Hacker News: seanalltogether

New comment by seanalltogether in "Unreal Agent"

seanalltogether — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:25:41 +0000

Same, I thought this was going to be a plugin for creating content in Unreal engine.

New comment by seanalltogether in "I said no and Apple said yes"

seanalltogether — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:31:09 +0000

Apple has an allergy to fragmentation that can be both admirable and annoying at the same time. As a developer it can be really nice to know that your audience all has access to the same feature set. As a user it can be annoying to be subjected to Apples feature upgrade treadmill.

New comment by seanalltogether in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

seanalltogether — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:19:22 +0000

ACR is "not enabled by default"? Is this actually true or is it one of those weasley technicalities where the tv ships with it turned off, but once you connect the tv to the internet it turns on?

New comment by seanalltogether in "iPhone Duo"

seanalltogether — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:16:56 +0000

> "A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in."

This is a quote from John Carmack and should sit over every developers monitor. At the same time, OS designers should be doing everything in their power to reduce the number of states a developer has to think about.

New comment by seanalltogether in "WeatherNext 3"

seanalltogether — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:17:28 +0000

I've stopped using google weather here in the UK as well because of how inaccurate its been over the past few years and have just fallen back on the BBC. Maybe its related, maybe not.

New comment by seanalltogether in "If a Tesla Cybercab fleet were profitable, Tesla wouldn't sell you one"

seanalltogether — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 18:23:31 +0000

But critically they don't own the sale. Will Tesla own point of sale, or will the Cybercab owner?

New comment by seanalltogether in "Sun Clock"

seanalltogether — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:49:45 +0000

I've been wanting to build this exact clock for awhile now. My feature request would be to include a timeline at the bottom of the page that I can scroll back and forth through days of the year to see everything shift.

New comment by seanalltogether in "My Ten Years in No Man's Sky"

seanalltogether — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:46:49 +0000

And apparently this is one of the main criticisms of Starfield. The Bethesda designers either never played No Mans Sky to understand the problem, or they simply believed a large enough budget could mask these problems.

New comment by seanalltogether in "Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's"

seanalltogether — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:47:46 +0000

It makes you wonder how many companies were sold to private equity to avoid having to leave control to a family member. I know of a very large company that was until recently family owned, and the kids work as executives in the company, and yet it was sold to private investors.

New comment by seanalltogether in "German carmakers flood jobs market with managers after wielding axe"

seanalltogether — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:29:01 +0000

Yeah I can get a byd dolphin for half the price of the cheapest tesla. I'm sure the 2 aren't equally comparable, but considering all we need is a second car for my wife to drive at most 20-30 miles per day, I could never justify a tesla for that.

New comment by seanalltogether in "Tesla Balance Bike"

seanalltogether — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:55:38 +0000

We bought our kid a balance bike for £45, there is no need to go much above that price.

New comment by seanalltogether in "If you're a button, you have one job"

seanalltogether — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:37:45 +0000

Its a perfect illustration of the tradeoffs between synchronous and asynchronous logic. Synchronous logic allows for maximal consistency at the cost of wasting time. Asynchronous logic allows you to use time efficiently, but requires you to track all the different states you can be in simultaneously.

New comment by seanalltogether in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

seanalltogether — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:49:33 +0000

I've reached an age where I don't actually buy games anymore, I just load up my wishlist with games and between Christmas, birthday and fathers day I get all the games I will care to play for the year. My wife, parents, extended family likes being able to buy me a physical gift, wrap it, and hand it to me. I understand that this is just getting rid of the disc and keeping the box, but pretty soon there's gonna be no box either, and I know my wife will hate the idea of just handing me a gift card on special days. I just hate how all physical products are evaporating.

New comment by seanalltogether in "Steam Machine launches today"

seanalltogether — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:00:54 +0000

If Valve wants users to compare the Steam Machine to a PC, then it's going to be outdated in 6 months.

New comment by seanalltogether in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

seanalltogether — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:37:20 +0000

Is it really unified memory? AMD Strix Halo is "unified" but you still have to allocate memory separately for cpu vs gpu. Apple Silicon is true unified memory.

New comment by seanalltogether in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

seanalltogether — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:25:05 +0000

"Unified Memory" still means divided address space right? You have to pre-allocate system vs gpu and copy from one to the other?

New comment by seanalltogether in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

seanalltogether — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:15:17 +0000

Ireland has this and honestly I hate it now. It's impossible to get tickets unless you win the lottery to buy them when they first go on sale. Paying a premium to buy them on the second hand market sucked, but at least I could make that calculation and decide which bands I was willing to pay to actually see. Now, I can't see any of the big bands anymore. I just wish they'd reserve like 1/3 of the tickets for an auction system or something.

New comment by seanalltogether in "Google changes its search box"

seanalltogether — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:00:28 +0000

"When is Stephen Colberts last show?"

"The last episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is airing on Thursday, May 21, 2026. Based on your interest in The Late Show with Stephen Colbert you might also like the new Amazon Prime Video series of Last One Laughing, available to stream now"

Does that answer your question?

New comment by seanalltogether in "Why IPv6 is so complicated"

seanalltogether — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:38:59 +0000

personally I just hate this -> http://[0123::4567]:5000/whatever

New comment by seanalltogether in "Rust Memory Management: Ownership vs. Reference Counting"

seanalltogether — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:02:34 +0000

I've not really used Rust, and I can certainly appreciate the goal of the language. However this code bothers me, and I can't really articulate why.

    struct Node {
        value: i32,
        children: Vec>>>,
        parent: Option>>>, // Weak breaks parent→child cycle
    }

I understand its all boxes inside boxes inside boxes, but as an outsider it looks confusing mixing data type semantics with memory managment semantics.