Hacker News: nmg

New comment by nmg in "LLM Policy for Rust Compiler"

nmg — Fri, 15 May 2026 03:46:05 +0000

> ## Other organizations

> These are organized along a spectrum of AI friendliness, where top is least friendly, and bottom is most friendly.

This section is an extremely useful reference

New comment by nmg in "Our phones are killing our ability to feel sexy (2024)"

nmg — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 14:00:34 +0000

I'm surprised by the negative comments here so far that sound more indignant or "called out" than anything else.

The article's argument is not only thoughtfully made and unusually well-written, in my opinion it's correct. There's nothing sexy about essentially staring at something in your hand for an hour or more every day. Smartphones provide a level of private immersion in silent, "socially-flavored" dopamine consumption that's antithetical to robust, vibrant socialization. Which is decidedly not sexy.

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New comment by nmg in "James Earl Jones has died"

nmg — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:23:29 +0000

"He'll see everything! ... He'll see the big board!"

New comment by nmg in "Linux: We need tiling desktop environments"

nmg — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 18:31:58 +0000

+1 for Terminator, my first install for 15+ years on Linux. Solid

New comment by nmg in "Initial details about why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys crashed"

nmg — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 13:07:08 +0000

This would answer the question that i've not heard anyone asking:

what incentivized the bad decisions that led to this catastrophic failure?

New comment by nmg in "My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website"

nmg — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 10:43:59 +0000

> Sometimes they can sleep up to like 18 or 12 hours a day. That is a lot of sleeping for a cat.

Can we just put the author of these pages in charge of the whole Internet please?

New comment by nmg in "WigglyPaint: A juicy, jiggly drawing program"

nmg — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 01:45:31 +0000

Wow. The interstitial music from Dr. Katz just started playing in my head unbidden. What a fun show that was.

New comment by nmg in "Amiga ASCII Art"

nmg — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 09:32:14 +0000

I forgot there were column/line restrictions on FILE_ID.DIZ files

New comment by nmg in "It's okay to make something nobody wants"

nmg — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 04:05:40 +0000

You're right. Having hobbies IS fine. Totally agree.

New comment by nmg in "Chemists tackle the tough challenge of recycling mixed plastics"

nmg — Tue, 02 May 2023 00:53:48 +0000

(Is it either/or?)

New comment by nmg in "Apple halted M2 chip production in January amid 'plummeting' Mac sales"

nmg — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:47:29 +0000

> It has gorgeous display.

This is a huge factor for me. I have linux on my desktop but my laptops are Mac - I do a lot of graphics and video editing and the color reproduction of Mac displays is reliably faithful at both the hardware and software level. And the M1 is a champ, its performance seems like a miracle for such a quiet cool machine

New comment by nmg in "Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device"

nmg — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 23:08:36 +0000

I'll never forget seeing Steve Mann roaming the halls and conferences at ACM '97 in his full gear [0], antenna rising above the crowd. I remember thinking, this guy might be on to something here...

[0] http://cyborganthropology.com/File:Steve-mann-evolution-of-w...

New comment by nmg in "The Galaga no-fire-cheat mystery (2012)"

nmg — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 05:06:08 +0000

This game was so perfect. One thing I miss about this era was the cacophony of various games as you walked into the arcade. All those machines blaring their sinusoidal siren songs at once. The audio design of Galaga was extraordinary and a huge part of its charm in my opinion, but to truly experience it, you really need to be standing at the machine, fully bathed in it, with a backing chorus of all the other machines chirping and crooning their tunes.

New comment by nmg in "The Making of Dr. Strangelove (2013) [video]"

nmg — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 01:56:40 +0000

Same. I was lucky to see it on film once, and the theater projected it without masking, so you could see one of its most brilliant touches, that it has two aspect ratios (1.66:1 and 1.33:1) [0] depending on the scene, which enhances the "rewsreel" effect, as if unrelated stock footage were spliced together. i believe the only home video version that faithfully reproduces this is the criterion dvd, done so at kubrick's explicit demand.

The cinematography overall is brilliant, which is a hallmark of his movies of course, the most famous examples maybe being 2001, and Barry Lyndon, in which he used astrophotographical lenses to capture scenes lit only by candlelight.

Gil Taylor, Strangelove's DP, was a wartime aerial photographer for the RAF, and went on to shoot Star Wars. [1] Just so many fascinating levels of unique brilliance went into the creation of that film.

[0] http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/f3/t000289.html

[1] https://ascmag.com/articles/wrap-shot-strangelove

New comment by nmg in "HDD Clicker – HDD Sound Simulator"

nmg — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 02:45:37 +0000

What I want is an FDD sound simulator for various historically significant computer models. The Tandy 1000 is burned in my memory, and I'd love to hear it again without having to visit a classic computer flea. Extra points if you can simulate disk read errors on the eleventh diskette of a failed install

New comment by nmg in "Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle"

nmg — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 06:59:40 +0000

Yes you did. One of these a day, please. I really like the hand-drawn / doodled style.. it disarmed me, which was good because solving this required me to be patient and to unwire my brain a little

New comment by nmg in "New open source project: Common Lisp 3D graphics system"

nmg — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 02:57:40 +0000

My first "a ha" moment using lisp, when i suddenly got my first glimpse of understanding the whole code-is-data-is-code thing and what it makes possible, was my favorite moment using computers, and nothing before or since even comes close. Try it sometime, it's great.

New comment by nmg in "Prince of Persia in JavaScript"

nmg — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 06:14:23 +0000

The prince doesn't stop on a dime, this was a design choice. This recreated version plays the same as it did on OG hardware. If you're having difficulty, focus on holding and releasing the inputs and think of it as applying acceleration, where you want to release before you want the object to stop.

New comment by nmg in "LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom"

nmg — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 13:18:55 +0000

I've been a Firefox advocate for years, but after the recent update to 94.0.1 I removed it from my Mac, Linux, and Windows machines because of how it obscures multi-account containers - they are now a hidden icon that you can't click in the toolbar, and it's been moved into the address bar where its functionality has changed. This disrupted my workflow significantly.

I just switched the Librewolf, and installed the plugin there. It's working as expected, and I won't be forced (or incessantly nagged) to update the browser as I was with Firefox.

Thank you for your work on a great browser, but if you have any pull at Mozilla please tell them they're losing core users for good with these forced, unannounced, irrevocable changes to how users work in a browser.

New comment by nmg in "Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic"

nmg — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 22:16:51 +0000

If I may add my own recommendation — Ralph Kirschbaum's 1993 recordings of Bach's cello suites (blue cover). My entire Spotify subscription is basically "let me listen to this one album, please. Thanks."