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New comment by jacksontheel in "Ted Turner has died"

jacksontheel — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:41:15 +0000

I would say film restoration is what allows old movies to be enjoyed the way they were made.

New comment by jacksontheel in "We Need to Die"

jacksontheel — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:18:52 +0000

Guillermo del Toro's "Pinnochio" actually impressed the dread feeling much more, personally. It's interesting how similar these two movies are, considering the target audience is quite different.

New comment by jacksontheel in "Bayleaf · Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard"

jacksontheel — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:52:29 +0000

Roller mice are great. I also set up my keyboard such that I can hold down a key and use WASD to move my mouse, with J being left click and K being right. That's been a game changer for me, too.

New comment by jacksontheel in "Bayleaf · Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard"

jacksontheel — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:50:49 +0000

This looks incredible, I was hoping when I clicked that it would be ortholinear, pleasantly surprised it is! Probably about four years ago I bought a ZSA Moonlander, and started learning Vim keybindings right at the same time. My words per minute dropped to 20 or something before climbing back and passing what it was before. I couldn't ever go back.

New comment by jacksontheel in "Ask HN: What inspires you about computing?"

jacksontheel — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:28:51 +0000

If you're doing self promotion, I would disclose at least that you're doing so.

New comment by jacksontheel in "We built a self-healing system to survive a concurrency bug at Netflix"

jacksontheel — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:09:38 +0000

Every time you like/dislike/watchlist a movie you're posting data. When you're watching a movie your progress is constantly updated, posting data. Simple stuff but there's possibly hundreds of thousands of concurrent users doing that at any given moment.

New comment by jacksontheel in "The Apple Vision Pro’s missing apps"

jacksontheel — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 17:31:08 +0000

> I think if you ask the question, how do you make a compelling narrative when there's one camera, it can move anywhere on set, and it's sentient?

There's live theater too. Could be an interesting way to experience front-row tickets for a play. But what could AVP provide that a live play couldn't? Maybe putting the viewer in the middle of the stage, but it would be a pain to keep rotating to witness the action.

New comment by jacksontheel in "The Apple Vision Pro’s missing apps"

jacksontheel — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 17:23:38 +0000

If I'm watching a movie with my romantic partner, I'd like to be in the same room as them lol. Not really interested in a VR Chat relationship.

New comment by jacksontheel in "Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (2019)"

jacksontheel — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 22:50:39 +0000

What's funny is that after demonstrating the loop you still have to give a concrete number of times that you repeat it. You can't deal infinite damage, but you sure can do a googolplex damage.

New comment by jacksontheel in "Advent of Code 2023 is nigh"

jacksontheel — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 18:18:53 +0000

If it had shown "eightwo" as the last part of a string, then people with overlap would fail the example because they'd be finding "eight" where "two" would be correct. Having it at the beginning means it was overlooked, at least for me.

Though, I have no problem with the "spec". This a code puzzle game, so figuring that out was part of the fun, in my opinion

New comment by jacksontheel in "Steam Deck OLED"

jacksontheel — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 22:04:56 +0000

For me, if there's some good way to gate kids from participating then gambling with loot boxes should be perfectly accepted. Not that it's good game design, but adults can vote with their attention/money

New comment by jacksontheel in "The casino in your pocket"

jacksontheel — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 19:26:54 +0000

Especially bad when trying to pick a lock ten times in a row haha

New comment by jacksontheel in "The casino in your pocket"

jacksontheel — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 16:50:45 +0000

At least on PC, you can click a couple times to avoid the animation. I tend to when the outcome is pretty likely (trying to roll above 10 with a +8 modifier for example) but the anticipation is exciting to my monkey brain if it's a tougher roll.