Hacker News: nzgrover

New comment by nzgrover in "The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux"

nzgrover — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:26:10 +0000

I switched to Bazzite about 3 weeks ago and am amazed at how well everything "just works". Steam and Battlenet games all running. Nvidia 5070, AMD Rizen 7800x3d, recent gigabyte motherboard.

New comment by nzgrover in "Outsourcing thinking"

nzgrover — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 19:55:58 +0000

You might want to read this then: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/585370/ai-on-australian-trave...

New comment by nzgrover in "Serflings is a remake of The Settlers 1"

nzgrover — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:14:40 +0000

Farthest Frontier is a recently released game in the same vein: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1044720/Farthest_Frontier...

New comment by nzgrover in "Plain Vanilla Web"

nzgrover — Sun, 11 May 2025 19:44:49 +0000

In my experience, the sharp edges are browser compatibility issues, and I've been gratefully avoiding them for years by using jQuery.

New comment by nzgrover in "Furilabs Linux Phone"

nzgrover — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 19:03:33 +0000

It's marketing drivel, and marketing loves the "rule of three".

New comment by nzgrover in "Dito – an advanced Layer 7 reverse proxy server written in Go"

nzgrover — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:34:37 +0000

Since noone else has posted it, I will: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1iL0fYmMmariFoSvLd9U5...

The OSI Deprogrammer

New comment by nzgrover in "13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted"

nzgrover — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 02:51:33 +0000

Quoting _khhm who posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25850091

> On iOS there are no web browsers other than Safari, per the app store rules. "Chrome" / "Firefox" / etc on iOS are just basically skins on top of Webkit.

> See 2.5.6 here - https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

> This is why you don't get any of the features / extensions / etc of Chrome or Firefox on iOS.

New comment by nzgrover in "Uncovered Euripides fragments are 'kind of a big deal'"

nzgrover — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 01:32:24 +0000

One of my favourite lines is from Three men in a Boat: "George has a cousin, who is usually described in the charge-sheet as a medical student, so that he naturally has a somewhat family-physician way of putting things".

New comment by nzgrover in "Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park"

nzgrover — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 21:41:11 +0000

yes, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Whakaari_/_White_Island_e...

New comment by nzgrover in "MTA board votes to approve new $15 toll to drive into Manhattan"

nzgrover — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:25:05 +0000

Doesn't pass the sniff test ;-)

New comment by nzgrover in "SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud"

nzgrover — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 18:42:47 +0000

You might enjoy Grace Hopper's leacture which includes this snippet: https://youtu.be/ZR0ujwlvbkQ?si=vjEQHIGmffjqfHBN&t=2706

New comment by nzgrover in "Whisky: Wine supercharged with the power of Apple's game porting toolkit"

nzgrover — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 17:35:24 +0000

beer => whiskey

wine => brandy

New comment by nzgrover in "Cities Skylines 2 runs with 20fps on an Nvidia RTX4090"

nzgrover — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 22:20:50 +0000

Heh, in New Zealand, the card alone is $3500NZD

New comment by nzgrover in "Extracting Hacker News book recommendations with the ChatGPT API"

nzgrover — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 18:08:16 +0000

This is a fantastic book if you have difficulty sleeping! I had no idea such an interesting topic, the fundamentals of the operation of computers, could be rendered so lifeless and dull or that it would take so many words to do so. I'm reading through it now but it's taking an awful long time as I never get through more than 3 or 4 pages before it's lights out.

New comment by nzgrover in "Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom"

nzgrover — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 19:08:33 +0000

The Path of Exile wiki moved off fandom to https://www.poewiki.net and has been very successful. If I google "path of exile wiki" it's the top result for me (in an anonymous window). The creators of PoE even agreed to host the new wiki. The move to the new wiki was heavily supported by the subreddit for PoE, often pointing people that posted links to the fandom version to the new version. I remember there being guides to on how to block fandom with ublock, how to add the new wiki as a search provider in Firefox, etc.

New comment by nzgrover in "Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs"

nzgrover — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 19:22:55 +0000

Is that what they mean by "used as the primary key in a database while ensuring good locality"/"database locality"? That read/write access will hit fewer disk pages?

New comment by nzgrover in "Estimated U.S. deer population, 1450 to 2016"

nzgrover — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 03:12:39 +0000

Also, New Zealand. https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/things-to-do/hu...

New comment by nzgrover in "Cities: Skylines II"

nzgrover — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 18:28:08 +0000

Traffic. Traffic, Traffic, Traffic. Please.

New comment by nzgrover in "WAN router IP address change blamed for global Microsoft 365 outage"

nzgrover — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 21:59:36 +0000

It’s not DNS

There’s no way it’s DNS

It was DNS

Credit: https://www.cyberciti.biz/humour/a-haiku-about-dns/

New comment by nzgrover in "The gut microbiome helps social skills develop in the brain in fish"

nzgrover — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:58:21 +0000

When are we going to accept that we are just a life support system for a bacterial colony?