Hacker News: fatneckbeard

New comment by fatneckbeard in "Homebrew Hercules Graphics Card"

fatneckbeard — Sun, 28 May 2023 15:35:40 +0000

thats legendary amount of kludgery.

one thing that was fun about bare metal that we dont get nowdays (and we coudlnt with all the viruses and ransomware)

New comment by fatneckbeard in "Homebrew Hercules Graphics Card"

fatneckbeard — Sun, 28 May 2023 15:32:32 +0000

CGA font were never re-programmable, Hercules (after a certain version) were.

New comment by fatneckbeard in "Txti is shutting down"

fatneckbeard — Sun, 28 May 2023 15:19:44 +0000

Here is the problem people are having with this

Maggie Appleton on this blog literally says "Yancey Strickler's companion idea of the Dark Forest theory of the web".

I have a Dark Forest Theory of Hacker News. If I stay out of certain threads i dont get blasted. So i dont post in them. Hacker News is like Liu Cixin's dark forest.

i hope someone would say "as Fatneckbeard pointed out, HN is a lot like Liu Cixin's Dark Forest" not "Fat Neck Beards's Dark Forest theory of Hacker News".

I did not write 1000+ pages of books about this that became a world wide best seller and responsible for the phrase being a house hold word. I just pointed out they are similar. It is not my idea. It is not even my adaptation of an idea to a novel context. Im just pointing out something relatively obvious, because the original book is widely interpreted as an analogy for China's 996 tech startup culture by the Chinese readership which made it a success in the first place, so I'm basically making a pop culture reference. Even if I wrote a blog about it it would not make it my idea.

New comment by fatneckbeard in "Why I Left Rust"

fatneckbeard — Sun, 28 May 2023 14:55:41 +0000

Yeah I worry about this. There was no "C leadership", it was simple enough that dozens of people created their own compilers within a few years of C existing. this was back before the internet. they had companies sprouting up like Borland just making C compilers for personal home computers. C just ... spread. All these kids learning Arduino in school, they are learning C.

There basically is no other usable compiler than the official rust compiler. So it has this 'leadership' thing that ... C never really needed

New comment by fatneckbeard in "Unnatural Keys – Nature doesn’t come with identifiers"

fatneckbeard — Sun, 28 May 2023 14:33:41 +0000

or whether it identifies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_skepticism#Epist...

New comment by fatneckbeard in "Germany falls into recession as inflation hits economy"

fatneckbeard — Sat, 27 May 2023 18:43:36 +0000

why does it feel like every tech website turns into an amateur humanities and economics discussion group?

New comment by fatneckbeard in "What number comes next? The On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences knows"

fatneckbeard — Wed, 24 May 2023 04:46:19 +0000

"and not already in the sequence" --> bound to be weirdness in that.

New comment by fatneckbeard in "What number comes next? The On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences knows"

fatneckbeard — Tue, 23 May 2023 22:19:01 +0000

interesting because in my experience Chat GPT has severe problems "understanding" OEIS so i wonder if it could solve the problems the way you did?

New comment by fatneckbeard in "Popular Pirate Bay proxy site disappears from GitHub"

fatneckbeard — Sat, 20 May 2023 21:04:52 +0000

if only they had rebranded as an AI non-profit, they could have gotten away with all the enabling of copyvio they ever dreamed of.

New comment by fatneckbeard in "Show HN: YouTube Full Text Search – Search all of a channel from the commandline"

fatneckbeard — Sat, 20 May 2023 20:36:04 +0000

I get it now. It's just like some grocery stores used to operate. They purposely moved stuff around so people have to wander in order to find things. Or they put common items far away so people have to interact with other stuff. Theory is that it increases sales.

New comment by fatneckbeard in "Show HN: YouTube Full Text Search – Search all of a channel from the commandline"

fatneckbeard — Sat, 20 May 2023 20:34:15 +0000

i used to imagine similar opportunities with google books. but they have done basically nothing with it. and that's been like 20 years.

if anyone could have disrupted the corrupt and unfair academic publishing world, it was Google. they just found it an uninteresting task. they preferred to work on G+, Stadia, Google Code, etc, https://killedbygoogle.com/

New comment by fatneckbeard in "Devex: What actually drives productivity"

fatneckbeard — Sat, 20 May 2023 02:24:34 +0000

sounds kind of like Toyota Production System

New comment by fatneckbeard in "Where have all the hackers gone?"

fatneckbeard — Thu, 18 May 2023 13:30:10 +0000

maybe its because the article yesterday, 80% of jobs are gotten through networking, and if the rest are from leetcode interviews.. you kind of have decided to select against diversity.

New comment by fatneckbeard in "AI can’t do hiring because it lacks the data"

fatneckbeard — Wed, 17 May 2023 04:39:40 +0000

fortunately the employers are now tracking like everything we click on and every time we move a mouse, every key we type, every second we are logged on... also every single IM/teams chat we send and receive, every phone call we make...every email we send, every sentence we typed out and then deleted because it sounded wrong,... so... they will have the data pretty soon.

New comment by fatneckbeard in "The 1% of the population accountable for 63 % of all violent crime convictions (2013)"

fatneckbeard — Wed, 17 May 2023 00:49:19 +0000

my point is not even that.

my point is if you pick a time-slider window of 150 years, Europeans have started two world wars. Sweden collaborated with Nazis and i wonder how much violence resulted from that.

New comment by fatneckbeard in "Businesses are in for a mighty debt hangover"

fatneckbeard — Wed, 17 May 2023 00:29:49 +0000

yes thats basically, going along the lines of the Chartalist / Modern Monetary Theory view of money, and combining it with the Petrodollar theory of money.

sorry - edit - tried to keep this short, keep messing up. Theres a lot of deep rabbit holes if you want to dig into those theories online.

just keep in mind a lot of economists disagree with MMT / Chartalism and some even disagree with what a Petrodollar is.

New comment by fatneckbeard in "Businesses are in for a mighty debt hangover"

fatneckbeard — Wed, 17 May 2023 00:08:29 +0000

i too have been told for 50+ years the National Debt will bury us. Often by people like Ross Perot

Now that i actually have savings, i load on up T-bills paying 5 percent, and Ibonds paying like 6 or 7, now im thinking "God i love the national debt, its so awesome, its literally free money, i wish there was more national debt. The national debt should sell t-shirts and drop an album".

New comment by fatneckbeard in "How Does a TLS Handshake Work?"

fatneckbeard — Wed, 17 May 2023 00:01:02 +0000

why do i feel like the whole Certificate thing is a gaping hole that has gone mostly ignored ? am i just paranoid?

New comment by fatneckbeard in "Kids who get smartphones earlier become adults with worse mental health"

fatneckbeard — Mon, 15 May 2023 16:06:07 +0000

HN prob full of people who make their living off smartphones

reminds me of Oil / coil industry people who dont want to talk abt climate change

never easy to come to terms with your life work has to change or stop.

New comment by fatneckbeard in "The 1% of the population accountable for 63 % of all violent crime convictions (2013)"

fatneckbeard — Mon, 15 May 2023 02:38:54 +0000

if they went back before 1973... you know, say, 1939... might have some different statistics about who is responsible for violence in Sweden.