Hacker News: bnetd

New comment by bnetd in "My 3D SWE Portfolio – Built with React Three Fiber"

bnetd — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 14:46:23 +0000

More than likely this is it. Well done Bruce! Any insider info on it?

New comment by bnetd in "My 3D SWE Portfolio - Built with React Three Fiber."

bnetd — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 04:42:24 +0000

No, this was a completely different, but competing product. the IDE was intended for, to some extent, simple 3D modeling/importing of 3D models, and you could launch a browser instance to see the output.

New comment by bnetd in "My 3D SWE Portfolio – Built with React Three Fiber"

bnetd — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 03:58:16 +0000

Does anyone remember that mid-2000s, 3D competitor to Flash? i think the name started with A like Ankh or something like that but I could be wildly off. It had an IDE and basically ran as a plugin in the browser. It died a quiet death.

This site kinda sorta reminds me of that.

Forget what it's called - if someone does, please post more info!

New comment by bnetd in "Why the weak nuclear force is short range"

bnetd — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:38:50 +0000

As an aside, is there conclusive evidence to say that no aether exists, or are we just saying it doesn't exist because a handful of tests were conducted to match what we thought this aether would behave like and the tests came back negative?

New comment by bnetd in "Take the pedals off the bike"

bnetd — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 03:27:10 +0000

> EDIT 1/14/2025: this article went viral on hacker news and now I have a bunch of comments telling me the above is wrong; mea culpa, I was never great at physics and apparently copy-pasting the explanation from the first google hit for "how do bikes stay upright" is not trustworthy in 2025. All I really care to say is that there's something mysterious and ineffable about balancing on a bike when you're a little kid that's hard to master when you're also trying to get a grip on pedaling, and your every instinct is to brake whenever you get scared, which will immediately tip you over.

Dear OP: don't worry about HN. They are insufferable cunts and have been for as long as I've been here (well over a decade).

New comment by bnetd in "Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab"

bnetd — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:07:11 +0000

Is there a somber write-up anywhere as to the future of EE in the West?

New comment by bnetd in "American workers' enthusiasm for their jobs falls to a 10-year low"

bnetd — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:48:35 +0000

This is a shrill take in the same platitudinal vein as saying there should be world peace by now. You're regurgitating techno-optimist fantasies you've read from someone else and have come to mistake them for reality or desirability.

The median individual is not going to be working less than 40 hours a week. The system has found a balancing point and people will compete with each other for the money, resources and status as much as their sanity can endure it. There is nothing anachronistic about it, because it has been the case long before 19th century and will remain the case long after 19th century.

New comment by bnetd in "I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back"

bnetd — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:01:16 +0000

I switched from Firefox and Never Looked Back

New comment by bnetd in "Types are a basic tool of software design (2018)"

bnetd — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 16:29:19 +0000

To reinvent it.