Hacker News: loudthing

New comment by loudthing in "How to Befriend Crows"

loudthing — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 19:34:54 +0000

"How to befriend crows", also known as "how to get away with a murder".

New comment by loudthing in "Noise cameras to be trialled in England to tackle ‘boy racers’"

loudthing — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:34:50 +0000

I've always hated the phrase "boy racer". So condescending...

New comment by loudthing in "Visitors to Qatar for the World Cup need to install spyware on their phone"

loudthing — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:33:16 +0000

Apparently the one app requires permissions for "an overview of your exact location, the ability to make direct calls via your phone and the ability to disable your screen lock."

I've never heard of any app being able to make calls or disable the lock screen. Is that even possible? I suspect maybe on Android?

New comment by loudthing in "The Next Mainstream Programming Language: A Game Developer’s Perspective (2005) [pdf]"

loudthing — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 20:56:45 +0000

Not when you factor in equipment, travel, keeping the lights on, etc.

New comment by loudthing in "An employee at EpicGames wants me to fill out this questionnaire to use my OSS"

loudthing — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 20:23:28 +0000

Because Jeff Geerling is an internet personality and uses opportunities like this for publicity.

New comment by loudthing in "Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries? (2020)"

loudthing — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 18:52:29 +0000

With a good chunk of that money being allocated to getting young Americans killed (i.e. military spending).

New comment by loudthing in "The 8bit Keyboard"

loudthing — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 19:53:51 +0000

Reminds me of the 8-bit guy's device he created for manually programming character lcd displays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZRL8luuPb8

New comment by loudthing in "The 8bit Keyboard"

loudthing — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 19:53:42 +0000

It demonstrates how technology we take for granted obfuscates how complex basic tasks can be.

New comment by loudthing in "A Macintosh History (1986)"

loudthing — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 14:25:09 +0000

"This is a keyboard that is sure to provoke controversy."

I miss this sort of drama...

New comment by loudthing in "Checkbox Olympics"

loudthing — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 14:23:01 +0000

It would be nice if I got to see how I did against other players.

New comment by loudthing in "Just another Apollo? Part two (2005)"

loudthing — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 16:14:51 +0000

Up. Politics is a major detriment to NASA's efficiency.

New comment by loudthing in "Xerox Star Keyboard"

loudthing — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 16:08:43 +0000

It's weird they don't say what year its from. (AFAIK this keyboard mouse combo appeared in 1981).

New comment by loudthing in "Photos of chickens, taken by chickens"

loudthing — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 01:28:18 +0000

No one likes a non runny white.

New comment by loudthing in "The Floppotron 3.0"

loudthing — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 01:11:55 +0000

You must be fun at parties.

Edit: :P

New comment by loudthing in "The Floppotron 3.0"

loudthing — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 18:47:38 +0000

That retro looking CLI gui is pretty slick.

New comment by loudthing in "Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words"

loudthing — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 19:57:10 +0000

This is simultaneously interesting and useless.

New comment by loudthing in "Ask HN: Feeling burned out at an early stage in my career"

loudthing — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 15:07:30 +0000

Hang in there, man. I can totally relate. I too find myself getting tired out at the three year mark at companies, and switching things up has always helped. Although it's easier to not burn the bridge when you switch positions internally rather than start a completely different company (since often that other company can be the main competitor to the one you are leaving).

New comment by loudthing in "GitHub Star History Graph"

loudthing — Sat, 28 May 2022 21:09:47 +0000

Github has always had a bad history graph. I've always wondered why we can't just have a live Github history graph like in Sourcetree.

New comment by loudthing in "Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox"

loudthing — Sat, 28 May 2022 21:00:27 +0000

Good point. V8 gave us Node.js, right? Also I've been out of the loop for a while now about Firefox. My understanding was Firefox had a pretty bad memory leak for a long time. Was that ever resolved?

Edit: Saw your edit. Glad the firefox memory problem was resolved.

New comment by loudthing in "Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox"

loudthing — Sat, 28 May 2022 20:58:46 +0000

Crazy thing is Mozilla was heavily funded by Google for years before Chrome came out.