Hacker News: ddalcino

New comment by ddalcino in "I just want working RCS messaging"

ddalcino — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:30:38 +0000

That’s what I thought too. The author appears to have tried every obvious debugging step, except for switching away from US Mobile.

I’ve been using US Mobile myself for a little over a year, and I remember a period of about 2-3 months where most carriers had implemented RCS for iOS on their services, but US Mobile had not, so I couldn’t use RCS for a while. I don’t know what they had to implement to get RCS working on iOS, but it’s possible that their implementation does not work with iOS 26.

New comment by ddalcino in "Powers of 2 with all even digits"

ddalcino — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:37:10 +0000

I think you forgot one.

New comment by ddalcino in "A Perplexing JavaScript Parsing Puzzle"

ddalcino — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 20:26:48 +0000

You can also use “shift + enter” to add a newline to your input, without telling the browser to take your input yet.

New comment by ddalcino in "1991 WWW-NeXT Implementation"

ddalcino — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 23:29:44 +0000

Maybe someone here can do it, but I can't. The Makefile tries to include something at `/usr/lib/nib/app.make`, and I don't have anything there.

There are some clues at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/444717/how-to-compi... but I'm not sure I'm willing to dive down that rabbit-hole.

New comment by ddalcino in "00Key a 75% Keyboard"

ddalcino — Fri, 03 May 2024 15:02:27 +0000

Nicely done! I thought I was cool when I soldered my kit keyboard from KBDFans; now I gotta step up my game!

Do you have a .GIF for that rotating rainbow effect, or a sound test?

New comment by ddalcino in "GitHub Renamed Me (2014)"

ddalcino — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:09:37 +0000

Sounds like a believable explanation.

> I created my account two years ago in anticipation of being able to open-source more code and I wanted to reserve my name; I had a couple of forked repos but that's it.

New comment by ddalcino in "GitHub Renamed Me (2014)"

ddalcino — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:04:25 +0000

This is from 2014. Was there ever any resolution to this? I don’t see any previous discussions about this on HN.

New comment by ddalcino in "Taos Operating System (1995)"

ddalcino — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 23:09:03 +0000

Thanks for that; this was a bit before my time. Here’s the link, if anyone wants to be entertained: https://opensource.com/life/12/5/whats-beefy-miracle-anyway-...

New comment by ddalcino in "She Steals Surfboards by the Seashore. She’s a Sea Otter"

ddalcino — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 22:06:33 +0000

That will just make her mad. Then she’ll steal your kayak.

New comment by ddalcino in "Why I recommended ECS instead of Kubernetes to my latest customer"

ddalcino — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 16:22:57 +0000

Archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230608135300/https://leanerclo...

I think it got the HN hug of death

New comment by ddalcino in "Why Do Game Developer Prefer Windows?"

ddalcino — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 14:52:10 +0000

Oops, looks like I am the 18th person to post this in 12 years: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=why+do+game+eevelopers+prefer+wind...

New comment by ddalcino in "Why Do Game Developer Prefer Windows?"

ddalcino — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 14:22:41 +0000

I spotted this while reading a wonderful account of the history of 3d graphics in games at https://www.filfre.net/2023/05/the-next-generation-in-graphi... ; I thought it was worth sharing!

Why Do Game Developer Prefer Windows?

ddalcino — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 14:20:09 +0000

Article URL: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/60544/why-do-game-developers-prefer-windows/88055#88055

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36165436

Points: 1

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New comment by ddalcino in "Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds say"

ddalcino — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 14:35:09 +0000

Would you care to elaborate on what went wrong? The other comments here make ‘automatic emergency braking’ sound like a really good idea, and it’s hard for me to imagine that this particular feature would be so problematic.

If you’re talking about other automatic steering features, that’s very different, and your comment makes more sense to me.

New comment by ddalcino in "The shortest pull request ever"

ddalcino — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 21:44:32 +0000

> Byte Order Marks have stolen hours and days of my life.

Me too, to some degree. I have discovered them in a Ruby code base at work, in the middle of a line of code (copy pasted), where the Ruby interpreter thinks they are undeclared identifiers. When the code runs, it throws an exception every time that complains of “Undeclared identifier `‘”.

The dad-joke of it is that “You gotta sweep for BOMs before they blow up your code.”

New comment by ddalcino in "I wanted burritos. Facebook Search sent me to a dead restaurant 45m away"

ddalcino — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 01:54:10 +0000

As a US citizen, I read it as 45 miles, which is as terrible as I would expect from Facebook.

New comment by ddalcino in "Windows 96"

ddalcino — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 02:19:17 +0000

In middle school I was taught that 5.25" diskettes were "floppies", and 3.5" diskettes were "hard disks", because of the hard plastic case. It was awesome.

New comment by ddalcino in "A surprisingly common error users make when installing Brew"

ddalcino — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 02:48:27 +0000

I’ve been involved with two different open source projects where, within the last couple of months, users have opened issues complaining about the shell prompts in the documentation, or PRs removing them, because it makes it too hard to copy-paste commands. The PRs were accepted over my objections.

I was taught that you NEVER copy paste anything from the internet into a terminal. You learn what the commands do, and you type them yourself.

Am I just old?

New comment by ddalcino in "A case against security nihilism"

ddalcino — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 21:48:47 +0000

What’s with the backlash against Rust? It literally is “just another language”. It’s not the best tool for every job, but it happens to be exceptionally good at this kind of problem. Don’t you think it’s a good thing to use the right tool for the job?

New comment by ddalcino in "Named Parameters in C++20"

ddalcino — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 18:31:28 +0000

You don’t need to lower the optimization level to see what happens at the call site: you can turn the function ‘blub’ into a function prototype. The optimizer cannot in-line your code if it isn’t available.

https://www.godbolt.org/z/sj11rc