<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: thomasfortes</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thomasfortes</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:55:27 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=thomasfortes" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomasfortes in "English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, you can and I know just enough of cars to not be scammed by people, but not to know how the whole engine works, and I also don't think that you should learn everything that you can learn, there's no time for that, that's why I made the bird view comment.<p>My argument is that when you have at least a basic knowledge of how things work (be it as a musician, a mechanical engineer or a scientist) you are in a much better place to know what you want/need.<p>That said, smart and motivated people thrive if they are given the conditions to thrive, and I believe that physical interfaces have way less friction than digital interfaces, turning a knob is way less work than clicking a bunch of menus to set up a slider.<p>If I were to summarize what I think about AI it would be something like "Let it help you. Do not let it think for you"<p>My issue is not with people using AI as a tool, bit with people delegating anything that would demand any kind of effort to AI</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 18:25:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46848138</link><dc:creator>thomasfortes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46848138</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46848138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomasfortes in "English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Last weekend I was arguing with a friend that physical guitar pedals are better for creativity and exploration of the musical space than modelers even though modelers have way more resources for a fraction of the cost, the physical aspect of knobs and cables and everything else leads to something that's way more interactive and prone to "happy mistakes" than any digital interface can offer.<p>In my first year of college my calculus teacher said something that stuck with me "you learn calculus getting cramps on your wrists", yeah, AI can help remember things and accelerate learning, but if you don't put the work to understand things you'll always be behind people that know at least with a bird eye view what's happening.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:20:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847652</link><dc:creator>thomasfortes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847652</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomasfortes in "Show HN: WeUseElixir - Elixir project directory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Using GRiSP Metal, not exactly without an OS, but using a real time OS designed for embedded devices.<p><a href="https://www.grisp.org/software" rel="nofollow">https://www.grisp.org/software</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2025 07:36:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45311299</link><dc:creator>thomasfortes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45311299</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45311299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomasfortes in "Hollow Knight: Silksong causes server chaos on Xbox, Steam, and Nintendo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nine Sols was clearly built on top of Hollow Knight, but my take on the combat is a bit different, Hollow Knight and Nine Sols would be like Dark Souls/Elden Ring (HK) and Sekiro (NS), one is focused on fast movement and dodges while the other is more focused on parry and counter attack mechanics.<p>I enjoyed both games but I found that with the exception of the last boss Nine Sols was a way easier game after you figure out how to parry effectively.<p>I also enjoyed the whimsical art style of HK a bit more than the (as said in a comment) "taopunk" style of NS, but that's purely subjective.<p>But if you enjoy metroidvanias both are great games that you should try.</p>
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<p>Android has granular control over notifications, which is great because some apps that I need send a lot of marketing notifications that I don't care about but I cannot get rid of essential notifications.<p>Not all apps do it and some push all notifications through a single channel (and some manufacturers hide the granularity options in advanced settings, I'm looking at you Samsung) but at least it exists.</p>
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<p>> The soldered ram was necessary for Strix Halo<p>In the LTT video the framework CEO explains that AMD wasn't able to make LPCAMM work because of signal integrity over the bus reasons.<p>But 2000 dollars for up to 110GB of VRAM in Linux makes this a VERY interesting little machine, so much that the framework website has a cloudflare queue right now...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:56:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43177294</link><dc:creator>thomasfortes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43177294</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43177294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomasfortes in "The OBS Project is threatening Fedora Linux with legal action"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> it's not exactly a case of 'lost their original vision'.<p>Considering that one person that says that he worked at the  beginning of the project writes that the original idea wasn't to compete with flathub and given the current state of affairs I would argue that the project today doesn't have the original vision anymore.<p>As for creating a ton of projects, today with LLMs I'm pretty sure that I can write code that scrapes github repos for installation instructions and use it to create thousands of packages for everything that can run in Linux, doesn't mean that I should because there would be no quality control at all.<p>It is a noble idea to create packages to help create critical mass, but even with simple packages, seven hundred are more than anyone can use specially when we're talking about software that most likely have a GUI, and if you never really use most of the packages that you create you are bound to create these issues with QA.<p>All of that could be avoided (or minimized) if the fedora project created two flatpak repos, one for core software and one for contrib software, but that probably would be clear competition to flathub and probably be mostly ignored.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 15:41:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43049492</link><dc:creator>thomasfortes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43049492</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43049492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomasfortes in "The OBS Project is threatening Fedora Linux with legal action"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hey, here they are :)<p>Original vision
<a href="https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/463#comment-954066" rel="nofollow">https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/463#comment-95406...</a><p>Person with more than 700 packages
<a href="https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/463#comment-955418" rel="nofollow">https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/463#comment-95541...</a><p>As for the C&D, the github has some issues with Fedora distros and labeled as "Dependency issues" and there's no indication if the user is using the fedora flatpak or the flathub one, so if I had to guess I would guess that they aren't that happy with:<p><pre><code>    1. Being asked to fix bugs introduced by downstream.

    2. Having their brand damaged because it isn't clear that the fedora 
       flatpak is a way more limited version than the verified one.

    3. Having their issues with their complaints minimized and ignored by
       the people responsible for the fedora flatpak system.</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 04:42:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43044922</link><dc:creator>thomasfortes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43044922</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43044922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomasfortes in "The OBS Project is threatening Fedora Linux with legal action"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of the comments in the main thread says that the original vision for the fedora flatpaks was to be mainly for things that fedora wanted to have tight control and be preinstalled in their distros (Firefox, LibreOffice, GNOME and apps, etc...), which makes a lot of sense, but at some point it lost their original vision and started packaging everything under the sun.<p>In another comment someone says that most of the extra packages are maintained by a single person (more than 700), there's no way a single person can validate and test all these packages (or even use them).</p>
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<p>You're stuck with cloudflare nameservers¹, so if you want to change nameservers you need to transfer them to other registrar, how much of a deal breaker this is is up to you, to me is project dependent.<p>1. Section 6.1 of <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/domain-registration-agreement/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cloudflare.com/domain-registration-agreement/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 12:58:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42365873</link><dc:creator>thomasfortes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42365873</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42365873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomasfortes in "Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Integrating javascript with liveview and pushing and receiving events from client to server (and from server to client) is pretty simple using hooks: <a href="https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/js-interop.html#client-hooks-via-phx-hook" rel="nofollow">https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/js-interop.html#client-...</a><p>The AI story is mostly centered around the Nx project: <a href="https://github.com/elixir-nx/">https://github.com/elixir-nx/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:59:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42313084</link><dc:creator>thomasfortes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42313084</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42313084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomasfortes in "Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I’m wrong but I’m struggling to think of a killer feature of Twitch or an aspect of the overall experience that’s better than YouTube Live videos.<p>Discoverability, content creators and community.<p>Live streaming is a second class citizen on youtube, and as such it is hidden under dropdowns, the live streams aren't always on the top of your followers, live recommendations are worse than useless and the big creators that move to youtube do like Ninja with Mixer, with a big fat paycheck to justify the loss of viewership and community.</p>
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<p>Yeah, a PS2 controller has a graveyard at the center when compared to a PS5 or series controller, just grab a cheap USB controller from Amazon and use some tool to see the precision of modern controllers.<p>That said, unless conventional sticks get way cheaper I'll stick to hall effect ones.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2023 00:44:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38587831</link><dc:creator>thomasfortes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38587831</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38587831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomasfortes in "Bluetooth stack modifications to improve audio quality on headphones without AA (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At least for Xbox controllers and headsets (and logitech lightspeed mouses too) they don't use bluetooth, they use a proprietary protocol, you can connect them using bluetooth but if you really want low latency you will need a proprietary dongle.<p>I suppose sony do something similar, and as far as I know they all use the 2.4GHz band.<p>Good thing both Xbox and Playstation controllers have a 3.5mm jack and I don't need to buy their overpriced shitty headsets to play without significant audio latency.</p>
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<p>Also no shared memory in processes and they all communicate strictly through message passing, so running a piece of code in the local node, in another node in the same machine or in a node on the other side of the planet is a matter of telling which pid you want to send the message to, the BEAM will figure out how to send the message to the correct place in the cluster and your program will be none the wiser.</p>
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<p>Something like this: <a href="https://fly.io/docs/reference/dynamic-request-routing/#the-fly-prefer-region-request-header">https://fly.io/docs/reference/dynamic-request-routing/#the-f...</a>?<p>You probably would have to handle a lot of the logic by yourself for privacy and security reason, but I think this is a nice primitive to start from.</p>
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<p>It's a play on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule</a></p>
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<p>Virding's Law: Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains
an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of
Erlang.</p>
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<p>A couple weeks ago a client asked for some stats that came out of the blue (the data was collected, but they weren't exposed at the dashboard), his app was at fly.io, I've set up a wireguard tunnel to connect a livebook to the app and we went in a couple hours exploration of all the data that wasn't exposed at the dashboard, I took a ton of notes and the client spent a lot of time gushing about how he never had that much access to the underlying data in projects before without having to wait at least a couple weeks, to be able to work with live data almost instantaneously is a plus that I don't know if I'm able to give up at this point.<p>It was a new client and a short project but since then they closed a couple years contract to a new project, Livebook is indeed magic.</p>
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<p>When working with livebook the usual library for graphics/plotting is vega_lite.<p><a href="https://github.com/livebook-dev/vega_lite" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/livebook-dev/vega_lite</a></p>
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