maybe I should take up something like knitting, or any other craft which can be done during short downtimes.

New comment by bananicorn in "Doing something is better than doing nothing for most people: study (2014)"

bananicorn — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 18:14:39 +0000

It's never too late to start. At the beginning you should really focus on trying some things that keep your attention.

(For me that was programming games - incredibly crufty ones, but seeing thing move on my screen got me really excited and got me to understand)

Personally, that was javascript for me - mostly because you can do stuff with it in any browser you want. Lua[0] is also a great language for beginners, and I'm still using it for game development[1] and general scripting/fun stuff.

I just don't want to turn this into a hella long comment, so I'll wrap it up; but I could talk about the first steps you could take for hours :)

If you want to ask me anything on how to get started, just shoot me a mail under info@(my username here).com I'd be super happy to help :)

[0]https://www.lua.org/ [1]https://love2d.org/

New comment by bananicorn in "Thinkpad X230 with “e-Ink” display at 30fps [video]"

bananicorn — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 10:50:09 +0000

This is the same type of screen used as in the pebble smartwatches[0], right?

Honestly, I wonder why that technology hasn't been used for anything like the Thinkpad in the video - I'd love to have such a device!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_(watch)#Hardware

New comment by bananicorn in "Writing HTML in HTML (2019)"

bananicorn — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 13:14:54 +0000

To add to that - if you prefer writing the body of the post itself in markdown, and write in VIM, here's a little snippet that might help:

:%!markdown_py

where markdown_py is your markdown-to-html tool of choice. This will take the whole buffer and turn it into HTML; Otherwise, just select what you want transformed in visual mode, press : and go use it like this:

:'<,'>!markdown_py

Just felt the need to share - any command line utility can be used in VIM :)

(Emacs, VSCode and other editor-using people feel free to chime in, I'm sure there's lots of cool approaches to this)

Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics

bananicorn — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:15:59 +0000

Article URL: https://system76.com/laptops/pangolin?its-the-same-url-but-the-content-has-changed-thank-you

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26477855

Points: 500

# Comments: 458

New comment by bananicorn in "LeoCAD 21.03"

bananicorn — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 10:39:26 +0000

The issue already seems to be there[0], but honestly I immediately resorted to using the arrows to move the pieces around and from there on out it didn't disturb me anymore.

I'm really glad you're putting such an emphasis on beginner friendliness though, that's really cool!

[0]https://github.com/leozide/leocad/issues/655

New comment by bananicorn in "LeoCAD 21.03"

bananicorn — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 09:51:46 +0000

I just gave this a try, and I would honestly love to have a traditional cad software that is so intuitive and easy to use. (Except for the stuff with the rotation, that was a little hiccup for me)

I could just get into it, drag, drop rotate and make some stuff - it's actually _fun_ to use!

Does anyone know of a cad program which uses a similar approach? I'd love to be able to build smooth models with such a software...

New comment by bananicorn in "Updating “101 Basic Computer Games” for 2021"

bananicorn — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 14:02:17 +0000

I highly recommend messing around with yabasic[0] a bit, runs on windows and (probably) most unix-likes, and even offers graphics capabilities right out of the box!

I feel like this would've been a great batteries-included environment to start in, back when I started programming.

[0] http://www.yabasic.de/

New comment by bananicorn in "Ask HN: Super Fast Text-Only Sites?"

bananicorn — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 09:29:08 +0000

A related thing to consider: I've been thoroughly enjoying sites built on the gemini protocol[0]

They're all written in a sort of restricted markdown, and the community seems to be a pretty fun place to be.

[0] https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

New comment by bananicorn in "Ask HN: How to self-learn graphics programming?"

bananicorn — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 08:23:02 +0000

I know it's not what you asked for, but these articles helped me a lot with linear algebra - which you will most probably need in any case:

http://blog.wolfire.com/2009/07/linear-algebra-for-game-deve...

http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/07/Linear-algebra-for-game-deve...

New comment by bananicorn in "Flanderization"

bananicorn — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 08:54:45 +0000

Then again, shows like One Punch Man work because you know all of those tropes, and doesn't seem to work nearly half as well if you don't know what they're referring to.

(I've tried showing it to someone with rather little prior exposition to traditional shonen and the person found it rather boring. A sample size of one, I know that says almost nothing)

If you haven't watched it yet, give Hunter x Hunter a try - sure you'll see lots of re-occurring tropes, but it's a bit of a breath of fresh air, promised.

New comment by bananicorn in "Five lines I put in a blank .vimrc"

bananicorn — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 22:20:03 +0000

Why would you not just set the location of the backup and swapfiles to a fixed place in your system?

Try this:

    set backupdir=~/.vim/backups,.
    set directory=~/.vim/swapfiles,.

It will only write in the current directory, if ~/.vim/backups does not exist, and the dot is just there for portability, so nothing breaks when using my vimrc on a new system.

Edit: Upon actually reading your blog-post, I understand at least one reason - my options may not change the behaviour of a file not being written to the correct inode, so you have a point for some build systems.

I actually learned rather much reading this, thank you for sharing!

New comment by bananicorn in "Examples of games developed by a single developer?"

bananicorn — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 18:06:25 +0000

Infiniminer is something that comes to mind - which was the base used for Minecraft, I think.

While we're in the Realm of voxel-based games, there's Minetest, which is open Source and written in C++ and extendable by Lua.

Iirc, braid was also developed solely by one person, although he did commision the art.

But in general, the "big game made by a single person" is a bit of a myth. Sure, it does exist, but many of those people have either had help from others, or were actually working in a small team.

A lot of it is just marketing talk.