Hacker News: bobmaxup

New comment by bobmaxup in "New GitHub Copilot research finds 'downward pressure on code quality'"

bobmaxup — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 02:46:53 +0000

It is hard to know if you have fixed or broke something when there are hundreds of distinct variants of it and no way to test its correctness.

Also, not all maintenance involves correcting inborn defects.

New comment by bobmaxup in "New GitHub Copilot research finds 'downward pressure on code quality'"

bobmaxup — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 21:50:53 +0000

...said no one who inherited the maintenance of hundreds of thousands of lines of copy pasted code.

New comment by bobmaxup in "Mozilla thinks Apple, Google, Microsoft should play fair"

bobmaxup — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 21:17:50 +0000

An article on the topic:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/why-the-death-of-the-firefo...

New comment by bobmaxup in "Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos"

bobmaxup — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 23:34:50 +0000

Is NLU really this reliable yet? I tried making some scripts like this with LLMs, and it seemed to do very poorly. So, I abandoned the effort.

New comment by bobmaxup in "Gene therapy allows an 11-year-old boy to hear"

bobmaxup — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 07:36:31 +0000

To be fair, they did qualify the statement with "or so".

New comment by bobmaxup in "MrBeast reveals he made $250k from X video"

bobmaxup — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 20:13:51 +0000

> Youtube isn't a social network.

Certainly seems to be one to me?

New comment by bobmaxup in "Challenges to the credibility of two recent Netflix documentaries"

bobmaxup — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 18:21:03 +0000

not all of these domains always resolve to what you expect, depending on your dns provider.

archive.today (main) archive.ph archive.is archive.li archive.vn archive.fo archive.md

New comment by bobmaxup in "Ubisoft Says Out Loud: We Want People to Get Used to Not Owning What They Bought"

bobmaxup — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 17:43:07 +0000

Not if you still had the original system as well. I imagine it is not the norm though.

New comment by bobmaxup in "Ubisoft Says Out Loud: We Want People to Get Used to Not Owning What They Bought"

bobmaxup — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 17:38:23 +0000

> this is being widely misinterpreted

It sounds like Ubisoft wants their streaming and subscription services to grow, but reality doesn't line up with their vision.

They are purchasing long term streaming rights from other companies like Activision Blizzard.

"Ubisoft recently announced the completion of the transaction with Activision Blizzard giving Ubisoft the perpetual cloud streaming rights for Call of Duty and all other existing Activision Blizzard Console and PC titles as well as those releasing over the next 15 years. These rights will further strengthen Ubisoft’s content offering through its subscription service Ubisoft+ as well as allowing Ubisoft to license them to third parties."

It seems they are betting on a speculative market. They assume people will treat owning games like owning DVDs in the past.

From what is said in the article, it sounds like they are probably worried about losing a lot of money on this bet.

They reported a net loss of nearly half a billion euros last year.

New comment by bobmaxup in "Microsoft actions following attack by nation state actor Midnight Blizzard"

bobmaxup — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 08:21:18 +0000

How do you know if nothing happens? It isn't like the people siphoning, selling, or purchasing this data are broadcasting their wins on news aggregators.

New comment by bobmaxup in "How I'm writing CSS in 2024"

bobmaxup — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 12:16:27 +0000

In my opinion, all of these things exist because CSS is confusing to people, not because anything is inherently better. This is especially true with modern build tools. CSS modules and Atomic CSS seem like a regression to me, but not all needs are the same.

New comment by bobmaxup in "How I'm writing CSS in 2024"

bobmaxup — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 11:30:34 +0000

https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules

New comment by bobmaxup in "Discontinued and unreleased Microsoft peripherals revived by licensing deal"

bobmaxup — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 19:41:27 +0000

Nice recommendation. Although, it is 3-6x the price of the Microsoft products' original pricing. A Kinesis Freestyle is cheaper

New comment by bobmaxup in "NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possible contract breach"

bobmaxup — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 19:36:43 +0000

Or just answer randomly. You might get rejected for inconsistent answers, but at least no one will have a "personality profile" for you that they can sell.

New comment by bobmaxup in "Discontinued and unreleased Microsoft peripherals revived by licensing deal"

bobmaxup — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 10:36:24 +0000

I think that the Microsoft ergonomic keyboard is selling for nearly $400 on Amazon.

New comment by bobmaxup in "A tale of two teenagers (2023)"

bobmaxup — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 08:16:00 +0000

This planet has a lot of time left in it for humans to do things. One human missing an opportunity doesn't lead to the statistical outcome that that opportunity wont be fulfilled in the future. An individual is not that important to humanity as a whole progressing. Live your life.

New comment by bobmaxup in "2023 Word of the Year is "enshittification""

bobmaxup — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 07:59:41 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

New comment by bobmaxup in "Lancet journal retracts article on hearing aids and dementia after prodding"

bobmaxup — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 23:53:28 +0000

Isn't The Lancet infamous for high profile retractions?

New comment by bobmaxup in "Bad scientific code beats code following "best practices" (2014)"

bobmaxup — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 23:44:11 +0000

Not many people can understand a very large code base without taking notes, using an IDE, or similar tooling.

> Not a dig at nice IDEs, just code that requires one to navigate and understand

A nice IDE helps you reason about code, no matter what the underlying architecture is. That is why there is a market for them.

New comment by bobmaxup in "Bad scientific code beats code following "best practices" (2014)"

bobmaxup — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 08:16:38 +0000

Maybe it boils down to how well you are able to navigate a code base.

With a full-featured language specific IDE, it is very easy to navigate through even complicated spaghetti. It makes debugging call traces simple, with a GUI.

However, many other file viewers and editors make this much more complicated, and it can be frustrating to follow code that is making heavy use of modularization.

If you are grepping your way through a deeply modular code base it can quickly become difficult to keep track of anything.