Hacker News: ign0ramus

New comment by ign0ramus in "PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default"

ign0ramus — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 15:01:50 +0000

What's the name of the fork?

New comment by ign0ramus in "Racket: Lisp for the modern day"

ign0ramus — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 17:26:26 +0000

You're probably not. Programming in lisp,back in my college days, felt enlightening. I remember flying through quiet complex projects with a clarity that I've rarely experienced in my professional career. I do yearn for those days when I'm deep within a nonsensical "enterprise" Java codebase or a messy frontend codebase but I don't think Lisp made me an objectively "better" programmer. There is enough imposter syndrome in this industry as it is. If you ever want to, pick up SICP or "How to design programs", you'll probably find them interesting but don't expect to find programming nirvana.

New comment by ign0ramus in "Ask HN: Why would Google sell Google domains to Squarespace?"

ign0ramus — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:24:38 +0000

No they don't. What are you talking about?

New comment by ign0ramus in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

ign0ramus — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 22:16:15 +0000

Thanks for replying! I hadn't heard of half of the items on this list which I think kind of proves GP's point.

New comment by ign0ramus in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

ign0ramus — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:22:08 +0000

I realize that they have had many failures in their long history but it seems like they have been on a roll since the iPod release 22 years ago. Do you know of any product flop from Apple in the last two decades? I'm genuinely curious.

New comment by ign0ramus in "Reliability: It’s not great"

ign0ramus — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 20:03:47 +0000

Here's a post explaining how they do it https://fly.io/blog/docker-without-docker/

New comment by ign0ramus in "The bottom is dropping out of Netflix"

ign0ramus — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 10:56:54 +0000

I found that as a result, dialog was clearer. I really hate how loud everything other than dialog is in most movies for the sake of 'immersion'. I eventually gave up and settled on using subtitles when I don't want to miss any parts of a conversation.

FWIW, I'm way more fluent in English than French.

New comment by ign0ramus in "Tailscale’s human-scale networks are still controlled by Google and Microsoft"

ign0ramus — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 01:47:40 +0000

You're definitely not having a stroke. Here is another thread discussing the same thing. I specifically remember the 'polycule' comments. It was my first time learning about that word.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30937892

New comment by ign0ramus in "Starbucks and TrustArc add fake cookie processing delay if you don't click agree"

ign0ramus — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:08:35 +0000

It does support plugins but only on Android.

New comment by ign0ramus in "Jay Leiderman has died"

ign0ramus — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 03:11:31 +0000

Come on. Is this kind of baseless speculation really warranted?

New comment by ign0ramus in "GraalVM at Facebook"

ign0ramus — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 20:54:35 +0000

I wouldn't say they are ignoring it. Case in the point that guide, you linked, recommends targeting recommends using C++17 which I think qualifies as modern. Compiler support for some of the newer features of C++2x hasn't matured yet.[0] That recommendation to avoid them seems sensible.

[0] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support#cpp20

New comment by ign0ramus in "Lethal Autonomous Weapons Exist; They Must Be Banned"

ign0ramus — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 16:46:10 +0000

A tomahawk with a 1000 lbs warhead weighs 2900 lbs (or 3500 lbs with a booster)[1]. It's a long range missile so, it is probably possible to achieve a better ratio for something shorter range but I have doubts regarding quadcopters like the ones discussed in the article being able to do so by virtue of how fixed wing craft (which the tomahawk is IMHO).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomahawk_(missile)

Making a Robot Chainsaw. Carving dogs.[video]

ign0ramus — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 15:04:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix68oRfI5Gw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26689990

Points: 3

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New comment by ign0ramus in "Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon"

ign0ramus — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 17:30:09 +0000

Thanks for digging it up! It did help. As Slymon99 had pointed out, Facebook doesn't earn the same amount from each user. Something I hadn't taken into account.

New comment by ign0ramus in "Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon"

ign0ramus — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:04:14 +0000

That number seems wildly off. Facebook's annual revenue for 2020 was $85.97 Billion[1]. With 2.8 Billion monthly active users, they'd need to charge $3 a month to exceed that number.

[1]: https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...