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New comment by lasagna_coder in "Irrlicht Engine – a cross-platform realtime 3D engine"

lasagna_coder — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 07:17:24 +0000

What was the main learning you got from building the engine? Was there some feature you wanted that no other engine at the time had? If you built an engine today, what would you do differently?

New comment by lasagna_coder in "A computational approach to emergence in complex multi-level systems"

lasagna_coder — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 09:26:48 +0000

I hope Dr Fernando E. Rosas writes a book for non-technical people someday. All of his research topics are super interesting and it would be cool to have him explain how they're connected in his mind in a way that's more accessible.

New comment by lasagna_coder in "Write more "useless" software"

lasagna_coder — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 08:50:15 +0000

yeah, imagine only creating software when you know it's useful by every measure.

New comment by lasagna_coder in "Write more "useless" software"

lasagna_coder — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 08:07:47 +0000

interestingly, i find that many of the things that also make money aren't even really useful, they just exist and people want them for some obscure reason. so you're right, and also it might actually lead to making money anyway because what might seem useless doesn't exclude valuable.

New comment by lasagna_coder in "Write more "useless" software"

lasagna_coder — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 08:06:14 +0000

> clutter the ecosystem what ecosystem? > diverts community to spent time on "useless" projects what community? > addressing real-world challenges. what challenges?

i'm curious to know what the criteria or thresholds are for releasing vs not releasing.

New comment by lasagna_coder in "I digitalized Berlin's registration form"

lasagna_coder — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 13:43:00 +0000

Well yes, a certain number of the public service or political parties will believe things that are simply false (whether legitimately or as a means to serve their goals), in fact, many political parties in Germany and other developed countries are based entirely on false premises to the extent of being named after them. But this is actually the point of democracy, so as much as the observation is humorous it also highlights a certain level of naivety.

Digging even a little into German history reveals why the whole digitalisation and bureaucracy situation is the way it is. In fact, it also shows a side that if one doesn't believe that our tech-centric disruption culture is a corruption of society and people, then one might actually be the one who is delusional. Remember, there's a whole class of people out there who depend heavily on things working the way they do - no so much for gain, but for the benefit that any 'digital' alternative may cripple them (e.g. many elderly, disabled, and poor members of society). To some, providing a secondary tool isn't simply an alternative, it's the first step towards a complete replacement of the thing they find more useful (a good example of this is 'cashless societies').

New comment by lasagna_coder in "I digitalized Berlin's registration form"

lasagna_coder — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:52:43 +0000

I think this is uniform across Germany, and I think the legal requirement might be either be registered or have an appointment to be registered, similar to other legally required appointments, which (from my understanding) causes issues regarding endless-reschedule loopholes.

New comment by lasagna_coder in "I digitalized Berlin's registration form"

lasagna_coder — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:48:47 +0000

to be fair, many countries' governments have this same issue, and even when they do something the UX feels like something from 2002. The thing is, its complex, often the job pays way below market rate and government jobs often have rigid salary tiers, hiring might not be done like a normal tech co. as you might also have specific public servants to do it, and then you have culture, which might rule out certain people or cultivate attitudes towards work. Beyond that, in developed democracies like Germany, what gets funded long enough to be pushed to production can depend on election cycles and public opinion. Additionally, the big 4 have a big presence in developed countries and they often get these 100 million contracts to do stuff like that and... enough said.

New comment by lasagna_coder in "I digitalized Berlin's registration form"

lasagna_coder — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 08:52:52 +0000

This is highly useful. You could take the idea, generalize it to be reusable for any German form, and make a plan to develop such a thing as open source with funding from: prototypefund.de as their applications close end of the month.

New comment by lasagna_coder in "German Cabinet approves liberalization of Cannabis Possession"

lasagna_coder — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 12:20:47 +0000

'many people' - less than a third of germans live in big cities. The vast majority of adults have licenses, almost all from the stats I see.

New comment by lasagna_coder in "German Cabinet approves liberalization of Cannabis Possession"

lasagna_coder — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 12:16:33 +0000

There are many cars and many car owners and many car drivers in Germany, I think the stat is something like >3/4s Germans own cars. There happens to be public transport and bicycle infrastructure proportionate to the density of a region (ie more in cities), but lots of Germany is still rural, sparsely populated, and dominated by cars for getting around. If you aren't from/in Germany and visit it, you'll see how popular cars are here and that is unlikely to change soon.

New comment by lasagna_coder in "Show HN: Floneum, a graph editor for local AI workflows"

lasagna_coder — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 19:01:35 +0000

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New comment by lasagna_coder in "Raylib – A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy video games programming"

lasagna_coder — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 11:34:01 +0000

Not author but if you're sharing these assets, distributing them in the gltf (json/ascii, not binary) format is really helpful, as it seems to quite easily be imported into tools like blender and threejs.

The Last Web Framework

lasagna_coder — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 07:32:45 +0000

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/louisfoster/af9b2abe51c0e07f80665ee05f7ee0ac

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35353828

Points: 1

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New comment by lasagna_coder in "Tell HN: I stopped caring about personal development in tech after seeing GPT-4"

lasagna_coder — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 06:35:08 +0000

Exactly, look ahead and automate the new drudgery.

New comment by lasagna_coder in "Tell HN: I stopped caring about personal development in tech after seeing GPT-4"

lasagna_coder — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 06:33:35 +0000

What reasoning is this based on? I haven't seen any research into this area. My understanding would be that it would be more efficient to produce its own language-like abstractions and compilers to assembly/C, which would be faster for it to write with as well.

New comment by lasagna_coder in "Tell HN: I stopped caring about personal development in tech after seeing GPT-4"

lasagna_coder — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 12:31:16 +0000

You're missing the point.

New comment by lasagna_coder in "Tell HN: I stopped caring about personal development in tech after seeing GPT-4"

lasagna_coder — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 11:34:52 +0000

Faster code writing still requires people who know what the code should do, what it should look like, etc, like you if it's true what you say you're capable of. It sounds like you sharpened the right skills: how the code should work, and didn't waste time, ie. practicing being faster with a keyboard. Now you're more a developer, and less a typist, that's all. We still use engineers to design bridges, despite much of the actual building being done by machinery, process, and unskilled labor, because we don't trust a cement mixer to tell us how the bridge should function.

New comment by lasagna_coder in "Why do we create modern desktop GUI apps using HTML/CSS/JavaScript? (2022)"

lasagna_coder — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 19:08:27 +0000

Unless I missed something, the article neglects to point out that this is only a specific subset of desktop apps. Companies who build desktop GUI apps for products people are willing to pay for don't necessarily use any of the systems mentioned.

New comment by lasagna_coder in "Ask HN: How to tell the world about your project?"

lasagna_coder — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 17:25:58 +0000

You're not alone with the reddit thing, don't let it deter you from trying to get your idea out.