Hacker News: cmplxconjugate

New comment by cmplxconjugate in "Who died and left the US $7B?"

cmplxconjugate — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 06:45:04 +0000

I have a sudden new appreciation for the Lincoln Memorial.

New comment by cmplxconjugate in "OpenBSD 7.6 released"

cmplxconjugate — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 06:19:07 +0000

To my eye it looks like either (silk) screen printed or wood block pressed.

New comment by cmplxconjugate in "The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder"

cmplxconjugate — Fri, 24 May 2024 10:22:25 +0000

When I became a lead dev, one of the first issues I had was a 55 y/o dev who begrudgingly adopted git but consistently included commits like: “Monday morning commit”, “changed some things”, “commit”. He also refused to delete issue template examples and included it all with his own additions.

In the entire time we worked together over a few years, he refused to adapt to the rest of the team.

New comment by cmplxconjugate in "Visualizing Attention, a Transformer's Heart [video]"

cmplxconjugate — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 08:16:10 +0000

>This is probably an unpopular opinion.

I wouldn't say so. Historically it's quite common. Maxwell's EM papers used such convoluted notation it it quite difficult to read. It wasn't until they were reformulated in vector calculus that they became infinitely more digestible.

I think though your third point is the most important; right now people are focused on results.

New comment by cmplxconjugate in "You don't have to type faster to type faster"

cmplxconjugate — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 06:19:27 +0000

As the saying goes: "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast".

New comment by cmplxconjugate in "My favourite animation trick: exponential smoothing (2023)"

cmplxconjugate — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 09:43:48 +0000

I think maybe more that the users of this website, which is designed in a way that is intensely functional compared to other similar sites, just prefer less “useless” design features.

New comment by cmplxconjugate in "Compiling History: A brief tour of C compilers"

cmplxconjugate — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 09:43:26 +0000

Personally I like the distinction between them as it gives me context for the object being a pointer, which helps with "at-a-glace" reading of clean code.

New comment by cmplxconjugate in "En Route: A Magazine About Trains in Japan [pdf]"

cmplxconjugate — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 14:20:47 +0000

In 2018 I spent ~£6300 on train tickets for personal holiday travel all over the UK. Of that, almost 50% of it was refunded due to meeting requirements for partial refunds due to delayed/cancelled services.

After that experience, I purchased a car and motorbike and I will never be convinced to give up my independence in exchange for that abysmal service. It was completely morale breaking. What's worse is I then worked in Japan during 2019 and experienced some of the best service I could possibly think would be reasonable. It's hard to defend in any form the absolute depressing state of the UK rail service.

New comment by cmplxconjugate in "Inside the Steam Deck's APU"

cmplxconjugate — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 08:30:11 +0000

I have had a RX580, RX590, 6600XT, and 7900XT using Linux with minimal issues. My partner has had a RX590, 7700XT on Windows and she's had so many issues it's infuriating.

New comment by cmplxconjugate in "Project Oberon: Design of an operating system, a compiler, and a computer [pdf]"

cmplxconjugate — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 14:40:53 +0000

His plea for lean software [1] is always worth a read.

[1] https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf

New comment by cmplxconjugate in "Don’t starve, Diablo – Parallax 7"

cmplxconjugate — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 07:52:15 +0000

I still play D2 thanks to the hard work at the folks running Project Diablo 2[1]. Perspective mode looks absolutely beautiful at 144fps; it's somewhat hard to go back to the 30fps of the original LoD client.

Even now, I still have the memory and nostalgia of walking down the twisting steps from the Pandemonium Fortress and being blown away by the beautiful (macabre is maybe more fitting) graphics.

[1] https://www.projectdiablo2.com/

New comment by cmplxconjugate in "My doomed career as a North Korean novelist"

cmplxconjugate — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 07:37:03 +0000

In around 2017 I had a scholarship at Wuhan University. During that time the university hosted a cultural fair for international students. What was most interesting to me (as someone from the UK) was that I met for the first time ever students from North Korea.

These students were smartly dressed (suited and booted), which in comparison to everyone else in casual clothes, made them stand out. They spoke excellent English and Chinese, they were polite and thoughtful. Each international group had to give a stage performance, to which the NK students performed a piece similar to Beijing Opera; it was without doubt the most well rehearsed, costumed and, vibrant performance of the lot.

It made me realise I had a very narrow perspective of NK.

New comment by cmplxconjugate in ""Et Tu, Ilya?""

cmplxconjugate — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:38:24 +0000

Looks like Ilya asked GTP4 to produce an empathetic support message.

New comment by cmplxconjugate in "Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer"

cmplxconjugate — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 13:08:19 +0000

This should be a product.

New comment by cmplxconjugate in "KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Enabling Wayland by Default"

cmplxconjugate — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 13:28:44 +0000

I absolutely agree. It is functional and stable, but my gosh I can’t stand the design. The oversized top decoration for windows as well as the extremely poorly rendered pop-up for hovering over elements on the task bar.

New comment by cmplxconjugate in "Cursorless is alien magic from the future"

cmplxconjugate — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 07:43:37 +0000

I use a Beastmaker 1000 hangboard and follow the Emil's Sub-max Daily Fingerboard Routine on the app Crimpd each day. Absolutely amazing results within a month. I really suggest everyone gives it a try.

New comment by cmplxconjugate in "Firefox got faster for real users in 2023"

cmplxconjugate — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 21:54:46 +0000

That second point is something that drives me CRAZY. For years I would keep YouTube or Twitch streams open on the second monitor. Now I deal with constant fps loss, video stutters or freezing. Absolutely bizarre regression in performance.

New comment by cmplxconjugate in "SumatraPDF Reader"

cmplxconjugate — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 06:35:38 +0000

I'm in the same boat. It's almost the only application I miss! I use Okular but I think Sumatra just has the right UI for me.

New comment by cmplxconjugate in "Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes"

cmplxconjugate — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 19:58:39 +0000

My best friend works for them in diagnostic sub-systems development. The product is still a long way off delivery with many systems being actively designed and refined. Basically it’s busy but will still be quite a while (3-5+ years at least).

New comment by cmplxconjugate in "Trying to find some life on the Usenet (2020)"

cmplxconjugate — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 10:30:13 +0000

I wouldn’t really say the visual aspect of HN really puts people off. I would argue that it’s more a function of discussion topics being more niche and technical.

Ultimately the worst situation is when replies can consist of only a “joke” or meme (worst of all… a gif). Discussion is destroyed and instead replaced with a delta function; a single impulse response. “Click and move on”.