Hacker News: greentext

New comment by greentext in "macOS Sequoia is available today"

greentext — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:44:18 +0000

It's a great time to switch to Linux.

New comment by greentext in "Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city"

greentext — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 05:25:26 +0000

Did you get permission from HN to do this?

There's no way I'd join something like this without the official stamp.

New comment by greentext in "Notepat – Aesthetic Computer"

greentext — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 10:27:34 +0000

freaky-flowers was cool. How does it work?

New comment by greentext in "Boox Palma Review: A Phone-Sized E-Ink Android Device That Isn't a Phone"

greentext — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:39:04 +0000

I tried their 25 inch monitor. E-Ink is such a better experience. I don't feel so jacked in to the matrix when I use it.

The ghosting and refresh rate are holding this technology back though. Definitely not main driver status yet.

LED and LCD screens seem to shift the brain into an agitated frequency. I wish they'd make more progress with E-Ink!

New comment by greentext in "Blitzortung – real time lightning strikes around the world"

greentext — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:26:06 +0000

Solder the thing!

New comment by greentext in "Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (2009)"

greentext — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 02:43:31 +0000

Yes. A lot of tech history has its roots in gaming. And Trammel is for carebears.

New comment by greentext in "The Value of Milk.com"

greentext — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 05:19:57 +0000

Nice. The "edit" portion was very clever!

Now write a short, trite comment.

New comment by greentext in "Show HN: Procedural Art –– 'Pulse'"

greentext — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 09:32:37 +0000

The ship is strangely generalized in design. There's no specific bridge; no command center. There's no engineering section. I can identify no living quarters. There's no indication of life.

New comment by greentext in "Ask HN: What brought back the joy of programming for you?"

greentext — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 01:45:09 +0000

Being reminded I didn't get into it for money and recognizing the tools and ideas the masses chose to define the industry are unbelievably terrible, delusional even.

New comment by greentext in "Ask HN: What are your favorite parables, anecdotes, idioms, etc.?"

greentext — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 21:43:17 +0000

Wait, now there's two boxes.

New comment by greentext in "By harnessing wind power, high-tech sails can help cut marine pollution"

greentext — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 13:03:25 +0000

Why don’t we have over-ocean cables to ferry cargo/cargo ships?

New comment by greentext in "Ask HN: Which niche online businesses would you love to own?"

greentext — Thu, 23 May 2024 07:27:39 +0000

Maybe something low effort and ironic like you'd find on a web ring, but even less effort.

New comment by greentext in "Ask HN: What are problems only Windows, macOS, or Linux has?"

greentext — Sat, 18 May 2024 02:45:14 +0000

Windows is a telemetry nightmare and doesn't believe in free will.

MacOS is like a controlling father that lets you opt out with strings attached.

Linux lacks polish so it never feels like a reliable workhorse.

All these OSes surely are backdoored so it's choose your poison of who you want reading your email: shifty suit and ties or cyberpunk graybeards.

New comment by greentext in "Raspberry Pi prepares for London listing"

greentext — Fri, 17 May 2024 00:45:24 +0000

An ad supported freemium Raspberry Pi running pi-hole would really sum up the last decade in tech.

New comment by greentext in "Cubic millimetre of brain mapped at nanoscale resolution"

greentext — Fri, 10 May 2024 01:58:38 +0000

It looks like spaghetti code.

New comment by greentext in "Ask HN: Why do you use Apple products?"

greentext — Thu, 09 May 2024 04:01:14 +0000

I don't trust Apple anymore. Transitioning out. The thumb scans, then face scans, and then making Little Snitch not fully effective, and now they make their own chips so zero accountability as to what kind of functions are in those chips in a world with satellite internet.

New comment by greentext in "Show HN: Play the game I'm developing directly on its website"

greentext — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 22:17:34 +0000

Had fun killing an hour there, fun gameplay. Is there multiplayer?

New comment by greentext in "Drawing.garden"

greentext — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 07:50:57 +0000

2024 off to a great start

New comment by greentext in "Ask HN: Do you have a problem you'd pay to have taken away?"

greentext — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 05:46:09 +0000

Repeated stupidity in some areas.

New comment by greentext in "AI may be on a trajectory to surpass human intelligence; we should be prepared"

greentext — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 23:09:38 +0000

There's plenty of Smeagols out there already. We need a Frodo.