<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: laserDinosaur</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=laserDinosaur</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:29:47 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=laserDinosaur" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserDinosaur in "I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Pro plan quota seems to be getting worse. I can get maybe 20-30 minutes work done before I hit my 4 hour quota. I found myself using it more just for the planning phase to get a little bit more time out of it, but yesterday I managed to ask it ONE question in plan mode (from a fresh quota window), and while it was thinking it ran out of quota. I'm assuming it probably pulled in a ton of references from my project automatically and blew out the token count. I find I get good answers from it when it does work, but it's getting very annoying to use.<p>(on the flip side, Codex seems like it's being SO efficient with the tokens it can be hard to understand its answers sometimes, it rarely includes files without you doing it manually, and often takes quite a few attempts to get the right answer because it's so strict what it's doing each iteration. But I never run out of quota!)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:13:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46726332</link><dc:creator>laserDinosaur</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46726332</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46726332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserDinosaur in "Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you have a Gigabyte motherboard (perhaps a B550) by chance?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2025 14:15:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074875</link><dc:creator>laserDinosaur</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074875</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserDinosaur in "Show HN: Move to dodge the bullets. How long can you survive?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For some comparison of difficulty, there's an old game called Squares which is very similar to yours. It does a good job of ramping the difficulty up pretty fast, but it allows the game have fun short gameplay loops because of the extra gameplay mechanics (ie, you are not just moving but collecting squares too).<p>Gameplay Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/n8nRCyjCy_Y" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/n8nRCyjCy_Y</a><p>Apparently you can still play it online at: <a href="https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/squares2" rel="nofollow">https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/squares2</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:04:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44880510</link><dc:creator>laserDinosaur</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44880510</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44880510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserDinosaur in "Fandom sells gaming media brand Giant Bomb to long-term staff"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"It would never occur to me to watch someone else talk about or play a game online, let alone pay for the privilege"<p>I think that's specifically what made GiantBomb so different in the first place - people were tuning in for the personalities, more so than the game news. There were already a lot of places you could just go for game news and updates (like IGN and Gamespot), but GB had decades of industry stories that were worth tuning in for. All sorts of 'behind the scenes' stories and faces would show up, Jeff finding out about the Dreamcast being cancelled in a conference call while on the toilet with food poisoning, Drew going to a Starcraft tournament in South Korea when they were still fairly new, the crew getting blind drunk at a birthday where they duct taped whisky bottles to their hands, stories of the sheer nightmare of lugging equipment and setting up for E3 every year with Drew and Vinnys video diaries. It was a peek behind the curtain into how the industry works with a group of very likeable people that made it different - more than just a place to go and watch people play games.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2025 16:31:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43954895</link><dc:creator>laserDinosaur</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43954895</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43954895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserDinosaur in "Why that one coworker got fired for no reason"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I once heard someone say a phrase which feels relevant to this article:<p>"If you know nothing of what they are doing, you suspect them of doing nothing".<p>I've used this sentence to catch myself over the years where I've been quick to judge someone as doing nothing at their job or day-to-day, and then used it as motivation to (if possible) learn about what their days actually look like. I'm almost always finding out I just didn't know enough about what they did.<p>As the article points out, this goes the other way too. It doesn't matter how good you are at your job if nobody at a decision making level understands what you are doing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2024 21:01:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41939718</link><dc:creator>laserDinosaur</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41939718</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41939718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserDinosaur in "Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Another thing, although probably outside your control, is that I use a Firefox extension called "SoundFixer" that I use to force the youtube audio to mono<p>In windows you can also go to "Ease of access audio settings" and click "Turn on mono audio". Useful for games which have positional audio which gets annoying (sf6 training room for example).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2024 01:02:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41252239</link><dc:creator>laserDinosaur</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41252239</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41252239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserDinosaur in "Captain Disillusion debunks David Beckham beach kicks [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Whereas if you have to fake the bins, you also have to deal with camera zoom, exposure changes, etc. that happen throughout the clip."<p>Oooh true, that makes sense. Cheers!</p>
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<p>One thing I didn't understand about the original video - why didn't they just CG in the bins instead? Why go to all the effort of CG'ing out the ball, changing the trajectory etc? It seems like it would have been easier to have him make 3 random kicks then add some bins in where they landed. But, maybe there's something obvious I'm missing.</p>
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<p>somepx on itch.io also makes some really nice fonts: <a href="https://somepx.itch.io/" rel="nofollow">https://somepx.itch.io/</a></p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeE_gLl3j94">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeE_gLl3j94</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40960438">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40960438</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:07:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeE_gLl3j94</link><dc:creator>laserDinosaur</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40960438</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40960438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserDinosaur in "PostgreSQL and UUID as Primary Key"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>they stopped production<p>Oh I see, we're talking about two entirely different worlds here, lol.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:25:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40890953</link><dc:creator>laserDinosaur</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40890953</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40890953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserDinosaur in "PostgreSQL and UUID as Primary Key"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>And they managed it just fine despite working with auto-incrementing big ints.<p>I wonder how. I've had to do several big merges in my career, and it was always a nightmare because of all the external systems which were already referencing and storing those pre-existing ints. Sure, merging the databases is easy if you don't mind regenerating all the Id's, but it's not usually that simple.</p>
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<p>>Call me old fashion but I really like integer autoincrement primary keys.<p>Just hope you never have to merge tables from two databases together.</p>
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<p>The video seems interesting, but I gotta say the constant hands-on-head, "you wont BELIEVE what happens NEXT" lines, the over the top sound effects, it seems modern-day-discovery-channel style is kind of silly. I can't tell if it's intentionally being a bit silly and having fun, or it's trying way to hard to 'youtube' it up.</p>
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<p>Pretty close to me too. 98th percentile for Internal Verbalization, 88th percentile for Visual Imagery, average for all the others.<p>I'm constantly talking to myself in my head as if I'm talking to a duplicate of myself. Asking questions, providing answers, having full back and forward conversations (especially with programming). There are certainly days though where, if you have a lot going on, you can start to burn yourself out with conversation (since every single action of the day comes with a conversation). Even if it's just "Oh I should make a coffee. Did I have a coffee yet? No, I think you had one this morning. What about if I made one anyway. Yeah I think that would be fine. Oh do I need to boil water? I suppose I should check if the water is hot. Yep looks like I do have to boil some". and after a while you just get sick of talking to yourself. But you can't switch it off and it drives you a bit batty sometimes.<p>I asked my wife once if she constantly narrates her own day, she said absolutely no. She said she only really has an internal monologue when reading things from text. And she writes down a lot of stuff on text. But other than that, she answered confused by my question "...nothing? I guess? Quiet?"<p>Brains are interesting!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2024 13:52:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40759163</link><dc:creator>laserDinosaur</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40759163</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40759163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserDinosaur in "Show HN: Mazelit - My wife and I released our first game"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the screenshot of the DLC it shows GDScript.</p>
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<p>I have a 4070 and the site is using 97% of the GPU (in Firefox). What the heck is it doing?</p>
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<p>Percentage wise: If you were earning 150K per year, this fine would cost you $3,750.</p>
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<p>"Unlimited free trial"<p>I finally found the pricing page (it's strange only having it in the footer and not the top of the site), and I guess you are referring to the free tier. Which is both NOT a trial (it doesn't expire) and NOT unlimited (there's a 10K block limit).<p>The copy there is confusing since it's actually the opposite - a limited free tier.</p>
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<p>When I was a kid, it took me about a week to model a single wineglass in Bryce3d.</p>
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