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New comment by ijxjdffnkkpp in "An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped"

ijxjdffnkkpp — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 18:11:10 +0000

I think that releasing the map on torrent would be a useful idea as well. This fly could end up like the lobsters in Accelerando. In that book the mapped animal is lobsters and they get first mover advantage on some post-scarcity type things. Getting them to the Internet would be a good first step, IMO.

New comment by ijxjdffnkkpp in "A rare disorder makes people see monsters"

ijxjdffnkkpp — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:24:26 +0000

I think this is a John Dies at the End reference! If not, John Dies at the End references this. A salute to you either way! Great book series.

Software to Make Forms from a Table?

ijxjdffnkkpp — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 18:44:27 +0000

This is the scenario: I need to print like 500 forms with a bunch of data imported from a table. I can use MS office suite. What is the smart way to get this done? The guides I have found are super jank. I have a non-technical team here at the office so I need this to be easy to teach and easy to do. I have an end format that the data needs to be fit into. I cannot imagine that there isn't a form wizard for this exact use case. Further; meta question: how do you increase your discoveries within software that has low discoverability, is abandonware, or is otherwise generally obtuse?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41081146

Points: 2

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New comment by ijxjdffnkkpp in "Not everything is behavioral science"

ijxjdffnkkpp — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 15:59:32 +0000

This article is an example of the Shirkey principle: Institutions Try to Preserve the Problem to Which They Are the Solution. Of course behavioralscientist.org wants you to think that everything is behavioral science. If it was, then we would need to keep the behavioral scientists employed.

New comment by ijxjdffnkkpp in "GitHub: Nintendo Submit DMCA Notices to Yuzu Forks"

ijxjdffnkkpp — Thu, 02 May 2024 15:03:11 +0000

Yuzu is on archive.org https://archive.org/details/yuzu-windows-msvc-20240304-53729... .

New comment by ijxjdffnkkpp in "Equinox.space"

ijxjdffnkkpp — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 20:13:12 +0000

I got used to normal look controls with practice but lots of 2005ish console games have inverted controls as defaults. I started a playthrough of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess on Gamecube to find that is has inverted left/right camera controls as the default. Also, GoldenEye 007 for the N64 has inverted up/down camera controls (if I remember correctly). If you're a certain age, you lived through a time when there was not an accepted default control scheme so console games just picked defaults and moved on. We got used to those defaults. There was a period of time where choice of selection of up/down inversion was seen as a must-have to even play a game (multiplayer split screen) and zero discussion or complaints would arise over 2-3 minutes of everyone (all 4 of us) setting their controls after every console reset. Eventually non-inverted controls became the accepted default. This likely happened during a time that many of us gamed less so we might not have the muscle memory of relearning the new defaults. That's my experience on the whole thing anyway.

New comment by ijxjdffnkkpp in "Show HN: QWANJI"

ijxjdffnkkpp — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:42:02 +0000

Please see this previous post for relevant further thoughts on the idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37510829 . Additionally I thought it would be cool to have the inputs go in reverse too, like putting in swipes and getting text.

New comment by ijxjdffnkkpp in "Software vendors dump open source, go for the cash grab"

ijxjdffnkkpp — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:33:39 +0000

They should not use CLA then.

New comment by ijxjdffnkkpp in "Software vendors dump open source, go for the cash grab"

ijxjdffnkkpp — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:32:27 +0000

The GPL does not allow derivative works to be relicensed under a more permissive license. If redis were GPL'd then the developer/owner would not have been able to fork the project and do anything moving forward. The project would be stuck as a GPL project because that is the point of the GPL. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html . Maybe I am mistaken? If there is some version of licensing that exists that does not allow the developer of the software to fork the software with a new license, then what I'm saying is that is what should be used.

New comment by ijxjdffnkkpp in "Software vendors dump open source, go for the cash grab"

ijxjdffnkkpp — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 11:04:13 +0000

They should have used the GPL, but that's the problem with the weak licences. Weak licences rely on trust for no reason.

New comment by ijxjdffnkkpp in "Dissent – A GTK4 Discord client written in Go"

ijxjdffnkkpp — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:49:30 +0000

I like to use Mumble https://www.mumble.info/ for voice chat while gaming. It's really effective at voice chat and runs on a toaster. The server was really easy to set up on my raspberry pi. Is there another software that might be helpful that you can think of? Free software would be preferable

New comment by ijxjdffnkkpp in "On clock faces, 4 is Expressed as IIII, not IV"

ijxjdffnkkpp — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 23:23:55 +0000

I know you must mean VIIII

New comment by ijxjdffnkkpp in "Show HN: 3 years and 1M users later, I just open-sourced my "Internet OS""

ijxjdffnkkpp — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 23:52:52 +0000

You used the AGPL! Glorious! I commend and salute your efforts. Thank you for your contribution!

New comment by ijxjdffnkkpp in "The Only Video You Need to Get Started with Neovim"

ijxjdffnkkpp — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 21:23:03 +0000

This borked my nvim rc and was hard for me to fix. Ymmv

New comment by ijxjdffnkkpp in "Poll: Are Mornings for Work or Play?"

ijxjdffnkkpp — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 19:36:06 +0000

I get burned out for the day easily so I just knock out the work as early and fast as I can to stay productive, then chill. After meetings I'm useless productivity-wise so that 4 hour block is really important to me. I play after work, pursuing whatever without feeling a way about it.

New comment by ijxjdffnkkpp in "Ask HN: I Need a Pep Talk"

ijxjdffnkkpp — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 20:28:56 +0000

I got off deployment. Came home to a depressed wife. Cleaned up the place. Moved to a college town to do college on GI bill. No job lined up. College fell through. Had some money from terminal leave, enough for like 3 months rent at in a studio apartment. Rented said apartment. Applied at a restaurant. The restaurant was exploitative, could immediately tell at the interview. Didn't take the cook job. Applied everywhere in my field. No results for several weeks. Weeks turned to months. Started running out of money. Got a couple calls. Drove to an interview and got a flat tire on the way. Got it aaa'ed and got to the interview. I felt pretty hopeless. I remember watching cartoons while my wife slept. I remember spending a lot of time alone outside, silently smoking cigarettes and walking around in circles. I reached out to my brother and we played a few cell phone games, free stuff. Having a goal was important to me in hindsight. My wife and I played through the entirety of Undertale (I did the combat, she did all the other stuff). Got the job. It wasn't my first choice but I was out of money. Advice: don't be alone, spend time taking walks, reach out and talk to somebody, don't be too proud to take ask people for their time and energy, and what job you get might not be what you think you want at the time, but either way you can make it work out in the end. Good luck, stranger.