Hacker News: cyclotron3k

New comment by cyclotron3k in "The Doorman's Fallacy in action"

cyclotron3k — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:38:47 +0000

This article doesn't land for me. The author complains about having to scan the code in sequence, but overlooks the fact that a waiter/waitress/till can only serve one person at time. And as you say, multiple people can scan a QR code, _and_ it would be trivial to print more.

Maybe I missed the point, but the aside about parking metres seems irrelevant. Just makes me think this is an anti-technology rant.

And again, the gripe about splitting up the bill. Not only is that a problem with existing systems, it's a problem that is solved by QR codes (if implemented correctly).

New comment by cyclotron3k in "The Doorman's Fallacy in action"

cyclotron3k — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:32:20 +0000

> What the article misses is that money is saved for the company by moving the work to the customer / end user.

It doesn't miss it. The whole framing of the article is the Dooman Fallacy - an organisation trying to save money by shifting [apparently] menial work to the customer ends up losing more than they save.

New comment by cyclotron3k in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

cyclotron3k — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:22:09 +0000

This is a fantasy.

No one is going to pay you to take your waste away and dispose of it. You would have to pay them.

So now there's a strong financial incentive to a) not over produce, b) sell the clothes - even if it means selling them for next to nothing.

New comment by cyclotron3k in "How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills"

cyclotron3k — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:49:45 +0000

I've reached a steady state where the rate of learning matches the rate of forgetting

New comment by cyclotron3k in "Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images"

cyclotron3k — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:10:40 +0000

Would the data from this satellite be freely available to the public? I couldn't see anything obvious

New comment by cyclotron3k in "3D printing with unconventional vase mode"

cyclotron3k — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 02:21:24 +0000

Interesting and useful article, but:

> If you are new to 3D printing and/or CAD for 3D printing, this is not the right article for you.

I feel like I would have been fine with this article about a week into my 3d printing journey.

New comment by cyclotron3k in "Homeschooling hits record numbers"

cyclotron3k — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:51:31 +0000

> I don't know a single homeschooler that sits at home all day long.

Well, you wouldn't, would you?

Sorry, not to detract from your other points, but I thought it was funny.

New comment by cyclotron3k in "Why do we need dithering?"

cyclotron3k — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 04:03:39 +0000

Agreed. Seemed like a particularly poor choice to show off the capabilities of an image compression algorithm

New comment by cyclotron3k in "Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions"

cyclotron3k — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 22:37:58 +0000

OP makes an app for his own needs and his own phone and decides to share it for free, at considerable cost ($100/yr), and your response is to ask him to remake it for you, from scratch (in another language), for an OS that OP doesn't use? Holy shit

New comment by cyclotron3k in "Why are Big Tech companies a threat to human rights?"

cyclotron3k — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 01:21:31 +0000

Until you click the "accept" button, you haven't agreed to accept any cookies, so if you instead click through to settings, it shows you the current state: cookies off. I think the toggles could be a bit clearer, but I don't really have a problem with it.

Having worked at AI (a long time ago), I can assure you this isn't some mastermind plot to sneak a couple of cookies onto the computers of the one or two people who click through to settings.

New comment by cyclotron3k in "Selling numbered rocks, you get whatever's next in sequence"

cyclotron3k — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 03:15:36 +0000

This will pair very well with my Anthropologie rock.

New comment by cyclotron3k in "Minesweeper thermodynamics"

cyclotron3k — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 16:57:26 +0000

Can't you right-then-left-click the flagged mine? Iirc there's an awkward way of doing this

New comment by cyclotron3k in "I designed my own fast game streaming video codec – PyroWave"

cyclotron3k — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 02:44:23 +0000

Send the descriptions via the blockchain so there's an immutable record

New comment by cyclotron3k in "Thiings"

cyclotron3k — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 22:46:33 +0000

If you're making an icon of Tower Bridge, you're going to tag it with "London" and "bridge", so it's going to turn up in all searches for London bridge.

At this point though, the two bridges should just swap names.

New comment by cyclotron3k in "Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux"

cyclotron3k — Sun, 11 May 2025 11:30:19 +0000

Hey, they don't have excel or word, like I have at work, and none of the other professional software like Photoshop or premiere, I can't play AAA games, and none of my friends use it either. But that's cool. The clipboard though... that I cannot abide.

Put another way, I strongly disagree that the clipboard is the main obstacle. (And fwiw, Linux has been my main OS for decades)

New comment by cyclotron3k in "Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux"

cyclotron3k — Sat, 10 May 2025 22:18:27 +0000

In practice, it's not really an issue. In some applications (most notably terminal emulators, where ctrl+c is already used to terminate a process) you have to use an alternative combination (e.g. ctrl+shift+c).

MacOS neatly avoids this issue with the command key, but I'm not sure what happens in Windows.

New comment by cyclotron3k in "Migrating away from Rust"

cyclotron3k — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:12:33 +0000

Can you speak more of this best in class tooling?

New comment by cyclotron3k in "There's a problem with that 'bullet in flight' photo of Trump"

cyclotron3k — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 22:19:59 +0000

A quick google says Doug Mills was using a Sony a1, which has a rolling shutter, and as the bullet was not perfectly level, the trace length could also have been affected by that.

New comment by cyclotron3k in "I love you, HN, but you're toxic (2022)"

cyclotron3k — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 03:16:19 +0000

> It doesn’t even matter if I’m right. Sometimes, you just have to be kind.

The article seems to imply that kindness/correctness are somehow mutually exclusive. Even if that wasn't the author's intent or belief, it certainly seems to be the way some commenters conduct themselves.

New comment by cyclotron3k in "Words you can spell with a calculator (2005)"

cyclotron3k — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 21:19:09 +0000

I was wondering the same thing too. And even if you wanted to keep this odd behaviour, it could be better written as

  /^[izehsglbo][izehsgl]o?$/