Hacker News: soniczentropy

New comment by soniczentropy in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

soniczentropy — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:45:27 +0000

When I got laid off because of it.

New comment by soniczentropy in "US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification"

soniczentropy — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:47:36 +0000

This is the most elegant and polite refutation of age verification I've ever seen

New comment by soniczentropy in "Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning unused tooltips"

soniczentropy — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 21:50:35 +0000

I'll heartily second this. After years of Unity, I just couldn't stand the developer experience any more. Waiting for iterative compiles that took an ice age each time I changed a line of code killed me. Angelscript UE is as close to engine perfection as I can imagine

New comment by soniczentropy in "Launch HN: Slashy (YC S25) – AI that connects to apps and does tasks"

soniczentropy — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 19:40:18 +0000

This is horrifying. Everyone should be horrified.

New comment by soniczentropy in "OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions"

soniczentropy — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 16:21:00 +0000

B is exactly how I've felt about, in order: C, C++, Java, C#, Javascript. I spent almost 20 years writing languages I did not like because I couldn't find jobs in anything else.

Rust saved some of us from a lifetime of exactly the problems you have with Rust, maybe let us have this one :)

New comment by soniczentropy in "Challenging projects every programmer should try (2019)"

soniczentropy — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 04:18:23 +0000

Woodworking, blacksmithing, gardening, etc

Things that don't take computers to create

New comment by soniczentropy in "PCSX2 Disables Wayland Support"

soniczentropy — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 23:06:26 +0000

Never tried it on AMD hardware, but I can confirm Nvidia drivers cause it to go haywire on all 4 of my machines. I try yearly or so, see everything's still a dumpster fire, and head back to X11

New comment by soniczentropy in "Functionality that has been deprecated in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"

soniczentropy — Mon, 08 May 2023 23:37:21 +0000

This has been my every experience with Wayland + Nvidia thus far. Tried Tumbleweed and Fedora both, nothing but display bugs as far as the eye can see.

Lets not even talk about trying to use Wayland in a VM desktop -- Even Firefox/Chrome don't render properly.

New comment by soniczentropy in "Ask HN: Why is there no good open-source LMS?"

soniczentropy — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 15:44:57 +0000

This is the correct answer for sure. I managed an LMS department for years and you nailed it.

I'd also like to add that most education IT departments tend not to have many people capable of building or maintaining something as complex as an LMS. That means you'd need to hire at least a couple new software devs at software dev salaries and software dev benefits to keep them...which ends up costing MORE per year than it costs to shove 99% of the problem off onto Blackboard support and remove a large source of risk while saving money.

New comment by soniczentropy in "How to win at CORS"

soniczentropy — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 04:30:41 +0000

How do you become one of those kind instead of smashing your face against CORS constantly