Hacker News: tus87

New comment by tus87 in "Australia’s surprising disregard for free speech"

tus87 — Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:14:40 +0000

And one day a right wing government will shut down left wing speech they call "hate speech" or "harmful" and your "reason" will take flight to the winds.

New comment by tus87 in "Day of the Tentacle"

tus87 — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 01:40:11 +0000

Yet to play this one. Recently played Full Throttle and it was great. I guess I have to go back and replay Maniac Mansion since the 90s?

New comment by tus87 in "Stadia Founder's Edition"

tus87 — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 19:12:54 +0000

Won't work. The reason multiplayer games work over the internet is game engines compensate for latency by prediction. But when I move my mouse I don't want to wait a third of a second for the view to change. The problem with Google is they test everything on local 10G networks with near zero latency and the servers are walking distance away. Then they produce these abortions of products that are killed off 2 years later.

Yeah basic input lag is about as enticing as a 2KG chunk of a plastic helmet strapped to my head.

I bet in 10 years time we will still be playing on a PC with a GPU and a monitor on the desk.

New comment by tus87 in "Relicensing CockroachDB"

tus87 — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 19:11:33 +0000

Yeah well the guy who wrote qemu also did ffmpeg.

New comment by tus87 in "Relicensing CockroachDB"

tus87 — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 19:10:06 +0000

> or embed it in their applications (whether they ship those applications to customers or run them as a service). They can even run it as a service internally. The one and only thing that you cannot do is offer a commercial version of CockroachDB as a service

Great so I will write a little shim that loads libcockroach and call it TermiteDB and I'm set.

New comment by tus87 in "Nebula: A paid alternative to YouTube, curated by the creators"

tus87 — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 02:17:41 +0000

> Refusal to vaccinate your children may result in the termination of your service and, probably, your children.

Did you say something about wanting my money or was I just imagining it?

New comment by tus87 in "New Mac Pro"

tus87 — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 20:00:22 +0000

Well it's better than the trashcan....but still not as good as the original alumINium box.

New comment by tus87 in "Google Cloud Is Down"

tus87 — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 19:45:52 +0000

So that's why I can't login to YouTube this morning...

New comment by tus87 in "Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions into 737 Max, Blind to a Late Design Change"

tus87 — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 19:56:40 +0000

> a fundamental overhaul to an automated system that would ultimately play a role in two crashes

Are they STILL blaming the computer instead of the unstable air-frame after the engines were moved?

New comment by tus87 in ""DigitalOcean Killed Our Company""

tus87 — Fri, 31 May 2019 19:58:13 +0000

Cool watching this in real time. Co-founder just intervened and got it back up. Still....

New comment by tus87 in "Zuckerberg and Sandberg will defy Canadian subpoena, risking contempt vote"

tus87 — Tue, 28 May 2019 08:09:59 +0000

What activities do they do in Canada?

New comment by tus87 in "Zuckerberg and Sandberg will defy Canadian subpoena, risking contempt vote"

tus87 — Tue, 28 May 2019 08:07:59 +0000

Do they operate in Canada though?

New comment by tus87 in "Ways to break your systems code using volatile (2010)"

tus87 — Sun, 26 May 2019 22:20:09 +0000

Err...volatile just tells the compiler not to cache the value in a register, that's it. If you don't understand volatile you really, really are not the kind of programmer who should even think about using it.

New comment by tus87 in "If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (2011)"

tus87 — Sun, 26 May 2019 20:40:18 +0000

Thank God for free speech and God Bless President Trump.

New comment by tus87 in "Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory"

tus87 — Tue, 21 May 2019 20:04:28 +0000

Not being associated with COBOL is hardly a bad thing...

New comment by tus87 in "Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order of Japanese names"

tus87 — Tue, 21 May 2019 19:21:08 +0000

Seems they get Korean names right more often than not...see a lot of Kim Jong Il (and similar)....except if they have a westernized first name like Gloria Kim.

New comment by tus87 in "Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory"

tus87 — Tue, 21 May 2019 19:18:39 +0000

Chaos theory was the 90s machine learning.

New comment by tus87 in "3D interfaces are usually worse than 2D interfaces"

tus87 — Tue, 21 May 2019 02:54:39 +0000

> As Carmack observes, you don't see in 3D. You see two 2D planes that your brain extracts a certain amount of depth information from

This is semantics. Replace "3D UIs" with "UIs that make use of depth" and see what you get.

New comment by tus87 in "Has the Python GIL Been Slain? Subinterpreters in Python 3.8"

tus87 — Sun, 19 May 2019 04:15:48 +0000

The ghost of Perl5 lives on...

New comment by tus87 in "Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Buy Supercomputer Maker Cray"

tus87 — Sat, 18 May 2019 01:24:09 +0000

With the super-computers sold at Best Buy? Good question....