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New comment by stijnstijn in "Asking LLMs to create my game Shepard's Dog"

stijnstijn — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 12:02:12 +0000

> Keep politics out of tech

This is a wild thing to say in 2025.

What 'political views of flags' anyway? I played a few levels and saw no flags, political or otherwise.

New comment by stijnstijn in "Show HN: NotepadJs – A cross-platform love letter to Notepad"

stijnstijn — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:56:35 +0000

It is indeed not quite a drop-in replacement for the 'real' Notepad, but I do find the complaint that you need to enable JS for something that has 'JS' in its name a little strange. That's the platform it was made for, it may not be a platform you enjoy using, and it could perhaps have been made on another platform, but it wasn't. That's hardly a reason to call it "not serious".

New comment by stijnstijn in "A Real Life Off-by-One Error"

stijnstijn — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 08:26:12 +0000

You could also simply take two photos and overlay them. The difference would be obvious immediately to the human eye.

New comment by stijnstijn in "A Real Life Off-by-One Error"

stijnstijn — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 08:25:00 +0000

This is indeed what is argued in the article.

New comment by stijnstijn in "Why Make Art in the Dark?"

stijnstijn — Mon, 13 May 2024 14:52:01 +0000

Consider this for a while longer yourself. Even if many such paintings have been made in easily accessible locations and they do not survive for this reason, the fact remains that more than a few cave paintings have turned up in locations that are very inaccessible and were likely also very inaccessible at the time they were made. The paintings appear to be complex enough that they cannot be discarded as merely graffiti by people who found themselves in an inaccessible location by accident and wanted to leave a mark.

Survivor bias explains why these paintings still exist. It does not explain why they were made.

New comment by stijnstijn in "We made an animated movie in 8kB"

stijnstijn — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 08:42:31 +0000

A lot of related code was released a couple of years ago: https://github.com/farbrausch/fr_public

MySQL Raytracer

stijnstijn — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:46:00 +0000

Article URL: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=83222

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21182959

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by stijnstijn in "Tell HN: Google requiring phone number to log into Chromebook"

stijnstijn — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 11:10:22 +0000

> Also the term conspiracy theory was created and popularized by the CIA as a function to install into the general population as a protection mechanism against their own true and active operations, which as stated, are treasonous to America and American citizens.

This is not true. The term is older, dating back to at least 1870, and was used then much in the way it is now [1]. The idea that it was coined by the CIA is an urban legend.

[1] https://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/nope_it_was_alwa...

New comment by stijnstijn in "Let's Stop Giving Retailers a Free Pass on Data Breaches"

stijnstijn — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 09:39:37 +0000

I'm not sure whether I really agree with the singular focus on the CEO or C*O, but often one of the reasons that is given for their large paychecks is that they carry a lot of responsibilities. Following that, it would seem prudent to actually hold them responsible when something goes wrong, especially something with as much impact as a large-scale data breach.

New comment by stijnstijn in "Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel"

stijnstijn — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:38:37 +0000

The train usually doesn't arrive exactly on time where I live, but delays aren't so bad that I have to wait 30 minutes on average. And if it's a 4-12 minute walk to the station, as OP says, I'm sure they don't need a huge buffer to get there on time. Personally, I just make sure I have a five-minute leeway and I'm good.

There certainly must be places in the world where trains are so unpredictable that the average delay is 30 minutes, but (not having been there, I should say) Menlo Park and Palo Alto sound like places where trains should be a bit more punctual than that?

New comment by stijnstijn in "Two new peanut allergy treatments are on the verge of approval"

stijnstijn — Sun, 04 Jun 2017 09:15:31 +0000

Anaphylactic shock can be an allergic reaction, it's not an either/or distinction.

New comment by stijnstijn in "McDonald’s Universal Icons for 109 Countries [pdf]"

stijnstijn — Sun, 04 Jun 2017 00:27:32 +0000

It's not an unreasonable question.

Sure, only a relatively small percentage of the population of Germany/Poland/etc may not be able to read. But how many of those visit McDonald's? Do they visit it more or less often than other categories of people? How important is it for them to be able to understand these icons? Is the cost of developing icons/signs they also understand more or less than the amount of trouble them not understanding these icons would bring? Are we talking about actual literacy or the more nebulous category of "functional literacy"?

There are cases where "devil's advocate"-style questions are worthwhile, and I'd argue that they're worth at least considering in this case.

New comment by stijnstijn in "Tesla factory employees describe grueling work conditions"

stijnstijn — Thu, 18 May 2017 21:18:25 +0000

Tesla could design their factory so that people don't have to work with their hands above their head all day. There's a video further up in this thread showing how a production line in a Ford factory where they clearly took care to make the workers handle things right in front of them as much as possible. It just requires you to have the worker's comfort (or, actually, health) in mind when designing the production line. Or if that's not possible, assign shifts so people don't have to work in an unhealthy position for too long. Apparently that didn't happen at Tesla, which I personally think is a fair thing to blame them for.

New comment by stijnstijn in "Evolving Steam"

stijnstijn — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 21:01:23 +0000

A master of none? They've created and still run the #1 content distribution platform for videogames, they've developed some of the highest-rated games ever, several of their games are still very popular with their most recent one in particular (Dota 2) even drawing massive crowds at live events. I'm right there with you that they've got some problems to solve, but they're absolutely very competent or at least very successful in other areas as well.

New comment by stijnstijn in "Inside the world of Australian opal miners who live underground"

stijnstijn — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 23:11:33 +0000

It's a prop from Pitch Black, the Vin Diesel movie. This YouTube clip shows it: https://youtu.be/11uE0vKMPKQ?t=7m20s

Fiat currencies not as Centralized, Bitcoin not as Decentralized, as you think

stijnstijn — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 20:12:38 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/metacurrency-project/national-currencies-arent-as-centralized-and-bitcoin-isn-t-as-decentralized-as-you-think-fa2afa022a2b#.b00mjlbj9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11849915

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

New comment by stijnstijn in "It's a Tesla"

stijnstijn — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 20:47:20 +0000

This bicycle wouldn't raise many eyebrows in The Netherlands. I suppose it depends on where you're riding it.