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New comment by jjk7 in "Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews"

jjk7 — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:42:04 +0000

It went beyond duping, you could construct your own completely unique weapon stats with gameshark codes at the bank.

Prototypal item crafting

New comment by jjk7 in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

jjk7 — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:39:52 +0000

Assuming you're serious? Store passwords with salted one-way hashes.

New comment by jjk7 in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

jjk7 — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:23:27 +0000

Before SYSCALL there was INT

New comment by jjk7 in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

jjk7 — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:21:30 +0000

I had a similar experience but with MSSQL, was invited to join some meetings with MS Sales folks. I quickly learned the project was never meant to succeed, but was simply leverage to negotiate a better contract.

New comment by jjk7 in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

jjk7 — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:17:04 +0000

A tool so good, the workers need to be forced to use it.

New comment by jjk7 in "How Monero's proof of work works"

jjk7 — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:42:59 +0000

Once you buy gold, you don't have to rely on other people continuing to burn resources indefinitely. You pay upfront for the cost of mining, and that's it.

New comment by jjk7 in "Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people"

jjk7 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:09:34 +0000

They'll resent you insofar as it was confrontational vs. collaborative. If you can incept your conclusion into others they will not resent you. It's the whole raison d'etre of the Socratic method.

I had someone tell me, earnestly, that they hated me because it turned out that I was alright right. Not in the stubborn sense either.

New comment by jjk7 in "U.S. banks may soon collect citizenship data from customers"

jjk7 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:25:06 +0000

>Reporting Mechanism: In countries with Intergovernmental Agreements (IGAs), such as Canada, financial institutions report to local tax authorities, which then share the information with the IRS.

New comment by jjk7 in "Codex for almost everything"

jjk7 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:45:57 +0000

Probably accessibility APIs

New comment by jjk7 in "Allbirds, Inc. Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure"

jjk7 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:29:58 +0000

Allbirds ran on Shopify... was the CTO a shoe engineer?

New comment by jjk7 in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

jjk7 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:25:54 +0000

At least tokens are equivalent to measuring 'thinking'... I wouldn't mind if it burned 100k tokens to output a one line change to fix a bug.

The problem is maximizing code generated per token spent. This model of "efficiency" is fundamentally broken.

New comment by jjk7 in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

jjk7 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:20:31 +0000

Why worry?

New comment by jjk7 in "I quit. The clankers won"

jjk7 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:34:30 +0000

"I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too." - Abe Simpson

New comment by jjk7 in "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder"

jjk7 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:57:06 +0000

Use the atmosphere itself as propellant gas.

New comment by jjk7 in "Google unkills JPEG XL?"

jjk7 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:37:48 +0000

Tiled at different zoom levels

New comment by jjk7 in "Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs"

jjk7 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:18:52 +0000

Worked at a place that used to do a kind of arbitrage between adclicks and traditional print. A large percent of traffic, especially mobile, was obviously either toddlers or bad bots; yet we were billing our customers for the 'engagement'.

New comment by jjk7 in "The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia"

jjk7 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:18:02 +0000

Only if the increased revenue from rounding doesn't go into retailers pockets but rather is redistributed somehow. i.e. to reduce sales tax

New comment by jjk7 in "Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?"

jjk7 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:44:02 +0000

False absence, is better than false presence. Especially with kids.

The UX is optimizing for accuracy over ease of use, and in this case is likely intentionally difficult to use.

New comment by jjk7 in "Die shots of as many CPUs and other interesting chips as possible"

jjk7 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:26:11 +0000

That's how I was taught, build up a CPU using TTL logic chips.

Even just starting with the building blocks is useful, like build a flip-flop

New comment by jjk7 in "Cryptographic Issues in Cloudflare's Circl FourQ Implementation (CVE-2025-8556)"

jjk7 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:42:34 +0000

The license reads: 'THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"'.