Hacker News: lovedaddy

New comment by lovedaddy in "Audacity 4.0"

lovedaddy — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:55:45 +0000

Lost me at QT.

New comment by lovedaddy in "Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Specification"

lovedaddy — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:13:51 +0000

This is awesome! Been tracking the bug for what seems like Gimp 3 levels of time. But great job all involved.

New comment by lovedaddy in "The Zed Debugger Is Here"

lovedaddy — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 12:04:00 +0000

Yep, I was on mailing list etc. Unsubscribed when they did the AI announcement. Its not for me.

New comment by lovedaddy in "A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work"

lovedaddy — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 10:19:04 +0000

Nah, its just them playing the victim. You can totally get noticed in a big company. Or overlooked in a small.

Throwing in the towel and saying I'm not going to bother in the future... yeah I'd never be hiring you in the first place.

New comment by lovedaddy in "A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work"

lovedaddy — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 12:40:45 +0000

This...

And tell you what, the posts on linkedin and the blogs like this, where the take away is 'I got fired and next time I'll work LESS'. Really?

Errr, might want to reconsider that strategy, unless you think that you are going to get binned no matter what, and just cruising until that happens is the solution. Just seems like a massively negative outcome.

That, or they are going for the spiteful 'hopefully I convince everyone else to lower the standard, so others get sacked, or so I look good again'.

New comment by lovedaddy in "Framework: A new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing"

lovedaddy — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 15:50:20 +0000

Well just pre-ordered the 120hz amd. If the RiscV drops in, I'm going to be very impressed.

New comment by lovedaddy in "IBM CEO pay jumps 23% in 2023, average employee gets 7%"

lovedaddy — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:45:50 +0000

Are companies legally obligated to give cost of living? Nope. 7% given the number of layoffs in the tech sector seems amazing in my view.

New comment by lovedaddy in "Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA?"

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 15:26:09 +0000

I was working on an F1 game back in the PS1 game. The studio wanted to fire one of the track texture artists. They pulled him up for a texture that was on the back of one of the break boards...

'whats this?'

Now given it was like a 16x16 texture, he could have said anything..

'its as a stick man with his ** out!'.

Handed them the ammo.

However, related to the moon, we did a demo / prototype one time, and put it into a soft QA cycle before sending to publishers. One of our QA (rightly, but sigh) raised a bug saying the moon was upside down, and given the location of the game, it would be rotated.

New comment by lovedaddy in "Fedora 36: Fonts in GTK 4 apps look different, more blurry"

lovedaddy — Wed, 04 May 2022 14:04:39 +0000

I just don't get GTK / Gnome decisions anymore. Font rendering is one part, but my personal hate is the stupid over padded default theme. Coupled with the fact they are making it as painful as they can get away with whilst still saying they support custom themes.

Until they cut back on the bloated, padded default, no one is going to take gnome / gtk seriously as a productive desktop env. There is countless studies showing more scrolling or less information presented in all sorts (like finance, programming, creative writing etc), leads to more mistakes.

But yet, this is the default theme (gtk4) next to a custom one (Mojave-dark). Pointer (mouse precision) is increasing, why on earth would I need such a bloated UX.

https://gregloscombe-01.s3.eu-gb.cloud-object-storage.appdom...

New comment by lovedaddy in "The end of the nice GTK button"

lovedaddy — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 09:26:30 +0000

Flat I can just about tolerate, the stupid padding round every single element is what bugs me.

There has been loads of studies showing the amount of mistakes in coding or spreadsheet type work goes up massively with having to scroll windows, but yet, gtk3/4 is a bloated, oversized mess.

Mice precision has increased, so why on earth do we need toolbars that can take upto 1/8th a 768p screen. Stupid.

New comment by lovedaddy in "Postman Now Supports gRPC"

lovedaddy — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 13:35:37 +0000

The latest updates from httpie have an insomnia type rest client workspace thing.

https://httpie.io/product

New comment by lovedaddy in "Ask HN: Any one using telegram for work?"

lovedaddy — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 10:50:57 +0000

Have a look at Matrix and Riot.im - slack has a ton of traction at our work, but trying to get people onto that.

New comment by lovedaddy in "An anthropological dispatch from the landfill dig to unearth Atari’s E.T. (2014)"

lovedaddy — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 22:02:20 +0000

Now they have dug up all the copies of ET, they can replace them with copies of Ride to Hell.