Hacker News: jokoon

New comment by jokoon in "Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions"

jokoon — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:37:31 +0000

Care to give arguments?

New comment by jokoon in "Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says"

jokoon — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:34:22 +0000

Does Israel has the intent of genocide? I don't think so.

Does Hamas try to maximize civilian casualties with martyrdom? By meshing its combattants with civilians? Yes.

The Geneva convention, unfortunately, allows collateral to a certain extent.

Hamas also executed gazans several times.

Israel does have a very aggressive strategy, but labeling it a genocide doesn't help the Palestinian cause.

Words matter.

New comment by jokoon in "Steam Machine launches today"

jokoon — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:58:49 +0000

I read many people saying "it's just a PC", but I am a bit skeptical for now.

I will probably wait for reviews to see how it goes

I still feel very interested, though, but I would need to adapt some workflows that I have with paint.net for now

New comment by jokoon in "Steam Machine launches today"

jokoon — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:57:38 +0000

so the available software is a bit limited then

I can still customize and configure things, or not really?

does that mean I can't customize the OS, like shortcuts?

New comment by jokoon in "Steam Machine launches today"

jokoon — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:49:56 +0000

So SteamOS is just arch linux?

I guess there are important differences?

New comment by jokoon in "Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)"

jokoon — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:58:46 +0000

This is just wishful thinking

We don't have a good definition of intelligence

Also, the premise that this thing would take over, it's hard to reason why it would do so

Anthropocentrism is also problematic in this article.

New comment by jokoon in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

jokoon — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:27:01 +0000

I did not say everyone is a gamer, but it's still a big market share

New comment by jokoon in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

jokoon — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:23:51 +0000

valve is on the brink of replacing windows with steam for many people

it's probably not a big dent in market share, but it's probably a good tipping point

New comment by jokoon in "Saying goodbye to Agile"

jokoon — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:15:19 +0000

Feels like another bad idea from management born in the silicon valley

New comment by jokoon in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"

jokoon — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:07:04 +0000

Thanks nuclear for subsidizing renewables

New comment by jokoon in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

jokoon — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:07:40 +0000

it's probably time to call those old retired programmers to ask them how to reduce software memory footprint

or to teach that again

New comment by jokoon in "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"

jokoon — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:15:49 +0000

weren't they already using repos for training?

New comment by jokoon in "Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg"

jokoon — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:48:19 +0000

I once asked on #ffmpeg@libera if the GPU could be used to encode h264, and apparently yes, but it's not really worth it compared to CPU.

I don't know much about video compression, does that mean that a codec like h264 is not parallelizable?

New comment by jokoon in "3M's PFAS exit killed the supply chain for two-phase immersion cooling in DCs"

jokoon — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:18:33 +0000

I got a thin raincoat, a thing I can roll and pack in my bag, I have been carrying it around for the last 10 years or so.

I think it was advertised as very water proof, like water would pearl on it.

It's probably full of PFAS, no idea if it has been leeching PFAS, but I know it's not very waterproof anymore, so that might be a worrying clue.

New comment by jokoon in "$96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor"

jokoon — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:12:01 +0000

the obvious goal of that is to help kill those iranian drones

New comment by jokoon in "Bourdieu's theory of taste: a grumbling abrégé (2023)"

jokoon — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:15:26 +0000

Bourdieu was ahead of his time.

People now identify themselves as belonging to a social class by subtle cues, it's like an unconscious messaging system to signal that you belong to some sort of club.

That's what "being raised right" means now.

It's now backwards to check if someone comes from a good or rich, noble family.

Instead, we check other subtle things.

Spend 5 min with anybody, and you can somehow know if that person can belong to your group of friends.

It's like animal checking each other' scents to accept them in a group.

New comment by jokoon in "Bourdieu's theory of taste: a grumbling abrégé (2023)"

jokoon — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:07:06 +0000

Foucault was popular in the US, and had theories that were different but similar in concepts

New comment by jokoon in "Ask HN: Why there are no actual studies that show AI is more productive?"

jokoon — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 11:36:22 +0000

Funny how much money is invested yet no proof those investments will yield profits

It's all make believe

New comment by jokoon in "Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep"

jokoon — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 20:43:46 +0000

I've heard a scientist say tinnitus also happens after waking up from a nap, not from a night's sleep

Can confirm

New comment by jokoon in "The yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan"

jokoon — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:41:30 +0000

English is not my main language but this title confuses me