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New comment by dice in "An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem"

dice — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 23:19:55 +0000

Handy if you get really good at it because "the rest of your life" will be indicated by the unavoidable countdown timer that shows up in your vision!

New comment by dice in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

dice — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:09:56 +0000

How did you swing that transition? Did you study for PMP before applying around, leverage network to get in the door then backfill skills, or what?

New comment by dice in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

dice — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:24:46 +0000

I was having this discussion with my 9 year old yesterday. He mentioned that a friend had Rocket League on their Switch 2 and "it didn't even need a game card". I told him that anything without a physical card can be taken away, the company that made it can decide to take it back or to stop letting it work. Compared that to my old DS which he found along with game cards for Lego Star Wars and Scribblenauts that still work ~20 years later.

I think he "got" it. He was certainly annoyed at the idea that something purchased could just be taken back. Maybe it'll stick and he'll be better able to understand why I'll push back on a new PlayStation or any digital only games.

New comment by dice in "OpenRA"

dice — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:43:01 +0000

We used to play RA on my friend's home network, which was thin net running IPX. The house rule was that if we'd collectively built enough units that the game started slowing down you had to attack. It was good times.

New comment by dice in "Finding the best dog treat with statistics"

dice — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:28:37 +0000

I missed the word "Treat" in the title initially and I was incensed. All dogs are the best dog TYVM.

New comment by dice in "The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows"

dice — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:27:00 +0000

I've found that Gemini with Google maps integration does this pretty well.

New comment by dice in "The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows"

dice — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:22:47 +0000

My company instituted a monthly "best use of AI" award to encourage people to share how they're using it. I suggested we should also have a "most wrong AI output" award to remind everyone they can't just trust it blindly but that hasn't happened yet for some reason ...

New comment by dice in "What came after the 486?"

dice — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:36:46 +0000

It was a popular meme in computer security focused groups for a while after it was discovered since it was an unprivileged DoS. I only remember seeing it talked about with the f00f representation: some people even called it "getting f00f'd" if you managed to trick someone into executing the instructions.

New comment by dice in "What came after the 486?"

dice — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:00:15 +0000

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New comment by dice in "Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers"

dice — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:40:41 +0000

One of my favorite interview questions: "Here are some SSH credentials. What does this system do?"

Sometimes there aren't any docs. Sometimes the docs are wrong. It's important to be able to establish what the actual running situation is.

New comment by dice in "I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job"

dice — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:56:32 +0000

I'm hiring at a small company and it's a nightmare. 1,000+ applicants for a software engineering position and we have essentially no help from recruiting. I'm filtering based on keywords, giving each resume a max of 90 seconds, and anything that even slightly seems off gets rejected.

I only have the bandwidth to talk to a couple 10s of candidates since I have the entire rest of my job to do, so I can see the appeal of an AI interviewer. I'd never use one due to the issues brought up here though.

New comment by dice in "Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it"

dice — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 05:23:39 +0000

Not the parent but that was not at all clear to me. I immediately thought of taking multiple successive instantaneous screenshots and then stacking them. I'm not sure I would have thought of using a camera within a few minutes to an hour, it's not a tool I would ever reach for normally.

New comment by dice in "I ditched Docker for Podman"

dice — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:48:50 +0000

> Was this a deal breaker for any company?

It is at the company I currently work for. We moved to Rancher Desktop or Podman (individual choice, both are Apache licensed) and blocked Docker Desktop on IT's device management software. Much easier than going through finance and trying to keep up with licenses.

New comment by dice in "A MySQL compatible database engine written in pure Go"

dice — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 05:53:52 +0000

Have you benchmarked the replication? Or do you know of anyone who's running it against a primary with a couple 10s of thousands of writes per second?

New comment by dice in "New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered at CERN"

dice — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 19:45:57 +0000

  “Teasers are usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around looking for planets that haven’t made interstellar contact yet and buzz them.”
  
  “Buzz them?” Arthur began to feel that Ford was enjoying making life difficult for him.
  
  “Yeah,” said Ford, “they buzz them. They find some isolated spot with very few people around, then land right by some poor unsuspecting soul whom no one’s ever going to believe and then strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennas on their head and making beep beep noises.”

-- HHGTTG

New comment by dice in "The Light Phone"

dice — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 06:08:45 +0000

My three year old and I actually had a lot of fun with the Calculator app on my phone just a couple hours ago. He thought that me reading off large numbers was hilarious.

So, yeah, Calculator is a pretty important feature.

New comment by dice in "Towards a Bra-free Instagram Experience (2017)"

dice — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 05:03:12 +0000

Do you have kids? When ours arrived and I started searching for baby and kid related items The Algorithms decided that I must be a woman.

New comment by dice in "$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now"

dice — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 22:52:25 +0000

That savings also drops to zero if you're coming from another electric vehicle such as a Leaf.

New comment by dice in "Helm: Personal Email Server"

dice — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 20:41:06 +0000

The site is also completely unsuable without JS enabled.

Apps market? Piwik (tracking)? Why would I allow these?

https://i.imgur.com/OFWYnWy.png

New comment by dice in "Larry Wall's Very Own Home Page"

dice — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 13:54:28 +0000

Full decode of the P section is even more amusing:

GEEK PERL CODE [P+++++(--)$]

My tendencies on this issue range from: "I am Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, or Randal Schwartz.", to: "Perl users are sick, twisted programmers who are just showing off." Getting paid for it!