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New comment by ozzmotik in "Discovering errors in Donald Knuth's TAOCP"

ozzmotik — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 19:24:21 +0000

that's Abagnale, I believe.

New comment by ozzmotik in "Please do not write below the line"

ozzmotik — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:35:53 +0000

this is, legitimately and without any exaggeration whatsoever, almost exactly how nearly everyone I speak to IRL as a homeless individual interacts with me. There are a few here and there that absolutely do make an attempt to have real discourse and actually discuss in context, but by an overwhelming majority, most of them just take the (to borrow from a response) SLM approach.

life is exhausting sometimes

New comment by ozzmotik in "Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab"

ozzmotik — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:28:55 +0000

just for the sake of conversation…

if you did, where would you have set them up at anyway? Asking for a friend

New comment by ozzmotik in "Unexpected anti-patterns for engineering leaders"

ozzmotik — Thu, 30 May 2024 21:28:00 +0000

How can one apply a rule more than universally? Wouldn’t too universally be the same thing as just universally? put differently, how can you do something MORE universally than universally?

asking for a friend

New comment by ozzmotik in "I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton"

ozzmotik — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 21:46:16 +0000

i know a good engraver.

New comment by ozzmotik in "Ugly Avatar"

ozzmotik — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 23:24:36 +0000

Brendon Small voices the main character. H Jon Benjamin is one of the supporting characters (coach McGuirk)

New comment by ozzmotik in "Piezoelectrics enable displays to provide both audio and touch feedback"

ozzmotik — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:15:16 +0000

another reason, namely the reason that I specifically do not use wireless headphones:

due to the nature of wireless communications, real time audio is effectively impossible and as such there is almost always some amount of noticeable latency when performing tasks that rely on real time audio (eg music production). a little of latency is okay sometimes but the amount that wireless devices introduce is typically on the offer of maybe 100-200ms and when you're trying to play a section or some such it makes it damn near impossible to hit a note on the mark you're aiming for.

New comment by ozzmotik in "Perplexity Labs Playground"

ozzmotik — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 03:45:24 +0000

go on...

New comment by ozzmotik in "Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation"

ozzmotik — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 13:47:56 +0000

i've always heard it said as PED-er-NAL-iss

other honorable mentions: puyallup, washington (PYOO-al-ip) koenig ln, austin, tx (KAY-nig) - though admittedly this one is likely originally german König, and what texan is going to pronounce German words like Germans? aqui bleiben wir with Stolz, y'all

New comment by ozzmotik in "Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation"

ozzmotik — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 20:45:34 +0000

don't forget the manchaca (now menchaca as it should have been the whole time!) being said as "man-CHAK".

that or the one from the other major city, good ol kuykendahl aka "kir-KEN-doll"

New comment by ozzmotik in "Linux on the Web: Getting a handle on the files in the browser"

ozzmotik — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 02:13:56 +0000

I have issues with seeing this as word salad, simply because in most instances that term is used to describe utterances that are entirely nonsensically, linguistic content so utterly absteuse that one has no hope of deriving any sort of meaning from it other rnsn, well, it's just a bunch of words tossed together. having read the description of the project, as well as several comments here on HN, I personally don't understand how someone might read that and somehow take away nothing from it in understanding. I feel like it is written fairly clearly and effectively, but ofc that's just me and as with all things, YMMV.

New comment by ozzmotik in "Hutter Prize for compressing human knowledge"

ozzmotik — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 23:08:14 +0000

anecdata: for my entire life, I have neber, until about 3 weeks ago, owned a laptop with any type of gpu other than an integrated graphics card built into the motherboard. for most of my life in fact I have never really had any modern or really serviceable hardware, as I've basically inherited all of my compute devices secondhand never had the money to just go out and buy a decent rig (or to even put one together for the matter, perhaps tbst will elucidate the economic sector which I have basic y always occupied. well, not always, as now that I'm homeless, I somehow went even LOWER! )

though it truly does excite me that I finally have something with some type of GeForce branded x graphics device inside of it, now I can finally run local machine learning tasks and not have to cloud it out

New comment by ozzmotik in "Extend a C/C++ Project with Zig (2021)"

ozzmotik — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 16:26:57 +0000

ziguana makes sense but man i can't help but think it's a missed opportunity for ziggurat

New comment by ozzmotik in "Job Corps: free, residential training and education for low-income young adults"

ozzmotik — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 22:56:14 +0000

i believe you've misinterpreted the meaning of the word progressive here to refer to political progressives, rather than simply just "gradual/ongoing" which is what the use of it here suggests to me personally

New comment by ozzmotik in "YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban"

ozzmotik — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 18:07:32 +0000

I believe the song you are referring to is "Fuck the MPAA" by Futuristic Sex Robotz

New comment by ozzmotik in "NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2"

ozzmotik — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 19:25:33 +0000

s/log/nom/

New comment by ozzmotik in "NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2"

ozzmotik — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 17:47:50 +0000

i find that it’s actually fairly common for people to have accumulated several loose and random cables over time. even my mother, who is not particularly a technologically inclined individual, still had several hdmi cables and different usb cables. every single device (not just phones but things like flashlights, wireless accessories, fans, etc…) people buy that needs to be charged generally comes with a charging cable, and there are ever more usb chargeable devices coming on the market nowadays.

hell, even homeless people such as myself tend to have giant collections of random cables, even when they don’t actually have anything that requires charging.

New comment by ozzmotik in "Conditional CSS with:has and:nth-last-child"

ozzmotik — Wed, 17 May 2023 18:59:13 +0000

New comment by ozzmotik in "‘This game is so realistic it feels just like working overtime’"

ozzmotik — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 14:13:58 +0000

Universal Paperclips is one of those true gems and in my opinion one of the standout examples within the incremental genre of what a game can really be. also good incrementals: a dark room, SPACEPLAN, kittens game, and trimps. with the exception of SPACEPLAN, all of these games have always been greatly enjoyable despite feeling like the worst type of work that one could be doing. i find it odd that I'm willing to do that sort of resource allocation and microoptimization thing almost endlessly for free, but the idea of doing it in meatspace for pay seems almost intolerable.

New comment by ozzmotik in "Show HN: I'm writing an MMORPG game for learning programming"

ozzmotik — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 12:41:59 +0000

seconding what baash05 said, want help? this sounds like a really neat project and I'm honestly better with helping other people's ideas come to fruition than I am starting my own.

nb: i am homeless so my availability is somewhat sporadic since it's dependent on when I can charge my phone and such. but I got a laptop hiding out somewhere I just never use it out on the streets because it's a battery addict and drains that like an alcoholic does whiskey. also it's a 2006 dell xps m1701 so it's actually just a hefty beast.

but yeah. let me know if interested as well. email in bio etc