Hacker News: qwertywert_

New comment by qwertywert_ in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

qwertywert_ — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:44:07 +0000

It's interesting because i find when I'm less busy/stressed at work is when I spend more time motivated, doing better work, and fixing issues that otherwise would get left behind.

New comment by qwertywert_ in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

qwertywert_ — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:28:35 +0000

I'm responding to his personal datapoint with my own. I agree with you though..

New comment by qwertywert_ in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

qwertywert_ — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 04:40:00 +0000

Are you sure they don't? How would you know? Every intern I've worked with uses discord

New comment by qwertywert_ in "What an unprocessed photo looks like"

qwertywert_ — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 01:15:29 +0000

That's completely unreasonable. Sure the camera processes them heavily. but when you open it up and start editing in photoshop you are changing this area over that one, or highlighting one color over another etc.. or just boosting the brightness way higher than what it looked like that day. It's a perfectly normal question to ask.

New comment by qwertywert_ in "FFmpeg moves to Forgejo"

qwertywert_ — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 04:49:52 +0000

Can't get past cringe anime girl

New comment by qwertywert_ in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

qwertywert_ — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:15:56 +0000

That's exactly my workflow but I use markdown txt file, and use vim + macros for auto inserting a new entry with date or marking things done. Plus some custom syntax highlighting for done tasks.

New comment by qwertywert_ in "Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs"

qwertywert_ — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:16:02 +0000

Most "regular" developers don't actively engage with StackExchange.. I would not believe that statistic at all. And I'm a 7+ years vim user.

New comment by qwertywert_ in "Introducing tmux-rs"

qwertywert_ — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:26:12 +0000

You weren't really lying when you said "100% (unsafe) Rust" eh..

New comment by qwertywert_ in "Postgres IDE in VS Code"

qwertywert_ — Fri, 23 May 2025 18:31:07 +0000

Isn't PGAdmin good enough? Not hating, but I'm not a database guy either so just curious why create a VSCode extension for GUI stuff.

New comment by qwertywert_ in "FCC opens entire 6 GHz band to low power device operations"

qwertywert_ — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 21:57:43 +0000

Wasn't this already done for Wi-fi 6e? We have commercial routers already supporting 6GHz channels

New comment by qwertywert_ in "Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, and going gray"

qwertywert_ — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 16:44:10 +0000

Open source maintainers get a kit of "clout" and respect, and they can use this experience to get high paying jobs at big companies. I know of a few people who clearly do this.

New comment by qwertywert_ in "Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957)"

qwertywert_ — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 06:48:31 +0000

There are lots of reasons why some people don't think about "creating", maybe they had childhood issues or are too stressed, too mentally drained with other areas in life, never got nourished to love creativity or never had an inner self belief that they can create.

Or they simply got "stuck" in something, never to get out and find some passion. What even is creating, some people (unlike many programmers or scientists) create social groups, organisations, humor.

I think your idea that there are special "creators" and "regular people" is way off and honestly just a way to feel special and unique. I know people that finally found passion after they retired.. but they were too bogged down to ever figure it out earlier in life.

New comment by qwertywert_ in "New theory claims to unite Einstein's gravity with quantum mechanics"

qwertywert_ — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:28:21 +0000

So to unify the theories they are actually keeping them separate?

New comment by qwertywert_ in "Firefox on the brink?"

qwertywert_ — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:36:32 +0000

Those aren't staff.

New comment by qwertywert_ in "Sam Altman's sister, Annie Altman, claims Sam has severely abused her"

qwertywert_ — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 01:03:50 +0000

She asked her instagram followers for money via Venmo.. hm.

New comment by qwertywert_ in "EE is working with Qualcomm to add Wi-Fi 7 to consumer broadband hubs"

qwertywert_ — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 23:09:46 +0000

https://mcsindex.com/

1200 is for 2x2 at 80MHz which is the max theoretical an Iphone can get.

Also other comment is wrong about dividing by 4, usually can expect 0.66 of max phy rate. So just under 1Gbps.

New comment by qwertywert_ in "Akiyoshi’s Illusion Pages"

qwertywert_ — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 01:41:48 +0000

Open the image and F11 to full screen then just stare at the center.

New comment by qwertywert_ in "Canada's new tech talent strategy"

qwertywert_ — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 17:08:09 +0000

Rental investors, foreign investors, huge population growth supply cannot keep up. A little bit of mortgage fraud[0].

Highest debt to GDP in G7s, meaning a large portion of people bought recently or HELOC'd are leveraged up to secure their place in the market.

Detached housing is at 40% non owner-occupied in BC, I'm sure it is worse in Vancouver metro area. [1]

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-mortgage-fraud-...

[1] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=461000...

New comment by qwertywert_ in "Meta developer tools: Working at scale"

qwertywert_ — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:25:35 +0000

If Meta acquires a new company codebase, do they just move it into their monorepo immediately?

New comment by qwertywert_ in "Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to software development"

qwertywert_ — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 22:43:51 +0000

Overdesign is one of the worst things to do. Trying to make something fit perfectly into some obscure pattern with horrible class hierarchies. Look at the linux kernel sources, it does not look "beautiful" to some architects but the actual ideas and patterns are simple, anyone can jump into it if they know C.