Hacker News: jdc

New comment by jdc in "What the “superforecasters” predict for major events in 2023"

jdc — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 23:11:00 +0000

I think determinism is the word you're looking for.

New comment by jdc in "Feynman’s Breakthrough: Disregard Others"

jdc — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 19:58:40 +0000

Way too many of you idolize Feynman and it shows. Could he be a good role model? Sure!

However, I'd caution you against rosey-eyed or overgeneralized interpretations, and against adopting wholesome whatever works for someone else!

New comment by jdc in "Go 1.19 Released"

jdc — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 23:54:51 +0000

Java's value types will be ready soon enough: https://openjdk.org/projects/valhalla

New comment by jdc in "Show HN: Svelvet – A component library for building interactive flow diagrams"

jdc — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 01:03:19 +0000

Runs flawlessly on my Pixel 4 XL

New comment by jdc in "NixOS on Btrfs+tmpfs"

jdc — Sat, 07 May 2022 10:17:43 +0000

I prefer lazyatime.

New comment by jdc in "Use fast data algorithms (2021)"

jdc — Sat, 07 May 2022 04:39:48 +0000

Why not try a self-extracting archive?

see https://makeself.io

New comment by jdc in "Covid spike protein induces cognitive deficit and anxiety-like behavior in mice"

jdc — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 22:46:55 +0000

It certainly does make wonder what would happen if they did inject an mRNA vaccine, though.

New comment by jdc in "It's not your fault"

jdc — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 17:43:55 +0000

https://blog.crunchydata.com/blog/control-runaway-postgres-q...

New comment by jdc in "GC progress from JDK 8 to JDK 17"

jdc — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 00:05:28 +0000

Project Panama should greatly improve the FFI & game dev situation greatly.

New comment by jdc in "Cloudflare blocks an almost 2 Tbps multi-vector DDoS attack"

jdc — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 22:10:01 +0000

Thanks. Just clarifying for some of us (including myself) who tend to jump to the most exciting possible conclusion.

New comment by jdc in "Cloudflare blocks an almost 2 Tbps multi-vector DDoS attack"

jdc — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 20:15:25 +0000

If I'm understanding this correctly, then what Cloudflare is doing is hosting websites of DDoS services rather than hosting DDoS attacks themselves.

New comment by jdc in "Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop"

jdc — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 19:43:53 +0000

Would it be fair to say you don't want to write this?

  z = ->(x) { x + 1 }

  z.call(y)

New comment by jdc in "Gitlab servers are being exploited in DDoS attacks"

jdc — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:59:48 +0000

How much longer did said dev continue working there?

New comment by jdc in "Declarative, non-intrusive, compile-time C++ reflection for audio plug-ins"

jdc — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 20:03:49 +0000

Looks promising. I wonder if this could be used to load arbitrary VST and LV2 plugins into EasyEffects.

New comment by jdc in "Raspberry Pi 4 achieves Vulkan 1.1 conformance, gets GPU performance boost"

jdc — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 17:18:47 +0000

I wonder what specifically the GPU missing that OpenGL needs.

New comment by jdc in "End Amazon’s Surveillance Partnership with Police"

jdc — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 01:59:01 +0000

> For those of you who down vote this post, I'm guessing you support criminals?

You have a good comment here, but this line really hurts its credibility IMO.

New comment by jdc in "Fast-Paced Multiplayer (Part I): Client-Server Game Architecture"

jdc — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 03:04:05 +0000

I'm no expert, but isn't turn-based multiplayer a completely different animal?

New comment by jdc in "Offline-First Database Comparison"

jdc — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 05:08:13 +0000

See also Google's Lovefield SQL browser database:

https://google.github.io/lovefield

New comment by jdc in "Amazon warehouse employee in Poland dies at work"

jdc — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 00:15:26 +0000

I'd like to visit that part of the world some day.

New comment by jdc in "Amazon warehouse employee in Poland dies at work"

jdc — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 10:41:53 +0000

I mean who is saying this?