Hacker News: sdfjkl

New comment by sdfjkl in "The deadline to migrate your Mojang account to a Microsoft account has passed"

sdfjkl — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 04:28:20 +0000

Only pirates get to keep their games forever.

New comment by sdfjkl in "Minetest: An open source voxel game engine"

sdfjkl — Mon, 01 May 2023 12:31:20 +0000

The undeservedly little-known Planet Explorers¹ has a rather nice voxel engine and is using it well. Mine anything, dig tunnels in any shape, modify terrain, etc.

Without the cuboid look.

¹ https://store.steampowered.com/app/237870/Planet_Explorers/

New comment by sdfjkl in "First clean water, now clean air"

sdfjkl — Mon, 01 May 2023 12:19:51 +0000

The Thames is still very much opaque. Not near-opaque.

New comment by sdfjkl in "Datomic is Free"

sdfjkl — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 14:42:53 +0000

Where's the source? Why does it say "Pricing" on the website if it's free? This isn't free, it's just an attempt at free publicity.

New comment by sdfjkl in "Methane may not warm the Earth quite as much as previously thought"

sdfjkl — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 16:27:02 +0000

Yup. In the sense that the unstoppable guillotine blade is descending slightly slower onto our necks. Yay!

New comment by sdfjkl in "The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos"

sdfjkl — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 09:37:09 +0000

Privacy is a human right, LEARN IT.

New comment by sdfjkl in "Faster LZ is not the answer to 150-250 GB video game downloads"

sdfjkl — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 09:34:40 +0000

That depends. If you're on a slow connection, the 40 minutes to unpack something are nothing in comparison to the week it took you to download it. If used by the game publisher, the decompression could happen during download (I believe this is how steam does it).

If you're on a metered connection (common in many of the more forgotten parts of the world), the bloated download costs you real money or is simply not possible (or you have to spread it over several periods of data allowance).

New comment by sdfjkl in "Faster LZ is not the answer to 150-250 GB video game downloads"

sdfjkl — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 09:25:38 +0000

Well, whatever the repackers (e.g. Fitgirl) use seems to work a lot better than what the game publishers use (often no compression at all).

Original Size: 93.1 GB -> Repack Size: from 35.5 GB [Selective Download]

Original Size: 3.1 GB -> Repack Size: 844 MB

And these are lossless, bit for bit reproductions. In many cases assets (audio, video, images/textures) could be using lossy compression for even greater reduction in size with no significant loss in perceived quality (but maybe some loss of advertising/bragging rights).

The downside is, some effort is required packing it: https://fitgirl-repacks.site/new-compression-algorithm/

New comment by sdfjkl in "Making a keyboard layout"

sdfjkl — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 12:34:59 +0000

I've relearnt keyboard layouts once and know I can do it, but I also remember how long it took to get fast on the new one and how I don't want to do that again.

Not to mention all the other issues with getting your new fancy layout to work in every operating system and app and then being really thrown when you try to type on any other "normal" person's keyboard for a minute.

It's already hard enough spending 15 minutes in every new computer game to change the default WASD keybinds to the superior ESDF.

New comment by sdfjkl in "Crypto exchange Kraken to shut staking service, pay $30M fine in SEC settlement"

sdfjkl — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 15:54:56 +0000

You put your money into something called "Kraken" (other than rum perhaps) and this surprises you?

New comment by sdfjkl in "Gen Z Netiquettes"

sdfjkl — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 11:55:52 +0000

Wonderful.

Wirth's Law

sdfjkl — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 17:12:10 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34559330

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sdfjkl in "30k lines of SwiftUI in production later"

sdfjkl — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 12:27:41 +0000

To me that seems like an incredibly huge amount of code for an app user interface. Turbo vision certainly was much more efficient, or even wxWidgets.

New comment by sdfjkl in "Low Energy Chest Fridge"

sdfjkl — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 10:04:17 +0000

This has never bothered me until moving on a boat, where top-loading fridges (often ice boxes with a compressor kit retrofitted) are the norm. Because energy supply is very limited. They are integrated into the kitchen work surface and double as a temporary workspace when closed.

So it's possible to save space _and_ energy.

Now the standup kitchen fridges in houses really bother me. Every time I see someone open one, I imagine seeing all that cold air being sucked out by the opening door and falling on the ground.

New comment by sdfjkl in "Low Energy Chest Fridge"

sdfjkl — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 09:59:25 +0000

They're very common here in Europe. Although when shops get remodeled they usually are replaced with newer models that have doors (and now doors that close themselves, because people). Seems the energy costs have risen sufficiently to make them care.

New comment by sdfjkl in "Taking Lichess to the next level"

sdfjkl — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 16:22:29 +0000

A necromancer who voluntarily became undead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lich

New comment by sdfjkl in "Taking Lichess to the next level"

sdfjkl — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 09:58:44 +0000

I always read lichess as female lich. Then I get confused when I click on it and see chess boards. Probably played too many fantasy games.

New comment by sdfjkl in "Ask HN: Is it still possible to live in a terminal?"

sdfjkl — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 19:33:03 +0000

No, you need food and water.

New comment by sdfjkl in "Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1"

sdfjkl — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 09:42:29 +0000

Yup, downloading stuff reliably over lousy internet connections (packet loss, high latency, intermittent uptime). HTTP really sucks with that.

New comment by sdfjkl in "Lazarus IDE – write once, compile anywhere"

sdfjkl — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 09:09:36 +0000

getlazarus.org appears to be a fan site. The builds are unofficial, but unlikely to be harmful. Might be safest to get the software from the official site or your distro packages though.