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New comment by fredthedeadhead in "Programming terrain from scratch using C++ and OpenGL by Shamus Young (2006)"

fredthedeadhead — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 22:16:53 +0000

I really miss reading new blog posts and series from Shamus :(

First Look at Declarative Gradle

fredthedeadhead — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 22:56:28 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.gradle.org/declarative-gradle-first-eap

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41063080

Points: 2

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New comment by fredthedeadhead in "Ultrasonic investigations in shopping centres"

fredthedeadhead — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 06:00:17 +0000

What does the author use to measure sound and create those graphs? I'm interested in automatically monitoring an annoying noise that's coming from a neighbour.

New comment by fredthedeadhead in "A ChatGPT mistake cost us $10k"

fredthedeadhead — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 05:48:35 +0000

The blog post is 404ing, here's a Web archive link

https://web.archive.org/web/20240610032818/https://asim.bear...

The author has added an important edit:

> I want to preface this by saying yes the practices here are very bad and embarrassing (and we've since added robust unit/integration tests and alerting/logging), could/should have been avoided, were human errors beyond anything, and very obvious in hindsight.

> This was from a different time under large time constraints at the very earliest stages (first few weeks) of a company. I'm mostly just sharing this as a funny story with unique circumstances surrounding bug reproducibility in prod (due again to our own stupidity) Please read with that in mind

New comment by fredthedeadhead in "Cloudflare took down our website"

fredthedeadhead — Mon, 27 May 2024 05:47:34 +0000

> The Google Cloud situation

What's the Google Cloud situation?

New comment by fredthedeadhead in "llIlI.lI: a URL shortener using only I/l to encode domains"

fredthedeadhead — Sun, 12 May 2024 08:48:45 +0000

So, I think this hilarious, but link shorteners have to be stable, right? What happens when link shorteners go offline? Is there a way of decoding shortened links without the server?

New comment by fredthedeadhead in "Relativistic Spaceship"

fredthedeadhead — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 07:13:28 +0000

Project Rho gives several compelling reasons why there ain't no stealth in space

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewardetect...

New comment by fredthedeadhead in "Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again"

fredthedeadhead — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 21:53:19 +0000

Thanks, I missed that!

It looks like it landed on quite an incline, almost 45 degrees.

New comment by fredthedeadhead in "Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again"

fredthedeadhead — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 20:28:11 +0000

Are images of the damage available to the public?

"Imagery revealing damage to the rotor blade arrived several days later."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/after-three-years-on-mars-nasa...

New comment by fredthedeadhead in "Heat exchanger masks for cold weather cycling (2019)"

fredthedeadhead — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 12:55:59 +0000

The site is down, so here's a working archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240125111236/https://www.coldb...

New comment by fredthedeadhead in "MavenGate: a supply chain attack for Java and Android applications"

fredthedeadhead — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:47:55 +0000

Sonatype's response https://www.sonatype.com/sonatypes-ongoing-commitment-to-mav...

New comment by fredthedeadhead in "'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps"

fredthedeadhead — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 18:24:23 +0000

I'm pretty interested in Breeze as an alternative https://breeze.social/

* There's no endless swiping. Users can only see a handleful of matches, each profile stays visible until users say yes/no on each profile, and the profiles are only topped up twice a day.

* All chatting is in-person, which is much more human than trying to text online. If users match, they can't chat. They both put down a deposit (about double the cost of a drink in a bar), pick a day & time they're avaliable, and Breeze automatically makes a reservation at a local bar (the first drink is free), or a park for a walk.

* Since dates require a deposit, and there's only so many days in the week(!), and users can't make new matches without first planning current matches, users don't get overwhelmed with connections - the existing contacts are prioritised.

* They're not owned by Match.com - which for me is a big plus! More disruption of their monopoly is a good thing.

New comment by fredthedeadhead in "'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps"

fredthedeadhead — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 17:47:53 +0000

The blog was removed after OkCupid was acquired by Match.com, which is another problem in online dating apps that isn't often mentioned. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_Group#Dating_services_...

This chokes out competition, and users end up with several apps with some gimmick, but at their core they're designed to keep most users locked into actively dating, either to make the app seem popular, or to squeeze money out of them.

New comment by fredthedeadhead in "Announcing SurrealDB 1.0"

fredthedeadhead — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 17:31:13 +0000

Fireship did a 'SurrealDB in 100 seconds' in case anyone would like a quick video summary: https://youtu.be/C7WFwgDRStM?si=va17q7zagn4lIoi3

New comment by fredthedeadhead in "Why are there so many colourful houses in Bristol?"

fredthedeadhead — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:46:46 +0000

A couple of other peculiar colourful facts about Bristol:

* Ex-mayor George Ferguson (mentioned in the article) always wears red trousers, except when Bristol won the European Green Capital 2015 he wore green trousers in celebration.

* All licensed taxis in Bristol are blue, specifically Bristol Blue https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_blue_glass

New comment by fredthedeadhead in "[Broken - Undeployed] Show HN: AI Judges Your Spotify"

fredthedeadhead — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 11:38:05 +0000

> You've listened to a shitty song a lot.

I don't know what song it means, the link is broken https://www.yourmusictastesucks.com/google.com

New comment by fredthedeadhead in "Screen Apnea"

fredthedeadhead — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 20:28:07 +0000

> Dr. Porges hypothesizes that the larger your screen, the less mentally taxing it can be. “As you narrow the visual field, you’re increasing the demand on your nervous system to exclude everything outside of it,” he said.

Scientific justification for my ultrawide. Fantastic!

New comment by fredthedeadhead in "Features of Project Loom incorporated in JDK 21"

fredthedeadhead — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:24:13 +0000

One high-level benefit of Kotlin Coroutines is that they're multiplatform, so one could write common Kotlin code that could compile to JVM, JS, or Native targets. Virtual threads are only for JVM.