Hacker News: cjsawyer

New comment by cjsawyer in "Log by time, not by count"

cjsawyer — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 02:27:05 +0000

My personal answer to this is logging very little during normal operation and then logging a lot during errors. Depending on the maturity of the system “a lot” might mean the entire state so I can debug afterwords.

New comment by cjsawyer in "Windows on ARM on a Smart Watch"

cjsawyer — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 18:44:28 +0000

Excellent dedication to the pun!

New comment by cjsawyer in "Premature Graying of Hair: Review with Updates"

cjsawyer — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 18:04:37 +0000

Mostly noun recall. I can mentally picture and describe thing or person X, but when I'm having the problem it could possibly take me 30 minutes to figure out the name of X without looking it up.

New comment by cjsawyer in "Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles"

cjsawyer — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 18:00:15 +0000

I prefer the density of the original, but your addition of "Today", "Yesterday", "Wednesday"... buttons is excellent. That is much more useful than the infinite scroll on the vanilla homepage.

New comment by cjsawyer in "New era of slop security reports for open source"

cjsawyer — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 17:58:56 +0000

I've started enjoying older printed books again. There's solace knowing that it was at least made by a person.

New comment by cjsawyer in "Premature Graying of Hair: Review with Updates"

cjsawyer — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 17:39:08 +0000

Taking methylcobalamin B12 supplements essentially fixed my memory problems. Early on I tried out the cyanocobalamin type and got absolutely nothing from it.

If I stop taking the supplements for a few weeks, the memory problems come back. If I start again, a week later my memory is excellent. It’s well worth the minor effort.

New comment by cjsawyer in "ByteDance sacks intern for sabotaging AI project"

cjsawyer — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 02:37:26 +0000

I believe the opposite. The issue is that destroying requires much less effort than creating.

New comment by cjsawyer in "Microsoft completes $69B deal to buy Activision Blizzard"

cjsawyer — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 23:04:34 +0000

I was talking about clients and servers in the classic setup, not for cloud gaming. My parent was talking about game ping and I was pointing out that cloud services are even more sensitive since you’re not interacting with the game client locally.

New comment by cjsawyer in "Microsoft completes $69B deal to buy Activision Blizzard"

cjsawyer — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 19:54:58 +0000

The latency between peripheral input and visual feedback is much more important than the latency between a game client and server. The servers have all sorts of mitigation strategies to compensate. For inputs, it’s all on the human. Which feels bad.

New comment by cjsawyer in "Shift Happens: A book about keyboards"

cjsawyer — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 18:11:46 +0000

Keyboards are an endless money pit for me. Every year or so I’ll randomly get dissatisfied with my setup and seek to somehow upgrade it. At some point I’ll have to admit that it’s because I just like playing with new hardware… but maybe not today :)

New comment by cjsawyer in "Mozilla restricts extensions on some domains on Firefox 115"

cjsawyer — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:19:52 +0000

I’d be 100% on-board if they changed this from a list of URL’s they define to a list I define. Web extensions sound great until you realize how much power you’re handing to arbitrary code once you allow it reading and writing to the DOM. They can forward anything to anywhere, sandboxing goes out the window

New comment by cjsawyer in "I booted Linux 293k times in 21 hours"

cjsawyer — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 17:22:59 +0000

This is the same logic in avoiding link-only answers on Stack Overflow. They’re both good rules.

New comment by cjsawyer in "Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics"

cjsawyer — Tue, 30 May 2023 04:14:34 +0000

There’s also Not Tetris https://stabyourself.net/nottetris2/

New comment by cjsawyer in "Apple announces multibillion deal with Broadcom to make components in the USA"

cjsawyer — Wed, 24 May 2023 18:31:32 +0000

For apples-to-apples, you’d look at Denver. We’re talking about the state’s 4th largest city which is 65 miles away from the capital and otherwise in the middle of nowhere. It’s extremely expensive for what it is

New comment by cjsawyer in "PyPI Was Subpoenaed"

cjsawyer — Wed, 24 May 2023 18:28:35 +0000

Sounds like they’re the ones who implemented the bad code in the first place, as a honeypot. That just extortion with extra steps.

New comment by cjsawyer in "Apple announces multibillion deal with Broadcom to make components in the USA"

cjsawyer — Tue, 23 May 2023 20:27:24 +0000

I am from Colorado and went to school in Fort Collins. It maybe be small nationally, but it’s probably the 4th biggest tech area in CO after Denver, DTC, and Colorado Springs. Cost of living is surprisingly high unless you live in student housing.

New comment by cjsawyer in "The Struggle to Make Lab-Grown Meat"

cjsawyer — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 17:19:23 +0000

Consider that without modern efficiency gains there would be significantly fewer people alive today, and that you might not be in the “extra” portion that we do have now. Is that a fair trade off? If we dropped all further advancements in the name of tradition I’d say that’s equivalent to giving up as a species.

New comment by cjsawyer in "Fictional Brands Archive"

cjsawyer — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 19:42:13 +0000

The FONY (ie SONY) logo in Akira is really important to me. It’s a flawless pun, a fake brand, and does it in only 4 characters!

New comment by cjsawyer in "Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket"

cjsawyer — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 17:17:01 +0000

I made a drastic improvement in my mindset with regards to media backlogs when I realized that they they exist to entertain me and that my whims are the only thing that matters. I don’t owe that pile of books anything. Now they’re not allowed to generate stress, only entertainment!

New comment by cjsawyer in "The wet bird (2000)"

cjsawyer — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 18:25:06 +0000

Blast from the past! I’m not sure where I saw it originally but clearly remember liking it.