Hacker News: tectec

New comment by tectec in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

tectec — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:02:13 +0000

That's why you have to group similar forms. - Bricks - Plates - Narrow Plates - Wheels - Windows/Doors - Smooth pieces - People bin

And then if you like to sort further you sort out the smallest of each bin because those always fall to the bottom when mixed together

New comment by tectec in "I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me"

tectec — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:27:30 +0000

Did you read the article?

New comment by tectec in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

tectec — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:58:32 +0000

What's the quote?

New comment by tectec in "Interview with gwern"

tectec — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 12:02:35 +0000

Can you link the comment here?

New comment by tectec in "Show HN: Foosbar – My autonomous foosball-playing robot"

tectec — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:30:36 +0000

The tables I've seen with one goalie have raised corners so that the ball doesn't get stuck there. You see it more on budget tables in my experience.

New comment by tectec in "Do It Yourself Blind Repair"

tectec — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 20:02:31 +0000

Does it use two sets of lift tape? https://fixmyblinds.com/collections/cellular-honeycomb-pleat...

New comment by tectec in "Seven Years of Factorio Friday Facts (2020)"

tectec — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 23:40:11 +0000

They took a long break from them after 1.1, the first version was finished. They started again recently in preparation for the 2.0 release, which will hopefully be sometime next year.

New comment by tectec in "Show HN: Personalized Meal Plans to Suit Your Lifestyle"

tectec — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 20:11:45 +0000

I can’t see prices without filling in my email? And there are so many recipes out there for free, why would I pay for more?

New comment by tectec in "Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces?"

tectec — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 12:38:47 +0000

He's from the house of Windsor so wouldn't he use that as his last name where it's needed?

New comment by tectec in "Lacros on Chromebooks transition plan won’t be quick"

tectec — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 12:26:44 +0000

Do you think there are many sales lost of chromebooks because there is lockin? I think most people care way less about that then you would hope.

New comment by tectec in "LEGO Building Instructions"

tectec — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 15:36:49 +0000

Brinklink has list for each brick of the set it belongs too. I was able to use that to discover a set I didn't know my older brothers had.

New comment by tectec in "Magit"

tectec — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 00:40:25 +0000

I mainly use magit for reviewing changes, staging and committing. I haven’t found an interface that compares for staging and discarding hunks. But checking out branches I do on the command line and I use Meld for resolving conflicts.

New comment by tectec in "Office real estate crash will be so sharp, values unlikely to recover by 2040"

tectec — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 12:19:10 +0000

It’s not so easy to convert offices to living areas, although I think it’s been done in a few places

New comment by tectec in "ELO Everything"

tectec — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 17:32:59 +0000

I think you'd get a lot of cycles in this, so the rating won't be very stable.

New comment by tectec in "The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes"

tectec — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 18:15:17 +0000

You'd think that reddit would be smart enough to show web crawlers a cleaner version than real users, or is that not allowed? Maybe google needs whitelist some of the biggest sites on the web so they can feed searchable data into google in a more efficient way.

New comment by tectec in "Venus is not Earth’s closest neighbor (2019) [pdf]"

tectec — Wed, 24 May 2023 12:17:25 +0000

What kind of orbit would that be? In order for it to be that close so rarely it must spend most of its time even further from earth.

New comment by tectec in "Langton’s ant"

tectec — Wed, 17 May 2023 14:01:58 +0000

Wow, that brings me back. My older brother wrote a Langton's ant program in QBasic, and one of my earliest computer memories was watching that thing go.

New comment by tectec in "My product is my garden (2020)"

tectec — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 03:00:37 +0000

Gardening doesn’t have to be that intense. I grow a reasonably productive 12x20 garden, just by guessing. And I’m not a natural.

New comment by tectec in "Open source smartwatch integrates ESP32 MCU with e-paper display"

tectec — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 11:48:41 +0000

I'd love a watch like this, but none of them seem to work with iOS. I don't know if sideloading iOS apps would help with that. Apple seems to keep the messaging and notification API's pretty locked down.

New comment by tectec in "Spanish climber emerges after 500 days in cave"

tectec — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 18:33:30 +0000

If it’s anything like the Mars 1000 trip by Reid Stowe then the science thing might be more for publicity than for actual usable science.