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New comment by uncivilized in "Every GPU That Mattered"

uncivilized — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:33:52 +0000

The MX440 allowed players that were playing games on id Tech 3 to finally play at high frame rates. I remember this card being all the rage back then in pro gaming circles for this reason.

New comment by uncivilized in "Every GPU That Mattered"

uncivilized — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:07:40 +0000

Yes the MX440 deserves to be on this list. More important than the GeForce2 imo.

New comment by uncivilized in "Most of the US economy is in a recession"

uncivilized — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:19:09 +0000

He’ll taco when he sees the stock market tanking

New comment by uncivilized in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

uncivilized — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 11:53:41 +0000

Yes, I’m not speaking about the person with 14 years of experience.

I’m saying that looking for senior level roles is much easier than roles that aren’t quite senior yet.

New comment by uncivilized in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

uncivilized — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:14:43 +0000

How many of those are real jobs?

New comment by uncivilized in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

uncivilized — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:12:48 +0000

Senior level is doing the heavy lifting here.

New comment by uncivilized in "Chess engines do weird stuff"

uncivilized — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:15:02 +0000

What were you browsing where someone cutting off their own testicles is not as bizarre as other things? I didn't watch the video but atleast there was a warning.

Feds this guy right here ^^

New comment by uncivilized in "Using an engineering notebook"

uncivilized — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:09:37 +0000

Thanks, but I mean do you use OCR or any service after scanning them? Would be nice to be able to search through the notebooks once scanned.

New comment by uncivilized in "Using an engineering notebook"

uncivilized — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:35:39 +0000

No. The author uses the term “engineering notebook” to make it sound different than what humans have already been doing for millennia.

New comment by uncivilized in "Using an engineering notebook"

uncivilized — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:32:22 +0000

What do you use to digitize your Field Notes? I was using EverNote but I’m looking for an alternative.

New comment by uncivilized in "Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport"

uncivilized — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:08:26 +0000

You've just described every comment section on HackerNews.

New comment by uncivilized in "Why I don't have fun with Claude Code"

uncivilized — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:49:04 +0000

Care to share your output? I doubt your VST is on the same level as something released by a company like Native Instruments, Spectrasonics, etc.

New comment by uncivilized in "Nvidia contacted Anna's Archive to access books"

uncivilized — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:36:26 +0000

How did AI companies find your collection?

New comment by uncivilized in "C++ says “We have try... finally at home”"

uncivilized — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 14:57:56 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out. I was thinking about the traceback message and hadn't thought about __context__ or __traceback__.

New comment by uncivilized in "C++ says “We have try... finally at home”"

uncivilized — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 18:23:19 +0000

This part is not correct. I can't speak for the other languages, but in Python the exception that is originally thrown is the one that creates the traceback. If the finally block also throws an exception, then the traceback includes that as additional information. The author includes an addendum, yet he is still wrong about which exception is first raised.

New comment by uncivilized in "Backing up Spotify"

uncivilized — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:55:27 +0000

It's 160kbit/s for popularity>0 and 75kbit/s for popularity=0. I'm surprised Anna's Archive went for this given that these are not archival quality bitrates. It appears they did this because they found a way, rather than seeking to create a library of music.

New comment by uncivilized in "Hacking the World Poker Tour: Inside ClubWPT Gold's Back Office"

uncivilized — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 01:03:02 +0000

This was a really great read. Thanks for sharing.

New comment by uncivilized in "Testing is better than data structures and algorithms"

uncivilized — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 20:05:53 +0000

I already know the answer to this, but did you read the article? Ned addresses your concerns.

New comment by uncivilized in "Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage"

uncivilized — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 14:57:16 +0000

Rare Hackernews W. Thanks for posting. This is a really great read.

New comment by uncivilized in "A Secret Trove of Rare Guitars Heads to the Met"

uncivilized — Wed, 21 May 2025 15:59:28 +0000

From the article, the guitars will be displayed in an American Guitar exhibition in Spring 2027.