Hacker News: kalkr

How random can you be?

kalkr — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 02:44:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.expunctis.com/2019/03/07/Not-so-random.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40665407

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by kalkr in "Act on Press"

kalkr — Fri, 24 May 2024 01:49:58 +0000

"Devil Daggers" has an action on release scheme, you play as a floating hand that shoots daggers with two firing modes, a "shotgun" like dagger blast, and a "stream" of individual daggers. The first, which you activate by clicking then quickly releasing, does a lot of damage, but suffers from a cool-down. the latter, which you get by holding for a certain amount of time, is good if you need constant damage.

Interestingly, the game programmed this behavior by moving the position of the hand. When you press LMB, your hand begins traveling forward. If it reaches a certain position, it will start the dagger stream. If you let go before it gets to that spot, it activates the "shotgun" and teleports the hand backward to naturally introduce a cool-down, returning to the neutral position after some time.

People figured out that, because holding the mouse down moves the hand forward, if you shotgun then re-hold the mouse button, your shotgun cool-down is much lower. Most runs will do this because it allows you to do the most damage in the quickest time, but initially learning it is really strange because you don't expect the action to be on release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNrCdNFAYW4

New comment by kalkr in "Clever code is probably the worst code you could write (2023)"

kalkr — Tue, 21 May 2024 23:33:02 +0000

Traditional C style for is terrible compared to what you can do with iterators in my opinion, but idk if C++ has those.

    list.iter().sum()

ezpz

New comment by kalkr in "Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking"

kalkr — Thu, 16 May 2024 11:42:12 +0000

of course it’s surveillance technology.

an iphone constantly broadcasts your location to third parties, can deduce where you work and live, understands the unique shape of your face, has a built-in microphone and multiple kinds of cameras, stores all of your conversations, stores all of your photos, stores your health information, can figure out when you go to bed.. all on a completely closed and proprietary operating system.

it’s like asking “why hasn’t anyone mentioned that we’re all using a website right now”

New comment by kalkr in "Some notes on Rust, mutable aliasing and formal verification"

kalkr — Thu, 16 May 2024 10:01:34 +0000

What about Arc> ?

New comment by kalkr in "LDAPjs decomissioned by maintainer over hateful email"

kalkr — Wed, 15 May 2024 18:27:49 +0000

As the maintainer he gets to call the shots, so this response is perfectly fair. It's easy for me to say "I wouldn't have reacted like this", especially since I'm kind of numb to this type of shit-slinging, but I haven't had such visceral anger directed towards my hard work, so I really don't know.

New comment by kalkr in "An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus"

kalkr — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 21:03:34 +0000

You may be experiencing this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

I have read a few anecdotal experiences of people allowing these kinds of hallucinations to continue and they have reported that they can become quite vivid and even interactive. Maybe try waving your arms around when this happens to see if it goes away? That should indicate if it's sleep-related or not.

Learning Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot with Deep RL

kalkr — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:37:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adi8022

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40019203

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kalkr in "Humane AI Pin"

kalkr — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 07:24:22 +0000

Forget the goofy badge, if I’m moving my arm towards a device to query an llm, I might as well just bind the button on my phone.

New comment by kalkr in "Terraform makes carbon neutral natural gas"

kalkr — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 00:13:39 +0000

man wtf does virtue signaling even mean anymore

Meow.camera

kalkr — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 15:02:50 +0000

Article URL: https://meow.camera

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39894858

Points: 44

# Comments: 2

New comment by kalkr in "[dead]"

kalkr — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 12:25:50 +0000

No it isn't, you've linked an un-merged RFC.

Error Handling in a Correctness-Critical Rust Project

kalkr — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 12:23:20 +0000

Article URL: http://sled.rs/errors.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39893372

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kalkr in "Iowa fertilizer spill kills nearly all fish across 60-mile stretch of rivers"

kalkr — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 01:31:53 +0000

9 hours ago "more comments", 1 hour ago "less comments".

New comment by kalkr in "Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI"

kalkr — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 08:50:26 +0000

decentralization != coinshit

New comment by kalkr in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

kalkr — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 20:35:37 +0000

Motor companies should not be able to gate physical features (seat heaters) behind software.

My opinion isn't changed by the fact that I can purchase from a company that doesn't do that.

New comment by kalkr in "FCC Officially Raises Minimum Broadband Metric from 25Mbps to 100Mbps"

kalkr — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 23:02:49 +0000

what would you propose instead? would you keep it the same?

New comment by kalkr in "Why are most sofas so bad?"

kalkr — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 18:49:01 +0000

I ordered a dresser once from a local store, they bought some cheap crap from Amazon and passed it off as "shipping from storage". It arrived broken and I couldn't get my money back, which I probably would have if I got something similar through an online retailer.

New comment by kalkr in "U.S. students will take the SAT online"

kalkr — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 18:49:40 +0000

When I took my SAT someone crashed into a utility pole and the power went out. We ended up having to retake, which was super annoying since that test was so damn long. I wonder what they'll do this year if the same thing were to happen?

New comment by kalkr in "Sky High Sabotage: Major Airlines Are Using TSA to Shut Down Competitor"

kalkr — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 02:06:54 +0000

I sometimes sometimes wonder what the airline industry would look like if America had meaningful high speed rail.