Hacker News: greener_grass

New comment by greener_grass in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

greener_grass — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:14:45 +0000

Age of Empires II is very popular but doesn't have multiplayer support on Linux.

New comment by greener_grass in "Make.ts"

greener_grass — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:18:05 +0000

Technically maybe, I don't know. But in practice, your bash will use tools like this and break if they are different / missing on a future build host.

If using a programming language with locked-down package dependencies, then all you need is the compiler/interpreter and your script will work.

New comment by greener_grass in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

greener_grass — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:12:46 +0000

Does a game "run on Linux" when it has 100% feature parity? 90%? 80%? What are you willing to cut? Some performance? A few graphical effects? Multiplayer?

When you look at the details, Linux gaming is not as good as it might seem.

But I'm still gaming on Linux!

New comment by greener_grass in "Make.ts"

greener_grass — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:30:13 +0000

The tools you will call from your bash script differ in subtle ways between Linux, macOS, MinGW.

One good example is `uuidgen`

New comment by greener_grass in "Make.ts"

greener_grass — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:50:18 +0000

Bash is not a great cross-platform choice. Too many subtle differences.

The best way is a scripting language with locked-down dependency spec inside the script. Weirdly .NET is leading the way here.

New comment by greener_grass in "Is Rust faster than C?"

greener_grass — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:50:10 +0000

If you are not willing to make this trade then how much of a priority was run-time performance, really?

New comment by greener_grass in "Uncrossy"

greener_grass — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:58:06 +0000

Tutorial was pretty confusing to me. I formed "HIM" and it rejected it, no explanation why.

New comment by greener_grass in "Eat Real Food"

greener_grass — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:15:55 +0000

Project 2025 was strongly against active travel, yet increased car dependency is one of the main factors in poor health in the USA.

New comment by greener_grass in "Stride Game Engine 4.3 with .NET 10 Support"

greener_grass — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:09:05 +0000

MonoGame is stable and still receiving updates.

I would strongly suggest that for quick code-first prototypes. The boiler-plate of "load a texture and render to screen" is quite minimal - you could perhaps make a small library for yourself?

It also has no opinions about how you structure your game data. This means you can represent things like a Flappy Bird clone as just a `Vector2`, rather than having to bash a graph of entities in the shape you want.

New comment by greener_grass in "Advent of Code 2025"

greener_grass — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:34:55 +0000

CodeWars has a nice Kata grading system that features many intermediate level problems.

New comment by greener_grass in "How/why to sweep async tasks under a Postgres table"

greener_grass — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 09:21:34 +0000

> The real answer to all this is to use a provider that supports idempotency keys. Then when you can retry the action repeatedly without it actually happening again. My favorite article on this subject: https://brandur.org/idempotency-keys

Turtles all the way down?

Let's say you are the provider that must support idempotency keys? How should it be done?

New comment by greener_grass in "AI has a deep understanding of how this code works"

greener_grass — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:19:27 +0000

Is the real Mark Shinwell on here?

https://github.com/mshinwell

New comment by greener_grass in "Migrating to Bazel symbolic macros"

greener_grass — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 09:56:53 +0000

Buck 1 used Python directly and it had lots of issues compared to Starlark.

New comment by greener_grass in "Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds"

greener_grass — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:29:44 +0000

There are. The rhetorical strategy is to argue that Brexit was a good idea, but it has not been implemented properly. Look for the phrases "Brexit means Brexit" and "proper Brexit".

New comment by greener_grass in "210 IQ Is Not Enough"

greener_grass — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:28:55 +0000

How would you measure these?

- making associations

- generating original ideas

- more perceptive

...

"spatial awareness" I can see though

New comment by greener_grass in "Listen to Database Changes Through the Postgres WAL"

greener_grass — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:00:37 +0000

This is how Debezium works.

It is probably best to use that unless there is a strong reason against.

New comment by greener_grass in "AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering"

greener_grass — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:35:57 +0000

The EA / Rationalist / AI Safety crowd tend to think they can overcome these impulses

New comment by greener_grass in ".NET 10"

greener_grass — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:58:33 +0000

Smaller is better, of course, but I've never found the size of .NET binaries to be an issue.

What problems does this cause?

New comment by greener_grass in ".NET 10"

greener_grass — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:57:33 +0000

> dotnet requiring a CLR is not particularly well-suited for containerization

Why? I routinely put compiled .NET programs into containers.

It's also easy (easier than Rust even) to build on Mac targeting a Linux image.

New comment by greener_grass in ".NET 10"

greener_grass — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:12:56 +0000

I am talking about C# / F# context where the lists must have homogeneous types.

That TypeScript supports this is yet more complexity introduced to cover usages of an API not designed around types.