Hacker News: de_watcher

New comment by de_watcher in "Ask HN: Why are documentation only showing 1 example if any"

de_watcher — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 07:40:10 +0000

We just have automatic tests that use the thing in every possible way. We have them because that's how we've developed and debugged the function. Best documentation ever.

New comment by de_watcher in "Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with age"

de_watcher — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 10:48:06 +0000

History subject is actually making proper sense now. At school it was kinda tedious in some parts. (never had anything against biology, it's all technical stuff that we here like)

Yea, "looking into how guns work" isn't weird. It's just addictive: relative to other problems they're simple and physically intuitive, so for every new mechanism you get a kick from learning another easy thing you didn't need to know.

New comment by de_watcher in "Qt 6 will provide additional libraries via Conan package manager"

de_watcher — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 12:48:17 +0000

CMake and qmake is not enough. Adding Ninja...

New comment by de_watcher in "Ferrari is bricked during upgrade due to no mobile reception while underground"

de_watcher — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 15:02:13 +0000

Motorcyclists are mostly jerks too because of the noise they make tho.

New comment by de_watcher in "The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of the Linux Kernel"

de_watcher — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 06:38:37 +0000

We can say that it's generated from the "hardware schematics". AMD hardware isn't an opensource hardware.

New comment by de_watcher in "The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of the Linux Kernel"

de_watcher — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 06:20:40 +0000

Are there still workarounds for specific games/programs inside the driver?

New comment by de_watcher in "Faith in government declines when mobile internet arrives"

de_watcher — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 11:45:13 +0000

Point 3 is also relevant to opensource/FOSS.

New comment by de_watcher in "Electric shocks to the tongue can quiet chronic ringing ears"

de_watcher — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 09:58:01 +0000

But then you get electric shocks to the tongue...

New comment by de_watcher in "Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes triple the density of lithium batteries"

de_watcher — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 14:58:55 +0000

A phone with a wide screen is hard to hold. I'll begin having issue with thickness only if it starts cutting fingers.

New comment by de_watcher in "Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes triple the density of lithium batteries"

de_watcher — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 12:42:25 +0000

Not counting turbopumps for chemical engines there is also an electric propulsion when in space.

New comment by de_watcher in "Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes triple the density of lithium batteries"

de_watcher — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 12:38:51 +0000

The reddit RemindMe! bot.

New comment by de_watcher in "I built a lay-down desk"

de_watcher — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 11:15:54 +0000

The comfychair and Spanish inquisition.

New comment by de_watcher in "YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K, but historians want them to stop"

de_watcher — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 11:30:50 +0000

Just like the ancient Greece sculptures. They are in colour.

New comment by de_watcher in "Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later"

de_watcher — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 11:14:08 +0000

Let every app haul its own libraries. Be surprised that they aren't patched and contain vulnerabilities.

New comment by de_watcher in "Windows XP source code has leaked"

de_watcher — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 11:27:22 +0000

AFAIK there are already laws about reverse-engineering for compatibility. May extend that and add something like the right to repair, so the ones who sell software or software services also have to provide documentation and more access to the actual features.

New comment by de_watcher in "Compact nuclear fusion reactor is 'very likely to work,' studies suggest"

de_watcher — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 13:24:39 +0000

Screw that. Fossil-fuel infrastructure is smelly and noisy. That's my first concern, I don't even need to "care about the planet" to hate fossil fuel.

New comment by de_watcher in "Compact nuclear fusion reactor is 'very likely to work,' studies suggest"

de_watcher — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 12:36:12 +0000

Assuming that you use it like before. But if you have a lot of power in one place you may think about using it for something like an orbital launch system.

New comment by de_watcher in "Compact nuclear fusion reactor is 'very likely to work,' studies suggest"

de_watcher — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 09:49:00 +0000

Blocked by the slowness of the space industry.

New comment by de_watcher in "Nuclear power: Are we too anxious about the risks of radiation?"

de_watcher — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 14:29:59 +0000

Shoved the critical electrical stuff below the sea level... It's not like the reactors have fallen into a sudden volcano.

New comment by de_watcher in "Nuclear power: Are we too anxious about the risks of radiation?"

de_watcher — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 14:24:09 +0000

Another chilling moment when I realise that I'm way too old and can perceive slow changes of things (like the meanings of words). Please don't do that.