Hacker News: barbariangrunge

New comment by barbariangrunge in "Why fastDOOM is fast"

barbariangrunge — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:41:21 +0000

As a gamedev, those slowdowns are common. Ui rendering, due to transparency, layering and having to redraw things, and especially from triggering allocations, can be a real killer. Comparing old vs new before allowing it to redraw is really helpful. I found layers and transparency was a killer in css as well in one project, but that was more about reducing layers there

New comment by barbariangrunge in "Mozilla Foundation has no members"

barbariangrunge — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 16:23:10 +0000

The article isn’t very substantive. What is typical of similar organizations? What exactly is a foundation? Are there any important benefits to not having members for its mission? How is the board chosen? The article describes none of this

New comment by barbariangrunge in "Ad-tech setting 'Privacy-Preserving Attribution' is opt-out in Firefox 128"

barbariangrunge — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 07:54:24 +0000

Can anyone comment on how effectively privacy is preserved with this approach?

New comment by barbariangrunge in "Using the 5S Principle in Coding"

barbariangrunge — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 16:07:26 +0000

5S is more about organizing your workspace, but this article is about organizing your work product. And it doesn’t say anything that isn’t standard dev practice, it just organizes the items under a strained 5S umbrella. Imho

New comment by barbariangrunge in "Why Use Onion Layering?"

barbariangrunge — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 05:59:22 +0000

What do you mean by background in apis? You mean experience working with them?

New comment by barbariangrunge in "Aboriginal ritual passed down over 12,000 years, cave find shows"

barbariangrunge — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 17:06:23 +0000

Imagine a smartphone lasting even 12 years

New comment by barbariangrunge in "Greece introduces the six day work week"

barbariangrunge — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 03:48:52 +0000

Nobody is hiring armies of workers just so those workers can “scrape out a living.” Companies cut jobs, they rarely create them for charity

New comment by barbariangrunge in "Greece introduces the six day work week"

barbariangrunge — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 03:40:15 +0000

What about advertising?

New comment by barbariangrunge in "Fastmail lays off 60% of union bargaining committee in surprise restructure"

barbariangrunge — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 15:38:47 +0000

Can you export easily these days?

New comment by barbariangrunge in "Windows 11 Government Edition is what everyone wants, but there is a catch"

barbariangrunge — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 15:28:12 +0000

The catch is it’s fake

New comment by barbariangrunge in "Microsofts AI boss thinks its perfectly OK to steal content if its on open web"

barbariangrunge — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 23:25:47 +0000

I don’t care if it’s expensive or difficult. If somebody wants copyrighted content to train an ai, buy the rights to it before creating these derivative works based on it

New comment by barbariangrunge in "ChatGPT is hallucinating fake links to its news partners' biggest investigations"

barbariangrunge — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:23:12 +0000

I think the bigger issue is trust. The chat it is no longer trying to return objective information. “OpenAI” is letting companies pay to have it promote their content—is that accurate?

New comment by barbariangrunge in "200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown"

barbariangrunge — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 23:52:41 +0000

Apply that to other situations though. Those sorts of books are ordinary. If you used that sort of profiling after the fact on everyone, you could make anyone look suspicious or untrustworthy

Witch hunters during the inquisition literally used to do this sort of thing to help condemn people

New comment by barbariangrunge in "200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown"

barbariangrunge — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 22:58:13 +0000

People shouldn’t be profiled based on what they watch or read. Are we going so say that couldn’t video games are evidence that somebody is going to go commit violence next? What if you’re into spy movies? Crime documentaries? Weird reality tv shows?

I read all kinds of non fiction things I won’t even list here but I seem to be a perfectly boring member of society. It’s just interesting subject matter

New comment by barbariangrunge in "YouTube in talks with record labels over AI music deal"

barbariangrunge — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 15:11:38 +0000

As a content creator, where can you even go and what can you do to get an audience these days that doesn’t surrender everything you make to be used to train ais to replace you?

New comment by barbariangrunge in "Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco"

barbariangrunge — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 01:05:32 +0000

It does. It uses a specific band on the electro magnetic spectrum commonly supported by most receivers

New comment by barbariangrunge in "The case for criminalizing scientific misconduct"

barbariangrunge — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 13:55:07 +0000

Science itself would have been considered a form of intellectual misconduct at one point. It would be important to be very careful here with definitions and scope, Eg, limiting it to fake data

New comment by barbariangrunge in "Show HN: I made a puzzle game that gently introduces my favorite math mysteries"

barbariangrunge — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:07:05 +0000

This is lovely. The Ux isn’t my favourite when it’s time to draw but it’s pretty great besides that

New comment by barbariangrunge in "New York bans 'addictive feeds' for teens"

barbariangrunge — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 22:19:54 +0000

Karma probably should be

New comment by barbariangrunge in "FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations"

barbariangrunge — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 19:02:34 +0000

Amazon accounts are really hard to delete too. You have to talk to a retention person and jump through says of hoops