Hacker News: hertzrat

New comment by hertzrat in "Literary hostility to J. R. R. Tolkien"

hertzrat — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 14:00:11 +0000

> absolutely no one remembers who the fuck Edmund Wilson was

Can’t we strive to be more civilized on this site?

New comment by hertzrat in "Ask HN: Anyone making a living building desktop applications?"

hertzrat — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 13:36:54 +0000

I’m a game developer. Lots of work in that area but it’s hard work with lots of competition. Lots of time spent optimizing performance so you can run on weaker hardware. Insane user experience focus compared to web as well

New comment by hertzrat in "The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox"

hertzrat — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 13:27:21 +0000

Theory: The cloud took over the same way most trendy tech took over: resume driven development. Everyone on all the teams pushed for it because of how much value it adds to their resume and gradually more and more companies bought in, which accelerated the process because company d started feeling worried that they were behind the times since companies a-c already switched

The cloud is great for startups and tiny companies though

New comment by hertzrat in "W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth"

hertzrat — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 01:02:45 +0000

It used to be missing occlusion culling, which is a big deal. I think it either has it now or else it’s in v4 though?

It was sparse on tutorial content from the community too, but that seems changed a lot too since then

I wonder what their heavily nested scene graphs do to performance but haven’t tested it

New comment by hertzrat in "W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth"

hertzrat — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 01:02:04 +0000

Godot seems nice so far. How is the c# support? The docs? Is it hard to do x if you look online for how to do so? Performance? Occlusion culling?

Last time I looked into it, it was too far behind still, but it looks like Godot 4 will be a really cool release

New comment by hertzrat in "The AI Unbundling"

hertzrat — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 14:24:24 +0000

Isn’t it likely that patent law is going to lock ai down? One company will finally crack something general-enough in a way that gets it way ahead, will patent it, and will use that monopoly to gain control of the whole space, and the monopoly will never go away because all further improvements will also get patented by the ai legal team?

The brief openness of ai right now is a glitch in the system that will get ironed out soon. Only megacorps, and countries that ignore patent law, will be able to afford to license the patents to do any significant ai work at all

Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News for writers?

hertzrat — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 13:30:53 +0000

HackerNews is a community of skilled professionals engaging politely with each other. It’s great for entrepreneurs and technical people.

Is there somewhere similar for writers? Especially fiction writers?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32750322

Points: 101

# Comments: 95

New comment by hertzrat in "Unreal Rust"

hertzrat — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 22:32:56 +0000

These discussions always remind me of some talks by Jonathan blow where he argues rust doesn’t solve the hard problems he needed it to. There are podcast episodes with better discussions, but the main one people link to seems to be this

I haven’t used rust, but I sympathize with his problems with pointers and learned a lot from the various ways people try to solve them

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1K66dMhWk

New comment by hertzrat in "Pakistan's floods have created 100km-wide inland lake, satellite images"

hertzrat — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 17:58:23 +0000

This is apocalyptic. Imagine something 100km from where you live, and that whole span between you and there being under water tomorrow. in a movie, that wouldn’t feel real no matter how good the special effects are, it’s too out there

New comment by hertzrat in "Rights, Laws, and Google"

hertzrat — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 23:00:20 +0000

Notice is says “for ads,” and not in general. The terms sneakily allow them to still profile you or use your content in other ways, like training ai systems or reporting you to the government

New comment by hertzrat in "Ask HN: Is there a developer laptop that does not suck and is not a Mac in 2022?"

hertzrat — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 11:46:54 +0000

That’s due to swelling batteries, which is apparently common in the xps line

New comment by hertzrat in "Stable Diffusion Is the Most Important AI Art Model Ever"

hertzrat — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 22:33:34 +0000

How Orwellian. It’s like newspeak: make it impossible to express certain thoughts

New comment by hertzrat in "Pine64’s response to “Why I left Pine64”"

hertzrat — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 22:44:52 +0000

If it’s no, but has a dozen asterisks, to the end user, that’s still a “no, this component does not work properly.” The footnotes can be 5 pages long but the chart is still straightforward

One day I’ll probably end up with a Linux phone, but I mean, not if I’m worried I’ll get surprised when it arrives

New comment by hertzrat in "Ask HN: 91-year-old's Hotmail account hacked, only automated support responses"

hertzrat — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 16:02:01 +0000

My mom wasn’t hacked, but she lost her password and can’t get a human to talk to for the life of her

New comment by hertzrat in "Adventure game graphics with DALL-E 2"

hertzrat — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 14:52:57 +0000

Speaking of upping their game, I have a friend who worked in photography, and photo and video editing. Over the years, the tools got better and better and more user friendly. The money started to disappear due to more and more people being able to just use phone apps to do it all. He adapted by… leaving the field completely for a tech job.

That’s what we will see: a far smaller percent of people who have the pleasure of paying their bills by working in the arts. It’s all already so commoditized, I don’t know a single artist any more who can do it full time except one woman with a gallery I met the other day on a road trip. Is she going to have to go back to her old career of environmental policy soon?

New comment by hertzrat in "Commercial Surveillance and Data Security Rulemaking"

hertzrat — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 14:13:32 +0000

I wish Canada would do a similar call for comments

New comment by hertzrat in "How fast is 12th Gen Intel Core?"

hertzrat — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 20:31:54 +0000

I’d rather have a portable device that doesn’t need a separate keyboard

New comment by hertzrat in "An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter"

hertzrat — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 20:31:01 +0000

Out of curiosity, why is it only 5M and not 500M? You would think the same vulnerability applied to every server, not just one or one cluster, if they are using automated deployments

New comment by hertzrat in "How fast is 12th Gen Intel Core?"

hertzrat — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 14:39:40 +0000

I recently turned down a m1 mba for $1100 in favour of a 2015 mba for $500. The keyboard is so dramatically better in the 2015 model, I couldn’t believe it. The battery is great, seems to last about 10h in a charge while writing and browsing and using discord.

I don’t care how fast it is as long as it continues to have those mediocre low travel keyboards. They’re better than their worst keyboards from the 2018 era but they still aren’t good

New comment by hertzrat in "Superman 64"

hertzrat — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 15:19:47 +0000

Off topic, but I just learned that the author of Watchmen (Alan moore) wrote some superman stories. The one I’m trying to track down right now is “for the man who has everything.” He described his writing process for it in detail in his great, short book on comic writing