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New comment by jamies in "Elevators"

jamies — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:18:20 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. I was just commenting about the challenge of making a fun elevator sim game. This looks great -- can't wait to play with it this weekend!

New comment by jamies in "Elevators"

jamies — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:15:37 +0000

This is absolute catnip to me. Fantastic job to the author! It really scratches the itch of wanting to understand elevator dispatch algos!

I want something similar for advanced sensor stop lights...

I've long toyed with creating an elevator simulator game, but every time I build a prototype I realize it's not that fun to manually dispatch elevators, and playing with algos only goes so far! Elevator Saga is great for the programming side: https://play.elevatorsaga.com/

New comment by jamies in "GloriousEggroll's Proton has been rebased on Proton 11"

jamies — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:36:02 +0000

Valid point! For me, the FSR3 -> FSR4 was such a big boon of performance and graphics quality it made GE Proton (with the PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 flag) the easy choice for most games that supported FSR3. Luckily, it seems Valve has just added this to their Proton, too!

New comment by jamies in "GloriousEggroll's Proton has been rebased on Proton 11"

jamies — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:06:29 +0000

For those curious, Proton is included with Steam, but GE's Proton includes many tweaks, improvements, and yes, rebasing on the latest upstream versions of many packages. For many games running in Linux GE Proton tends to be better than Valve's default Proton. GE Proton also includes features earlier than Valve, like FSR3 -> FSR4 upgrading, etc.

CachyOS makes also makes a Proton that's similar but different from GE's. There's also Valve's Proton betas, Proton Experimental (which is often updated within days of major releases).

ProtonDB.com is a great resource for finding out which "Proton" works best for a given game.

Why the "ping" command doesn't always reflect your internet experience

jamies — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:58:54 +0000

Article URL: https://orb.net/blog/why-ping-command-does-not-always-reflect-experience

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46456279

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?

jamies — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:55:30 +0000

Article URL: https://orb.net/blog/does-speed-make-wifi-suck

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45542444

Points: 277

# Comments: 321

Why lag matters more for connectivity than throughput

jamies — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:37:53 +0000

Article URL: https://orb.net/blog/why-lag-matters

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43849146

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jamies in "Nix at work: FlakeHub Cache and private flakes"

jamies — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 18:29:08 +0000

Please keep at it! Doing what GitHub did for Git is a real opportunity I think for Nix. We'll be keeping an eye on Determinate's work...

New comment by jamies in "Nix at work: FlakeHub Cache and private flakes"

jamies — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 18:17:11 +0000

I appreciate someone from the project commenting here. I left Nix because it just has too many warts, and unfortunately, they've only increased over time, which is the opposite of what I expected.

- I'd update Nixpkgs, and my build would stop working. The logging was awful, so fixing it took hours.

- The mono repo sounds nice, but selective updates are almost impossible.

- Building our Go project in a Nix package was nearly impossible with private GitHub repos, so we moved on.

- Bash scripts never work because binaries are never where they should be in Linux.

I could go on, but my experience with Nix and NixOS left me with significant scars. I’m hopeful that someone will eventually create a more user-friendly deterministic OS.

New comment by jamies in "Amazon ordered a return to the office – but research says they'll backtrack"

jamies — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:32:55 +0000

To me, these RTOs are nothing but silent layoffs. Their best and probably most expensive talent, who have the skills to land remote gigs, will depart. Amazon's smart enough to know this; I understand from friends who worked there they believe everyone is replaceable. I disagree.

New comment by jamies in "Teardown Engine Technical Dive [video]"

jamies — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 20:40:46 +0000

This game is a lot of fun. Highly recommended if you like destructible environments and puzzle solving.

New comment by jamies in "I forked SteamOS for my living room PC"

jamies — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 17:54:25 +0000

If you're interested in running SteamOS on a Linux PC, I'd recommend: https://github.com/HoloISO/holoiso

New comment by jamies in "Kagi – Sourcing from Brave Search, improved image search, and new Safari ext"

jamies — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:07:54 +0000

It’s a bummer indeed, but more an issue of iOS not supporting 3rd party search engines without a wonky extension.

New comment by jamies in "NixOS has one fatal flaw"

jamies — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 19:22:42 +0000

I totally agree. I love and hate Nix every day that I use it. I hope that someday they'll make it more user friendly, but I suspect it'll be someone else with a new approach.

New comment by jamies in "Dbrand Is Suing Casetify"

jamies — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 17:05:53 +0000

The irony here is that Dbrand used to taunt Sony to sue them for making nearly identical, but black instead of white "fins" for the PlayStation 5.

I believe they had to end up changing the design in their 2nd iteration...

New comment by jamies in "Signal Public Username Testing (Staging Environment)"

jamies — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:37:45 +0000

I have a similar address. I’m sure you can guess. It’s insane how much daily mail I get that isn’t for me. I get completed contracts, credit card statements, you name it.

One thing I occasionally do after a beer or two is reset someone’s password using my email address — just revenge in my opinion.

New comment by jamies in "Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing"

jamies — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 15:15:42 +0000

Sometimes the creativity and passion of a child can just completely shake up the doldrums of being an adult! Thanks for sharing this.

New comment by jamies in "JetBrains Mono Typeface"

jamies — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:32:10 +0000

This, and Roboto Mono, are my two desert island monospace typefaces. Are you allowed to have two desert island mono typefaces? I don't think I could could choose between them.

New comment by jamies in "Commit Mono – Neutral programming typeface"

jamies — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 15:34:22 +0000

I found this on their FAQ: "There have been some problems with downloading .zip files from Safari. The download is tested to work in Chrome and FireFox."

New comment by jamies in "Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine"

jamies — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 05:32:21 +0000

I used to go to this machine a lot in high school, and certainly drove past it a lot too; it was located pretty centrally in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle.

More than 20 years later I sent a close up photo to some old friends who immediately clocked it as “that” vending machine.

Simple curiosities like these make me happy.